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Joel Greenblatt, who runs Gotham Asset Management and is a professor at Columbia University, wrote a book in 1997 with a very long title: "You Can Be a Stock Market Genius (Even if You're Not Too Smart): Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits." Greenblatt, who was a very successful hedge fund operator (Gotham Capital), wrote a book that was even more popular, "The Little Book That Beats the Market" in 2005 and updated in 2010 about magic formula investing. W

I wrote a piece here in December about my interest in ETFs, concluding that not all ETFs are good. That piece included something about every ETF article that I had published at Seeking Alpha since October 19th. I have published a few more since then: 12/21: Approach REIT ETFs Cautiously 12/25: PEY Is Not As Bad As It Looks 01/04: Why NOBL Could Falter 01/12: SMDV: Why I Still Like It The last one was by my new alias at Seeking Alpha, The Intelligent ETF Investor . I continue

The ETF market has gotten massive. What is an ETF? It stands for Exchange-Traded Fund, which was invented in Canada in 1990 and introduced in the U.S. in 1993 with the launch by State Street Global Advisors of the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF (SPY), which represented the overall market as measured by the Standard & Poors 500, a popular large-cap index. Now, there are so many ETFs, and they have expanded their scope beyond broad markets to very narrow ones. They have moved beyond just s

I have been very bearish on stocks for a long time. Too long! Does that make me wrong? Right, but early? I think too early, but I don't...