Goodbye to A Profitable 2009 – Get Ready for 2010
Email – #304
Dear Reader,
We are closing a strong trading year on an upswing. Our current positions, none of which is older than three months, are up 29% on average. Our latest addition, Corning (NYSE:GLW), is up 7% in a couple of weeks.
Including the prior batch of three conservative mid-year positions, which yielded almost 9% on [...]
CAAS Stops Out – We Capture a 43.54% Gain
Email – #231
Dear Reader,
Our China Automotive Systems Inc. (NasdaqCM:CAAS) position traded down yesterday and triggered our $17.34 stop – affording us a 43.54% gain. If you were following along and had placed your order in advance, as we recommend, you should be out of the trade. If not, take this opportunity [...]
Four New Stops to Go With Some of Our Recent Best Performers
Dear Reader,
I know we said you shouldn’t expect to hear from us until after the New Year, but we just couldn’t stay away – not when HYG, FBR, LPL, and EGO are in play.
Recently, the market has been favoring these positions and because of that, we want raise our stops on these four positions.
Please amend [...]
Buy This ETF Today
Email – #25
Dear Reader,
Here’s a chance to make some money on one of the world’s most hated assets, the U.S. dollar.
Ballooning debt… Health care reform likely to cost a multiple of what the government promises… Stimulus programs that benefit those with friends in high places… A Federal Reserve loading its [...]
What to Do After Monday’s Big Move
Dear Reader,
Another wave of corporate deal making stoked investors’ confidence Monday and carried stocks sharply higher. Here’s what to do now…
Nothing.
That’s right… nothing.
Many traders go on holiday the final two weeks of the year, which creates thinly traded market conditions. That means stocks can – and all too often do – [...]
Natural Gas Is Heating Up… and So Are UNG’s Potential Profits
Email – #77
Dear Reader,
It’s been a good month for natural gas investors. Since December 3, 2009, United States Natural Gas Fund (NYSE:UNG) has climbed 21.85%, from $8.51 all the way up to Monday’s close of $10.37.
Over the last year, of course, there has been a plethora of arguments between the natural [...]
FREE One Year Subscription for the Best Geiger Testimonial
Email – #75
Dear Reader,
When we launched the Geiger Index a year ago, we knew it would be unusual. We also knew that people would react skeptically to the notion that the same type of super specialized math that keeps B2 bombers flying and the NSA one step ahead of the bad guys, could lead to [...]
A New Pick to Dive into Today
Email – #24
Dear Reader,
Recent activity in one of our positions has given me a great opportunity to show you exactly why we sometimes use wider trailing stops of 50%. Last Friday, just in the last few minutes of trading, Romarco Minerals (TSK-R:V) sold off a bit hard without obvious reason. After trading around $1.40 for [...]
Sleeping with the television on
Email – #57
**Sleeping with the television on
Dear Reader,
While I figured we might sit back and watch the end-of-year markets bob and weave through the holidays, I can’t help myself when a Trigger Event opportunity presents itself.
When a company makes internal moves to make itself more attractive, people notice.
DirecTV Group could be teeing itself up [...]
Good News – And A Near-Miss Alpha Bulldog
Email – #40
Dear Reader,
There was more good news on the income front this week. The Chile Fund (NYSE:CH) declared a 36-cent dividend, which it will pay on January 15 – it has already gone ex-dividend. Meanwhile Prospect Capital (Nasdaq:PSEC) has increased its dividend marginally again, to $0.40875 per share, which will go ex-dividend December 29, [...]
