I’ll be the first to concede the going’s tough. That almost every “time-tested” strategy that worked well in bull markets is sputtering and collapsing.

But is it so bad we’ve given up on turning a profit? And just resigned ourselves to…

I’ll be the first to concede the going’s tough. That almost every “time-tested” strategy that worked well in bull markets is sputtering and collapsing. But is it so bad we’ve given up on turning a profit? And just resigned ourselves to preserving our principal, right? WRONG. This week the Treasury sold $32 billion in 4-week ...

32 Billion Reasons The Average Investor Will Fail by Louis Basenese, Advisory Panelist, Investment U Associate Investment Director, The Oxford Club Thursday, December 11, 2008: Issue #899 I’ll be the first to concede the going’s tough. That almost every “time-tested” strategy that worked well in bull markets is sputtering and collapsing. But is it so bad we’ve given up on turning a profit? And just resigned ourselves to preserving our principal, right? WRONG. This week the Treasury sold $32 billion in 4-week bills at a yield of ZERO percent. That’s not a typo. Investors actually clamored for the opportunity to lend the government their money in return for absolutely no return. In fact, investors bid $126[More...]

Finally some decent short sell setups, whew, I hate not trading…but don’t force it, lots of short sellers chomping at the bits to short something, ideally, these guys enter the following plays too early and they squeezed from some big potential market bottom.Watch these closely:EPIQ had its first big up day, last night’s AIG bailout means the market opens up big, giving it better chance at having a big second up day, meaning it might become shortable.KAZ has a typically downtrending chart and it’s the first up day…want to bottom, good, let it run, again, I wanna short on the 2nd or 3rd big up day, not the first. Watching it…ADY has a horrible downtrending stock chart, but passed some stupid regulations. Can you guess what I’m gonna say….watching it, wanna short on the 2nd or 3rd big up day.COIN is downtrending perfectly,[More...]

WITH RESPECT TO THE US’ GDP GROWTH, THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH SEES A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN ECONOMIC ACTITIVY SPREAD ACROSS THE ECONOMY, WHICH WILL LAST MORE THAN A FEW MONTHS - WSJ - According to Robert Hall, economist at Stanford University, US economic data that has been reported provide (...) [More...]