Stock Capitalist

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 [...]

visit www.playbigstocks.com often and check out the ‘option plays’, ’stock plays’ , and ‘ETF plays’ tabs. They have some good trading ideas there. I also follow them on twitter.
Here is their option play of the month to check out! I happen to agree with the bearish direction. Always be aware of the stops however.
Check it [...]

The latest newsletter from Van K. Tharp!!
“Technically, 7,470 in the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) is the 50% retracement level of the entire bull market that began in August 1982. The previous bear market bottom was on Oct 9, 2002 when the DOW was at 7,286. Weve gone below that level and at 7,100, we [...]

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 [...]

Good article brought you by Justice at taipan publishing group!
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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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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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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.
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Enjoy!

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Great article by Gary D. Halbert
“What follows is a brief review of our due diligence process when we consider a money manager…”
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At www.finviz.comthere is a 3D stock sector map (among other great chartingtools) that you really have to see to believe. Very unique… and an excellent tool for quickly determining the gap ups for the day.
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Check it out… and check out the rest of the site!

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Thanks to M.G. for forwarding this one!
“If these managers are not focused on preservation of capital, they should not have the right to manage other people’s money”
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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. [...]

Interesting article from our friends at The Motley Fool (www.fool.com)
Excerpt:
“So how can we Fools reduce the risk involved while still keeping the potential reward high enough? First, we can pay attention to the balance sheet, and stay away from companies that are overleveraged with debt and burning through lots of cash. In my original article, [...]