Paul & I will look over and choose the best 10 to 15.

5 of the last 6 YSL’s have toasted the S&P 500

YOU made the Difference

Friday at 4:00 is the closing date.

Problem is GMCR (chart) was much more volatile. It started the year at 35, moved to 115 then fell to 70 where we placed the Put/Call hedge trade. GMCR almost always had a significant move after its earnings.

• A combination Call at 57.5 = $119 Put at 52.5 = $77 totals $196. So 196 + 250 (55 +/-57.5 or 53.5) totals $446. You’d need very roughly an 8% move to make money, but risk much less – $196

Major CAUTION – I HAVE NOT HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE AT THIS AND I’M GOING TO CHECK THESE NUMBERS WITH A COUPLE PEOPLE THIS AM.

With GMCR you could feel the pressure build. There was a war on between bulls and bears on GMCR. I was not as concerned with the details. This is minor in comparison.

I’m at best luke warm to a combination trade. Combination risks less $. If I do trade this I will announce it in the comments section of the blog before 1:00PM EST.

Wording of above also subject to change.

Blowing Our Horn

We all make Mistakes, but Investors411 is on a winning streak.  The blog has outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 for over 6 years.

We’ve had a string of wins this year that included some major gains (long and short) gold/silver a few month back.  Some of the recent wins are in today’s blog.

• Investors411 Hypothetical Portfolio gained @+11 over the same period the S&P lost @-17% (recently closed positions in GLD & NLY)
• YOUR Stock List up +7.48 vs +1.96% for S&P
• Our new “Risk On” trend indicator has recently been even more accurate than past trend reversal indicators

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Stocks

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• Trend - Economically both Europe & the USA are deteriorating. The major question is how damaged is the opaque, over leveraged, too big to fail  shadow banking sector. Our Fed and its allies are doing everything possible to ensure survival and growth. Here’s a positive editorial – Why Europe Won’t Implode.

Investors411 Technical Forecasting Tools.

The McClellan Oscillator

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Reading The Tea Leaves

Short Term Outlook

days, week+

• Both Forecasting tools have shifted to Neutral.  But HFT dominated markets have built up some major momentum  - So chances are we’ll keep moving higher till overbought indicators start flashing a turn around.

• Path of least resistance for HFT dominated US markets is higher.

• Do the “Vampire Squids” rule the world. Here’s the negative view. One professional trader on BBC says “The collapse is Coming and Goldman Sachs Rules the World”

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Paul’s Corner

It’s amazing how well most of YSL 5 stocks have done during the last few weeks of market paranoia. As of Monday’s close YSL5 +7.48 vs +1.96 for the S&P 500, that’s from the close of Aug 18 to yesterday’s close.

Chris asked yesterday when we could expect an all clear. I have no idea at the moment, as I suggested yesterday in the comments section when we have Eureka’s and Kahunas coming out of our ears then it will be safe for the retail investor (us).

AKRX has really performed quite well during these past few weeks. It’s a good stock to nibble at provided you have a market heading in the correct direction.

One of my favorite HGSI indicators is the Force Index.  It’s a simple indicator, you take today’s close minus yesterdays close and multiply by today’s volume. You then list your stocks from highest to lowest and the strongest stocks of the day are at the top.

Using the average of 2 and 13 day Force index, when you have a positive 13 and an occasional pull back on the 2 day force it’s a good entry point. Look at the chart of AKRX,  on 9/9 and 9/12 the 2 day force  went negative. On 9/13 as the 2 day force turned positive it was a “safe” buy when the price climbed above the previous days high of 8.08. You could have left the house 9/13 with a buy stop order of 8.10 and when it crossed 8.10 you had your buy. If it didn’t go in the right direction, your order wasn’t filled.

Chart Image Link

AKRX got a wee bit extended this past week and was taken to the woodshed yesterday in a pull back. Give it a few days to settle down again before attempting another buy.

Chart Comments

AKRX  – pulled back off of extended territory, give a few days to settle down

ABV – sitting on the 200 buyable if it stays above the 200 and best buy when it climbs up through the 50

NLY – Pulling back below the 200, earnings history show earnings decreasing

AAPL – buyable when it dips to the 17

CPHD – all indicators green

CMG – all indicators green

CROX – sitting on the 50 buy at any time

GMCR – in a buy the dip position, buy when it crosses up through the 17 (107.60)

HANS – buyable at any time

HLF – sitting on the 50, buyable

LULU – in a dip, buyable when it crosses the 50, (56.21)

RES – strong pull back at the moment, not a broken stock.  Energy analyst Lou Powers suggested today:

The ERX Energy Canary was singing yesterday for the Day traders but too early to determine the energy sector direction. Up over 10%. In the recent downturn essentially all energy stocks suffered big losses in spite many with strong earnings growth potential.

