By: John Darsie of T3Live The market looks to finally be finding some footing Wednesday after more early weakness. Another gap down was followed by aggressive morning selling, but the market has reversed course and has since traded in a tight range. Traders are starting to test some longs cautiously at these oversold levels, but will have tight stops...

By Terry Coxon, The Casey Report The high rate of inflation most of us believe is waiting not too far down the road will be an earthquake for investment markets. The likely winners (gold, silver, precious metals stocks) and the likely losers (long-term bonds and most stocks) aren’t too hard to identify. But separating the sheep from the goats is...

Tim Iacono I can’t help but read Fed Chief Ben Bernanke’s speech yesterday – in which he absolves the central bank from playing any more than an incidental role in soaring commodity prices that happened to begin in earnest when QE2 was announced last August – in light of the central bank’s poor track record in understanding what drives markets...

From the desk of John Thomas The Mad Hedge Fund Trader Tuesday, June 07, 2011 Is the Fat Lady About to Sing Again for the Treasury Bond Market? One of my best calls of the year was to pick the bottom of the Treasury bond market in February and pile readers into synthetic long positions by shorting...

Many traders and investors use technical indicators to support their analysis. One of the most popular and reliable also happens to be an indicator that has been around for years and years — moving averages. A moving average is simply the average value of data over a specific time period. Analysts use it to figure out whether the price of a stock...

Dear Trader, 35+ year trader Bill Poulos may have revealed TOO MUCH in his second Forex Income Engine Trade Alert Software training video, which he just posted online here… …so make sure you check it out before he edits it down and takes out the “good stuff”. Here are the Top 3 “trading tricks” to get...

By Doug Casey, Casey Research There is a great deal of uncertainty among investors about what the future of the U.S. economy may look like – so I decided to take a stab at what’s likely to happen over the next 20 years. That’s enough time for a child to grow up and mature, and it’s long enough for major trends to develop and make themselves...

(The S&P 500 is up only 5.38% over the same period) From the desk of John Thomas The Mad Hedge Fund Trader Tuesday, June 07, 2011 They call me the Mad Hedge Fund Trader, but my trading account results are anything but crazy. I’ve averaged more than 7% per month for the first 5 months of the year,...

by Karl Denninger You have to love the misdirection… A failure by European regulators to make banks raise enough capital to withstand a sovereign default is complicating efforts to resolve Greece’s debt crisis. It’s not a failure - it was an intentional act. By allowing banks to run at unsound capital levels the “earnings”...

Real quick: This is your last chance to take a 90-day trial of Mike Maffei’s bank order flow “mirror trading” service (the one where he turned $10K into over $100K in just over a month by “front-running” the big banks). Click here for everything you need to know about the 90-day trial I’ve asked Mike to extend the trial to give...

My most recent analysis regarding the S&P 500 has been proven to be inaccurate as a failed breakout has transpired on the S&P 500 this past week. While there is no such thing as a perfect analyst, I will openly admit that my most recent article proved to be wrong. After I watched as the S&P 500 broke out above the upper channel resistance...

Dear Trader, When it comes to Forex trading, did you know that there’s 1 “unusual” technique that shows you how to instantly filter out the bad markets? It’s true. And once you understand it, your potential for pulling money out of the markets in a matter of minutes could skyrocket, almost overnight… (You’ll...

Everyone knows people make mistakes when rushed to do something or if they are scared of something bad happening. We also know fear and greed is what moves the market each month, week, day and tick… So when the majority of investors are selling their shares at the same time you must recognize the psychology behind it and prepare for a low risk trading...

The founder and namesake of Stansberry Associates, Porter Stansberry, shocked the audience at the Casey Research Spring Summit with his ‘End of America’ speech. “Our country racked up an enormous amount of debt over the last 40 years – an unprecedented amount of debt. We went from being the world’s largest creditor, to being the world’s...

A buzz word at the Casey Research Spring Summit: The Next Few Years was ‘technology’ and it was on the lips of every investor after Alex Daley, Chief Technology Investment Strategist and editor of Casey Extraordinary Technology gave his presentation. “This is the most exciting time to be in technology that I could possibly think of because there...