By Michael Lombardi, MBA for Profit Confidential As the key stock indices continue to climb higher, optimism amongst investors and stock advisors rises to a dangerous level. According to the Advisor Sentiment tracked by Investors Intelligence, an indicator I follow to gauge optimism in the stock market, the number of stock advisors who are bullish towards key stock indices is at its highest Read More...

Today I am going to share with you one of my favorite technical tools and how to use this tool to successfully navigate the ups and downs of Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ:LULU). .flowplayer { width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; } Read More...

In a recent Bloomberg news poll, 71% of investors believe that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has become less innovative. Has Apple lost its way? This short video will examine the technical setups that are driving the declining price. .flowplayer { width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; } Read More...

We the people … are human beings with a soul. It is by far the most neglected element in the theory of the Keynesian economics, while at the same time the core in the Austrian view. The Keynesian propaganda machine is turning at full speed in a relentless way. But do we see an increasing number of  signs of unsustainability in their theory? Former Economy Noble price winner Paul Krugman, propa Read More...

The sell-side analysts and economists are reminding retail investors that risk assets in the United States have been on quite a tear to the upside recently. A correction now lasts a matter of days, if not hours before the bulls push equity prices even higher. The Federal Reserve is winning the reflation war using cheap money and massive levels of liquidity to help drive risk assets higher and inte Read More...

Many investors and traders make the same mistakes assuming that one needs a complex trading system to consistently profit from the stock market. On the contrary, some of the top performing strategies are the ones with the least amount of moving parts and are simple. Because their simplicity they can be easily and consistently followed. The methodologies we use for timing the market, picking stocks Read More...

The SP500 remains in a strong uptrend, but the index has posted a sizable gains for 2013 thus far so it’s only logical that a pullback within this bull market takes place sooner than later. With May now upon us and historically prices fall more times than not I feel a 3-4 weeks correction is on the verge of starting. This Friday we just had very strong economic numbers confirming the economy is Read More...

by Tyler Durden Gold prices just entered a bear market. Down 21% from their mid-2011 highs. Today’s drop is the largest since 2/29/12 – LTRO2 and takes the price of the barbarous relic back to July 2011 lows. Silver is also seeing its biggest down-day since LTRO2 as it tests 2012 lows. Must. Destroy. All alternative currencies. A bad day for commodities…   Read More...

One of the most noteworthy facts about the gold market in 2012 was undoubtedly the staggering amounts of gold imports. As reported numerous times on this website, China imported more than 800 tonnes of gold from Hong Kong. To get the real amount of gold that China has added to their reserves, one should add China’s own production and their unofficial imports. Today, another astonishing figure hi Read More...

Submitted by Tyler Durden Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we have shown many times before, it pays just as well to sit back and collect disability and various welfare and entitlement checks, than to work .The best manifestation of this: the number of people not in the labor force which in March soared by a massive 663,000 to a recor Read More...

  mauldineconomics.com / By John Mauldin / March 22, 2013 In today’s Outside the Box, Gary D. Halbert (my old and very dear friend and former business partner of many years) reminds us about a few significant facts concerning the Consumer Price Index (CPI) that mainstream economists and the media tend to ignore. The central question is whether the CPI is really indicative of the actual inf Read More...

  A week of closed banks, depositor angst, and economic malaise is creating an increasingly vicious circlefor Cyprus (and implicitly the European Union). As Die Welt notes, because the economic data of the tiny ‘irrelevant’ island could be considerably worse than previously thought (or forecast by Troika) thanks to the distortions created this week by bank closings, several people aroun Read More...

Gold Silver Worlds In a short but powerful documentary of 6 minutes, our friends at FutureMoneyTrends show the similarities between the hyperinflationary period in the Weymar Republic in 1923 / 1924, and the USA today. The similarities in the pre-hyperinflationary period appear to be striking! In a nutshell: The national debt had risen to a point where it could not realistically be paid back. T Read More...

Trading with the trend should be your main focus for long term success no matter what type of trader you are (Options Trader, Stock Trader, or ETF Trader) although it’s not as easy as it sounds. The good news is that there is a simple trading model that removes 95% of trading analysis and greatly reduces trading related emotions because the key technical analysis rules based on one of the worl Read More...

While most would think that the risks junior oil and gas companies are taking in exploring new frontiers as far away as the remote reaches of Africa are related to government instability and conflict, another risk they face is right at home and lies right beyond their network firewalls. Cyber security breaches are becoming more common place as the ranks of junior companies swell and take on new ex Read More...