TSU – Broken chart not a safe buy

ZAGG – Broken chart not a safe buy.

DISCLAIMER -  these comments are for education ONLY. They are not security buy or sell recommendations. This market isn’t safe for average folks!

Current Positions

Below – Investors411  hypothetical portfolio that should outperform the S&P 500

See POSITIONS Section of blog for more on YSL#5.(scroll to bottom)

NLY - Will buy back into  this high dividend stock on Dip. The date you have to hold the stock comes up on Wednesday. Since the 1/4ly dividend is usually beeween 3 and 4 % the stock often goes down close to that amount after this date. Everyone expects this so Put’s offer little protection for this incident.

Gold - From Yesterday -  Traders who can handle the risk – a third gap down at open and another  significant fall should bring us to longer term support levels. GLD is at very oversold levels. What you’ve seen is HFT and others stage a short covering rally.  I could be wrong,  and I have not had time to look study the PCR for GLD, but its ripe for a bounce.

Traders - From yesterday - We still have a risk on trading opportunity. Investors411 “RISK ON” has worked  perfectly so far. Using the MO, PCR and some technicals we’ve found some key elements as to when the trend will reverse itself. (Reminder nothing is perfect – but first the MO was good and a combo with the PCR seems to work even better.)

There looks like more follow through today, but as we move higher you start to think about cashing in some of those profits.

How to Forecasting tools – More and Bigger Bullish signals from the MO & PCR – the better your chances of a winning trade. The more and bigger the Bearish signal from MO & PCR - the better your chances are of going short or taking profits

Investors - For Europe, Japan and the USA the economic outlook is poor. If US does start constricting money supply, history will repeat itself and we’ll have another recession. The silver lining for stocks is they can do better than the economic outlook. This will be due to central bank manipulations and HFT’s.

Disclaimer - I buy everything in the hypothetical Investors411 portfolio. If stock is mentioned and I own it you will know.

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Long Term Outlook

(for US stocks only – not our economy)

CAUTIOUSLY BEARISH*

*Investors411 has 5 different long term valuations - BULLISH, CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH, NEUTRAL, CAUTIOUSLY BEARISH, and BEARISH.

* Everything written in BROWN is a repeat from a previous day(s)

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

ALL TRADING INVOLVES RISK AND POTENTIAL LOSS OF PRINCIPLE

Moment of Silence in Japan

Japan Goes Chernobyl

For a month Investors411 has been telling you that this disaster is far worse than expected. Japan has now upgraded the Nuclear disaster from level 5 to level 7. Level 7 is the worst.

Here’s a Nuclear Expert Tuur Demeester, whose been on the cover of Time Magazine editorial titled “Spent Fuel Pools in US are a potential time bomb, situation can get worse than Chernobyl”

To give you an idea of the scope of Chernobyl here’s the Wikipedia map of currently impacted areas

GS’s Jan Hatzius

Goldman Sachs Stomps on Commodities

GS & JP Morgan are the two shadow banks with the most power. When they  say jump and Obama (also most other polls and related monetary officials) says how high. The shadow bank cartel along with the military industrial cartel are the two most powerful entities in the USA today.

Yesterday the IMF lowered its global growth picture and GS stomped on commodities. Thanks to Paul for info on the first and one of you who gets the GS announcements for the second. Here’s the money quote that was posted in the comments section of the blog yesterday

“We are closing our CCCP basket trade, first recommended on December 1, 2010, for a gain of roughly 25% against our 28% target. This recommendation was premised on our belief that Crude Oil, Copper, Cotton/Soybeans and Platinum remain the key structurally supply-constrained markets. On a 12-month horizon we believe the CCCP basket still has upside potential, but the unrest in the Middle-East and North Africa region, and the potential for further supply shocks pushed the basket up significantly in a short period and our Commodity Research team believes that in the near term the risk/reward no longer favours being long the basket and consequently, we are closing the recommendation with good potential gains. While crude oil, cotton and copper prices have substantially exceeded our targets, platinum and soybean prices have lagged.”

Earlier in the year Investors411 brought you GS call for 2011. Their chief economist, Jan Hatzius, is perhaps the most powerful economist in the financial world

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KISS & Stocks

(Keep It Simple Stupid)

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DOUBLE CHECK ALL DATA, I MAKE MORE THAN GRAMMAR MISTAKES

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Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

Investors411 record - 6 years of beating benchmark S&P 500

BUBBLE-ICIOUS - Investors411 term for the stock market – We are all riding on the outside of an ever expanding &  Central Bank manipulated liquidity stock bubble. See Investors411 STRATEGY section for more. Remember Fed liquidity (POMO, QE 2 or quantitative easing) announced ending is June 30th.

