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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 383.1 | Try SIE! | MCIS2::BONVALLAT | | Fri Feb 12 1993 15:19 | 14 |
| Yes, I don't subscribe currently but I am familiar with the newsletter
and it does track most of the indicators mentioned in his book (and more).
I believe you could likely get a free sample from Zweig. I don't know
the phone number, but I bet if you call 800-information and ask for
Zweig Investments that you'll be able to get the number that way.
Something else I highly recommend is to check out Select Information Exchange
(SIE). There are advertisements for it in Investors Business Daily and
other investment publications currently (Barrons too I think?). For a
mere $11.95, you get samples of 20 different investment letters of your
choosing - most significant investment letters (including Zweig) are among
those samples you can choose from.
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| 383.2 | 5-year model readily constructed | VMSDEV::HALLYB | Fish have no concept of fire. | Fri Feb 12 1993 16:01 | 11 |
| A recent issue of Investor's Business Daily had the past few years'
worth of discount rate changes in the box that charted the S&P over
the same time frame. Looks to me like a regular feature, but I can't
say fer sure since I rarely read IBD.
Reserve requirements almost never change. There was a minor change
about a year back but it wasn't the fundamental bank deposit require-
ment that Zweig probably meant. As a first cut you can probably ignore
this if you're only looking back to Jan88 or later.
John
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| 383.3 | Experience with Zweig Forecast | KYOA::LAZARUS | David Lazarus @KYO,323-4353 | Tue Feb 16 1993 16:47 | 15 |
| Marty Zweig has earned his reputation as one of the great stock market
experts. His two golden rules: Don't fight the fed and don't fight
market momentum have enabled him to be right about almost every major
market turn in the last 30 years.
But as one who received his newsletter,I must add that it is not really
for the individual investor. He is so widely followed that unless
you are very well connected,you cannot act on them in a timely manner.
Marty is a great timer,who trades frequently-unless you trade in large
quantity -the commissions will eat up your profits. The best part of
his newsletter is his hotline service.
Send away for the free issue,get a short trial subscription. Make up
your own mind.
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| 383.4 | | NOVA::FINNERTY | Sell high, buy low | Fri Feb 26 1993 18:07 | 22 |
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Mark,
Consumer installment debt figures are reported in Barron's each
week. They are nowhere near the 9% figure, and are in fact slightly
negative on a year-to-year basis (people art attempting to pay off
their installment debt).
I do keep track of his model, or rather a modified version of it.
You may note that in his book he talks about various bearish
indicators, but does not indicate how to incorporate these into his
model... and if you look at the results closely, you can probably
convince yourself that this is an important improvement to make.
Note also that his advisory service recommendations bear little
resemblance to the advice you'd get by following the model in his
book... that's not to say it is a bad model (at all), but his model is
vague about holding period returns.
/Jim
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