Bankstas At War

European Theatre

Just like the 2008 mortgage debt crisis we have a sovereign debt crisis in Europe. The major question is who is going to end up paying the bill? Will risk be again privatized by banksta’s with their politicians and socialized by the people?

The Big Picture – One reason why the NYT is the world’s most respected newspaper is they come up with outstanding charts and information “A Spectators Guide to the Euro Crisis”

800 LBS Gorilla – Hidden Derivatives Market

The NYT chart shows what happening on the surface. The real picture is full of smoke and mirrors because, just like the 2008 meltdown, the 800 pound gorilla in the room is the opaque, unregulated, derivatives market. Remember – Warren Buffets calls CDS’s (derivatives) “Financial WMD’s.”

Quite simply, once again, who knows what the exposure any major financial company is?  Remember – how interconnected  AIG was? MIT Economist Simon Johnson does.

Do they make a calculator big enough to measure the profits that banksta’s made off the European countries with debt problems in the opaque $500 trillion derivatives market?

Whose going to pay? The too big to fail interconnected (both globally and politically) banksta’s, the bond holders, or the people. The prevailing powers in Europe are now suggesting a 50% haircut for bond holders of Greek debt. (the most pressing problem country)

The austerity measures (raise taxes, fire workers, sell national treasures) imposed on Greece, already with 18% unemployment, would put the country into a long depression and benefit the financial elite who will pickoff Greek assets at fire sale prices. Bankstas war against people by Economist Mark Hudson quantifies this.

We have a broken globalized financial system that benefits a few at the expense of many. Banking used to promote growth, not make hidden bets (CDS’s) on repackaged debt. Profits gets privatized and risk gets socialized.

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Two groups with very different solutions passionately recognize privatizing the gains and socializing the risk is tearing down the financial stability of western democracies.

Poverty creating casino capitalism is being fought by both Libertarians (Ron Paul) and the Occupy Wall Street believers. (the 99%)

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STOCKS

Why the Rally – The perception by major market movers that in Europe the gains is being privatized and the risk socialize. Best measurement of this would be German financial companies- Thought to have largest exposure to European debt. Second best German stock market – Up 1.5% at 8:15 this AM.

• Our #1 forecasting tool MO rose to 91.33. OMG overbought levels. The highest in 3 years. = BEARISH
• Our #2 the PCR rose to 0.96. Shows pro’s who trade Puts and Calls are not very worried = Bullish
• See Strategy section of blog for more on MO & PCR

Reading Tea Leaves

Same as yesterday – Right now the news out of Germany trumps everything – Their financials move higher and so does everything else. Pro’s are bullish (PCR) takes some of the sting off how overbought we are (MO).

Traders - rallies in the AM, should be met by selling in the PM.  Because  like the MO and virtually every oversold/overbought indicator like it is so high.

Investors – Technically we have broken out of this summers trading range – That’s bullish and the long Term Outlook is now CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH. More often than not we retest breakout levels. However, Investors411 is nibbling on the SPX. (Any ETF that tracks this will do) It was chosen because it tracks the S&P 500 and is relatively safe.

JS suggests the SSO and The Critic suggests FAS (although she has a Put/Call play on this.)  Both are good but involve more risk.

Paul tells us there is great risk out there – he’s right. Paul is at a HGSI stock seminar in CA this week.

Bottom Line - The only other time the MO was so high and did NOT see at least a 5% fall in stock prices within a week or two was back in 2009.  Right now the insiders seem to be seeing the same dynamic happening. -

Privatizing Gains and socializing risk works for short term gains – but in the end if you keep putting more and more people in poverty at the expense of a wealthy few the end result is revolution

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Long Term Outlook

3 to 6+ months

CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH*

*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

CHECK ALL DATA, I MAKE MORE THAN GRAMER ERRORS.

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The Winter Democracy Bloomed

The desire for self government, jobs and bread has exploded across the Arab world. In over a dozen countries people are demonstrating for basic human rights. Perhaps the biggest looser in all of this is Islamic fundamentalism and al Qaeda, because the cries of the people are not for religious fundamentalism, but for the common human dignity that we all share. Demonstrators are putting their lives on the line for democracy.

Libya and Iraq are the latest to have demonstrations. Today the NYT focuses on American reaction to Egypt, Bahrain and Iran’s demonstrations

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Shadow Banks Rule

The Chamber of Commerce and Shadow Banks were caught with their hands in the cookie jar,  just as a congressional committee was to convene to amend rules on “casino capitalism.”  How ironic it is that over a 1000 bankers were issued jail terms in the Savings and Loans crisis decades ago and NONE have over the 2008 meltdown.  That’s how powerful the shadows and their lobbyists have become.

Andrew Ross Sorkin from NYT story and MIT prof Simon Johnson. – Derivatives Industry Report Collapses.

But that’s just for openers – The Chamber of Commerce & their shadow allies are not beyond investigating the families of critics and printing false accusations. If you support Wikileaks or speak out against The Chamber, BAC or those who want to run capitalism in the shadows this could happen to you. Glenn Greenwald reports.

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

DOUBLE CHECK ALL DATA, I MAKE MORE THAN GRAMMAR MISTAKES

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Technicals Analysis

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

Nothing’s change much in overall outlook since Monday. Short term because yesterday’s moderate loss the McClellan Index is at a  more buyable level of  +6.97. But not yet near levels bulls would like. The bubble-icious stock market continues.

So today were going to focus on technical analysis. I call technical analysis looking at the pretty pictures/charts of  a stock’s price and volume and being able to make a forecast of future directions from those charts.

Stockcharts.com, the best free site on technical analysis on the web has a school/tutorial that will help you learn more about it.

Technical analysis works best when the markets, the sector and then the individual stock are in alignment or moving in the same direction.  The sum is greater than the parts, but in most cases it the individual stocks that matters most.

