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“The last time I saw this many bearish signals reverse was in early 2007. The brokerage stocks had been running like mad, but I knew the balance sheets on these companies were rotten with souring mortgage bonds.
Additionally, all of the sector data pointed to massively overbought conditions.
I remember repeatedly attempting to short the brokers and [...]

Last week, 11%of all stocks (net)on the New York Stock Exchange broke through support levels, putting them on sell signals.
I’ll make the importance of this event very simple.
All you have to understand is that, if a stock declines and breaks through a key level, the stock is much more likely to continue lower (because the [...]

Just a quick market caution… i received a report that as of yesterday morning the New York stock exchange bullish percent index has reversed to “O’s”, meaning that the sediment has changed from a “bullish” stance to a “bearish” stance and the bears have taken control of the market.
The last time this happened was in [...]

MARKET WARNING
This is not hype or sales pitch. It’s a FACT. The market could very easily — and probably will — (what every investor would have considered, by historical standards) crash! When we managed money on WallStreet through the ’90s and halfway through the 2000s, this is the kind of market we would lick our [...]

Great article by Chris Rowe at The Tycoon Report. A must read for everyone.
“You’re about to hear lots of rhetoric from “Bulls vs. Bears” and it’s going to confuse the hell out of you if your ears are open and your eyes are not. So turn off the financial television and stop listening to opinions, [...]

Economic news continues to worsen week after week. As I will discuss below, Gross Domestic Product contracted at almost twice the previously reported pace in the 4Q of last year, and most analysts now expect a similar or worse slowdown in the 1Q. Many forecasters now believe the recession will last all year, with a [...]

Strategy Labis MSN Money’s stock-picking challenge. Six top traders ran mock $100,000 portfolios for six months and documented every move they made.
One Investor Andrew Horowitz ends with a 13.4% gain over little more than six months while the market — as judged by the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index ($INX) — declined 34.5%. That’s a [...]

Here is an interesting article from our friends at www.investmentu.com. I prefer to wait for market confirmation before jumping in head first, but decide for yourself how you want to play this sector.
“Instead, business – and by extension, investing in businesses – is only about increasing profits, as Milton Friedman put it. And based on [...]

Very interesting article by Adam Lass at www.taipanpublishinggroup.com
I really like the six market commandments he talks about. Click for the full article!
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Enjoy!!

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Special thanks to R.H. for forwarding this one!!
http://blip.tv/file/1528079
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This is an article from a trader i greatly admire, Chris from ‘the tycoon report’. He provides a very important technical analysis overview for today’s market you must read.
A couple excerpts stand out:
“I’m hoping that, by the time you read this, the market is rallying in celebration of the inauguration because that will give you [...]

Great newsletter from Van at www.iitm.com (sign up for his Tharp’s Thoughts Weekly Newsletter for FREE)
Excerpt : ”Lets look at what the media is saying about the market. Barrons had its annual forecast for 2009 and 10 out of 10 experts predicted that the US stock market would rise between 10 and 20% in 2009. [...]

Excellent article by Teeka at The Tycoon Report.
This piece stands out to me…
Excerpt: “Some clear winners from all of this government largess will be the green technology sector, infrastructure, heavy equipment and education companies. That leads us to the question of who is going to pay for all of this lavish spending?
The rest of the [...]

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So far, world stock indexes have lost over $30 trillion and there will probably be another bloody leg down in 2009. As the underlying economy contracts, there’s no need for a lumbering, oversized financial system. …