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MARKET COMMENT

September 4, 2008






Mr. Market stopped in for a few belts and came out one nasty bear and beat bulls mercilessly.

Sure, there was a lot of news that would drive most to drink like poor employment data, dismal retail sales, negative comments by housing guru Robert Shiller, warnings of a financial tsunami by Bond Daddy Bill Gross and a poor report by networking giant Ciena.

Reality is tough to accept sometimes especially when talking heads in the media are chirping at you every day that “the bottom is in” and to “buy stocks with both hands”. Yesterday media clown in chief, Jim Crammer stated: “rallies are real but sell-offs phony”. He’s busy trying to find that tape to destroy it.

Volume increased during the phony [?] sell-off and breadth was as negative as expected.








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David Fry, publisher of the ETF Digest, tells why he likes commodity ETFs and which ones he likes now. Tickers: USO, DBE, UNG, DBC, COW, DBA

ETF Hedge Fund

Author David Fry discusses how his new book explains how an individual investor might use ETFs to create their own hedge fund.

Great ETF Race

Publisher of the ETF Digest David Fry explains what criteria you should use to decide whether an ETF is a good investment as well as what new ETFs are on the horizon. Ticker Symbols: EFA, EFZ, EEM

Sell Global ETFs?

In his ETF hedge fund, David Fry often shifts his position from long to short, and here he reviews his current position in some of the global ETFs. Ticker Symbols: EWZ