So here’s a list compiled by Paul R who has oodles of experience in technical analysis and uses a powerful HSGI program to augment his technical analysis skills.

Below is Your Stock List #3 and Paul’s recommendations. Most importantly use this a a learning  tool it technical analysis. He published it in the comments section of the blog a day ago, so its a bit dated and I’m sure he wants you to read his mea culpa. You can look up each chart pattern by inserting appropriate ticker symbol at Stockcharts.com. (link above) - His comments in Green and technical analysis below.

“In no way am I recommending a buy or sell of any of these stocks. These comments are for education only. (Understand?)

BIDU – getting extended, a hold and not a buy at the moment.

NFLX – getting extended, a hold and not a buy at the moment.

BEXP – went through a buy the dip correction in late January. Broken out, buy if it dips.

JNPR – leader in it’s group, broken out from a strong base, extended now, buy if it dips.

SKWS - Good chart, extended, buy the future dip.

KSU - Good chart, extended, buy the future dip.

DECK – Gone through a correction as has it’s group, buy the future dip.

PCLN - good chart, buy any dip

COH – Gone through a correction as has it’s group, buy the future dip

IMAX – basing, buy any dip if you want as long as if it’s above the 50.

SOHU – broken out, way too extended for my stomach. Not a good chart, it needs to tighten up.

IVN – basing, buy at any time at current chart position

ALV – basing along with it’s group at the moment. NOT buyable at the moment.

SAM – basing, sitting on the 50, buyable at any time

SPRD – Good chart, wee bit extended, wait until it touches the 17 dma again.

FFIV – NOT buyable at the moment, chart needs some serious work.

These observations are just that, observations. My observations are usually worthless. If you buy any of these dogs…blah blah blah. Did I mention these comments are for education only? Pay attention for crying out loud!”

An additional comment from Paul on how to Buy the Dip

Always watch the comments section for different ideas and comments on stocks, economics, trends and politics.

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Positions

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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.” (YSL#4 is under construction.)

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Happy New Year

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The Monster in the Room

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Investors411 believes in Transparency.

If there’s a monster in the room I want YOU to know about it. Governments, Big Business,the ruling Plutocracy, & others try to hide their actions supposedly in your interests. That, of course, is crap. They all want more power/money, usually at the expense of democracy and and your wallets.

So lets continue the Predictions for 2011 by looking at the three major economic blocks and some monsters

• European Union - They bought into the American over leverage crony capitalism and got smacked.  Germany is the gem with an unemployment rate of 7.5%, an exporting based economy, universal health care, and a GDP  better than ours. Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy are the weak links (monsters) in the European Union.  Predictions – Either they all become more like the Germans or some of these countries will leave the European Union. That means huge belt tightening in the weak links – Lots of bumps in the road in 2011 as the debt problems of weaker countries are worked out.
• Emerging Markets – For the most part they did NOT buy into our crony capitlalism. They’re also reaping the benefits of the mega trend of globalization –  booming job growth & GDP’s. The monster here is the problem of heating up too fast and growing too rapidly. There is also corruption and in some cases governments that are far less democratic.  Predictions – The bigger countries know how to play economic hardball. Their GDP is over 3 times ours. Those countries with an abundance of  limited natural resources will do better economically than others.
• USA - Our over leveraged, opaque, crony capitalism created the world wide “Great Recession.” In the early 2000′s we went to war, cut taxes and exploded our debt. We dug a hole. Our unemployment rate is 9.8%. Globalization & politics have created a systemic problem of jobs being outsourced and now consumers abroad are becoming more & more  important to American companies growth. We have tried to fix the problem with stimulus, quantitative easing, and bailouts OUR monster is in the fact that we run an opaque capitalism. Our real GDP is in shambles if you eliminate stimulus, quantitative easing and other factors. Predictions - It looks like we can keep blowing smoke (opaque capitalism) through at least the first 1/2 of 2011.

MIT’s Simon Johnson sums up the situation and future as follows -

“Our leading bankers looted the state, plunged the world into deep recession, and cost us 8 million jobs.  And now many of them stand by with sharpened knives and enhanced bonuses – also most willing to suggest how the salaries and jobs of others can be further cut.  Think about the morality of that one.”

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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!

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

• Markets were flat & volume abysmal AGAIN
• PMI, Home sales and weekly jobless figures all came in better than expected yesterday. Perhaps the reason stocks went nowhere is  because there was no POMO buying by the Fed.
• Big cap tech stocks are looking bullish. AAPL & CSCO have moved higher and have weak volume declines in last two days. IBM is on verge of breakout.
• Some details on today’s major events impacting markets from Seeking Alpha.

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Reading The Tea Leaves

A most indecisive week as many major institutional traders/investors are on vacation.

ICI (Investment Company Institute) measures the flow of money in/out of mutual funds.  After 33 weeks of funds flowing out of mutual funds the last couple have sen some inflow A week or two is not a trend, but the turn is= Bullish

Investors411 mantra – The reason stocks went up while money was flowing out of mutual funds was the FED’s quantitative easing boosting stocks. So we could see a money supply surprise for early January.

• The FED POMO program continues through April
• New year bonuses get invested
• Some folks are getting back into the markets

Repeat- AAPL the world’s #1 tech stock is the canary in the coal mine. If the General rolls over watch out.

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Positions

• #1 UWM - (2x small cap stocks ETF) – 1/2 position
• #2 UWM
• EUO - (double short the EURO currency) sold all at 20.51 for -1% loss
• UCO – (double long oil) sold all at 20.18 for -1% loss
• SLV - (Silver ETF) Bought Wednesday at (see comments section of blog.)
• DGP -(2x gold ETF) Bought yesterday at 41.86

Under consideration

UCO -(2x oil prices) Oil prices got over extended and a short term reversal is to be expected. The chart is bullish (series of 3 higher highs and positive slope to 20DMA) over Over the last six months each correction or consolidation seems to have been for about 10 days.

