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<title><![CDATA[Buy or Sell? [chart pic] updated every night]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=" rel="nofollow">http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=</a>$BPNYA&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=p30287105666

Did the most recent breakout outside from between blue lines occur upside = buy or below = sell?

This is not advertisement LOL :)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:41:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Relentless losses]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[since march   ABALX has been going up. I have been with Amer funds for 2 1/2 years, I switched from Fidelity.   I watched my spreadsheet weekly comparing my old fidelity funds to the American Fds. They were BOTH beaten up badly and comparably. I got out early 2008 and got all of it into the Cash Mgt trust, when everyone told me just to leave it alone. I was in the same position you are, I didn't earn any money but I quit losing it !   Things have been steadily improving for 3 month, so I am moving back in. I think the rough ride is over, but there are still some bumps in the road for us all.   I do agree that upper mgt at Amer is not available, I tried too, just to find out more about the company. During my inquiries, I was actually asked WHY I wanted to know the names of the upper managers. I told them that I was invested with them and had the right to know. Needless to say I wasn't told, yup it pissed me off, but in todays world, if anyone needed to be protected it was our financial advisors.   Now, I will say this too. I bought into American thru my AIG broker.   I kept asking him for advise as things went sour and eventually even refused to return calls.   Now that is a REAL   SOB !   Anyways, some one bashed Edward Jones, but I have a great relationship now with my advisor and they are working diligently and closely with me. I trust her.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:04:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: This Fund's Secret to Making Money is...]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[but is it really doing that bad ?    Dollar for dallar, it seems ok]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: This Fund's Secret to Making Money is...]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yeah, annual administrative charges (officially named in a more polite spin as "revenue sharing" are paid to Edward Jones EVERY YEAR!   Edward Jones in the year of 2007, received approximately $125 million in revenue sharing payments out of $508 million net income.   However, the revenue sharing monies were NOT exclusively limited to American mutual funds. There were several other major funds also paying them too.   This calculates to approximately $2 per year of $10,000 invested into American Funds.   Ouch! You never get done paying the "broker fees" and then am I really getting objective advice???? I didn't mind when the funds were making money but now it looks suspicious when I wasn't told to get out when it started the market free fall.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:30:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mother may I have another....]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[800 point drop. PLEASE no more government intervention! The markets can't handle anymore.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:03:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: The Outlook]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Good questions. I don't think the economists know the answers. They're just making it up as they go. 

The answer to where they get the money is fairly simple. They run the printing press. There's no actual gold standard. Normally, this would be very inflationary, but the problem du jour is deflation so who knows what the outcome will be. 

This has been a very tough week--and a very tough year. We'll come out of it eventually. 

"The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets, even if some of it is yours." Baron Rothschild]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:39:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: The Outlook]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I hear what you are saying but I would like to know how in the world would we have stability with the government's assistance?   The debt now is over 10 trillion of our nation.   Our dollar is being devalued by the minute. Where in the world is the government coming up with this money?   I am serious when I say I do not understand.   I am not savvy with finances, so maybe someone can educate me how is this going to work? Our spending, the nation's, is not slowing down, in fact increasing. When the market goes up exactly how much value will our dollar be with the astronomical debt that we will have with continued government assistance.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:39:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Outlook]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The outlook for inflation, oil and commodity prices is generally improving. The housing market, although still in turmoil, is behaving logically. Inventories of unsold homes are large. In response, housing permits and starts are at record lows, and home prices have fallen. With lower prices and declining mortgage rates, housing sales are starting to show signs of life, which over time will clear inventory out of the system.

On another front, our government has broken new ground in its efforts to solve the nation’s financial problems, and I believe it will continue to provide needed liquidity, particularly as the specter of inflation and stagflation recedes. I’m far from being a Pollyanna and I certainly recognize the brisk headwinds and crosscurrents we face. In fact, when this turbulence settles down, I believe the pace of economic activity will be slower. In addition, investment results almost certainly will be lower than the double-digit annual returns that some investors may have come to expect during the past 15 to 20 years.

When will this end? No one can predict market turns with certainty. Perhaps the best example is offered by one of the darkest moments in our nation’s history. In April 1942, we were at war and we were losing. Germany had overrun France. Our Pacific fleet had been crippled at Pearl Harbor. Inflation was rampant. Companies faced wage and price controls and excess profit taxes. In that bleak month, with no clear or compelling reason, the market simply reached the bottom of a long downturn and started to rise again. By the end of June 1943, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had gained 54%.

