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	<title>Bear Mountain Bull</title>
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	<description>Musings on the markets for the individual investor</description>
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		<title>Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no substitute:
From the folks at Elliott Wave International:
3. Experience. Some people advocate &#8220;paper trading&#8221; as a learning tool. Paper trading is useful for the testing of methodology, but it is of no value in learning about trading. In fact, it can be detrimental, by imbuing the novice with a false sense of security in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/experience-031410/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Hot, What&#8217;s Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notes on the latest moves in the industry groups:

Just the numbers this week.
If you want to walk through the group charts on your own, here&#8217;s a starting spot: set #1 &#8212; set #2 &#8212; set #3 &#8212; set #4.

For a more detailed breakdown of group movement over various time periods, try the Industry Group Tracker [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/hot-not-031410/</link>
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		<title>Learned Nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Sprott via Zero Hedge:
So where does this leave us for the decade ahead? In bad fiscal shape. It seems as if we’re just  making the same mistakes over again, and on a far larger scale. We have passed the debt obligations  of the financial system onto the governments. We have liquefied the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/learned-nothing-031310/</link>
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		<title>Government Statistics</title>
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		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/government-statistics-031310/</link>
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		<title>Weekend Sector Scan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the S&#038;P teases its January high, the only change we see in the Sector SPDRs is that the Financials have joined the Industrials (XLI), and consumer sectors (XLP, XLY) at taking out those previous highs.  
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The numbers as the market continues to edge higher:
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Sector
Symbol
8 Week % Chg.
4 Week % Chg.
1 Week % Chg.
YTD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/sector-scan-031310/</link>
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		<title>Friday Failures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picking up where we left off last night:
The Park Avenue Bank, New York, NY
Add a coupla more:
Statewide Bank, Covington, LA
Old Southern Bank, Orlando, FL
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		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/friday-failures-031210/</link>
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		<title>Market Wrap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[




Dow Industrials
10624.69
+12.85
+0.12%


S&#038;P 500
1149.99
-0.25
-0.02%


Nasdaq Comp.
2367.66
-0.80
-0.03%


Russell 2000
676.58
-0.64
-0.09%






NYSE Comp.
7362.83
+9.59
+0.13%


Nasdaq 100
1924.43
+0.62
+0.03%


Dow Transports
4325.35
+4.97
+0.12%


Dow Utilities
376.80
-1.99
-0.53%





Internals were mixed, with volume around yesterday&#8217;s levels.  Advances/declines were 5 to 4 on the NYSE but 4 to 5 on the Nasdaq, with up/down volume near 4 to 5 on both exchanges.  New highs/lows were 440/3 on the NYSE and 212/5 on the Nasdaq.
Leaders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/wrap-031210/</link>
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		<title>But It Won&#8217;t Matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the stock market has bounced back and we&#8217;re being fed the line that the economy is in &#8216;recovery&#8217;, nothing is going to happen, no matter how dirty the stuff that comes out is.  At least, that&#8217;s my belief &#8212; when things are going ok, illegal stuff doesn&#8217;t matter.
&#8220;NY Fed Under Geithner Implicated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/but-it-wont-matter-031210/</link>
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		<title>Still Overbought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but we&#8217;ve gone from &#8217;severe&#8217;, to &#8216;massive&#8217; and &#8216;extreme&#8217;.  
Here&#8217;s Larry McMillan&#8217;s weekly summary (click here for column with charts):

$SPX has been up 8 out of 10 days, and advances have led declines 10 days in a row. March S&#038;P futures have been up 10 days in a row, too, which is supposedly a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/still-overbought-031210/</link>
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		<title>Pay Cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it:
Despite the low job approval rating of Congress, they’ve been getting raises.  Since 1990, Congress  has accepted a pay increase 13 times.  Today, the average salary for members of the House and Senate is $174,000.
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.) has introduced legislation that would cut Congressional pay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bearmountainbull.com/home/pay-cut-031110/</link>
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