REMX (Rare Earth ETF) – Way too hot to buy now. Like a zillion investors who missed this initial jump we are waiting for a pullback. The story here is compelling. There’s a limited supply of this material and high demand. It takes 7 to 19 years to get a new mine up and running and China has almost a lock on existing supplies

EWZ (Brazil) & LBJ ( 3x Latin America – majority Brazil) Obviously the later is more risky. Both made significant moves higher in last few days. Probably due to move in rare earth metals and the fact that Brazil is rich in other needed natural resources.

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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 for lists of potential stocks & ETF’s including “YOUR Stock List.” (YSL#3)

Note – I have changed a lot of the Chart links to include the 17 Day Moving Average. (green line)

Home Sweet Home – Crisis

Systemic Crisis in Foreclosures/Mortgages?

A major crisis may be emerging from the opaque shadows of the unregulated American financial system.

Can the Obama administration, Bernanke, Shadow Banks and Wall Street push this problem back in the shadows before it dawns on an ignorant public of just how bad their getting ripped off?

Focus is on mortgage and foreclosures systems from the 2008 shadow bank/housing meltdown.

Remember, because of our over leveraged under regulated financial system your mortgage was turned into a note/bond, chopped up and sold many times (credit default swaps etc) and finally even insurance companies like AIG ended up with a big piece of the action.  Well, who exactly owns your mortgage and there were a lot of crooks (fly by night operators – many are no longer in existence) along the road to chopping up your mortgage and owning part of the action.

Throughout the legal systems people were being foreclosed on by entities that did NOT hold the legal right to do so because the mortgages had been chopped up so many times. This problem reached critical mass in the legal system and now AG’s from 50 states are investigating. (see Thursday & Friday’s Investors411)

Major shadow banks were using unqualified “robo signers” to sweep this problem away ASAP to maximize profits. But now its exploded onto a slow moving US legal system because those who were foreclosed on were being unfairly ripped off by ghost entities who claimed ownership to their house. Major question is who holds the foreclosed mortgage???? Who really holds YOUR mortgage????

Bottom Line – Shadow Banks have used inaccurate (illegal) documents to foreclose on homes. Trust issues abound in an under regulated opaque financial system. Investors could loose confidence.

Sources – In descending order of preference on this, because its really beyond my pay scale to understand – here, here, & here

Major Deficit Creator of Our Time

Obviously the 2008 meltdown. It now supersedes, on a yearly basis, the debt created by the go to war, voting for pork and cutting taxes to create a deficit that started in 2000. This made things horrible and is still in effect.

When unregulated casino capitalism exploded in 2008, we were faced with a choice of another depression or an opaque TARP, Stimulus, and most importantly an opaque Fed Reserve Bank printing who knows how many trillions of dollars.

MIT’s Simon Johnson “There Are No Fiscal Conservatives Out There” – money quote

“If you want to fix the US budget – keeping the deficit under control and bringing down the size of our government’s debt – you have to address the risk-seeking behavior of big banks.  No fiscal strategy can be credible without addressing the major problem that brought us to this point.”

The latest foreclosure crisis is another 2 by 4 over the head reminder of this.

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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!

DOUBLE CHECK ALL DATA, I MAKE MORE THAN GRAMMAR MISTAKES

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

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

US Stock Markets -

Volume is returning to US markets for the last few trading days and spiked somewhat yesterday. Much of this was due to the foreclosure problem in Shadow mortgage banks, (See below and above) The Dow spiked significantly higher probably due to huge volume in Shadow Banks BAC & JPM.

Apple reports today, and as The Critic points out in the comments section it is very overbought into earnings. It would probably  take a knock your socks off spectacular earnings report to move Apple tomorrow.

Shadow Banks – There are 6 major mortgage shadow banks and they all took another big hair cut again yesterday. Two big volume down days in a row for major banks (BAC down @ 5% each day) is an enormous plunge.

The earnings report and week ahead for US markets

Significant Indexes

• The Dollar (USD) [Anything daily price move over +/- 0.50 is significant. Dollar usually moves inversely to stocks] The dollar rose +o.52% yesterday. The inverse correlation is not always perfect. However Friday’s rally bearish for stocks.  Overall trend of falling dollar trend for US stocks is = Bullish
• The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) [measures cost of world trade. Also proxy for China, emerging markets, exporting countries] Fell a minor -0.25% Friday An 8 week bull run, then a two week fall. A very slight stutter and now moving up. Trend  = Bullish
• McClellan Index – (MO) [The rough guideline is over +60 = overbought market = sell positions or short stocks, & -60 = oversold market = buy stocks.] Fell to -1.86. Lot of room to move both higher and lower. Momentum is with the stock bulls but location= NEUTRAL

Reading Tea Leaves.

Helter Skelter – Major forecasting tools and market coherence moved dramatically in different directions.

• The Mother of all tech stocks AAPL clearly overbought in front of earnings report
• MO neither overbought or oversold and parked in neutral
• Two dramatic down days for big mortgage banks and possible mortgage/foreclosure meltdown
• Dollar took unexpected significant move higher Friday
• Major US indexes moving in different direction in big volume
• Emerging markets consolidating.

Again above my pay grade to explain why all this Helter Skelter in a detailed fashion, but I know chaos when I see it.  There’s big money to be made for the traders who guess the right direction of the market. Best read of tea leaves is down.

So many folks have been long and getting more complacent each month. Something we’ve talked about before – the VIX – shows this. So the highest risk for a big move is DOWN.

