1.11.2018

Hello everyone, it's a new day. 

And what will this new day bring?  Oh if only we knew. 

1.10.2018

Good morning all, welcome to Wednesday. 


I had to do a double take when I first flipped on the monitors this morning. Was I really seeing the DOW futures down 110 and the S&P's down 10?  Or was I just still asleep enough that my eyes couldn't focus? 

11.15.2017

Good morning all, I hope it's a good one for you.  I want to start off the morning by sending a prayer to my friend Phil Mikan, who's wonderful wife had to undergo surgery for cancer yesterday. I pray for a complete and total recovery. 

9.26.2017

Good morning everyone, I hope the morning finds you well. 

Yesterday we had a "red" day. Late in the afternoon, they did their best to get us off the worst levels and when it was all over, we had the DOW off about 55, the S&P off about 5. In a market this tall, that's not even a rounding error. Some were blaming the fall on the increased rhetoric between NK and the US, but I don't really buy that. In the beginning acts of the war of words, the market would indeed get shook up over the strong language, but after seeing "nothing" happen time and time again, they've learned to ignore it all. 

8.9.2017

Morning all, we've made it to hump day. 

So, what the heck was yesterday? We came out of the box strong, then calmed down and spent most of the day just slightly tilted to the green. Then in the last hour, instead of them pushing the gas pedal, we started falling more. We actually ended the day slightly red, snapping the DOW's 10 day winning streak.  Some think it was strong words out of Trump, who said basically if North Korea doesn't stop with the Threats to the US, "They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."

7.17.2017

Good morning everyone, welcome back from your weekend.   Mine was not only 'uneventful" it wasn't fun in the least!  I offered to help the wife do a bunch of data inputting on some new software for her Home companion business. Well that turned into a 2 day marathon, that I wouldn't wish on anyone. But, we got it done and it had to be, so.... oh well, there's always next weekend for the bike/beach/walk, etc.

In today's letter we're going to discuss the very real possibility that the US, either alone or with help from China is going to go in and take out North Korea's leadership. Yes I know, that little man has rattled sabres in the past, but this is a different time and he's got different weapons now. Couple that with what can only be described as another "false flag" event concerning Chemical weapons in Syria, and my prediction that we're going to be in a war soon....looks pretty good. 

I've been toying with the idea of moving the Free investment newsletter to the front page of the site. While it's not hard to get to, many have asked why it's not "front and center?"  I'll give it some thought. 

2.22.2017

Good morning everyone, welcome to Wednesday. 

Before we get into the action today, I want to mention something to some of the new subscribers. 

1) yes we do do long term holds. But we certainly don't like starting them after a 3 month melt up.
2) Yes we do options plays. 
3) yes we go short. In fact the biggest stock gains we ever had was being short the Financials back in the 2008 melt down. We had many 400% + winners. 

Your Next Half a Million

There are times when the stars line up. But they’re rare times. I’ve been personally investing for about 25 years now, and writing these letters for 20. In all those years, there’s only been a handful of times when things looked just right for a big take.

In May of 1996, AOL the leading Internet company of the day, was getting pounded. It had fallen from 70 a share in 94, to just 25 bucks. I looked through the data and decided that AOL was horribly underpriced and told the readers of my first Newsletter ( which was called “News Picks” at the time), that I was going “All in” on AOL.   By early 1998, it was 100.00 a share. Then it split, giving us twice the number of shares. Then it simply ran higher and higher again. Amazingly, it was running so high so fast, they did ANOTHER 2 for 1 split in the same year!   By the time we had sold it in 1999, We were up an incredible 1300+%.  It was the single biggest trade of my life until then.

2.25.2016

Morning all....

If you read last night's Financial Intelligence Report, then you know I come into today with no really strong feeling about which way the market is going to go. We had that big reversal day yesterday, but it was once again on lower volume, and it didn't really achieve anything technically. Yes it is true that if you look at a chart, yesterday's action created a "hammer" candle and they are often indications of "more to come". But other than that.... not much else. We didn't get back the losses of the day before, and we didn't end the day above any resistance levels, etc.,