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EWZ (Brazil) – Investors411 #1 holding up +117% this year

This issue of Investors411 is the beginning of a 3 part series on ETF’s, stocks & economic forecasts for 2010. It is designed to educate YOU on how to make the same kind of money others have by following some simple investment strategies that Investors 411 has used for years to beat almost all major US indexes for the last 5 years. But first a word about

Avatar and IMAX

I’ve now seen the movie and it is truly jaw dropping . Some of the genius belongs to Director James Cameron and the rest to the Imax (a publicly traded stock) theater technology. To quote Time magazine "Look around! Embrace the movie – surely the most vivid and persuasive creation of a fantasy world ever seen in the history of moving pictures – as a total sensory, sensuous, sensual experience. " It’s like The Wizard of OZ going from black and white to c o l o r .

The IMAX theater concept is an investment choice suggested by one of you.  Right now the stock (which was on our list of YOUR recommendations) is exploding higher (LINK to chart) in HUGE volume. I’m going to nibble on/invest in the first small dip.  It will be hard to top Avatar, but IMAX is the future of movies & 3D TV is on the way.

2010 Economic and Stock Forecasts

Part 1 Positions

For 2010 Investors 411 is going to keep its focus on basically 4  core positions that it has held, throughout most of the last five years. These are the ETF’s (Exchange Traded Funds). An ETF allows you to buy a market basket of stocks or an actual commodity for less than it costs to own a mutual fund and it gives you a better tax break because it trades less (buys/sells different stuff) than most all mutual funds. ETF’s also trade like stocks and have NO hidden fees.

The fundamentals behind the choices of these core positions are simple and  explained in greater depth the OVERVIEW section on the top of blog LINK These mega trends include-

• Globalization – The key force that is allowing some countries to develop faster than others.
• Peak Oil – The world has a limited supply of commodities  and we are running out. As we run out these commodities get more expensive.
• Share the Wealth – Countries that have growing middle classes expand faster that counties that have wealth oligarchies that hoard their money.

Over the years these Investors411 core positions have outperformed almost every major US stock index are-

• EWZ – Brazil
• FXI – China
• GLD – Gold
• EEM – Emerging markets

Especially this year Investors411 held a lot of related positions and some stocks. You can find a list of these at the POSITONS section on the top of the blog LINK (check these out NOW before they change for 2010)

Investors411 did stray too far from its core holding – partly because of the enormous swings in the market this year. Top gainer was EWZ held from the beginning of the year (8% of portfolio total holdings) gained +117% . The biggest loss was a STUPID hedge on China (FXI) position. It was made because of fears about the Swine Flu epidemic seriously impacting China. FXP and ETF that is a double short of basically the FXI. Translation – if Chinese stocks go down FXP goes up @ twice as much.  The short term FXP trade (2.5% of portfolio total) lost -13%

Several NEW position may/will be used in 2010

• MOO – Agriculture based ETF – Will outperform because the huge growing middle classes in especially China & India will eat better. Already opened a position here
• EDC – This is an ETF that does 3 times what emerging markets do. Lots of risk here so it will only be bought or sold under specific conditions involving the McClellan Oscillator (see below & more later)
• ROH & TYM – Technology. Again like EDC these two involve lots of risk because they do 2 and 3 times what tech stocks do. Only to be bought/sold under special circumstances and are short term trades. (see above)
• Commodities – There are many ETF’s that are solely based on a commodity like GLD and not based on a company. Diminishing resources and increased demand for these commodities make for a decent investment.
  
• Stocks – Because YOU asked for it some stock positions like IMAX will be suggested. (see last few Investors411)

Tomorrow Economics – The Good ,The Bad, The Ugly - 2010 Forecast

KISS & Stocks

Keep It Simple Stupid

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Index	Percentage	Volume
Dow	+0.03%	flat
NASDQ	+0.13%	up
S&P500	+0.02%	flat
Russell2000-	+0.04%	-

Investors411 record – 5 years of beating benchmark S&P 500

• Brown = repeat statements
• Green = usually bullish statements
• Red = Usually bearish statements

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

Weak volume continues. Most technical analysts consider flat trading (stocks have gone basically nowhere for the last few days) after a trend (upward in this case) a sign  that the trend is revering itself (bearish).  The problem here is it is usually accompanied by strong volume.  All in all THIS IS A BORING WEEK for analysis on stocks. YAWN – Investors are waiting for the monthly employment report at end of next week.