Bottom Line – There is a possibility of another foreclosure/ mortgage systemic meltdown.

We have NOT fixed the #1 cause of our growing deficits – regulating the over leveraged giant shadow banks – How can any political group can claim to be concerned about deficits and not address hidden, crony, casino capitalism in our wildly over leveraged shadow banking system ?

Positions

The  Positions Section link to latest & former buys and sells  - These are positions I actually own

(I do manage 6 accounts that have other positions)

• EWS (Singapore)
• USO (price of oil/commodity).
• SSO (2x what S&P does) – Tightened stop and may sell/take profit today.
• TYH (3x tech stocks) Sold the rest of TYH at 38.8 for @ +13% gain. Sure looks like a climax run Friday afternoon. TYH is a trade not an investment. Could re enter this trade at different time. Sorry I made a post on this Friday afternoon and it looks like it did not get posted. See comments by “The Critic” entered under Friday’s blog. It may be still up on the right side. I discussed what’s happening with several of you over weekend.

Both US & EWS will be impacted if things go South.

Time for caution for both Investors and Traders. – Time to bring out the old Lost in Space robot, with all his bells and whistles and warn Danger Will Robinson Danger Danger. 95% of this call is based on the current foreclosure crisis and understanding it is beyond my pay scale.

Look for Paul R’s always enlightening comments on stocks and sectors in the comments section.

Longer Term Outlook - CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

Elizabeth Warren

Fireworks Again

23 Comments yesterday. WOW. You tied a record. Most on politics. It ended at midnight with Yankee Bob on Fascism. You can scroll down to the bottom HERE to read them all. Some strong opinions, and let’s try to be civil.

I told Jim J I would publish his list of candidates to donate to Monday or Tuesday. You can be sure Tea Party candidate that JS (not me) called a “Whack Job.” will not be on it.

Elizabeth Warren

Bravo Elizabeth Warren has been chosen by Obama to set up the Consumer Protection Agency and start running it. The Right Appointment at the Right Time editorial by Simon Johnson.

Poverty Rate Rises

Poverty is on rise. Republican response to their fellow Americans “Let Them Eat Cake” or repeal all of health care. There are many parts of the health care bill I oppose, but repealing the whole thing is just wrong. More on the poverty rate in the US declining for a decade – The Lost Decade from WSJ

Back in 2008 Investors411 warned that the economic meltdown was “far, far, far, far, far, worse” than what people expected. One forecast you hate to have come true.

Digging In Heals

You may think of him as Darth Vader (Democrats – Larry Summers and Chris Dodd constantly compete for this title) But when he speaks its usually policy. Larry Summers – “Maintaining tax cuts for top wage-earners should take a back seat to other more pressing measures, White House economic advisor Larry Summers said, in a signal the administration could be digging in its heels on the issue. ”  From CNBC – All right Larry – something positive. Darth Vader title goes to Senator Chris Dodd for now.

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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

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Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

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

Mantra for September - “The Black Box/High Frequency Traders BB/HFT control the majority of trades. Jim Cramer -”BB/HFT make up 80% of trades.”

Term for the Day – Baltic Dry Index – From Investopedia

“A shipping and trade index created by the London-based Baltic Exchange that measures changes in the cost to transport raw materials such as metals, grains and fossil fuels by sea. The Baltic Exchange directly contacts shipping brokers to assess price levels for a given route, product to transport and time to delivery (speed)

Changes in the Baltic Dry Index can give investors insight into global supply and demand trends. This change is often considered a leading indicator of future economic growth (if the index is rising) or contraction (index is falling) because the goods shipped are raw, pre-production material, which is typically an area with very low levels of speculation.”

US Markets – It’s a ghost town out there as volume remains pitifully weak.

This is the third Friday of the month when options expire. Almost always this day lacks technical significance unless a major fundamental surprise occurs.

Significant Indexes

• The Dollar (USD) [Anything daily price move over +/- 0.50 is significant. Dollar moves inversely to stocks] The dollar, fell  -0.31% yesterday.  Falling dollar trend for stocks = Bullish
• The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) [measures cost of world trade. Also proxy for China & emerging markets] Fell a -3.63% yesterday.  The BDI does not have the immediate impact that the MO or Dollar does. Fourth down day in a row with rate of fall increasing. After 8 week bull run trend changing to bearish, but still= Neutral
• McClellan Index – (MO) [The rough guideline is over +60 = overbought market = sell positions or short stocks, & -60 = oversold market = buy stocks.] MO fell again to +22.38 yesterday. Note while zero is the center of this chart the 50 DMA is at 19.33 That’s a support level. = NEUTRAL

Reading Tea Leaves

If the baby Bull, pictured earlier this week is going to get on its feet, this would be the time to rise.

However, it’s hard to put significance on an options expiration Friday. Perhaps Monday will be the key.

Positions

The  Positions Section link to latest & former buys and sells  - These are positions I actually own

(I do manage 6 accounts that have other positions)

Current positions –  EWS (Singapore).

Same basic outlook for traders- Short term trend is bullish for stocks. If we can get @ a 100 point drop in Dow and you can tolerate risk – you could nibble

Investors – Wait for a bigger drop in MO before going long.

Also if, we get up over +60 on the MO and  the Dow/major indexes rally – that would be a selling or shorting point.

Long Term Outlook - CAUTIOUSLY BULLISH

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING!

