Illustration – Mark Matcho/Mother Jones

Corporate America is flush with cash and profits are up 22% this year. Instead of an editorial, here are three charts showing what’s happening to growth, productivity, wealth, &  JOBS in the USA and other major democracies. You be the judge.

Rich Get Richer and  You Get Scraps

Growth is Back

But Not Jobs in USA

These are just three of a dozen eye popping and credibly sourced  charts found in Mother Jones. You can see where American jobs are going at the MJ Link. A WSJ chart will be featured tomorrow with this info.

Other democracies protect their workers, have far stronger unions, and unions work with both companies and their federal government to protect jobs and company profits.

Here working class Americans “fight over scraps on the table” and blame each other while the uber wealthy get richer.

A number of you have pointed out in the comments section on the victory for Gay rights/marriage in NY.  Popeye quotes the latest Gallop poll shows 52% to 43% now favor the NY approach as long as religious beliefs are respected.

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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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Index	Percentage	Volume
Dow	-0.96	Up
NASDQ	-1.26	Up
S&P 500	-1.17	UP
Russell 2000	-0.61	-

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Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

Reading The Tea Leaves Longer Term -On May 20th The long term outlook was downgraded and then again on June 7th.  A rough translation of this is 4 to 6 months there is a strong possibility that  the benchmark S&P will end up 10 to 20% off its high. There are two foreseeable economic problems that might cause us to reach 20% or a larger meltdown.

1. Europe mishandling of their debt crisis – The bottom line is do European banks stay strong or is their a run on them because of the debt problem?This problem has been exacerbated by the 2008 financial meltdown
2. Default on American debt – America’s role as a world leader and financial model has been seriously eroded in the past decade.  Polarized American politicians are playing a high stake game of chicken with the national debt and the remaining credibility of our financial/economic model in the eyes of the world.

Long term the later is probably a bigger problem.

Shorter Term Outlook.

• European Debt crisis – Legendary Investor George Soros and latest (probably a good long term move, but Not for stocks) EU raises capital requirements for banks

• The McClellan Oscillator (MO) chart fell to -14.81 (below -30 = somewhat overbought, above +30 somewhat overbought ) Repeat - The MO has been unable to get above the +30 to +50 range for 6 months.  The last low was close to -70 and the MO has a way to go before reaching that.  = Neutral

• $USD The Dollar rose  significantly +o.48% Friday. (+/- 0.50 is a significant move and the dollar is usually a contrarian indicator)  The trend since May 1 is bullish for dollar and bearish for stocks. The dollar is now at new short term high For stocks short term trend = Bearish

• Reading The Tea Leaves - Shorter term - Our MO chart has been very accurate in predicting short term tops and bottoms. So tea leaves say wait for an oversold or overbought levels to be reached before acting. The whole roller coaster ride ride of the last two weeks is a big spring. winding.

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A Long Term Portfolio

Many Thanks to The Critic for sharing her portfolio. The Critic has been with Investors411 from the start and is a frequent contributor to the comments section.  The Critic is an executive at a major company.

The Critic largest position is in cash and has stated many times in the comments section that she has protected much of the below portfolio like JS by using Puts & short ETF’s (see comments section)  I’ve been working with Critic and another person in developing the lists of dividend stocks as long term investments. Again Many Thanks for sharing .

Disclosure I own many o the below positions.[Editor]

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Barr, most of these stock have done well since the start of the year, but the future is clouded.  Just remember to tell people that I’ve bought protection because of the potential risks ahead and I buy the dip. If you want to use them for Your Stock List feel free. Like all dividend stocks I choose only those that have flat or increased dividends.

• NLY – Biggest fish in the high dividend group. Jim Cramer loves this stock.
• AGNC - Little fish in the same group.
• CVX - Oil Company with small dividend. Much better than Exxon because it buys back far less of its stock to prop up stock price.
• MCD – Giant Food Company with smaller dividend.
• KMP – Limited partnership – Tax considerations here, but I know the company and like it.
• T – Phone company and a big one.
• WIN – Phone company and a small one with higher dividend.
• SNH – Buys senior properties. Unless badly managed this area has to expand.
• DUK – This is my energy play
• HCN – Health Care REIT
• HTD - An ETF from John Hancock – Some tax advantages here.

These are the major dividend stocks in my portfolio. I have a some smaller position. and non related mutual and bond  funds. I own these long term because I don’t have time to watch markets day to day and for tax reasons.  Hope this helps.

PS – Barr, please remind people about risk.

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

ALL TRADING INVOLVES RISK AND POTENTIAL LOSS OF PRINCIPLE

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Positions

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

NLY - Annaly Capital Mgt. Ultra high dividend stock. Bought on a dip over a month ago.

Repeat longer Strategy remains -

• Short any rally - Investors411 will use TZA (3X short small cap stocks) and SDS (2x short S&P 500 more conservative).
• Sell long positions into any rally -

Disclosure - I own NLY &  a group of dividend stocks which I have used some short ETF’s to protect. – I buy all stocks mentioned in the hypothetical Investors411 portfolio.

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Look for an enlightened Paul’s Corner every Tuesday & Thursday and the always informative comments section every day.

