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This cartoon is a great reminder of a number of valuable points that we repeat often. The economist’s fallacy only applies to buy-hold investors, who always underperform the general markets and especially underperform the flexible do-it-yourself trader. The counter perspective is that if you cut your losses early and let your profits run indefinitely, you can afford to be wrong very often and still retire with far more profits than the complacent buy-hold practitioner.

Last week… Both indexes had modest one-week gains this past week, although US stocks were favoured.

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The S&P/TSX Composite Index APAR gained 3 points and the S&P 500 APAR was up 8 from the previous week. We managed to bump the PTP APAR up from 47% to 159% by dropping one loser on a sell-signal and adding three new holdings. That’s pretty decent given the circumstances.

PTA Perspective… Why Everyone Should Keep an Eye on Apple (AAPL)
Although Apple (AAPL) is the biggest company in the world by market cap, the implications don’t always register with investors. This week we explore some of those implications. Is it possible that Apple’s share price moves precede (and even predict) the moves of the overall equities market? Some think so! More in this week’s edition of TrendWatch Weekly.

US Thanksgiving Trade Post-Mortem
Since we featured the highly successful seasonal US Thanksgiving Trade in our last edition of TrendWatch Weekly, it seems appropriate to provide you with an update on how well it worked this time. SPOILER ALERT: It worked (for the most part)!