“I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I’m not doing my job properly.”   –Jeff Beck One of the greatest rock/blues guitarists ever, Jeff Beck knows that in order to be different, you have to break the rules. If you

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Even though the stock market has dipped overall so far this month, one of the sectors that I expect to lead a budding resurgence in equities is biotechnology. In fact, I am tracking funds in that promising arena right now. A recent pullback in the biotechnology sector caused it to slip beneath its 50-day moving

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Join me on Thursday, July 7, at 1:00 p.m. PST (4:00 p.m. EST), for a FREE discussion of the rapidly changing financial markets. In this teleseminar, titled Mid-Year Review and Market Outlook, I will be speaking about how you should position your portfolio for what promises to be a tumultuous second half of an already

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Stocks are on the march higher, and that’s put a big smile on the faces of a whole lot of professional investors. In fact, since last week’s Alert, stocks in the S&P 500 have staged a 3%-plus comeback. The broad measure of the domestic market now is trading back above the 1,300 level, and a […]

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Last week’s whirlwind of volatile trading caught most traders off guard, and even we managed to miss the quick move in emerging market stocks. I’m referring here to Thursday’s decline in the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM). On that day, EEM opened just above our preset stop-loss price of $45 and then dipped beneath it. […]

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 In last Friday’s Hotline, we welcomed the reprieve of the recent wave of selling as stocks finally managed to finish a week without falling into the red. Well, that reprieve was short-lived for two of the three major indices, as this week brought about another wave of volatility—and ultimately another move to the downside. For […]

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“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” –RUSH, “Freewill” It is amazing how one lyric written decades ago by a Canadian rock band can apply so directly to the way you manage your money. You see, many people play the waiting game and just watch the market from the sidelines,

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I recently read an article in the Los Angeles Times that basically argued that most investors don’t understand ETFs. The article cited a survey by Chicago market research firm Mintel that showed more than 60% of investors don’t buy ETFs because they “don’t know what they are.” Now, as a big advocate of using ETFs,

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The amount of hyperbole and demagoguery surrounding the issue of the U.S. dollar’s pending demise has reached a fever pitch. Particularly on the Internet, where marketing campaigns prey on the high level of fear people have over our country’s collapse. One of the most popular campaigns I’ve seen is from Porter Stansberry, and he calls

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