DOUBLE CHECK ALL DATA, I MAKE MORE THAN GRAMMAR MISTAKES

Not Fit for Democracy

It seems that our brains are hardwired against democracy. “It’s one of the great assumptions underlying modern democracy that an informed citizenry is preferable to an uninformed one” A truly fascinating article in the Boston Globe about how the mind works by Joe Keohane concludes-

When misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs

This is why appeals to emotionalism, hatred and fear  in politics and with media sources that the moneyed class own works so well. Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Fox news, the Tea Party Patriots, Sarah Palin etc. all embrace this emotional bias and hatred. They keep pounding on it day after day. 20 years ago news casts used to report and analyze facts. Times have certainly changed. (See Popeye in comment section of blog)

Now It Gets Interesting

It seems that shadow bank lobbyist were able to to gut or seriously water down the Volker Rule, The Lincoln Derivative amendment and almost all of meaningful bank reform, but they forgot or overlooked the Kanjorski Amendment. I never heard of this amendment before either, but Simon Johnson has – “In essence, Kanjorski proposed that a group of 10 federal regulators be given the explicit power to break up big financial firms when they pose systemic risk.”

Now the fun begins –  two Republicans have said they would vote for the bill two democrats against – Senator Feingold (D) does not think it does enough.  The bill does contain a consumer protection agency. Imagine that – something to protect you and me the consumer. More

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

Mantra for week Earnings Season begins this week. – How markets react to news Will be key. If a stock shrugs and goes nowhere on good earnings news you know theirs trouble ahead. Remember Black Box algorithms  dominate even more as volume declines.

Pathetic volume  & flat market. = Neutral

Alcoa (AA) reported last night and slightly beat expectations – How the market reacts to this news is VERY important. Are slightly better than expected earnings built into stock prices? Will find out today with AA. Futures trding up = Bullish

A downgrade of Portugal’s debt did not hurt stocks yesterday – Bad news not hurting stocks shows that it is already built into market prices or expected by investors. = Bullish

The MO (see below) fell 20+ points yesterday. This gives bulls between 30 and 50 points to move higher on the MO before encountering resistance at +60 to +80. Translation another 2 to 4% move higher in the benchmark S&P 500 s possible before resistance is encountered.

Significant Indexes-

• McClellan Oscillator (MO) fell to +32.57[+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO) LINK. –  & Investopedia on –  How the MO works. This index is just a wee bit overbought  = Neutral
• US Dollar –  The dollar rose +0.31% Friday [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] The dollar is important  to stocks – Dollar up = stocks down and visa versa. The Black Box traders, that make up to 80% of all trades, have used the inverse relationship of the dollar as a key part of their trading system. The big move was breaking the support level two Friday’s ago which set up the rally for stocks. The swings in prices are smaller, but growing and therefore right now = Less Relevant
• BDI - The  Baltic Dry Index (Measures cost of shipping – Higher costs good = more being shipped = Bullish. Also good proxy of China) BDI is in free fall from a high of @4200 to  1840 Monday. This is a huge -56% drop in 7 weeks.  Often a leading indicator for stocks. Here’s a 3 year chart of BDI for context. The BDI fell a decreased -3.26% yesterday. Rate of decline increased yesterday. = BEARISH

The dip in the MO & the good reaction to bad news (Portugal) means that the bulls are back for another run higher.

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells  - These are positions I actually own - Updated over weekends – Investors411 holds NO position at this time. (see below)

Unfortunately, for us, the MO fell 20+ points. Bringing it down from almost overbought territory. The more overbought the better time to invest in one of the short ETF’s. Right now our best opportunity is to go short in an overbought market – However conditions are not yet appropriate

We missed a chance to go long when the MO went below -50 and  I hope we did NOT miss a chance to go short when the MO was above +50.  The area around +/- 60 has been our go long/go short point. Obviously this line is NOT written in stone. – Only time will tell – But be patient - There will be lots of opportunities to go long and short this year

Here’s a list of some Proshare and Direxion ETF’s that short sectors/indexes. You can find a much more complete list clicking here and scrolling down until you find each funds name and LINKS.

• SDS - @200% short the S&P 500
• QID – @ 200% short the NASDQ (basically tech stocks)
• SH – Short S &P 500
• FAZ – @300% short financials
• TYP – @300% short  technology
• EPV – @200% short Europe

Long Term Outlook =CAUTIOUSLY BEARISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

Robert Kuttner

Financial Regulations

D. In the comments sections brings up a generally favorable view of the Financial Regulations in the NYT. Here’s another glass is half full view from left wing TalkingPointsMemo. This is certainly, the most significant financial reform package in decades but it does NOT solve the major Too Big to Fail and transparency problems. Nor does it address problems within quasi government institution – Fannie and Freddie that are singlehandedly holding up the US mortgage market. That comes next.

Also much of what is legislated depends on regulators. Tea Party Patriots ‘s basically want NO regulators/regulations and the Obama administration has a far less than stellar reputation in regulators and regulations (think BP)

In a past Investors411 the Baseline Senerio revealed 4 largest shadow banks have $7.7 trillion in assets. Imagine what happens if a $2 trillion dollar over leveraged shadow bank goes down – one 5 times the size of Lehman Brothers. Simon Johnson, today, explains how JP Morgan has made itself invulnerable to financial regulation

“The reason global megabanks will get bailouts in the future is simple – policymakers will fear the chaos that would ensue when competing bankruptcy claims swarm over a defaulted institution, much as happened for Lehman (e.g., in London) in September 2008.”

The fact that Shadow Banks lead the markets higher Friday is verification that investors (those who put their money down, instead of talk) think shadow banks won.

America Speaks

America Speaks is a “bipartisan” organization that organizes American town meetings. It just had major Town Meetings across the USA on June 26th. This group was founded by a Wall Street mogul and two foundations. They “scientifically selected groups” came up with some “overwhelming” eye brow raising results.

• Raise tax rates on corporate income and those earning more than $1 million.
• Reduce military spending by 10 to 15 percent,
• Create a carbon tax and a securities-transaction tax

Bob Kuttner also goes into depth on America Speaks and Jobs Jobs Jobs.

