On Friday, Adam is going to go into detail about this hypothetical portfolio and it’s conservative strategy. This set-up is “perfect” for those of us who don’t want to look at our brokerage accounts every day. The “Perfect Portfolio” covers 4 ETF’s and Adam will look at each and also cover the strategy used...

HCPG Blog Futures down across the board and it looks like the market will use this news to pullback and digest recent gains. Here is a SPY chart containing the AH move: thus far looks like a typical reversal at 50SMA from extended move. A Great Newsletter for Active Traders We at The Market Guardian are pleased to announce our partnership with High...

John Carney of Business Insider The Fed just raised the discount rate from 0.50% to 0.75%. The instant reaction: Futures are down after hours, and the dollar index is shooting up. Right now this is being characterized as “normalization,” which is fine, but it’s obviously a clear sign of the beginning of the end. Here’s the...

This report is a mix of both current market action and educational material on how stocks and commodities trend (move). Since mid October I have been on the look out for the market to top or make a multi wave correction. The market did top in January and has formed an ABC retrace (3 wave correction). The question everyone wants to know is, is this market...

With an unprecedented number of homeowners headed towards foreclosure President Obama just made stimulus money available to help homeowners with Mortgage Loan Modification. With the help of Fair Home Loan, a company established to help Americans with the complex process of Home Loan Modification you can reduce your monthly payments and possibly keep...

John Carney of Business Insider We have no idea about the merits of this suit. But here’s the press release from the representatives of the plaintiff. Adding to the long list of woes facing banking giant BOA, Jack Mitchell, an African-American former employee of BOA, through his lawyers at Ziegler, Ziegler & Associates LLP, has brought a lawsuit...

Pej Hamidi of T3Live We are still in Long/Short nirvana, with a stock picker’s market. Things are getting a bit tricky with volatility rising, but a little volatility is good right about here. The patient trader will be rewarded and the name of the game is “banking profits.” Book those gains and don’t give them back just because...

Click The Chart To View The Video Gold has made some exciting moves recently, but what can we expect in the future? In today’s video, Adam points out five reasons that he does not expect gold to make a new high just yet.

Zero Hedge For those strapped for time, here is a comprehensive 4 minute Bloomberg TV interview with David Rosenberg which recaps some of the recent trends the Gluskin Sheff Strategist has been discussing, including the sovereign debt crisis, corporate earnings, and small business performance. For those wishing to dig deeper into the observations,...

The Mess That Greenspan Made The Census Bureau reported(.pdf) a larger than expected increase in housing starts last month, however, there was an equally surprisingly decline in permits for new construction, all part of what is likely to be a very long process of rebounding from record low activity in the homebuilding sector last year. Housing starts...

Joe Weisenthal comments that along with everything else, oil had a HUGE surge yesterday, and today it’s holding above $77 again. Get ready for $3 gas this summer.

Hat/Tip Tyler Durden The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct. Calling it “basically no more than five rectangular strips of paper,” Fed chairman...

By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research Following a recent group email exchange with Louis James, the truly tireless editor of Casey’s International Speculator currently kicking rocks in Colombia, one of the non-Casey Research participants in the exchange commented, “You guys are doing it right. How many research shops have emails that...

Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova of Business Insider No doubt you’ve seen the charts comparing our bear market to the slide in the Nikkei. And if you believe that such a historical comparison holds relevance, then it means we’re totally doomed. But not all similar patterns are so negative. A reader alerts us to the comparison...