| 14 votes

It's time to stop saying we are in a bull market that started in March of 2009.  First of all, most stocks started their individual bull markets in November of 2008, although that did not reflect in the major U.S. indices.  What do I mean? In short, the largest companies that have the most influence on the major indices pulled the…
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| 20 votes

The pain trade continues for the under-invested... and for the speculative bears, too. With six-straight weeks of gains in the S&P 500, it’s now the longest winning streak to start a calendar year since 1971!  With the index modestly higher through Wednesday, we’re likely headed for a seventh. That pullback that everyone’s been eagerly anticipating has remained elusive.  And even…
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| 16 votes

Sure, Apple Inc's stock is a lot more attractive to a long-term investor today than it was last year.  But the stock has a lot of headwinds to face right now.  It's oversold.  This is true.  But just as you wouldn't necessarily want to just go out and sell-short an overbought market merely because it's overbought, you wouldn't want to…
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| 23 votes

On Sunday, China will ring in the Lunar New Year.  It’s the country’s most important traditional holiday, and mainland financial markets will be closed all of next week to celebrate. According to the Chinese calendar, 2013 is the year of the snake... But from an investor’s point of view, it’s shaping up to be more like the year of the…
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| 3 votes

Just yesterday, the stock market just did something that has only happened 4 times in the last 3 years. After this sell signal appeared those times, we saw average declines of 19.75% in the Russell 2000 (small cap) index.  The average time the market corrections took was 4.5 months.  Why should you care? Well, first of all, this is either…
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| 11 votes

What!?!  The market was actually down yesterday? Yes, it’s true, and it's been a rare occurrence since the New Year.  All the major indexes did finish lower, but the declines were mild and rather surprising -- less than 0.40% -- considering that we just found out economic growth unexpectedly contracted in the fourth quarter of 2012!  That’s right, the advance…
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| 9 votes

I hope you can join me on the live webinar that I'm holding for all Tycoon Report readers, this Thursday at 8:30pm eastern time.  Financial markets are, once again, preparing us a feast of potential triple digit percentage gainers.  Thursday's webinar should help you to find them, so please mark your calendar, and look for an email tomorrow morning with…
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| 13 votes

Talk about reshuffling a political deck of cards. In an abrupt shift in strategy on the upcoming fiscal deficit debates, House Republicans made a surprising move and opted to temporarily suspend the debt ceiling until May 19.  The bill passed the House yesterday and is expected to be signed into law.  The President has already signaled that he would not…
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| 25 votes

There are currently 2 glaring signs of an overbought market.  Whenever I've seen these signs, the market has dropped soon thereafter.  It's like clockwork.  1.  Market participants are overly complacent -- heck, they're overly bullish.  Just turn on the financial television.  No wait, scratch that.  Just trust me: there is a bullish love-fest happening.  It's ridiculous. But their comments are…
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| 23 votes

Are you a buyer of the market right here? In my Tycoon Report article last week -- Market Rally to Hit the Pause Button? -- I made the argument that this is probably not the best time to get aggressive buying into the market.  My suggestion to you was to simply keep your cash on the sidelines and wait. And,…
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