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Strategic Investment Weekly Commentary

With the price of oil and precious metals falling so much over the last week, the question everyone is wondering is “will the drop continue”? Knowing the answer to that question will be pivotal for us in the weeks ahead. But before I get into the answer, let’s take a look at the broad markets. [...]

Strategic Investment Weekly Commentary

Is the commodities-filled sky falling? That’s the question being debated across investing circles around the globe. But the answer – which is pivotal when your wealth is concerned – may not be as clear as it seems. Before I get into that though, let’s take a look at the markets and see what’s happened. First [...]

Strategic Investment Weekly Commentary

  Since the monthly issue hit your inbox yesterday, I’m going to keep today’s weekly short and sweet. With the silver market imploding after yesterday’s crash, we have some housekeeping to tend to. First, take a look at a chart of silver… As you can see, it’s gone “parabolic” since the year began. These types [...]

Strategic Investment Weekly Commentary

It is said that investors “climb a wall of worry” during a market rally. Over the past few weeks I’ve shown you just how worried we are. From the end of QE2… to high gas and food prices… to insolvency of the EU… there is much too worry about. Yet, the market’s climb higher… The [...]

Strategic Investment Weekly Commentary

It always seems like big things happen in the market when I’m traveling. Right now I’m in San Francisco, California with my wife. On Tuesday I attended a Hedge Fund conference sponsored by Citigroup. The highlight of the one-day event was a quip from an executive from CALPERS about his shock that his company had [...]

Government Gridlock or Government Stupidity?

A budgetary catastrophe was avoided on Friday. Somehow the Republicans and Democrats were able to agree on spending cuts of about $37 billion. That represents about 1% of the total budget. Yet, that measly amount of cuts almost shut the government down. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? It does to me and nearly everyone else who [...]

This Hedge is No Longer Effective… Sell Your Remaining SPY 128 April Put Options

It doesn’t seem to matter that Europe is on the verge of blowing up… or that Nuclear radiation is leaking in Japan… or even that the US is still engaged in Libya. The market just keeps moving higher. Up, Up and Away As you can see above, the Dow Jones has just barely closed above [...]

Crickets and Ants on the Dinner Menu

“If China’s population doubles, I’m afraid crickets and ants are going to be on the menu around the world.” That’s the startling conclusion I came to while having lunch with James Davidson at the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Not that we were eating crickets… Filet mignon, salmon, and chicken cacciatore were [...]

Is the Market Sell-Off Over Yet

Over the last two weeks the market sold off for the first time since January. So is all the selling over? And if not, what should you do about it? Let’s answer these questions today… But first, let’s talk about the importance of confirmation… waiting for a technical indication to buy or sell stock. Trading [...]

Three Precautions We Took For You Just Paid Off

Sometimes what moves the markets are the things you don’t anticipate… The “black swans”… And the Japanese earthquake definitely classifies as a black swan. Not only did a 9.0 earthquake decimate them, but they also felt the destruction of a devastating tsunami… and now a potential nuclear meltdown. To be sure, these kinds of big, [...]