• The Goldman Sachs note (bearish on some top commodity plays in short term) well describes an outlook that could hold investors attention today too. But, all leaders , including emerging markets took it on the overbought chin yesterday.
• As Paul has pointed out earnings season is around the corner.
• If you want a complete update on today’s stock news – here’s seeking Alpha’s senior editor. -Japan is the lead = Bearish

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Shorter Term Forecasting Indexes

There are hundreds of forecasting tools, – These two tools have worked

When they stop working Investors411 will use other Indexes

• The Dollar (USD) [Any daily price move over +/- 0.50 is significant. Dollar usually moves inversely to stocks]   Dollar rose moderately yesterday +0.26%. However longer term trend since start of year is bearish with lower highs and lower lows on chart, We are at a lower low. In shorter term we probably will form a lower high, so thats bearish for stocks. But longer term - For stocks = Bullish
• McClellan Index - (MO) [The very rough guideline is over +60 = overbought market = sell positions or short stocks, & -60 = oversold market = buy stocks .] MO fell to -28.36.  Getting close to overbought, but still = Neutral

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Reading The Tea Leaves

Looks like we are in for a correction. The dip last month took the MO down to -85 (see link to chart above) Since the MO is compiled at the end of the day you have to guesstimate where it will end up. Usually a 1 to 2% loss is good for about a 30 point drop.

Bottom Line – No Black Swan events have been able to seriously impact the Fed liquidity driven equity market. So we are nearing a buy the dip territory.

What to watch today – For shorter term traders Market movers - UUP (the dollar) still has most influential, unless others make some huge move like Japan’s announcement – Irony is if the Fed were not dumping money the Japanese move has the potential to devastate world economics.

• USO - ETF for oil - Oil up = stocks down - Now back above $100. - Headlines from Libya show stalemate and slight recovery for reels.
• UUP - (Tracking ETF for dollar) Remember - The dollar is a contrarian indicator. Bad dollar = good stocks
• AAPL – Tech giant and market mover – Trading below its 50 DMA. Since mid February this char shows a series of lower highs and lower lows = Bearish
• Japan Rector Developments – This keeps getting worse.
• EEM – Emerging market ETF – On a breakout run, but getting  way over extended and now correcting.

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Positions

UCO -(2x oil prices) Why not, its also a hedge against higher gas prices. Historically driving season in summer drives prices up in the late spring. Supply problems exist because of revolutions/instability in oil producing countries. If these problems are resolved then UCO should NOT be held.

REMX (Rare Earth ETF) - Really believe this a good long term holding.  Simply put because of limited supply of rare earth metals and big demand is going to outperform almost all other sectors. Only some sort of major economic collapse will hurt this sector. A buy.

DGP – (ETF is 2X gold) and/or SLV (silver). AGQ (2x silver) Both inflation worries and a falling dollar positively impact this sector. Silver actually has a manufacturing component.

RJA (Agriculture commodities Index) For a more complete list of commodity ETF’s see POSITIONS

UWM (2x small cap stocks) or TNA (3X small cap stocks) The later for more aggressive traders. Closest correlation to MO and falling dollar. Small cap stocks are outperforming.

EEM (emerging markets) and/or ILF (Latin America) EDC (3X emerging markets) The later for most aggressive traders. Emerging markets are leading the world and after underperforming for years they are back.

EWV (ultra short Japan) The horrific and tragic situation there has been minimized. This holding acts in part as a hedge especially for US small cap stocks and emerging markets.

TMV (3x 20+ year Treasury yields)

A winning hedge has been UWM & EWV combination (some of you may have problems emotionally shorting Japan)

ROM (2x techs) & TYH (3x techs) The later for most aggressive traders.–  Technology has been toasted and if the S&P is higher on June 30th, this sector should catchup.

I’ll keep this on the blog’s home page for a week or two then place it ion the Positions page.

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Look for Paul R’s always enlightening remarks on stocks and sectors in the comments section of the blog. See ”POSITION“ section of blog (at top of page) for lists of potential stocks & ETF’s including “YOUR Stock List.“

Paul has an excellent strategy on when to buy dips – See his postings in comments section throughout the day – These apply to ETF’s also

The Holy Grail of Stock Predictions

Goldman Sachs Prediction’s for 2011

Investors411 has an inside look at what GS sent its preferred clients on Dec. 30th about 2011. Each year the Chief analyst David Kostin, the chief economist Jan Hatzius and their staffs put together an outlook for 2011.

Why is it the Holy Grail of Predictions?

