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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 [...]

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 [...]

This is a very interesting article. I’m thinking that alot of that 10 trillion will not be given back to the same financial advisors that lost them ALOT of money over the last 2 years. I’m also thinking that someone pushing 65 and 70 should not be deeply invested in equities unless they are an [...]

I’m not sure what this means. If this article is true… and they have lost alot of the equity in their house… then maybe your average 65 year old will have to work until he / she is 75. How will that affect the economic recovery? How will that affect stage II of the decline [...]

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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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 [...]

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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Enjoy!

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. [...]

His website has a lot of good free information. Browse around.
http://www.europac.net/videomessage.asp
As an added note, I found this article he wrote concerning Madoffvs the structure of the US government to be quite disturbing.
http://www.europac.net/externalframeset.asp?from=home&id=14928

Now that Harry S. Dent’s book “The great Depression Ahead” is available… we suggest you read it. We will be doing more extensive coverage in the future, but for now here is a summary of some of his predictions. We also posted 2 short videos at
http://stockcapitalist.com/?p=1026
PREDICTION SUMMARY
The economy appears to recover from the subprime [...]

“One thing appears clear: 2009 is likely to be another wild year in the markets. So, what is an investor to do? Remain in cash and earn little or no

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return, or jump back into equities and risk losing even more money if the market retests the November lows as some analysts expect? I [...]

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 [...]

Wow! The official document.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9189285/Markopolos-Madoff-Complaint
(here is an article on the whole story) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5466963.ece

Here is a great article on safe and/or guaranteed investments. When it comes to mutual fund families, my preference for the conservative part of my portfolio is money market funds.
A mentor of mine told me that in a market like this, trade with 20% playing both sides of the market, and the other 80% keep [...]