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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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

Mantra for week - ” Any analysis of stocks has become an analysis of what the “Black Boxes” of  huge institutions with their high frequency trades & computer algorithms are doing.” They make up 80% of trading and right now the huge currency markets are dictating their moves.

The Upcoming Battle-

Friday’s Investors411 Outlined the sides in the Upcoming Battle. Stock Market /Currency Trading War Broke Out Friday. Major US markets had  an above average big, increased volume day - so both sides committed lots of troops (buyers and sellers) to the fight. There was lots of blood

The green army (long stocks & short the dollar) launched the first attack – led by Shadow Banks GS & JPM (the whole banking sector rose almost 3%) The dollar took it on the chin and is now sitting a mere $0.24 away from its rising front line/support level.

The red army (short stocks & long the dollar) got caught a little off guard, because so many technical analysts predicted the downfall of stocks. Despite being beat back as the dollar fall (see below) and stocks pushed marginally higher the red army support levels have held.

The MO is NEUTRAL. The BDI has turned flat So No advantage for either side here. In fact BDI’s possible turn slight advantage to greens

For fundamentals details of last week and this week see Jeff Miller in Seeking Alpha or on Friday’s monthly jobs report ( the big news of the week) and another outlook by SA’s Ophir Chandor

Fearless Forecast for the Week

Just about every technical analyst out there is bearish for stocks. However if bulls (the green army) can build Monday on Friday’s modest gains in big volume then they have a shot at moving markets higher. Last week too started out with China announcing a currency devaluation, only to learn that this was no wher near as substantive as first though.

The Shadow Banks victory in financial reform should help bulls.

Housing figures are in shambles. Investors411 mantra over the last two years has been the economic worldwide situation created by the US Shadow banking 2008 meltdown is “far far far far” worse than expected. Logic says that Friday’s employment numbers will be worse than expected. Bears should growl.

The Shadow Banks have reinforced the bulls and if they can get a follow through rally today this could help stocks for the week.

The key again is the US Dollar/EURO relationship. UUP (ETF that tracks the dollar) is the key to watch. Since there are so many expecting markets to tumble, if the Dollar breaks through support you could see a sharp rally as Black Box investors “buy to cover their short positions.”

Happy to be on sidelines for this war. Best read of tea leaves is a contrarian up/flat week into lackluster jobless figures.

Today is day 2  of the dollar falling to a key support level war. Day 1 was dominated by the green army.

Significant Indexes

• McClellan Oscillator (MO) rose significantly to -1.34 [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO) LINK. –  & Investopedia on –  How the MO works.= NEUTRAL
• US Dollar –  The dollar fell s yesterday -0.57% [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra - right now The Dollar Rules is very important. Dollar up = stocks down and visa versa. The dollar has fallen for the last 3 weeks, but has consolidated (traded sideways) over the last 6 days as the 50 day moving average/support level moves higher. This is where the Black Boxes have focused their attention. Dollar at $85.28 directly above major support/ 50 DMA at $85.04. Friday’s drop = Bullish
• BDI - The  Baltic Dry Index (Measures cost of shipping – Higher costs good = more being shipped. BDI is in free fall from @4200 to  2501 yesterday. This is a huge -40% drop in 6 weeks.  Often a leading indicator for stocks. Now at/just above a major support level. Rate of fall declined again yesterday. This index often makes slow changes, so diminished decline  could be the start of a reversal. However, clearly long term. (decline from 2502 to 2501 is smallest possible)  = Long Term Bearish Short term Bullish

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells  - These are positions I actually own – Updated over weekends

Have not yet had a chance to Update over last 2 weekend but there are NO positions held at this time.

Still watching DGP (ETF that’s double long gold) for a dip close to its 50 DMA) – Will buy.

Don’t plan any buying or shorting (ETF that short the market) until MO reaches overbought or oversold

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BEARISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

The list of photos above on financial reform was from Dylan Ratigan’s MSNBC show. Obviously you can add to list.

Financial Reform DOA

Simon Johnson and the folks at the Baseline Senerio have thrown in the towel on financial reform. Virtually every Republican caved into the shadow banks lobbyist, but the real disappointment - so did Obama, Geithner and Summers and many Democrats. It’s disheartening to read that the Obama administration helped kill Kaufmann/Brown legislation and other substantive reforms.

There may be a few crumbs that the shadow financials have lost, but opaque casino capitalism where your FDIC dollar in banks insures their trading of highly leveraged derivatives will thrive – Privatizing gains and  socalizing losses continues. Shadow financials, obviously would rather trade derivatives than make less lucrative transparent loans to homeowners and buisnesses.

The shadows of over leveraged, opaque, Casino capitalism will thrive in the coutry that is/was the leader of the free world. For the future, let’s borrow a line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth- Something wicked this way comes

Tea Party Patriots and Deficits

Deficits are bad. No question. Building a future on growing debt if you own 50% of the worlds weapons leads to one of 2 things – You bankrupt the future, or you kill your debtors. I suppose you could find a third way where you hold a gun to the head of a debtor, but after a while somebody’s going to kill somebody. – Again – Something wicked this way comes

However,  Before you worry about your debt you have to worry about the soundness of your financial system and keep it from collapsing.

• Fixing financial problems and giving us a fundamental transparent capitalism would enable real transparent, democratic, economic, growth.(see above)
• Increasing debt to keep our financial system (even though it was/is a shadow system) from collapsing and creating a second great worldwide depression was more critical

This is what TPP’s can’t understand. We’ve prevented a worldwide economic meltdown, but we haven’t fixed the system. These two priorities are the foundation of economic growth and therefore supersede deficits.

You want to cut military spending, put a means test on social security/medicare, raise taxes to what they were under Reagan – great. It will cut deficits.