Weekly jobless claims number at 8:30 came in better than expected  Weekly claims fall to lowest since 7/19/2008.

The McClellan Oscillator (see below) has wiggle room on the upside but is slightly overbought.

FEARLESS FORECAST – same as before "Up to flat week" – Historically this is an up period (Santa Clause rally) Even though we are entering overbought territory – hope of a positive employment report for Dec. & historical bullish factors should keep stocks on the up.

If you don’t understand a term look in up at Investopedia.com dictionary LINK

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Significant forecasting tools/Indexes for stock markets

The Dollar & the BDI have been temporarily eliminated. Right now how overbought we become is taking on more significance.

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$NYMO The NY Stock Exchange McClellan (EOD) Index measures how much the NYSE is oversold or overbought .

The index closed at +22.57 This is a slightly  Overbought Position. This chart has recently formed a series of higher highs and higher lows over the last 5+ weeks.  So it looks like there is a possibility of one more swing higher before we get to a clear oversold position (over +60).

Oversold conditions (@-60) = buy, Overbought positions (@+60) = sell The closer we get to +/- 60 the better our chances of making money with a shorter term buy/sell signal

Positions

The  Positions Section (top of blog) to see all the latest buys and sells (Updated over weekends)

These are positions I actually own

Resource for ETF’s -MSN Money has 821 ETF’s listed according to performance 1,4,13 weeks 1, 3 5, years on a 20 minute delay for daily prices. LINK

SELLING & BUYING

One of the ETF’s we are going to use in 2010 is EDC – an ETF that does 3 times what emerging markets do.

Still holding onto all of UWM.

When/If McClellan Index gets back above +60 will sell some more.

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

Several of you have asked for more on stock positions so the Positions Section will be expanded for the next few days. (see below) All current and some potential positions will be covered technically (with added charts) and fundamentally. See Position Section below.

Will get back to Politics/Economics tomorrow.  There is an important section on Gold below and hopefully we have a guest editorial this week.

World’s largest Gold bar – 250 kg Toi museum Japan

KISS & STOCKS

Keep It Simple Stupid

For those of you whose eyes gloss over in the stock section I’ve tried to KISS it today, but I left a little in for those who want the deeper analysis

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Index	Percentage %	Volume
Dow	+1.29%	up
NASDQ	+1.40%	down
S&P500	+1.36%	down
Russell2000	+1.73%	-

Investors411 record – 4 1/2 years of beating benchmark S&P 500

(see results for last 1/2 year – click  6/25 & scroll down)

• Brown = repeat statements
• Green = usually bullish statements
• Red = Usually bearish statements

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

Big Drop in the Dollar = big rally in stocks

Volume was again anemic. Since this summer all those volume  trading systems (like the one featured on the front page of financial newspaper IBD have been virtually useless) in predicting market direction.  Markets, and human behavior that underlies the market change. So for now volume simply is not a major factor in forecasting how the US market will move.

The Dow did break out to a new yearly high. The Dow is leading because it has the greatest exposure to foreign markets. One of the major questions on Wall Street is - Are emerging markets strong enough to pull the USA out of recession?

FEARLESS FORECAST – Up Week (from yesterday)

GOLD - GLD (ETF for gold) & GDP (ETF that does 2X gold) Investors411 recommended Position

The Russian Central Bank joined India and just bought a whole bunch of gold. This is the second major central bank to buy gold.  Central banks almost always take long term positions and for many years have been dumping gold.  It sure looks like a quantum fundamental shift.  Of course other major players like China have yet to announce a purchase, but more will probably follow. If you are at all interested in GLD or GDP as a long/short term investment See Link

This ETF (see right side of blog for chart) is technically overbought – notice how far away from its blue line (50 day moving average it is)  Too far away (overbought) to buy now. However, India and now Russia have given investors solid fundamental  reasons to buy gold.  If they are net buyers instead of sellers there has got to be an eventual supply problem especially if other central banks join this club.

