My stock idea for today stems from a trick of the trade that I have begun to formalize after reviewing most of my 2009 trades.  Basically, when you get (a) an institutional quality stock that trades hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of shares per day that, (b) moves up to or close to new [...]

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Looking back at each of the past four decades, there was one sector that would have been the “home run” sector to be invested in. Other areas provided good returns to be sure, but these were the most profitable:
1970s: Gold, up 1,250%. The price of gold was fixed until 1971. Once it was left to [...]

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As for today’s market, the long-term trend remains up, and it appears as though the intermediate-term correction of the past month MAY be over.  Yes, I know the Dow hit a new high today, but the Dow’s not the market.  I wrote last week about the DIVERGENCE that develops as bull markets mature, and today’s [...]

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One of the most well defined trends out there is the downmove in the U.S. dollar.  If you look at the chart of the Powershares U.S. Dollar Index Fund (symbol UUP), it’s been steadily skidding for months.
Honestly, that is not my favorite scenario longer term–a strong economy usually needs a stable currency.  (It doesn’t have [...]

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Fundamentally, I’ve thought gold has had a great story for many months.  After all, there are only so many billions of dollars that governments can spend and use for bailouts, and there’s only so much money the world’s various central banks can print, before investors begin putting their money into hard assets instead of paper [...]

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