However cutting the National Endowment for the Arts, cutting funding for some pork project, screaming drill baby drill is NOT going to decrease the $13 trillion deficit in any substantive way.

KISS & Stocks (Keep It Simple Stupid)

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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

The news that China was devaluing its currency announced over the weekend got sharply tempered. As uncertainty over the China move grew, so did the dollar and the algorithms used by the “black boxes” that control 80% of stock trading kicked in and sold stocks. A triple digit Dow gain faded into a loss = Bearish

This is hardly the first time the Chinese and economists have sharply tempered a government statement about devaluing currency. Let’s take that feather (for now) from Obama’s/Geithners cap and wait to see what happens as the G 20 nations meet.  This also toasts the Fearless Forecast for this weeks trading.

The reversal in the dollar (See below) could mean an overall change in market outlook, especially if the dollar moves higher again today. Today would be confirmation day of the dollars move higher yesterday.. Right now the major institutions  that run the markets have set their stock market algorithms to currency fluctuations.

FXE – The ETF that tracks the Euro sure looks like its starting to turn and head lower.

Bottom Line – The one way to put the odds in YOUR favor that has a reasonable chance at success in stocstoks/ETF’s is to use the MO. The higher it goes the more you sell, the lower it goes the more you buy. Obviously NOT a hard an fast rule, but a good general guide. Currently, as explained above, currency fluctuations are dominating trading.

Significant Indexes

• McClellan Oscillator (MO)fell to +35.08 [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO) LINK. –  & Investopedia on –  How the MO works. Clearly more overbought than oversold, but has pulled back from overbought levels.
• US Dollar –  The dollar rose yesterday +0.43% [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra - right now The Dollar Rules is very important. Dollar up = stocks down and visa versa. Yesterday – “The dollar seems destine to fall to its 50 day moving average which is $1.06 lower and rising.” The dollar fell to within 0.39 of its 50DMA to $85.01 then rallied a significant +0.94%..  This was the largest gain in the dollar in 11 trading session. For stocks = Bearish
• BDI - The  Baltic Dry Index (Measures cost of shipping – Higher costs good = more being shipped is in free fall from @4200 to @ 2600 yesterday. This is a huge -38% drop in  Often a leading indicator for stocks. Now at/ just above a support level. Clearly long term  = Bearish

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells  - These are positions I actually own – Updated over weekend

Have not yet had a chance to Update over last weekend.

ETF to watch today is the China ETF - FXI – up +3.48% yesterday. The stock from Your Sock List is China’s BIDU

Long Term Outlook = NEUTRAL

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

Quantum Economic Shift

Both Jim J & JAB sent in a Simon Johnson & Peter Boone article on how bad the European/American situation-

Unregulated finance, the ideology of unfettered free markets, and state capture by corporate interests are what ended up undermining democracy both in North America and in Europe. All industrialized countries are at risk, but it’s the eurozone – with its vulnerable structures – that points most clearly to our potentially unpleasant collective futures.

Investors, still have what happened in 2008 fresh in their minds. Now the European debt crisis is upon us. It doesn’t take a behavioral economist to predict what will happen. Fear is twice as powerful as greed according to behavioral economics.

Casino capitalism advocates (Tea Party followers & others) are going to blame European socialism. They are in part right. Patronage, corruption and socialism that went too far exacerbated their debt problem. (see yesterday’s Investor’s411 and Fridays for additional warnings about what’s happening)

Bottom Line – Wolves have wormed their way into the henhouse of capitalism, the US congress, and the Obama administration. Debtor nations, with over leveraged, non transparent shadow financials are privatizing gains and socializing risk. The worst is yet to come.

Why trust these two? Because they have been right again and again. Here’s Johnson and Boone on May 8th questioning the stock market at its hight. Unfortunately as Johnson and Boone warn its not the wolves (shadow institutions and free market capitalists) who are going to pay – it you, me and now Europeans.

Our ship is sinking and the captain that steered it into an iceberg in broad daylight is getting rescued and given another ship.

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

US markets fell into the close as dollar soared. =  Bearish

Significantly Lighter Volume indicates things have settled down for a while.= Bullish

Markets still way oversold (see McClellan Oscillator) = Bullish

Dollar’s massive rise = Bearish

Fear over Europe and North Korea (war drums) has futures way way down.

Analysis – Investors411 has been too slow in exiting positions despite making repeated warnings and changing long term outlook to CAUTIOUSLY BEARISH

Mistake not to invest more in SDS as mentioned yesterday

The only silver lining to the up coming storm, is McClellan is oversold and when we get down below -135 we could have another oversold bounce. A 2 to 3% Dow fall in big volume could put us in -120 to -135 territory.

Significant Indexes

• McClellan Oscillator rose slightly to -89.94 yesterday.  [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO)LINK. - This is OVERSOLD territory. = Bullish. Repeat -Hate to say this, but once the trend broke this index has become less effective.
• US Dollar – Friday the dollar rose again to $86.36 Up a massive +1.16% [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra - right now The Dollar Rules is very important .  = Bearish..

Positions

The  Positions Section = latest buys and sells  - These are positions I actually own

The whole positions section has been refurbished. Many thanks to one of you who helped and wants to be anonymous.

One of the cardinal rules of investing is don’t loose large amounts of $

Yesterday Sold

• 1/4 IMAX at 17.88
• 1/2 IMAX at 17.52
• 1/2 FAS at 24.45
• 1/2 of FAS at stop loss of 23.75
• 1/3 of ESRX at 101.25
• 2% position bought in SDS at 35.25

Remaining long positions 1% IMAX 2% VCI & 2% ESRX. 2% position in SDS is short.  While all these are out preforming major indexes – They haven’t fallen past their 200 DMA – I’ll be looking to cut back more long positions in any in rally today. Still very interested in owning these companies, but overall bearish trend is established.

