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Mayll,2012: Overall RAM
RAM Score is a proprietary market-trending tool that takes into account several dynamic components related to the U.S. markets and economy. It features a core baseline which allows for correlation between these multiple components so that they may be added together for an overall Ram Score. As a market trending tool, we believe that a positive RAM Score indicates that the odds are stacked in favor of equity investments and a negative RAM Score indicates that odds are stacked against equity investments. Obviously, this does not guarantee that the market will increase when the score is positive or decrease when the score is negative, but we believe the long term correlation may be a powerful tool for investing... Combining our trending features of RAM Score with our Portformulas intricate Formulaic Investing Strategies results in a uniquely logical approach to investing that is exclusively available through Portformulas. TM The overall RAM Score has decreased from +58.15 last month to 40.58 this month... Representing a 17 point decline... The decrease was driven primarily by renewed concerns over European economic issues. Ironically, the United States continues to post generally positive economic and market data despite the mainstream media headlines and focus on Euro zone turmoil (not that the teetering Euro mess is anything to ignore). While its been a bumpy ride, the S&P 500 is over 200 points 5t 1 th 4 from its quarter 2011 low with earnings in the Quarter coming in better than expected. In fact, many important indicators are increasing in2Ol2over2Oll... 1. University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Total U.S. Household Employment = Increasing Total U.S. Retail Chain Store Sales = Increasing U.S. Housing Starts = Increasing Total Annualized U.S. Auto Sales Rate = Increasing
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does), investors would do well to remember that JP Morgan has an equity market capitalization of $140 billion. Any way you slice it, thats a big blunder, but it in perspective it doesnt seem quite so devastating. As reported in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, May 7, 2012... French voters elected Socialist Party candidate Franois Hollande as president Sunday, choosing a national leader who has pledged to shift the burden of economic hardship onto the rich and to resolve the protracted euro sovereign-debt crisis by softening the currentprescription ofausterity. Keep in mind, the political term austerity means a policy of deficit-cutting, lower spending, and a reduction in the amount of benefits and public services provided. In other words, France wants to soften (or get rid of) austerity so that it can act like France again. Ignorance is not bliss and this
does not bode well for the Euro, the U.S. or the markets. U.S. stocks have been pushed downward on worries that Greece may yet exit from the single-currency Euro zone. And the question as to whether that will be the precursor for deeper issues in Spain and other European countries.

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