Trigger Event Strategist

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Profiting From A Wall of Worry Email # 61 Dear Reader, “Climbing a wall of worry” is a stock market adage that refers to the difficulties we have to overcome in order for the market to move higher. Right now we are on a giant wall… and…

Email – #59 **Trouble at the Top?    Dear Reader,                                                       While we’ve owned stocks this past year, and have taken some nice profits, the…

January 11, 2010 By Shah Gilani Email – #58 **Bitten by the bug… Dear Reader, The sound of pumping air you hear is the gold bubble being inflated. If you’ve been reading The Money Map Report or Money Morning, you’ve likely…

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…

Email – #56 **It’s about the debt holders Dear Reader, While the market dances with wolves near its recent highs, the pack is still hungry for more and may try to push into new high ground before year-end. That would be VERY interesting…

Email – #55 **Taking a bite out of the Apple Dear Reader, As far as fear goes, it’s supposed to be a healthy thing. Fear of danger keeps us at a safer distance than we might otherwise tread. Fear of failure keeps us trying harder. And…

Email – #54 **Waiting for Columbus Dear Reader, Waiting for a healthy pullback in this hyped-up and high-flying rally is like waiting for Columbus to discover America, again…it already happened. And while that was no little feat in the…

Email – #53 **No Slob Indeed… Dear Reader, On May 26, 2009, I recommended you “SELL Schlumberger November $50 PUTS (SLBWJ.X)” which were trading at $6.10. At that time, I was recommending buying Schlumberger because I liked…

Email – #51 **Protection, Prudence, Possibility and Profit Dear Reader, Protection: Because it’s a lot easier to accumulate wealth by not losing it, we’re going to bank gains when we have them and put protective stops under our…

Email – #50 **Labor of Love Dear Reader, Wouldn’t it be nice if all our labors were as productive as our portfolio looks? No, I’m not counting our chickens before they are hatched, but we are prudently positioned and appropriately…

Email – #49 **A MARVELous Gain Dear Reader, This morning Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) hit our stop loss price of $48. The stock had zoomed up 26% yesterday on news that Disney agreed to Buy Marvel for $4 Billion. For those of you who got…

Email – #48 And indeed it was… Dear Reader, I titled my May 15, 2009 letter to you “MARVELous opportunity.” And, indeed it was. We bought Marvel Entertainment (MVL) that day for $31.75. In case you didn’t catch the…

Email – #47 ** Food vs. Fashion Dear Reader, What we look for at The Trigger Event Strategist are standout events that, by themselves, or better yet, in conjunction with a host of other confirming events and statistics, point us to an…

Email – #46 **Swimming with sharks Dear Reader, The saying goes, “If you want to learn to swim you’ve got to get into the water.” We’ve been in the water and swimming along very nicely. We’re up 88% on our Saks…

Email – #45 **Patience Pays… Dear Reader, Patience pays off when the markets are at a crossroads, as they were just over a week ago. On August 7th I recommended Inovio Biomedical Corporation (INO) and said we’d be watching for the…

Email – #44 **Targeted Delivery Dear Reader, The saying goes, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” So we won’t. We’re going to ride this rally like a gift that that keeps on giving. If our horse gets tired and…

Email – #43 **The Art of Technology Dear Reader, These certainly are unusual times. If you’re wondering how the markets are able to propel themselves higher in the face of: rising unemployment, horrible earnings (sure, they are…

Email – #42 **Right Place Right Time Dear Reader, We bought Medarex (MEDX) on April 23, 2009 based on Trigger Events that signaled the company as a compelling buy. We were rewarded yesterday when another of our Trigger Event holdings (itself…

Email – #41 ** CIT Group…not dead yet Dear Reader, If you placed your wager alongside me that CIT Group (NYSE: CIT) and all its ailing borrowers would not be abandoned by our government, you are as dismayed as I am, no doubt. But, while…

Email – #40 CIT…stands for “could it triple?” Dear Reader, Don’t ever lose sight of why we invest. We invest to make money. And, don’t ever lose sight of the reality that every investment should ALWAYS be…

Email – #39 **Slipping on ICE Dear Reader, There are a confluence of Trigger Events shooting holes in the once powerful position of trading exchanges, and we’re going to take a position based on them. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.…

