
By Jim Sheridan. Welcome back, and the votes are in from last week when I asked you to vote for how you wanted the newsletter to end. The more astute readers may have guessed that one ending appealed to your WANTS, and the other to your NEEDS. To make progress in life and get ahead, [...]

Bullish Complacency I have written to you often about volatility in the marketplace and how it can be measured, interpreted and profited from. The most dangerous time for investors is not when the markets are in panic, free fall or correction. In those times, it’s quite evident what is happening around you and your reactions [...]

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I was looking through the archives and noted that we’ve been bullish on gold, and silver for many, many months. Our conviction has led you to make enormous profits had you followed through on our advice. Today, however, I must sound a note of caution for the near term. **Sponsor** Have You Received Your Code [...]

Happy New Year! 2011 is here and I expect that the markets will once again treat us to an unpredictable showing. If there is one certainty about the market it is that it has no certainty. Remember the flash crash last year that wiped out 10% in a matter of minutes? There still is no [...]

The markets continue to rally to 52-week highs on the back of very positive earning releases and the impending passage of the tax bill. Shrugging off a downgrade of Spanish Sovereign Debt and a huge earning miss by a major retail bell weather, Best Buy. When a market shrugs off bad news and continues to [...]

The big drama last week was the tax deal. Looks like we have another two years of the same tax regime. The markets should have rallied sharply on the news, but they didn’t. As with most “sure things” the market had already priced in the high probability of the status quo continuing. All major indices [...]
Sometimes you get what you need. It’s funny and it’s not. Home sales are plunging again, durable goods sales slowing, and the markets are running scared. If this is news to you, then you haven’t been paying attention to what we’ve been saying. This is what a train wreck looks like in slow motion. It [...]
This year’s turkey might be a little leaner than usual, but to some, it’s even fatter… Something that’s hard for many to get their heads around is the fact that the stock market isn’t the only thing to make money on. Secondly, most people seem to be locked into the premise that you can only [...]