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The Fed has moved from an expanding money supply to a neutral – No QE #3. Congress is threatening to contract the money supply. “We [the USA] need to grow at this point more than anything else.” Investors411 outlook will remain negative on the USA unless the Fed and/or congress return to more pro growth policies and/or Euro defaults are solved.

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Longer Term Outlook

Neutral/CAUTIOUSLY BEARISH

If/when we break the recent lows of the S&P 500 that little bit of NEUTRAL still in the forecast will vanish

AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH BEFORE INVESTING

ALL TRADING INVOLVES RISK AND POTENTIAL LOSS OF PRINCIPLE

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Hottest 6 Months Ever

The last 6 months have been the hottest ever on the planet. The record breaking heat waves of the East Coast are part of this

“The record temperatures we’re seeing now are especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.” It now appears to be over.”

This NASA news should have been the headline of every major paper. Instead the top link I found was the following minor site. If you want some science data on greenhouse gasses, global warming & how it works see National Reasearch Council of National Acadamy of Sciences

Alternative you can laugh with the Drudge Report or Fox News when they headline a goup of climatologists meet and it snows. Or read when they healine a couple climatologist who have seemingly fudged data, but are later exonerted. They, of course ignore or bury the NASA data.

“We’re getting a dramatic taste of the kind of weather we are on course to bequeath to our grandchildren,” says Tom Peterson, Chief Scientist for NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center.”

Reboot America

16 of America’s Leading Economists/Historians have come together to fight the Tea Party/Fox/CNBC/ Libmbaugh/Bachmann/Palin (Thanks to Popeye for his Bachmann comment) message of cut the deficit NOW. They realize that Jobs is the #1 priority NOW.  Their conclusion-

The urgent need is for government to replace the lost purchasing power of the unemployed and their families and to employ other tax-cut and spending programs to boost demand. Making deficit reduction the first target, without addressing the chronic underlying deficiency of demand, is exactly the error of the 1930s. It will prolong the great recession, harm the social cohesion of the country, and continue inflicting unnecessary hardship on millions of Americans

Obama’s Address

Republican’s have been blocking aid to small business and unemployment compensation for weeks. Here’s Obama’s weekly address.

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!

Index	Percentage	Volume
Dow	-2.52%	up
NASDQ	-3.11%	up
S&P 500	-2.88%	up
Russell 2000	-2.82%	-

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

Technicals, Fundamentals & Analysis

Economic fundamentals, some bad earnings report, and an options expiration Friday seemed to have made the Black Box/High Frequency Traders dive for cover.

Volume was a bit above average for the older DOW & S&P 500. Still it was NOT the kind of volume you’d associate with a major stock meltdown, but more the kind of volume you’d expect when options expire (The 3rd Friday of the month) Translation – Black Box traders clearly in charge of markets.

Almost 3% decline – Bearish

Earning come out big time week.

You can check pre market trading here – Just type in ticker symbol

Significant Indexes-

• McClellan Oscillator (MO) fell to +7.53 [+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 Friday was basically flat -0.09% [Anything over +/- @0.50 is significant.] The dollar is important  to stocks – Dollar up = stocks down and visa versa. The Black Box traders, have used the inverse relationship of the dollar as a key part of their trading system. This inverse relationship is part of their algorithmic system. There was a delayed reaction the last time the dollar fell over 1.00% – The next day we had an almost 3% rise in stocks.  For stocks =BULLISH
• 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 1700 yesterday. This is a huge -60% drop 8 weeks.  Often a leading indicator for stocks. Here’s a 3 year chart of BDI for context. The BDI rose for the first time in 8 weeks Friday +1.18% yesterday. At long last the BDI finding a bottom – a bullish sign, but too early to tell. Fundamentally the -60% drop is very BEARISH

Reading Tea Leaves - I haven’t figured out the algorithms associated with High Frequency Trading. So its near impossible to make an accurate predictions of what they will do. However the majority do seem generally to follow the basic +/- 60 indicator on the MO.

Answering The Critic - (see comments section of blog)

• The Good – Yea with a little luck did call the top and the last bottom. This came about by using both the meltdown in the BDI and MO reaching oversold.
• The Bad – Why not invest more? I did set up a probable group of trades (short ETF’s) if the major indexes became more oversold Wednesday and/or Thursday.  Bottom Line – Its not the old time stock market any more. – Phony capitalism rules along with High Frequency Trades. Those ETF’s you mentioned are impacted by phony capitalism and HFT’s so you have to be more cautious. My trades tend to be more conservative (example SH last week instead of SDS) YOU can be more aggressive.
• The Ugly – Fixing High Frequency trades (or phony capitalism) Most of the trades in the 1000 point meltdown were cancelled. However HFT and phony capitalism (example-shadow banks) banks are a reality. In the USA (the leading GDP capitalist country), if the moneyed class keeps getting richer and the middle class poorer market fundamentals will continue to deteriorate.

Positions

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

Updated over weekends Investors411 holds ONE position at this time

SH – The ETF that shorts the S&P 500 was bought at 51.45. It’s up over 3% now. 1/2 will be sold at 3% profit and a stop/loss has been put in place at what it was bought for.

I’m not so sure Friday’s meltdown was as bad as it looks. It may have been something exaggerate by HFT and Options experation.

No other positions long or short are contimplated in immediate future because MO is neutral.