| 27 votes

It’s pretty easy to see what can happen when the market gets far too complacent. Any unexpected negative surprise simply gets magnified.  And, just like trying to exit a crowded, burning theater, the panic becomes overwhelming as everyone makes a mad dash to safety all at once. This past Monday, we saw exactly that in the financial markets, as a…
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| 23 votes

Do you own anything (stocks, ETFs, currencies, commodities, bonds) that recently left very bearish footprints? You can tell, based on the recent price history, if a security you own is very likely to take a nosedive.  You just have to know what to look for.  And the good news is that it's surprisingly easy.  Today we'll go over one bearish…
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| 20 votes

After seven weeks of smooth sailing, the rally has now vaulted the major indexes very close to their all-time highs achieved in October, 2007. And for the subset indexes, such as the Russell 2000 (small-caps) and the S&P 400 (mid-caps), the move has been even stronger, as they’ve been trailblazing to new record highs along the way. For weeks now…
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| 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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