• Bias -I hate these bastards. No one firm shares more of the responsibility for the 2008 meltdown that cost a huge drop in housing prices, soaring unemployment and a worldwide Great Recession.
• Former GS CEO Robert Rubin was Sec. of Treasury under Clinton when investment banks (GS) were deregulated. His protegee was Larry Summers became the new head of Treasury after him and is now the outgoing Chief Economic advisor to Obama. Another CEO of GS, Henry Paulson, was Bush’s Sec. of Treasury from 2006 to 2009. He oversaw the massive over leveraged shadow bank buildup and the 2008 bailouts when the financial/housing bubble burst. All these men have profited enormously while working Americans and homeowners have suffered.
• NO other entity even comes close to GS in being tied to government finance and therefore understands the role of government (has access to inside information) in the markets. If you’ve been paying attention, Investors411 has reported how our Fed and Treasury Department are now manipulating stocks and bonds to the tune of trillions of dollars.
• CNBC popular analyst, Jim Cramer, was a mere hedge fund manager for GS. When GS speaks he listens.
• No other firm has an inside connection to the Fed & Treasury than GS.
• David Kostin’s 2010 predictions were so good he made Partner at GS & Jan Hatzius (Wikipedia calls him usually “bearish”) is one of the most respected economist on Wall Street. Once he speaks his views are parroted by everyone from Cramer to a bevy of lesser economists.

Does GS take advantage of its position as puppet master to government finance? – An old line from the 1939 movie Casablanca used by Claude Rains sums it up -“I would be shocked shocked to find out theirs gambling going on in Casablanca.”

Goldman Sach’s inside knowledge and ties to government give them an advantage that no one else has. This is vastly more important now because both the Fed & Treasury are manipulating far more than they have than they have at least in my lifetime. Therefore its the Holy Grail

Basically Goldman Sachs is bullish on almost everything from except the dollar and natural gas.

Here’s the Chart  GS is giving its clients that outlines their outlook.

They see a flat first 3 months, but a very strong finish to 2011.

Note – The Fed’s quantitative easing ends in 6 months. This has got to be factored in. If we have a QE #3 over the course of those months my read of the tea leaves is that the figures go up.  I think its nothing short of a minor miracle that the government/Fed has been able to stimulate the economy without  interest rates going significantly higher.

Barr

The Vampire Squid is even growing because hidden corporate cash is now shaping the very fabric of our democracy.

In short Taibbi points out that America has become “a paradise for high class theives“ and congress their “willing lapdogs“ who’ve hijacked the American workers into backing policies that favor the rich. He identifies the godmother of the “grifter class” as Ayn Rand and her chief disciple Alan Greenspan.

You can read a lot more about the Vampire Squid and others stuck on your face, the American media, lobbyists and most politicans in Griftopeia – Taibbi’s new book.

“The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding—has been growing in power for a generation, transferring wealth upward through increasingly complex financial mechanisms and political maneuvers. The crisis was only one terrifying manifestation of how they’ve hijacked America’s political and economic life.”

Source

Again the Mantra for the last week - “Not making any specific move until dollar breaks out of its range. I would look at a breakout higher for the dollar, and a corresponding fall in stocks and the MO to oversold as a buying opportunity for long term investors. “Looks like next Wednesday Fed meeting is the big event.”

Look for Paul R’s always enlightening remarks on stocks and sectors in the comments section of the blog. See POSITION section of blog for lists of potential stocks & ETF’s including ”YOUR Stock List.”

Hope symbol from Iran’s Green Revolution – See Iran quiz below

Financial Hypocrisy

Investors411 has thrown a lot of venom at deregulated, over leveraged, opaque, Shadow Banks. However, the reality is the Pied Piper that led the Shadows down their path is a conglomerate of US politicians.  These same politicians are the ones who have been spanking Goldman Sachs and attempting financial reform.

The head line on lefty blogs is something like Republicans Filibuster on Financial Reform Crumbles. However Popeye in the comments section of the blog recognizes the enormous conflict of interest the leading Senate Democrat Senator Dodd (Chair Financial Committee) has. What good is breaking the filibuster if the end result is going to be milquetoast?

Tuesday, Investors411 referenced Luke Wilson’s (from Seeking Alpha) grading system for financial reform Today Peter Schiff (Yahoo Finance) Slams the Senators trying to reform the system.

Iran Quiz

On June 14th 2009 Investors411 began along  series on Iran’s election results. “Democracy Hopes and The Dictator Replies.” The dictator, of course was holocaust denying Ahmadinejad &( supreme leader) Khemenei. The whole world watched in horror as the dictators slaughtered innocent demonstrators in the Green revolution. Obviously Iran is the #1 country in the world you’d least likely want to see have nuclear weapons.

In the USA many stereotype, fear monger, and over generalize – Examples – All Arabs are the same, Let’s go war against Islam, The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.  So lets take a pop quiz.