New Stock/ETF List

Tomorrow our old “YOUR Stock List will return

Bottom Line - Now is NOT the time to think about going long but  to start to think about using SDS and similar ETF’s that short the market (2X short S&P 500) in a rally.

All the following will go up when stocks go down (TLT is exception but a flight to safe investments and generally moves opposite US stocks)  If we fall to a major correction (Dow now down 10% and falls to 20% – these ETF will make YOU $)

• EUO – Ultra short’s the Euro (ultra = 2x)
• EPV – Ultra short the big companies of Europe (new – very thinly traded)
• SDS – Ultra Short S&P 500
• QID - Ultra short QQQQ(tech stocks)
• TZA - 3X short small cap stocks
• TLT – 20 year treasury Bond fund

Investors411 will open a position EUO on first dip and add to ultra shorts on rally.

Long Term Outlook = CAUTIOUSLY BEARISH

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

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Senate Fails to Break Shadows

3 Republicans and 30 Democrats stood up to the mega Shadow banks & their lobby yesterday in support of the Kaufman/ Sherod Brown legislation to break these massive financials. Senate Finance Committee Minority leader Richard Shelby (R) & Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D) vote yes. The above link has a list on how YOUR Senator voted.

Opposition came from the vast majority of Republicans and the Summers/Obama White house. This whole group is owned by  and protects the Shadows.

Hopefully Main Street can still win some crumbs or a pice of the toast instead of getting toasted in the finacial regulatory legislation.

Greece vs. USA

Greece’s problems are many ways are similar to the USA. The major difference is in the solution.

The central Bank of the USA can print money and loan it out at @0% to shadow banks who take that $ and not so secretly invest most of it in highly leveraged derivatives instead of less profitable loans to small business and consumers.

Greece can’t print money to bail itself out like the USA. It is under the jurisdiction of the European Central Bank (ECB). Therefore, it can only get TARP like loans from other countries and the IMF.

Some where down the line all the $ we print are going to slap us with inflation. But for now its kept us from sinking.

EU Contagion

The 2008 collapse has created massive problems for PIIGS and former Russian satellite countries. Example Spain’s unemployment is at 20% Yesterday’s map of debt obligation is the tip of interconnected obligations that spread worldwide and are exacerbated by derivatives sold on that debt.

Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman has an excellent editorial. Krugman recognizes the European Union’s main problem

“The problem, as obvious in prospect as it is now, is that Europe lacks some of the key attributes of a successful currency area. Above all, it lacks a central government.”

He goes on and explains how Greece is different than our governments bailout/relationship with California. The only logical endgame is -

“Greece leaving the Euro…unless European leaders are able and willing to act far more boldly than anything we’ve seen so far.”

Another possible solution from MIT’s Simon Johnson & co author.

Bottom Line for Investors – Fundamentally its hard to see a bottom until some resolution comes to pass. Till then, we will all be slowly twisting in the wind.

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

Massive loss in massive selling. Technically, we have gone elliptical to the downside. On a pure technical basis we are near the end of the downside move. = Bullish

However both fundamentally and psychologically the stocks across the world have been damaged and hopes of a V shaped worldwide economic recovery have turned into U‘s, W‘s L‘s and perhaps worse. The entire group of talking heads on CNBC, the #1 financial cheerleading channel, looked liked deers caught in the headlights. The trotted out Nourille Roubini (a Dr. Doom) to jawbone this AM. = BEARISH

Failing to break massive shadow banks = Bullish

A technical glitch caused caused a massive 1000 point drop in the DOW (similar drops on all indexes)

Therefore, its hard to see any rally NOT getting sold into and another low on the way. Stocks broke through support levels like a knife through butter. The only piece of good news is in the short term stocks are getting so technically oversold that they are close to running out of sellers.

Monthly Unemployment rate up to 9.9% But non farm payrolls up +290,000 This is a STRONG number (@+180,000 was expected) and other months were revised upward. When Obama took office it was over -700,000 I have no idea why such a strong jump in numbers equates to a rise in unemployment. But end result = Bullish

• McClellan Oscillator fell dramatically  to -113.71 yesterday.  [+60 or above = Overbought = sell. -60 or below = Oversold = buy]. StockCharts has a better version of the McClellan chart ($NYMO)LINK. – In the last three years the MO has only reached pass this level 3 times –  10/08, 3/09, & 10/09
• US Dollar – rose another massive +0.87%. This marks the 4th day in a row of huge gains. You have to go back to the 2008 stock meltdown to see anything similar. [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] Mantra - right now The Dollar Rules Rising dollar almost always = falling stocks. The dollar is rising mainly because of the fluctuations in European currencies = Greek debt.

Bottom Line -Roller Coaster Rally day, but real long term fundamental problem from Greece spreading.

Positions

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

The DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER DANGER SIGNAL is as many of you long time readers know is the signal to duck and cover. It the strongest warning Investors411 gives of impending doom.  Investors sold its remaining position in EWZ (Brazil) near the open yesterday for a loss.

Long term what’s happened is bad for US markets - The higher dollar is a killer for any US company that makes profits abroad and will take a chunk out of economic recovery including job growth. Until we see a measurable reversal in the dollar both stocks and our economy are going to have trouble.

Gold has become a proxy currency and Investors411 mentioned last week GLD was a good investment, but never pulled the trigger. A buy the dip ETF

Today, Investors will start nibbling on IMAX & perhaps ESRX on any further dips. Both stocks have compelling reasons for long term growth, except in another world wide meltdown. This may be a shorter term trade

Caution – There is probably more major downside to this market because of Greece. The first major rally will get sold into & Investors will use ETF’s that short the market when this occurs. Example SDS = @2x shorts the S&P 500.

Long Term Outlook = NEUTRAL

AS ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING