Patterns, Predictions, and the Correlation Fairy

In November 2009 I noticed a pattern—the S&P 500 index was tracing out a pattern uncannily similar to the S&P chart exactly six years previous.   In the four years from April 2009 through April 2013, the average difference between the S&P 500’s closing value for the same day 6 years previous was 3% and the yearend values were within 1.6%.  Using this correlation I predicted …

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2014 Ex-dividend and Pay date information for: FEU, FEZ, RWX, DWX, RWO, IPD, IPS, IPW, IPF, IRY, IPN, IRV, IPK, IST, IPU, EDIV, WDIV

The 2014 Ex-Dividend and Pay Date  information below is based on data from SPDR’s website. 2014 Ex-Dividend Dates Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 21-Mar-14 20-Jun-14 19-Sept-14 19-Dec-14 29-Dec-14 (potential capital gains) Pay / Distribution Dates 2-Apr-14 2-Jul-14 1-Oct-14 2-Jan-15 9-Jan-15 (potential capital gains distributions) In alphabetical order: DWX SPDR S&P International Dividend ETF (DWX) EDIV SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Dividend ETF (EDIV) FEU SPDR STOXX Europe …

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2023 Ex-Div & Paydates Schwab: FNDB, FNDX, FNDA

2023 Schwab ETF Ex-Dividend and Pay date information Schwab has now published their ex-dividend / pay dates for all of their no-fee ETFs.  The published dates are: Quarterly Distributions:  FINDB, FNDX, FNDA 2023 Ex-Dividend Dates Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 22-March 21-June 20-September 6-December 28-December  (potential cap gains div) Pay / Distribution Dates 27-March 26-June 25-September 11-December 3-January-2024 (potential cap gains dist) Schwab Fundamental U.S. Broad Market Index …

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The Six Figure Investing 2013 Volatility Awards

Even though the CBOE’s VIX® only managed an intraday high of 21.91 during all of 2013 there were still plenty of volatility accomplishments to be recognized.   Best performance by a Volatility Exchange Traded Product (ETP) VelocityShares’ XIV and ProShares’ SVXY short term inverse volatility funds both had great 2013s, but XIV took the top spot with an annual gain of 107.23% vs SVXY’s 106.17%.   Before …

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