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If you are looking for something different this year than last year, I would say prepare yourself for disappointment. Over the short term, the bulls look like they are trying to get the S&P 500 up to 1,300. But any meaningful move higher beyond that upper level looks very doubtful indeed. This market is still [...]

Continue Reading Strategies for a Headline Driven Market.!!

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Thanksgiving is only one week from today, and time is running out on the twelve turkeys holed up on Capitol Hill. More formally known as the “Super Committee”, this Congressional bi-partisan panel was assigned the task of completing the second part of the Budget Control Act of 2011 — coming up with a deal to [...]

Continue Reading Is The Market Headed for a “Super” Sell Off?

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According to the globally respected macro investor Jim Rogers, we are on the cusp of a breakdown worse than the 2008 financial crisis. This is not idle chatter from a perma bear academic (cough… Nouriel Roubini… cough).  If we were using modern day vernacular to describe Jim Rogers, we would have to refer to him [...]

Continue Reading 100% Chance of Crisis, Worse Than 2008

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In my article last week — Recession? These 2 Things Will Let You Know — we focused on two key industrial commodities that can help us gauge whether the economy may be heading into another recession. After all, having a firm reference guide can go a long way towards your confidence and conviction when making [...]

Continue Reading What The Oil Market Is Telling You Right Now!!!

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Technical Tuesday – Heed This BIG Buy Signal Chris Rowe Why Bad News is Good News No matter how cool you are, with all the different indicators and bells and whistles you may use to trade, PRICE ACTION itself is truly the number one indicator. And right now, price action is telling us that prices [...]

Continue Reading Technical Tuesday – Heed This BIG Buy Signal

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