Buy even small dips or consolidations – Willing to bet you won’t see a dip of over 2% for another week or two. There is also a danger of GLD going parabolic.

Now going to get a bit more technical

If you don’t understand a term look in up at Investopedia.com dictionary LINK

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Significant forecasting tools/Indexes for stock markets

(Besides #1 Volume & #2 Reaction to News)

BDI - The Baltic Dry Index measures the flow of goods by price (world trade) .

The BDI has broken out to new yearly high

The BDI fell a -84 points yesterday and closed at 4423. The up 16 days in a row streak has been broken. Technically it broke out through its major resistance level 4291 (this year’s high)  The BDI has rallied about 2200 points since late September. 2 down days in a row. We moderated our losses from previous day

What it means – Long term we created a higher high on the chart = Bullish. Short term we are on the way down = Bearish The BDI is far more useful as a long term indicator of not only world trade, but specifically China and growing emerging markets.

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The Dollar is currently the #1 forecasting tool .

$USD - Check out the 6 month chart (to the left) or a multi year chart of the US dollar of the US dollar.

Mantra – Dollar up = US stocks down & Dollar down = US stocks up

US dollar fell a significant -0.66% Friday. The dollar closed at $75.11 .  As the chart shows in late Oct the dollar fell $7500 and in mid Nov. went a bit below that. Sure looks like another fall in order.

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$NYMO The NY Stock Exchange McClellan (EOD) Index measures how much the NYSE is oversold or overbought .

The index closed at +1.06 This indicates stocks are neither oversold or overbought in the short term.

Oversold conditions (@ -60) = buy, Overbought positions (@+60) = sell

Positions

The  Positions Section (top of blog) to see all the latest buys and sells

I did get a chance to do some editing in the Positions Section of the blog. (Note 2 added positions)

Positions overview – Investors411 favors Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s) For some of the pure monetary reasons these market baskets of stocks are better financial investments click on HELP/EDITOR Section of blog on top. also LINK

Also – I like these market baskets because they are safer. Individual stocks are far more prone to -

• Manipulation by major investors hedge funds, brokerages, banks, rival companies, short sellers etc
• Company Events – the CEO could die, a law suit, rival announce new deal or technology, corruption etc.
• Major world Event – war, assassination of major political figure, huge geological disaster will impact both ETF’s and individual stock.
  

You could spend a couple hours each week going over all the fundamentals of each company. But, this is a suckers play.  Major investors and brokers have teams spending hundreds of hours analyzing individual stocks. Do you or do you  have someone watching computers 24/7 for every time a story about the company hits the web on that company.

Therefore, I try not to own stocks or try to make owning stocks a short term play (preferably less than a month). Less chance for an unexpected disaster. I cover some of these because YOU like stocks and I occasionally see a benefit that outweighs the risk. Of course there are some of you who know how to sell puts against downside risk and that tends to give you a better chance of NOT loosing your shirt.

So Let’s start with STOCKS Both Investors411 short term positions and potential investments. Remember its Important to know when you are going to sell. Remember KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid – I don’t drill down into lots of the fundamentals.

NVS – Novartis – LINK to Char t -

• Fundamentals – Novartis is a European Drug company with lots of decent products. It is a big Swine Flu prevention producer and that makes it hot. The dollar has gone done yet this European company has gone up (see technicals/chart)
• Technicals – Wow this is a great chart. Look at the steady trend. NVS moves in almost a straight line above its 50 day moving average (blue line)
• Buying/Selling -  Investors411 has taken 1/2 its profits NVS +12% and let the rest ride. We’re up @ + 19% now.  Will sell in Dec. when Swine flu is supposed to be worse. Considered selling yesterday because technically the stock is too high above its blue line (50 day moving average). If you want to get in – risks are greater now than in Oct when it was recommended. Wait for a dip like last Friday (see chart)

