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Use Upcoming Movies to Measure Investor Emotions and Market Trends!

MarketBOB Is The Market Box Office Barometer of Investor Emotional Confidence!  Use MarketBOB's Long and Short Wave Analysis of upcoming movies to track Bull and Bear trends.  Use movies to invest safely.  Use money tips from movies to manage your money.  Have fun with your money by watching movies!  It's all about Movies and Money together!  

 

worried investorBox Office Signals Movie Mood!  

How are we feeling this week?  The top movie remains Inception at #1 with $43.5  million!  $36.5 million gave Salt  second place and Despicable Me fell to 3rd place with $24.1 million..  Audiences leave the theater in a positive Movie Mood, however a BEAR Signal is flashing for Inception's storyline, yet another corporate tale of villainy and theft.  Read the full MarketBOB review and market analysis below:

Inception Movie Review

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Upcoming Movies Premieres, Reviews and Trailers

The Hollywood marketing machine is a finely-tuned marvel of manipulation of your emotions.  You cannot resist it, so embrace and learn from it!  Here are links to MarketBOB's latest views on the current and upcoming movies with potential to signal emotional Movie Moods.

#1 Challenger Next Week: Dinner for Smucks

 
MarketBOB  Status for

July 16-18, 2010:

Long Wave:

 BEARish

Short Wave:

 BEAR

 

MarketBOB Long Wave is bearish (in correction mode with the recent 10% drop in the DOW). 

The Short Wave bear signal started with A Nightmare on Elm Street.  For more, go to Safe Investing...

Toy Story 3 saw a 7% drop in the DOW over 2 weeks.  This movie, although a positive experience may have been a confirmation sell indicator (get rid of all those old toys - i.e. all those stocks you've been keeping during the bull run).  The market reversed with Twilight Saga: Eclipse, with a strong 5% rebound and a follow up gain by Inception with 3%.  With light volumes and summer volatility, it may take a while to see if  the bear market direction which started with The Nightmare on Wall (Elm) Street follows through to confirm a new Long Wave direction.

MarketBOB has consistently tracked and beat the DOW over the years but remember no one can predict the future (but we sure love sequels to our favorite movies and markets):

The Beginner's Guide to Safe Investing

Safe Investing by Knowing and Managing Risk

Risk is your best assessment of the future and your confidence in how predictable it will be.  Can you predict the future and thus, measure your risk exposure?  Or are we in truly uncertain times and thus unable to measure and counter the current risks to our investments?  You have to know the answer or you shouldn't be investing your hard-earned money.

MarketBOB vs. the DOW by year 2010 Q2 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
MarketBOB

-5.16%

25.10%

18.84%

29.03%

20.83%

12.32%

21.46%

The DOW  

-6.67%

23.02%

-39.94%

7.90%

19.10%

1.63%

4.89%

MarketBOB beating the DOW by... 1.51% 2.08% 58.78% 21.13% 1.74% 10.69% 16.57%
 

MarketBOB Press Links:

CNBC with Jane Wells: Can Movies Signal the DOW?

 CNN Entertainment with Todd Leopold: Making the Most of the Hangover

Globe and Mail with Tony Martin: Author offers entertaining advice

 

Movies We Love In Times of Depression:  Box Office Signals and Market Reactions in the 1930s, 1970's and 2000s

Preview Here or Buy for $9.99

 

This book is a detailed review of the three depressing decades: the 30’s 70’s and the 00’s, the first decade of the 21st century. If you only invested in the Dow Jones Index during these three decades, you would have lost 44% of your money over thirty long years. When we are losing money, depression makes us want to see movies to cheer us up, escape from our troubles and release from our tension and anger at all the things that are going against us. These movies are signals of our investing mood and thus, the direction of markets over time. This book explains the direction of markets in these decades and the movies that signaled an investor change of mood from fear to hope and back again.

It is must reading if you want to understand for yourself the Movie Mood of the nation during times of economic stress.

  Money Tips to Help Set You Free!

f you want to get ahead, money-wise, you won't do it on a salary alone.  You have to either:

Do you know the answers to  the three important questions to start building your nest egg?

Why bother making money if you're not going to spend it?  Enjoy your success.  However, you need discipline and a strategy for your spending. 

 

All About MarketBOB:

MarketBOB is maintained by writer, independent investor and manager Craig Forgrave. He is an author (Devil Jazz, ENC Press), screenwriter (Member, Writer's Guild of Canada), playwright (first Prize/ Karsh Gold Medal winner, National Playwriting Competition) and many articles and short stories over the year (more on his writing at his web site link here).  Craig spent the 90's investing and writing screenplays (made lots of money and had scripts "optioned" but none produced) so family and the dot com crash forced a change in direction and new insights into the role emotion plays in crowd reactions to movies and markets.  Being a screenwriter well aware of how movies are designed to touch the emotional core of audiences, Craig built an analysis database of box office results vs. the DOW weekly results, which is the core research behind MarketBOB.com.  He uses his technology background to maintain a series of web sites and blogs under the Ideariffic brand to explore ideas, boomer values, money management, writing and the home base for the company behind all these efforts, Sportscar Projects which is a management and multimedia company promoting the idea economy, lateral thinking, emotional decision-making and social networking.

 

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