| 25 votes

The bulls have had plenty to celebrate as they closed out a very memorable first quarter. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 11.2% and finished at an all-time high.  It was also the best quarterly start in fifteen years. The S&P 500 gained 10% and made history on the very last trading day of the quarter, finally eclipsing the previous…
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| 11 votes

Today I'll show you a strategy that returns 32% ... even if the stock stays within a 5% range.  How will I show this to you?  I'll just point to an article I wrote 3 weeks ago titled "One Stock to Hedge Immediately". Most readers will dismiss what I'm about to talk about as boring and too slow.  Yes, a…
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| 15 votes

I'm on holiday this week, but things are getting interesting over in Europe, so I have a few quick thoughts... All the banks in Cyprus have been closed for the past twelve days.  Today they reopen. And they weren’t closed to celebrate the Cypriot New Year or anything like that.  They were shuttered because they were on the brink of…
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| 17 votes

A long time ago... In a galaxy far, far away... An announcement was made that caused a chain reaction to knock the S&P 500 down 14% in just 9 days.  Well, maybe not a "galaxy", but the announcement came out of Greece and the vicious market declines led to the flash crash just 9 days later.  But would you like…
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| 19 votes

Well it looks like Cyprus has become the latest scare du jour.  After this past weekend’s ill-conceived plan to force bank depositors to shoulder a hefty portion of the country’s much needed bailout, markets were caught off guard, sending stocks lower on Monday and Tuesday. The Cypriot parliament flat-out rejected any terms or conditions that included haircuts on bank deposits.…
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| 18 votes

Dear Any and All Green Traders Reading This Article, STOP LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE EVERY SINGLE MONTH! If you showed me your portfolio full of liquid stocks, I would probably be able to have a check sent to your home in the amount of 2% of the value of your portfolio -- without selling a single share.  So if…
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| 26 votes

As the stock market rally continues its march to new highs, we’ve been talking a good bit lately about treasury yields and the US Dollar index. I initially brought up the subject a month ago in our February 14, 2013 edition of The Tycoon Report:  Two Things You’ll Want to Watch Right Now. And the reason why is because stocks,…
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| 11 votes

The stock you want to hedge is a little company whose services I use regularly, yet have no idea why.  It's a social media / business media company that only created a personal profile on so I didn't like the only businessperson on earth who doesn't use it. It's a virtual business network that didn't have the kid-like stigma that…
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| 19 votes

For many battered retail investors, it’s been a painful slog.  But on Tuesday, that long awaited moment of redemption finally became a reality as the Dow Jones Industrial Average vaulted to a new all-time closing high of 14,253.77. After nearly five and a half years, the previous record closing high of 14,164.53 set on October 9, 2007 was finally taken…
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| 19 votes

Here's what we've been doing in my hard core 6-month educational trade alert program, "Boot Camp Trader"... We took some bearish positions that literally dropped immediately after we entered into them.  I'm talking the very next day they dropped hard.  Those trades are still profitable! Then we have other trades that went in the right direction at first (down) but…
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