AMZN Amazon  – LINK to Chart

• Fundamentals – Amazon is an Internet retail giant that has three major advantages. Lower costs than major box retailers, no or little sales tax, growing internet use.  Add to this folks are afraid of the Swine Flu and say just 10% decide to stay home and use AMZN than risk those coughing crowds. AMZN should sparkle.  Remember Americans over react to fear mongering.
• Technicals – AMZN had a big move higher on its last earnings report. A “buy the dip” pullback in around 11/1 & another last Thrus./Fri.
• Buying/Selling – Investors411 sold 1/2 the position for an +11% gain and let the rest ride. Now up @ +14% Will sell in December. If you want to get in – of course the risks are greater now, but there is probably at least on more move higher. AMZN did (just barely) close at anew high. Buy the dip.

CSCO Cisco - Link to Chart

• Fundamentals – CSCO also had blow out earnings report and said they would be adding jobs. They made a major acquisition in the hot telecom area. It looked like the internet picks and shovels player would break out.
• Technicals – CSCO advanced like most internet companies, but failed to move higher like AMZN & others after the initial push higher. The Dow is at a new high and CSCO is still flat.
• Buying Selling – Sold all of CSCO for -1% loss a week ago. CSCO could move higher but there are a lot of other potential fish in the sea.

Tomorrow some of those other potential fish in the sea – stocks and later in the week ETF’s

Long Term Outlook - We are on the cusp of change between CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH and NEUTRAL for stocks.

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

Iran

What was supposed to be demonstrations marking the 29th anniversary of the Iranian revolution turned into a night and day that members of the Green Revolution let their voices ring out. Professor Juan Cole’s website has details and video. Its heatening to see so many protest (“huge crowds”) despite those that have disappeared into Ahmadinejad’s Iranian prison system. LINK

Vietnam & Iraq/Afghanistan – Optimism

Even though many including this blog have focused on the negatives surrounding the “unjustified” invasion of Iraq and long term consequences,there are some major reason for long term optimism.

In Vietnam we used chemical weapons (agent orange) carpet bombing and even resistance was slow to organize. These weapons were not used in Iraq. Democracy was insisted on by Sistani (the #1 Shia religious leaders) and after a year of demonstrations the US relented. In Afghanistan the poll numbers have already turned negative LINK This poll was before the election debacle.

In no way does this excuse our growing nation building disaster in the Mideast under Bush and Obama. But, it is a long term ray of sunlight in an otherwise dark cloud.

US Elections

Republicans won two governorships in NJ and VA formerly held by Dems. The Dems won a congressional seat in NY – formerly heavy Republican district.  Overall a better night for Republicans and bottom line is about the economy.  Three out of mainstream observations

• NJ Democrat Gov. candidate was a mucky muck at Goldman Sachs.  GS & Wall Street are loved about as much on Main Street as the New York Yankees outside NY metro area.
• The “conservative” running in NY congressional race considered radical right wing FOX commentator Glenn Beck “his hero.”  He had huge support from the “tea bagger” or dominant wing of the Republican party.
• Long time incumbents spent huge money and had difficulty getting elected – example mayors Bloomberg in NYC and Menino in Boston.

STOCKS

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Index	Percentage %	Volume
Dow	-0.18%	down
NASDQ	+0.40%	down
S&P500	+0.24%	down
Russell2000	+1.46%	-

Investors411 record – 4 1/2 years of beating benchmark S&P 500

(see results for last 1/2 year – click  6/25 & scroll down)

• Brown = repeat statements
• Green = usually bullish statements
• Red = Usually bearish statements

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

This is the last post for the week

Friday’s jobs report is the news for the week .  What we have is an oversold market going nowhere. Wall Street term for this is “churning.” Because we are so oversold a good jobs number (loss less than 200,000) would probably move market higher.  Oversold also limits downside risk.

Best Read of Tea Leaves – We will not get a sub 200,000 number.

For traders – A high unemployment figure means the stimulus will keep flowing  and I’d buy the dip. Even though everyone is watching Friday’s employment figure – keep an eye on the dollar. If we have a significant break through of the resistance level expect a meltdown in stocks as the dollar rises.

In Asia and Europe oversold markets rallied last night, so this could carry a positive bias to the USA today.

FOMC meets to day – expect no change.  Any changes in wording would be negative and a shock.

The Dollar War - (Part 2) The big news of the day was India buying $6.7 billion dollars worth of gold from the International Monetary Fund. This is an investment in gold not dollars. Still, obviously central banks did buy enough dollars to halt any dollar decline yesterday.

FYI - Best 25 preforming stocks since Obama’s election LINK

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Significant forecasting tools/Indexes for stock markets

(Besides #1 Volume & #2 Reaction to News)

BDI - The Baltic Dry Index measures the flow of goods by price (world trade) .

The BDI is @ 24% off its high (early June) Before that it gained almost over + 630% from its all time low of 663 in Dec. of 2008 (April 2009 high of 4291 )

The BDI rose a significant +62 points yesterday and closed at 3247. The rate of change is diminishing slightly. A higher high price on its chart pattern has been confirmed The BDI has rallied almost 1100 points since late September. =  Bullish for stocks & world trade right now

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The Dollar is currently the #1 forecasting tool .

$USD - Check out the 6 month chart (to the left) or a multi year chart of the US dollar of the US dollar.

Mantra – Dollar up = US stocks down & Dollar down = US stocks up

US dollar rose a modest -0.12% yesterday. The dollar closed at $76.33 . The dollar did briefly rise above its 50 day moving average.  The dollar is technically doing what prices do in front of major resistance/support levels – hesitating. The longer it hesitates the better the chances for reversal.

From yesterday – The next important resistance level for the dollar is the falling 50 day moving average (blue line on chart). This is at $76.67 this AM . So dollar is only 0.34% away from major resistance. It’s the line in the sand – Best read of the tea leaves is that it will hold. In fact, Investors411 will add to some positions  as we get close to this resistance level.

Positions

The  Positions Section (top of blog) to see all the latest buys and sells

Our major core positions into weekend. (See Monitor’s post in comments section)

NB  – These core positions have been long term positions for years and are STILL OUTPERFORMING the benchmark S&P 500 – For more see overview section

GLD – Gold rose a significant 2.41% and broke out to a new all time high in huge volume. This was based on the news of India buying a huge hunk of the shinny yellow stuff. (buy the dip)

EWZ – Brazil – has gone up too far too fast and was overdue for a correction. (see past updates)It had about a 10% correction (see chart) and its 50 day moving average is acting as strong support.  Think those of you who bought the dip will be rewarded in the long run.

FXI – China -  too recetly had almost had a 10% correction, another buy the dip opportunity.

Both China and Brazil could go lower if the jobs number is bad or the dollar rises too high. They go down faster than US markets, but rise much faster than US markets. The BDI recent move higher is favorable for both.

Considering diversifying into Indonesia & Vietnam ETF’s Also, for traders as an individual stock AMZN – great technicals& fundamentals, but also a swine flu play. If the flu ends up keeping folks housebound AMZN should profit. (more on Monday) It is currently dipping.

Concerns – 10 even 20% corrections are healthy for FXI and EWZ in the long term. Yes, these and other emmerging markets are recovering fundamentally far faster than the USA. But anything that goes up to too fast forms a bubble and they burst.

SPX – Selling entire position as soonas I get back from art show – taking profits and freeing $ for other investments.

Long Term Outlook = NEUTRAL

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Dow 10,000

Yesterday the Dow closed over 10,000.  Some major facts that cheerleading American corporate media has ignored about Dow 10,000

• The Dow was at 10,000 ten years ago. Buy and holding stocks over the last 10 years has really LOST money. A whole lot more than you think
  
• If you adjust for inflation the Dow is really at 7,537 – you lost 25% of your purchasing power. Thanks to one of you who sent in this LINK
• If you compare the Dow to Gold (in some ways this is like showing how far the dollar has fallen in value relative to other countries) “It cost about 30 ounces to buy the 10,000 Dow last time. Now it costs less than 10.” The  loss in purchasing power becomes even bigger.

Therefore, relative to the rest of the world and inflation major US companies/the Dow has taken a huge fall over the last 10 years.

Relative to this years Dow low 6470, Dow 10,000 sounds mighty good .  Financials have lead this Dow/Stock Market recovery from 6470 to 10,000.

• JPM * (see below) just announced multi billions of dollars in better than expected profits. So will other shadow banks
• These financials are giving big rewards to top executives who still look for ways to make bets on money (Credit Default Swaps etc) and are building up hoards of cash in order to have collateral on these hidden bets.
• Obama and his Wall Street administration have even made it less transparency for shadow institutions – mantra, we now have NO mark to market accounting.
• The banks are not making loans to small businesses like they’re supposed to and the gov’t instead is making those loans/gifts – cash for clunkers, tax cuts, $8,000 first time homeowner gift etc.
• These big shadow institutions are here to stay. LINK according to Obama’s administration “the genie is out of the bottle.” Looks like these huge unregulated institutions are here to stay.

Therefore shadow banks, the creators of “financial weapons of mass destruction” (Warren Buffett quote) rule. Obviously those who robbed you and brought the world to its financial knees are being rewarded. Investors411 has screamed about the injustice and future doom of continuing the  hidden financial system, but it has contributed significantly to the Dow reaching 10,000.  Like greedy little pigs we are again building a financial system on illusion.

Investors411 recommends the following  (see overview for more)

• Traders – Play the financial stocks (shadow banks). They rule. Ride the wave. Dow 10,000 means lots of wealth has been again created for upper middle to ultra wealthy. Some of this will get spent and help the American economy and the blackmail shadow banks have is if they go under so does the stock market . Never forget we are only building another hidden asset bubble
• Long Term Investors – Do what everyone else is realizing buy Gold GLD (see past Investors411)
• Long Term Investors – Buy countries that create wealth by manufacturing real goods or producing real commodities – China & Brazil

STOCKS

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Index	Percentage %	Volume
Dow	+1.47%	up
NASDQ	+1.51%	up
S&P500	+1.75%	up
Russell2000	+2.00%	-

Investors411 record – 4 1/2 years of beating benchmark S&P 500

(see results for last 1/2 year – click  6/25 & scroll down)

• Brown = repeat statements
• Green = usually bullish statements
• Red = Usually bearish statements

Technicals and Fundamentals

“Expect other indexes to follow Gold & Brazil. ” (Both GLD and EWZ have broken out to new highs.)

Put on your Rally caps and watch volume – Today should be the day that we know if the money on the sidelines is willing to start to get back into stocks.

Volume showed a wee bit of new money did come into the market, but let’s see if it gets sustained. CNBC and everyone who has money invested in Wall Street is cheerleading for that money to return (see above editorial)

So we’ve had at least a one day rally, but more importantly we’ve fundamentally had top line (sales) growth from Intel and some minor companies.

* JPM , Perhaps the #2 shadow financial institution also hit an earnings home run. Remember, instead of TARP money going toward the elimination of bad debt (credit default swaps) all the Bush and Obama administration have done is shovel money at them and allow them less transparent accounting. Most likely shadow banks/financials are hoarding funds because their real debt from the financial crisis is still huge.

Google & IBM are the next major tech to report after markets close today.

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Significant forecasting tools/Indexes for stock markets

(Besides #1 Volume & #2 Reaction to News)

BDI - The Baltic Dry Index measures the flow of goods by price (world trade) .

The BDI is @ 40% (I haven’t done the math) off its high (early June) Before that it gained almost over 630% from its all time low of 663 in Dec. of 2008 (April 2009 high of 4291 )

The BDI nine day rally flattened out two days ago and has fallen 99 points. It fell a -49 points yesterday and closed at 2579 . Even though a reversal seems eminent, we have technically achieved a higher high even though the BDI is falling.  Another 100+ point drop well start to get a little concerned and the line in the sand support level is 2163 =  Bullish for stocks & world trade right now

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$USD - Check out the 6 month chart (to the left) or a multi year chart of the US dollar of the US dollar.

Mantra – Dollar up = US stocks down & Dollar down = US stocks up

Stocks went up so guess what happened to the dollar – The dollar reached a new yearly low fell a significant -0.46 % The dollar closed at $75.47. We have developed a support level just below $76 . The dollar closed below its support level. = Bullish for stocks

NB –

• Earnings will probably trump the dollar as the #1 influencing factor for the nest two weeks. But the falling dollar is the main driver of stocks right now and we have a long way to go till we hit last year’s $71 low.
• A slow decline in the dollar = good a rapid decline = bad .
  

Last year’s low was around $71, so there is a long way to go before the next major and very crucial support level.

Positions

The  Positions Section (top of blog) to see all the latest buys and sells

See comments section of blog for a complete update on positions.

EWZ – Brazil up +4.05 % yesterday is starting to go parabolic.  It’s going up way too fast as investors are chasing the stock.

GLD – Remains a solid buy the dip opportunity (even small dips)

XLF, UYG & FAS (big financials/shadow banks) are also buy the dip opportunities . UYG is riskier and FAS is most risky. Traders could see a buy the dip opportunity today.

Sold FAS yesterday for +8% profit

Your (Monitor’s) Questions – See comment section of blog

INTC did fizzle yesterday – up only +1.66% vs our positions in China (up +3.55% ) and Brazil (4.05%) Technically, Intel had gone up almost 40% last quarter and a whole lot right before earnings – so the higher price was already built into the stock. China & Brazil have not had the same huge run up, although Brazil is reaching the same overbought position that INTC.

For US and other countries to move forward we’ll have to see other companies show top line sales growth.

Outlook is still CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Cautious Optimism on Stimulus

Christina Romer

We’ve come back from the edge of the financial cliff, Stocks have rallied significantly, & Job loss has decreased from @700,00 a month to 216,000 last month.

“We have absolutely seen a change in trajectory,” said Christina Romer, top White House economic adviser. White House said that translated to about “one million jobs that would have been lost without government efforts “

There have certainly been many different government programs along with the Fed that have change the financial picture – In its first report to Congress on the stimulus, the White House Council on Economic Advisers said the economy was improving and would have been far worse without the stimulus . LINK

Also Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both in front of congress and on the CNBC echoed some of those achievements and future problems – LINK

One interesting point is besides these economic gains $80 billion have come back in from the loans.

Making $ off the Stimulus

Instead of editorializing on the stimulus, let’s take a look at how to trade/invest on this huge amount of cash stimulating the US and the world’s economy and make your portfolio grow. Some significant points.

• The Chinese stimulus is over twice as large as the US relative to the GDP of each country. Their stimulus is more focused (one political party) and faster acting. We’ve already seen a far bigger move in their market than ours. This should continue. Invest in China
• US has guaranteed the solvency of the giant “too big to fail” shadow financials. Smaller banks are not covered and getting toasted. From the best Goldman Sachs t o the worst AIG & Citi , if the government is going to guarantee your survival you have a huge advantage. Invest in too big to fail shadow financials
  
• All the printing of money,taxpayer stimulus, & government loans is forcing the dollar lower. The US is a deficit nation. This forces commodities (traded in dollars) higher. Invest in commodities – Copper, Gold, energy & and energy rich countries – Brazil

Health Care

One of you sent in the a link to different views on health care from the NYT. Will post this on the comments section of the blog. This echoes a comment made by Doggie’s Mom.

STOCKS

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Index	Percentage %	Volume
Dow	+0.84%	up
NASDQ	+1.15%	down
S&P500	+1.04%	up
Russell2000	+1.45%	-

Investors411 record – 4 1/2 years of beating benchmark S&P 500

(see results for last 1/2 year – click  6/25 & scroll down)

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• Green = usually bullish statements
• Red = Usually bearish statements

Technicals and Fundamentals

NASDQ continued its breakout move. Both the Dow & the S&P, joined the NASDQ  broke out to new yearly price highs yesterday. Small cap stocks (Russell 2000) broke out two days ago. – Bullish sign

Up five trading days in a row for major indexes – we’re getting a bit oversold.

