“We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often — much, much more often — it will save your life.” –Richard Marcinko As the founder of the world’s best anti-terrorist military unit, SEAL Team

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I recently broadcast my final AM radio show. Sure, this tried-and-true method of communication was very good to me over the last 12 years, but now it’s time to step into the future with the new Fabian Wealth Strategies Monday Morning Market Update podcast. In these weekly digital broadcasts, I will cover all of the

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Are you ready to invest for success in 2011? On Tuesday, April 5, at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time (4:00 p.m. Eastern), we will be holding our second teleseminar of the year. We’re calling this seminar, “Second Quarter Market Outlook and Opportunities.” During this event, we will recap the market action during the volatile first quarter,

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This week’s ETF Talk expounds on the Japanese crisis and how it could affect you financially. In last week’s ETF Talk, we talked about Japan’s inevitable recovery. As the country begins to rebound — slowly but surely — its strongest industries and companies should come back as well. If you want to take advantage of

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Over the past two months, we’ve talked about the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that make up my top seven list for 2011. Now that our series is complete, I wanted to give you a quick recap on each of these funds. The ETFs listed here are in order of how we presented them, and not in

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Neither earthquakes, nor tsunamis, nor nuclear meltdowns, nor Middle East wars can stop this resilient market. In fact, stocks now have rebounded very nicely off of their March lows, and we’ve already seen the S&P 500 move with conviction back up through its short-term, 50-day moving average. The chart below of the broad measure of

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The market action this week in stocks was very strong, capped off by better than expected GDP growth and University of Michigan consumer sentiment numbers on Friday. When the final tally was taken, the Dow ended the week with a 3.05% jump, while the S&P 500 gained 2.70%. The NASDAQ Composite saw the largest increase of […]

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“An amateur will practice until she gets it right; a professional will practice until she can’t get it wrong.” –Monty Roberts Master horse trainer Monty Roberts, also known as the “Horse Whisperer,” gives us a lesson from the stables with this bit of wisdom. You see, in life, you can practice to be an amateur,

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As recently devastated Japan ramps up building efforts along with emerging markets in Asia and Latin America, demand for steel will be on the rise. To let you profit from this emerging trend, I found the Market Vectors Steel ETF (SLX), an ETF aimed at letting you tap into this infrastructure boom. The fund seeks

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The latest global market turmoil has prompted a flight-to-quality from the most volatile of global equity markets into long-term Treasury bonds. Bond prices have surged since mid-February, and there’s been a concomitant decline in Treasury bond yields ever since. As you can see by the chart here of the 10 Year Treasury Note Yield, yields

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