1. Is Iran an Arab country?
2. What percentage of students entering university in Iran is female? (be within 20% of correct answer)
3. What percentage of the Iranian population attends Friday prayers? (be within 20%)
4. What percentage of Iranians in 2008 said they had an unfavorable view of the American people? (be within 20%)
5. True or False: Did Iran considered the Taliban to be an enemy after the 9/11 attacks

I’ll Publish the results later today in the comments section of the blog.

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Investors411 record – 5 years of beating benchmark S&P 500 and almost all major US indexes

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

See Positions for changes made each weekend

Markets recovered a small portion of the previous days losses in decreased volume = Neutral/Bearish

The Fed came through – held interest rates and issued basically the same we are going to keep interest rates low a long time statement. This plus a ever so slight improvement economically had the support of all but one Fed governor who also in the past has been somewhat more aggressive in raising rates.

The big news was still the Greek debt crisis. Massive indecision over what the future holds – See the dollar below. = Bearish

XLF - The Financial sector ETF is the indicator to watch as Senate begins to debate Financial Reform. XLF is dominated by the big shadow banks – If it goes down that means financial reform is going to force transparency and actually make a significant difference. If not the shadow banks and their lobbyists have won.

The XLF could also be impacted by the widening Greek debt crisis.

We’d need some continuing bad news on the spreading Greek debt to stop the bulls. When all is considered (Yields on 2 year  Greek bonds are 20%) the fact that major US indexes are a few points off their highs is remarkable = BULLISH

Stimulus packages across the world, emerging markets improving GDP are still driving markets higher. = BULLISH

Significant Indexes

• McClellan Oscillator rose slightly to  -24.82 yesterday.  [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO)LINK. - This is  NEUTRAL territory, but we are closer to oversold than overbought.
• US Dollar – broke out to a new yearly high yesterday. Up +0.24% yesterday. The trading range was a huge 1.75% This indicates huge indecision. [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra - right now The Dollar Rules. Is very important.  Dollar closed at $82.33. This high is virtually entirely due to problems coming out of the Greek debt crisis. Rising dollar almost always + falling stocks.

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells – (Revised positions last weekend) - These are positions I actually own

Waiting for a lower reading in the McClellan to invest. Although for traders who can tolerate the risk (not longer term investors) a -25 is better than 0. A risky buying window is open. Long term  Investors should wait for more oversold conditions. .

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein in front of congress

A Second Global Meltdown?

“Clearly the World Needs More Regulation” - Lloyd Blankfein CEO of Goldman Sachs

Well, its at least gratifying to see Blankfein join former Feed Chair Greenspan in the realization that Capitalism can’t regulate itself. Goldman’s CEO and executives testified in front of congress yesterday. Meanwhile across the pond Greek derivative debt crisis was expanding. (See more analysis under KISS Stocks – TF&A below)

Goldman’s is taking it on the PR chin from the clowns in congress who deregulated the financial industry. The Democrats have a weak financial reform bill and are getting pressured by everyone from Republicans to Warren Buffett (see yesterday’s Investors411) to water it down.

You add the Greek derivative meltdown, & the fact that this is likely to spread to most of the countries that bought into the over leveraged unregulated American capitalist system = a possibility of a second meltdown. Countries facing same kind of unresolved problems include PIIGS – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece & Spain, plus most former Russian satellite countries.  That would be one massive default if it comes to fruition.

Look at what it took to bail out the USA and the world from the first meltdown.  Remember fear spreads about twice as fast as greed according to behavioral economics.

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Investors411 record – 5 years of beating benchmark S&P 500 and almost all major US indexes

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

See Positions for changes made each weekend

Big time toasting in big time volume for stocks across the board. All major indexes moved @ 1/2 way back toward their 50 Day Moving Averages (see charts on right side of blog for 50DMA)

Financial Pandemic is spreading.  This is centered on Greek debt and seems to be spreading to the PIIGS (Portugal Ireland, Italy, Greece & Spain) The whole world will be impacted if it gets out of hand.  Last week Investors411 expected this crisis to explode. The call was just a bit premature. How this is going to impact markets and the world from CNBC & NYT & Seeking Alpha

The last of the above links also focus on Goldman Sachs which is starting to unravel some more in front of congress. Title of this editorial should give investors pause  - As Scary as it Seems, Greek Debt Crisis Won’t Spawn Second Global Meltdown His stock solution for investors is buy if Greece defaults – But what if all the PIIGS & all the former Russian satellite countries also default? = A Second Global meltdown!?

Fed announcement on interest rates today at 2:15 EST -Will they in some nuanced way change the language of their statement on interest rates? Best read of tea leaves NO = Bullish Will this make us forget the problems across the pond or our own mess – NO = Bearish

Best read of tea leaves - Yesterday’ stock drop was a bit of a short term over reaction to a much more serious long term problem. For US & markets markets outside Europe the key technical indicator is the dollar (% other currencies outside Europe) keeps going up our goods will cost more to exports and profits will shrink.