This rally is very much related to the dollar dropping. According the talking heads over 1/2 of the profits of the S&P 500 come from foreign countries – so when the dollar drops their profits grow.

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Significant forecasting tools/Indexes for stock markets

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BDI - The Baltic Dry Index measures the flow of goods by price (world trade) It looks like we could be forming another lower high and that would reinforce the mid term bearish pattern . The BDI has leveled off and started to rise over the last two weeks. Flat yesterday +01 yesterday.

Each day this looks more like a base has been formed above a key support level Longer flat bottoms and slowly moving higher is usually indication of, at least, a short term bottom-Bullish short term outlook for BDI and we have certainly recovered from the devastating lows of Dec./Jan.

The BDI is 41% off its high (early June) Before that it gained almost +170% from early April to Jun e

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$USD - Check out the 6 month chart (to the left) or a multi year chart of the US dollar of the US dollar.

The dollar dropped of the table and through its major support level three days ago and has continued to fall.  It fell -0,30% yesterday. This added drop is confirmation of the technical breakdown the day before. Dollar closed at $76.81. Its  major support level is @$77.5 . After 11 days of consecutively being up one day and down the next, the dollar has fallen 4 days in a row. Short term Bullish for most stocks

Mantra – Dollar up = US stocks down & Dollar down = US stocks up

Bottom Line – Both the BDI & the Dollar are forecasting at least a short term rally.

Last year’s low was around $71, so there is a long way to go before the next major support level.

Positions

The whole Positions Section has been revised (Click on “Positions” at top of blog). Check it out

Instead of waiting for that illusive 5 to 10% dip to invest nibble a little bit now. This is a dollar dropping rally. Don’t get a sugar high from it.

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

The more you know about investing, the more you realize that everyone else (especially the more $ they have or control) knows more, has a bigger support team , more computers, better access to data and knows how to bend/manipulate whatever they are investing in.  These wealthy investors/entities/countries are like huge slow moving/turning super tankers. Therefore, your advantage is to recognize which way the fleet of tankers is moving and get their first.

Baltic Dry Sea Index

Nothing could be less exciting than something called the BDI.  But it is one way to measure the FLOW of money or direction our globalized world is moving in. The top 20 economic countries are meeting in London (see comments by “Critic” from London on right side of blog) The G 20 meets later this week and perhaps the drop in the BDI shows how fractured or nationalized the worldwide response to the recession is.  (Lots more below on BDI under fundamentals)

Money Flows

• To start realize that the standard of living just in the USA has or will drop from 20 to 50%. My guesstimate is combining the loss in home value, investments, jobs and the increase in debt. 
• Other countries, especially those like England, Iceland, and Eastern European countries whose banks adopted the same “free market” unregulated, over leveraged financial system are in worse shape. 
• Protectionism, just like in the Great Depression stops money flows, and we are a global economy. The world wide recession’s greatest danger is nationalism stopping money flows.
• Money flows best when goods are bought and sold. The more people that spend  money the faster it flows. When money is hoarded by an oligarchy or debt is forced on working folks money flows dry up.
• The major question emerging from our “Great Recession” is how to get the money flowing again and whose going to pay for the past mistakes.

Investment Choices

 Our huge debt, over leveraging and reliance on credit before the meltdown hit has put this country in much worse long term position to fix the problems created. This is why Investors411 recommends using hedges (ETF’s that short the markets – see Position sections) when markets rally to far too fast in the USA.

This is also why Investors411 recommends in Brazil and especially China (see Positions section of blog). They don’t have debt, but do have other resources.

Gold, GLD, is also recommended because in the long term all the money thrown by super takers (governments and other entities) to fix the problem is going to create inflation and devalue currency. This usually makes gold and other commodities more valuable. 

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING