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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 [...]

Great artice by Chris Rowe. Based on this i’m lightening up a few of my bearish positions and hedging with some bullish ones.

“If you’re like me and just about every trader/investor I know in the market right now, you’ve been looking at one “false market signal” after another, one “whipsaw” after another, and one “head [...]

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 [...]

Important excerpt:
“Central banks may find themselves hiking into a weak recovery to quell asset prices, or they might compensate for the weakness in the interest rate and credit channels and allow asset prices to rise but risk inflating another bubble. Central banks could gain some much-needed flexibility by thinking outside the IT box – but [...]

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 [...]

What i get out of this recent and very important email by Chris Rowe at The Tycoon Report is:

The long term trend is still down (or bearish)

The intermediate term trend is up (or bullish), and even with the recent sell yesterday, internal market indicators thell us that demand is still in control.
Read the Article
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VERY IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY CHRIS ROWE OF THE TYCOON REPORT:
“For the last 4 or 5 months, savvy investors have been focusing on two major levels on the S&P 500: 752 and 800. And when most savvy investors are looking at the same price levels for resistance, they all get excited and more confident when those [...]

Special thanks to Alan for forwarding me this article.
Excerpt: “Once again warnings and predictions are being put forth about the next crisis to befall us and this time round it behooves us to pay more attention and make sure this time that we are better positioned to survive and prosper whatever comes our way. Below [...]

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, [...]

“This week’s writer of the Outside the Box is no stranger to long time readers. Michael Lewitt writes the HCM Market Letter and is one of my favorite writers and truly deep thinkers. He has recently decided to turn his letter into a subscription based model and is meeting with some success, as he should. [...]

I have been posting articles at stockcapitalist on the need for bearish exposure to the market for a year or so, and it has proven to pay off big time. Here is another great article by Chris Rowe from The Tycoon Report explaining how to do that using ETF’s.
“Don’t be afraid to take bearish positions [...]

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 a very interesting article by Catherine Holahan on MSN money central. One of the investments they talk about are hi yield corporate bonds, and I know that right now there are some Canadian bank bonds available yielding between 6 and 8%.
Interesting thing about the Canadian banks, is even though they have sufferred share [...]

A VERY IMPORTANT article by Chris at The Tycoon Report. Read this and take appropriate action. If he’s right, you can be defensive by playing BOTH sides of the market with strategic option strategies.
Excerpt:
The market will most likely break new lows and scare the daylights out of most of us once again. Today I’ll give [...]

Here is a very interesting article written by Justice Litle, Editorial Director ofTaipan Publishing Group that explains the relationship between “credit flow” and “risk appetite” as it applies to “Booms and Busts” like I have never seen before!
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