All of this is in directly and indirectly related to Goldman Sachs.

• Directly – GS is involved in trading derivatives on Greek debt
• The whole issue of transparency & corruption evolved from American shadow banks and is a huge factor in Greece and the USA’s fiscal viability.

Significant Indexes

• McClellan Oscillator fell dramatically to  -33.55 yesterday.  [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO)LINK. - This is  NEUTRAL territory, but we are approaching oversold.
• US Dollar – had the largest gain of the year (maybe #2 -I’m eyeballing a chart) +0.93% yesterday. [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra - right now The Dollar Rules. Is very important. Remember, dollar down almost always = stocks up and visa versa. Bottom Line – Dollar gain was HUGE and we are now just below breakout levels for a new yearly high. If this breakout level falls and the dollar soars stocks will take it on the chin.

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells – (Revised positions last weekend) - These are positions I actually own

Check the Positions section for changes in longer term trades. As mentioned yesterday TEVA had broken support so was sold.

Investors 411 is still long IMAX, EWZ, ESRX & CNK

Investors – Be Happy – If we get a meltdown and the McClellan reaches oversold – its time to buy again.

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

Drove my chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die

American Pie lyrics by Don McLean

General Motors is Back

Today GM announced its paying back $5.8 billion in loans and interest to American & Canadian governments – just nine months after government supported bankruptcy and promises to pay the rest back by June.

Remember all those Republicans, especially Senator Richard Shelby (from SC who had Toyota plants), fighting to keep GM from being bailed out even though it could have cost millions more American job losses related to the car industry.

Obviously GM and other car companies still have problems to overcome, but GM, and my wife’s favorite – the Great 57 Chevy (photo above) – is back in less than a year  Thank You Barak Obama – for a Main Street bailout that kept American jobs and taxpayers off the unemployment lines.

Investors, GM news =Bullish

Goldman Sachs

Remember the 3 Monkeys covering their eyes ears and mouths- See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. They control Wall Street right now. The gargantuan shadow banks are simply too big & lawyered up to obey the law or fail.

We all know that virtually all Republicans (the secret meeting with 25 shadow financials big wigs on Wall Street) and many Democrats are owned by Wall St. not Main St.

Popeye in the comments section finds it amazing that the SEC is going after Shadow Giant GS because they are such a huge “cash cow” for the Democrats and Obama

From your credit card to your home loan to your stock market trading to your taxes -YOU get crunched by the huge shadow financials. No web site explains it better than the one from MIT The Baseline Senerio – “Break Up the Banks”

Obama BIG Speech

Thursday Obama will address the Nation on Financial reform. Who will he be?

MR MILQUETOAST - The Obama who wanted to compromise and turned to mush on Health Care. He got answered by Tea Party screamers disrupting Town Meetings and any rational debate with accusations of armageddon, socialism and death panels. Never, never, never underestimate those who want to (Tea Party members etc.) who keep the fact from coming forward by screaming, fear mongering & threatening.

MR CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN – The Obama who campaigned  in 2008.  Again the Baseline Senerio sets what should be Obama’s message and tone. If Obama simply endorses the inadequate Dodd Financial Reform Bill the same thing will happen again and financial reform is over.

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

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Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

See Positions for changes made each weekend

Wall Street went back to what had ben the standard weak volume stocks move higher pattern. Although volume is historically the #1 confirmation factor behind a price move, the old trend continues = Bullish.

Earning report have overshadowed too big to obey the law, too big to fail, too big to worry about huge bonuses, shadow financial institutions. The profits and bonuses keep coming. Even the Greek debacle which has some of the same root causes is being ignored = Bullish

AAPL – Earnings report was a grand slam home run. Like so many other huge corporations the majority of jobs will go to faster growing emerging markets (more customers – less distance to transport product) where construction and labor is cheaper. Up another 5% in after hours trading. = Bullish

YHOO – Down over 3% after earnings. Not as important as AAPL= Bearish

McClellan Index is below zero and this gives building bullish momentum room to run = Bullish

GM – Repaying

Significant Indexes

• McClellan Oscillator rose  to -6.78 yesterday.  [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO)LINK. - This is still in NEUTRAL territory
• US Dollar – rose +0.08% yesterday. [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra - right now The Dollar Rules Is very important. Remember, dollar down almost always = stocks up and visa versa. The positive earnings reports are overshadowing the dollar which is in the middle of a consolidating range between @$80.00 & @$82.20. Dollar at 81.03. If it moves to either side of that range it will impact stocks.