Email – #38 **Nip and Tuck Dear Reader, Just last week I pointed to the likely direction of the markets as drifting somewhere between the horse latitudes and the doldrums, in other words going sideways. But, since sideways means within a…

Email – #37 **Navigating the Horse Latitudes Dear Reader, Legend has it that when Spanish Armada ships transporting horses to the West Indies got stuck in the windless subtropical latitudes between 30 and 35 degrees south and north of the…

Email – #36 **Better safe than sorry **We have work to do, so read this quickly and put on the recommended protective “stops” Dear Reader, Last week I asked the question, “How far is far?” Of course I was talking…

Email – #35 **How far is far? Dear Reader, Color me impressed. The markets and sentiment have brightened considerably from our March lows. While this is no surprise to us, since we paired back on our shorts and have gotten very long,…

Email – #34 **SLB is no slob The underlying momentum propelling the markets forward recently may be more a bout of “value” optimism than a hard look at what lies below the surface of thin ice. While everyone who missed the rally…

Email – #33 **MARVELous opportunity I’m not a big movie buff myself, but I do follow the industry. It’s been undergoing some difficult changes, and film financing has fallen off a cliff. However, in spite of seemingly hard times,…

Email – #32 Don’t Leave Home Without It? What a rally we’ve been having! Our long positions are participating nicely. In particular, our Tyson Foods (TSN) is up 56%; previously beaten-up Saks Fifth Avenue (SKS) is up 54%; and…

Email – #31 ** No stiff when it comes to arthritis We are always on the lookout for trigger events. When a confluence of events occur, even though they may be “under the radar” of the mainstream press and pundits, we try to…

Email – #30 ** Can’t really fault a rally My mother always used to say, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” And although I never understood the actual expression, I understood the meaning of grateful…

Email – #29 Another Turning Point? The market has seen a nice bounce off its early March lows and as of yesterday the industrials were up almost 23%. We are going to be getting some important earnings numbers this week and next. The markets…

Email – #28 **Sears Getting Squeezed The symbol for our SEARS June 25 puts was changed from KTQRZ to SSJRE. Sears has a $4 billion revolving credit line coming due next March. But, Eddie Lampert, who controls Sears through his ESL hedge…

Email – #27 ** Healthy Prospects Even though I believe the economy has not come close to hitting bottom, the markets always lead any economic recovery by often as much as 6 months. We are seeing investors coming off the sidelines and dipping…

Email – #26 **Milking the Agribusiness Rebound It’s nice to see our General Electric stock rise about 78% from its recent lows. The company has its hands full with its large real estate holdings, but – all things being equal…

Email – #25 ** Flapping Wings There’s been a lot of talk about stimulus – and multiple plans put forward about reinvigorating the extension and flow of credit. So far, all I see, hear, and feel amounts to no more than flapping…

Email – #24 ** “The Softer Side of Sears” I have a great deal of respect for Warren Buffett, but he had a miserable year in 2008. Eddie Lampert was supposed to be the next Warren Buffett, only better. I have even more respect for…

Email – #23 **Fear and Loathing Negative market sentiment has completely overwhelmed any efforts by the new Administration to satisfy investors’ fears that the economy is not in a freefall. Immediately place the following stop-loss…

Email – #22 ** “War on Wall Street” Web Summit Thank you all for the many excellent questions you sent in for my recent “War on Wall Street” web summit. Hundreds of you wrote in from all around the world, asking the…

Email – #21 ** Cats and Dogs The bloom is off the rose. The markets aren’t encouraged by anything President Obama or his administration have to offer, or even to say. Tonight will be another test for the President. He knows that the…

Email – #20 ** Expiration Friday: Good and Bad Immediately upon testing and breaking last November’s lows yesterday, the market today is dealing with the expiration of February options and a report that consumer prices actually edged up…

Email – #19 ** Superstition Today is Friday the 13th.  I can’t say that I’m not superstitious, just in case there is something to superstition. After all, why tempt fate, or luck for that matter? But I’m not a…

Email – #17 ** Shallow Water… NO DIVING We have been building a portfolio of positions that affords us opportunity by: #1 Being on the field and in the game #2 Wading cautiously into turbulent seas, and most importantly, #3 Holding a…

Email – #18 ** Correction to Portfolio In the Current Portfolio Section, the stop loss should say $19.00, not $14.00: Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (HOT) Current Price: New Stop Loss: $19.00