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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 [...]

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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Here is a great article from Tyler at www.stockscores.com. Make sure to sign up for his free newsletter.
I am getting a lot of email these days from people looking to be long Oil. I think their interest is motivated by the fact that Oil is scarce, it used to trade at $145 and is now [...]

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 [...]

Profitable trading in the stock market requires more than good knowledge and strategies. So much of trading is mental, and it is often necessary to reprogram our brains so we can make money in the stock market. Here are some of things that separate those who make money trading stocks from those who don’t…
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
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Today I’m here to tell you that the market can, and probably will, trade another 30% to 50% lower before the next bull market starts. (NOT “BEAR MARKET RALLY”, BUT “BULL MARKET”). As this happens, you can make huge profits by taking bearish positions. But I want to make sure you TOTALLYGETwhat I was saying [...]

go to www.finviz.com and type in a symbol… let’s say QQQQ.
You will see that it displayes a chart of the index with any obvious chart patterns that apply.

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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!
Original Article
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Here is an iteresting article from our friends at www.investmentu.com(don’t forget to sign up for the FREE newsletter)
Excerpt:
“…the same manager that runs the USO fund runs another exchange traded security thats custom designed to benefit from situations like the crude oil contango. Its called the United States 12 Month Oil Fund (NYSE: USL). It uses [...]

Go thru their tutorial, it’s an interesting system using CANSLIM style principles for their pics. I also like their ‘confirm’ concept as well.
you can also download their entire history and see how the system provided entry’s and exits.
Click here
Enjoy!

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One of the most important articles you will ever read as a trader. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way, but maybe you will be smarter than me… read the article and take the lesson… without having to learn… THE HARD WAY!! lol
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A great article from Gary D. halbert on some of the downfalls to a buy and hold strategy!
“In light of a second bear market within eight years that has (again!) decimated the retirement savings of the Baby Boom generation, it’s not much of a stretch to think the investment strategy that allowed the whims of [...]

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 [...]

Here is www.optionaddict.net update from monday.
“Since Friday’s session ended on a dour note and we are seeing continuation overnight in the index futures, look for the market to open up lower near trend support in the S&P illustrated…”
Note: Today however it did break support.
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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. [...]