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells – (Revised positions last weekend) - These are positions I actually own

Why you should always check out out the comment section of the blog.

YOUR STOCK LIST is now closed. This does not mean you can’t trade any of the stocks on it or the whole group.

Yesterday, Both The Critic and Paul R put into simple clear term the most used trading strategy of Investors411 for stocks. I can do no better than repeat them below. Also D. on IMAX

The Critic:

“#1 The Lower the McClellan goes the better time it is to buy stocks.
#2 YOUR Stock List has stocks moving higher – The 50 day moving average is going up. This is the blue line on the chart.
#3 the time to buy is when these stock dip back down closer to their 50 day moving average.
#4 A time to sell is when the stock gets too high above that moving average?
#5 AS ALWAYS DO YOUR…”

Paul R

“When a good quality stock pauses to refresh and hangs out on the 50 day moving average (DMA) it can be a good time to buy, this point is known as “Free Parking”. If you are watching a stock in this situation and it starts moving up on higher than normal volume go for it!

When a stock is extended 30% from the 50 DMA be light on your toes. When the stock is extended 50% from the 50 DMA have your finger on the trigger. When a stock is extended 100% from the 200 DMA many institutional buyers (mutual funds etc) will lighten up on their position.”

D

“:):):):):):)”over IMAX up +6.37% yesterday in increased above average volume

There is a play for short term traders here. IMAX is again just below or at an all time high. This is a technical breakout point. What could happen at the open to IMAX is a “pump and dump.” – (See Sunday’s Investors411) A major player(s) will try to break out this stock and the greed will flow as IMAX gets pumped up by other day traders who want to make fast money on the breakout.  You could see another big gain Then those who pumped it will dump  all their shares (the ones they owned form the past and the shares used to pump IMAX.

Obviously you have to buy early. The big question is how high will it go before it gets dumped.  For longer term investors, just be happy when a higher high is created on the chart because that = bullish

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

The Hive – Goldman Sachs brand new billion dollar building

Goldman Sachs Fallout

From movie Casablanca – Captain Renault to Rick:” I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”

Perhaps Alan Greenspan’s Shocked disbelief in front of congress was real in 2008 – Greenspan ” I made a mistake” in believing free markets could regulate themselves without government oversight.

Investors411 readers understand that market manipulation - GREED – exists and it is unfortunately its human nature that if you cut the amount of regulators and regulations, greed can run wild.  A hypothetical and real examples.

• Cut penalties for theft, eliminate guards and surveillance cameras, leave chunks of money laying around the bank and what happens?
• Cut regulation, call for smaller government with less regulators in the Energy market = Enron
• Cut regulations, regulators of SEC and Justice Department = Bernie Madoff
• Cut  regulation in banking and you get “repro trades” driving the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Greek current debt crisis Lehman’s collapse (almost 1/2 trillion dollar loss) was the breaking point of the 2008 financial meltdown.
• Now Goldman Sach‘s has also been accused of “Fraud” leading up to the 2008 meltdown.

Best analysis – “Goldman Sachs Too Big to Obey the Law” – comes from MIT’s Simon Johnson. Also, decent article on legal ramifications in NYT for both SEC and Goldman

Bottom Line - In this case, Goldman Sachs is Goliath and the SEC is  David. GS has a dream team of legal experts that would make OJ Simpson, and the SEC look like little leaguers. GS face a danger of others piling on. We all face a danger of a run on the bank that is too big to fail.

Best Line you can tell your right wing friends who will argue that the left will over regulate everything from Credit Default Swaps to Shadow Banks -” I just want the regulation to be like they were under Ronald Reagan or was he a socialist too.”

Post Script – Bill Clinton has also admitted he was given the “wrong advise“ on derivatives (by Summers, Greenspan and Rubin) It’s time a lot of other politicians admit this error too.

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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US markets took a major hit in increased HUGE volume on the news that the SEC had launched a case against mega bank Goldman Sachs.  Quote/paraphrase this AM on CNBC from SEC – “The Agency [SEC] is not done yet.” translation – there are more prosecutions to come involving the time period before the 2008 meltdown.

The best analysis I could find on what will drive markets this week. Interesting in this analysis they put the Greek debt crisis ahead of Goldman Sachs. (I wouldn’t) It also ignores the economic impact that the Iceland volcano is having on European economy.

Fearless Forecasts Last Week - “Up week” 3 of 4 major indexes were higher, despite Goldman Sach’s news.

Fearless Forecast This Week – We should have better than expected  earnings, but ash clouds over Europe, Goldman Sachs, European/Greece crisis will probably overshadow earnings – “Down Week.”

Significant Indexes

• McClellan Oscillator fell dramatically to -29.37 yesterday.  [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO)LINK. - This is still in NEUTRAL territory – but we are approaching oversold territory – A time to buy.
• US Dollar – rose +0.39% yesterday. [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra – right now The Dollar Rules Remember, dollar down almost always = stocks up. The 50 day moving average is a major support/resistance level. Right now the dollar is just above the 50 day MA.  Think of a huge battle going on over the last 4 trading days as to wether the dollar goes up or down,

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells – (Revised positions last weekend) - These are positions I actually own

TYH position has been completely closed – O% gain. UWM will be probably sold for what looks to be a 7% loss today.

When the McClellan Index gets below 60 Invetors411 will again add to positions.

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

More Troops – Bad Bet

Nicholas Kristoff’ s editorial in today’s NYT on why more troops in Afghanistan is a bad bet. Investors411 praised the fact that we tripled aid to Pakistan.  Here’s Kristoff’s money quote.  “American policy makers were completely blindsided in recent weeks by outrage in Pakistan at the terms of our latest aid package — and if we can’t even hand out billions of dollars without triggering nationalistic resentment, don’t expect a benign reaction to tens of thousands of additional American troops. ”

Jobs Jobs Jobs

Investors411 has painted a bleak picture of long term job prospects for Americans over the last few month. When you add to this shadow banks are still in the shadows and foreclosure problem is at best stabilized you have a bleak picture for Main Street USA.  Perhaps those that have seen gains in their stock portfolio’s since the spring will spend and juice the economy. However, especially for older workers, as Abby Gold in the comments section points out, on Main Street its not a rosy picture.

Solutions – One specific help would be to extend something like the $8,000 homeowner credit for first time home buyers. 350,000 buyers took advantage of this program – it worked especially for lower priced homes. The ripple effect is those new home buyers have to furnish those homes. Two respected individuals have offered their solutions

• Mort Zuckerman (right of center – editor of US News & World mag.) in an editorial titled “The free market is not up to the job of creating work” suggests a “massive program(s)to restore stable jobs growth.” He suggests a National Jobs bank and allocating $65 billion toward it. LINK
• Tom Friedman (left of ccenter/pro business – NYT columnist) looks at the failures of America’s education system to keep up with the increasingly  globalized world.  Here’s the money quote – “While the subprime mortgage mess involved a huge ethical breakdown on Wall Street, it coincided with an education breakdown on Main Street — precisely when technology and open borders were enabling so many more people to compete with Americans for middle-class jobs. ” LINK

Pay Cuts on Bailed Out Companies

Obama administration is forcing pay cuts on top executives of 7 bailout firms. Good first step, but what about all those other shadow financial institutions who used the Fed or collected big time from AIG’s  bailout? Goldman Sachs & many others gets away without any claw backs in this. Huffington Post LINK or NYT LINK

STOCKS

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Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

This is a US stock market dominated by professionals and traders.  Some sort of programed trade kicked in the last hours and the pro’s left the building.  The volume way well above average and the fall from what was a rally was over 1%. Volume increased significantly in the last hour’s price collapse = Bears asserting dominance

The dollar fell significantly which almost always means US equities rally. This again = Bears asserting dominance

The dollar fell so overbought oil prices rose significantly LINK to chart +2.25 to $81.37 . Obviously oil prices above $80 is going to hurt ma and pa consumer in any recovery.  Sure looks like some entity or group is manipulating oil prices. Up 9 of last  10 days and going parabolic (up too far too fast)= Bears asserting dominance

The BDI rose (probably did not have time to react to swift fall in equities)

Reading the Tea Leaves – There is no specific fundamental(s) that you can point to that says yea that’s the reason stocks tanked in big time volume at in the last hour of trading.  Obviously “the Pro’s” know something us common investors do not. Earnings season has been much better than expected with companies beating on both TOP and bottom line. The dollar fell. The BDI is rising.  Stocks should be rising.

Stocks falling on good earnings news, a rising BDI and a falling dollar is a disconnect from what has been a historically a positive trend .  Think of this as a sign in the road saying WARNING SPEED BUMP AHEAD.

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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 @ 30% 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 +85 points Friday and closed at 2917. A higher high price on its chart pattern has been confirmed and it sure looks like a bullish run could be starting. =  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 fell a significant -0.55 % The dollar closed at $75.12 . We have developed a support now resistance (it’s called support on the way down and resistance on the way up) 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,(March 08 ) so there is a long way to go before the major and very crucial support level is reached .

The dollar does have a support level around $74.00( a high from about a year ago – see long term chart)

Positions

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

Trades made this week are updated at the end of the week. -  Sold 50% of position in EWZ and all of EWY. Have no position in XLE. Also for TRADERS (not investors) strongly considering buying some companies listed yesterday that had outstanding earnings, but have fallen over last few days.

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!