| 88 votes

You hate your broker and/or your financial newsletter, don’t you?  Come on, be honest. The reason you hate them is because you feel that you are missing out.  Some days you see the market going higher, and you say to yourself, why didn’t my stupid broker take advantage of that market today?  He could have: 1.    Bought some stocks 2.   …
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| 71 votes

Before I get into today’s article, I wanted to reach out to a specific Tycoon Report reader:  jester112358.  You were one of the winners of the Tycoon Report Dinner contest, and we’ve been trying to contact you so you can claim your prize. So please e-mail us at dinner@ifii.com at your earliest convenience. Now, on with the show … I…
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| 17 votes

You happen to notice anything different about The Tycoon Report today? Today marks the first issue of our new and improved, completely redesigned Tycoon Report.  We hope you like it. When we sat down in a conference room to debate the design changes you see today, there were two questions that we had to answer: How can we make it…
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| 16 votes

The big question right now, of course, is whether the market will break through 14,200 and power on, or fail here and take a trip to 13,200 first.  You are going to want to have a game plan for either eventuality. The first question you want to ask yourself is whether you believe that the market is in an uptrend,…
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| 16 votes

Take a look at Victoria Bay Asset Management's United States Oil fund (AMEX: USO).  This famous ETF's benchmark is the spot price of West Texas Intermediate light, sweet crude oil delivered to Cushing, Okla., minus expenses.  (I can actually hear some of you who've traded this one vomiting right now.) The USO said it will invest in energy futures contracts,…
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| 16 votes

MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN THE PRESS ABOUT MY RadioShack (SYM: RSH) RECOMMENDATION IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR. At the time I recommended it, RadioShack had just replaced poor performing CEO David Edmondson with retail-turnaround guru Julian Day. Mr. Day was just coming off a huge success, helping billionaire value investor Edward Lampert increase the operating performance of Sears Holding…
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| 11 votes

I am not a huge fan of shorting stocks.  When you short a stock, it means that you are bearish on the underlying stock; you think the stock will decrease in price. More specifically, selling short involves the sale of securities that you don’t even own.  In other words, you borrow the securities from the brokerage firm that you are…
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| 10 votes

Let me just say that this was one of the toughest and yet, most rewarding weeks of my life. Want to know why? Because Dylan and I had to sit down and go over ALL of the answers from our “bet” two weeks ago.  And after hours of reading, debating, arguing and fist fighting (just kidding), we finally chose three…
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| 27 votes

In every long-term bull market, there is always a sector that underperforms. But you know what? EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY! One of the biggest bow-wow commodities right now just happens to be palladium. OK, so what is palladium, and what is it used for? Palladium is a precious metal, the primary use of which is in automobile catalytic converters. …
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| 13 votes

Thank goodness for technology.  I'm sitting here in my friend's cold, one-bedroom apartment in Queens, NYC.  He will eventually join the rest of us earthlings and get an internet connection along with a computer.  But until then, I'm writing my Tycoon Report article from my (what Dylan likes to call my "Dingleberry") Blackberry. What can I say about this market? …
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