The emotions of the moment always distract us from our purpose. Knowing that, I sincerely believe that staying the course is the right plan.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:39:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Relentless losses]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oh, I'm in for the long haul but I'm also a mere 34 years old.   I'm actually getting ready to dump some money into this thing now that the price per share is at $13.94.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:34:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Relentless losses]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I didn't mean to sound snarky, but it's a fact that markets go up and down. You really need to be prepared for inevitable bear markets. Over the long run, maybe 5 years or more, this fund will do better than a cash account. But, measured over a few months, there will be times when you'll see the value of your investment fall. It's tough to wait it out. If you can't, then investment is not for you. 

I'm older than you. I figure we have decades ahead of us. I can't afford to take the nominal returns of cash investments. SO, I'll stick it out. My stomach won't like it, but in the long run I'll make money--better than with cash.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:22:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Relentless losses]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yes, you are so right I do not belong here or with any other fund that moves with the stock market.   My money means more to me than a substantial loss at this time.   I guess I just don't get it ...how the market could be stable with the economy and a 9 trillion deficit of the government.   Maybe you could educate me how when the government is taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's downfall that should give me confidence to keep money in mutual funds that is tied to the market??   Isn't the Treasury Department having to raise money by issuing more debt?   I don't know about you but I kind of think the government is us...you and me.
Respectfully, good luck but like I said with my age,recent retirement, husband's terminal condition...I can't afford to stay in for the long haul.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:22:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I too grieve for you and your losses.   I think there ultimately is something very wrong at American Funds and it was the thing that several analysts warned us about.   When funds get to big (and the fund managers get too big for their britches),   they can't be managed well.   So here we investors all sit, trying to lick our wounds.   The wounds that AMERICAN stresses reduntantly, that they will protect us from.    Well, when 2008 started going sour, did anyone see any real analysis or actions being taken by them to protect us ?   NOPE.    Did the financial planners that they "Tote"   as being OUR advisors, call us and advise us to do ANYTHING ?    NOPE...   so what the heck do we pay them for?   How dare they allow our life savings and retirements to be eroded away so quickly, without even giving a damn about it ??    These guys convinced me to take my 401K and savings from Fidelity and give it to them to manage for me, placing it in their funds of choice. Well, one year later and $14000 lighter in my accounts, the only thing these brokers did ... was make me BROKER.   And the real mark of a good financial company is that they give you access to upper management for discussions....except at AMERICAN.    Yes I am really disgusted as you probably can tell. We all should be for being mislead and Under-respected as investors/customers.   They lead us on saying it will get better, we just don't know when.   TRUTH is, no one does, but what they should have done is used all their savvy and financial/economic softwares that they have to advise us what to do to prevent high LOSSES.    We paid for it    but don't get it.   Your balanced fund probably did better than Funds recommended to me.   I am exchanging into the Cash Mgt Trust fund, just to quit the bleeding... this sucks.   Good luck to anyone reading this]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:04:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Relentless losses]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Too bad. If you can't stay for the long haul you shouldn't be here--or in any fund that invests in stocks.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:40:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Relentless losses]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just sold, can not afford to stay for the long haul!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:47:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Relentless losses]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When will the bleeding stop!!!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:04:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I HATE You Freakin American Fund Managers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[These Idiots couldn't make a profit at Fort Knox. 

Losers, absolute losers. It's obvious to anyone that these idiots invested heavily in the same freaking things that the Banks invested in. 

Worse, these idiots won't bail out. They keep our money in sinking ships, "Oh, it will bounce back".
Idiots!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:15:22 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[This Fund got YANGED!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Want to know which funds own the most Yahoo? Well, this is one of them.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:01:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: This Fund's Secret to Making Money is...]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I would rather know which funds own the most Google -]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:48:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[This Fund's Secret to Making Money is...]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[They pay big commissions to Edward Jones brokers to sell you this P.O.S. Fund.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Question]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have had a good run here.

What do you savy people think of NVTL.
Thanks for the feed back.

Alex]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 15:29:45 GMT</pubDate>
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