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Have you noticed how important the direction of the U.S. dollar is right now?

If you are bullish anything, you want the U.S. dollar to go down. When the U.S. dollar goes down, the markets go up.

Check out this U.S. dollar versus the S&P 500 chart and notice how often they move inverse each other.

Knowing how important the U.S. dollar is to the future direction of the stock market, I'd like to know if you are bullish or bearish the U.S. dollar.

Have you noticed how important the direction of the U.S. dollar is right now? If you are bullish anything, you want the U.S. dollar to go down. When the U.S. dollar goes down, the markets go up. Check out this U.S. dollar versus the S&P 500 chart and notice how often they move inverse each other. Knowing how important the U.S. dollar is to the future direction of the stock market, I'd like to know if you are bullish or bearish the U.S. dollar.


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The month of January is important because of the January Barometer. If you do not know what the January Barometer is, or need a review, watch this video:

The month of January is important because of the January Barometer. If you do not know what the January Barometer is, or need a review, watch this video:


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Hedge Fund CartoonBig 401K money managers don't get a lot of respect, because frankly, they are really big and move slower than us amateur traders. They just kind of sit there and move really slow, right? They can't move or think or make their plans against nimble traders like us.

Actually, that's just what they want you to think. It turns out that money managers are capable of some pretty sophisticated, even downright nefarious schemes. For instance, using the media to make scary, dire economic predictions, then secretly buying when everybody else is running for cover and there's blood in the streets.

The Stock Trader's Almanac just issued an alert about the MACD bullish crossovers and buy signals in the market today on the S&P 500 and DOW.

They write that Europe's crisis will be worked out and its time to buy stocks right now for the seasonal 4th quarter rally.

Dude, I'm still shell-shocked from the trading range that screwed me when I tried to play the short side and I kept getting stopped out.

Here's how I'm going to play the seasonality. I'm going to play the seasonality trends by buying the Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares (TNA) ETF. I'm going to hold it and not try to swing trade it. This is a long-term hold for the 4th quarter and will be added to the website portfolio in the morning.

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Now, let's look at some stock charts and figure out some probabilities.

Buying TNA in October and holding until the end of December (the entire 4th quarter) has produced the following profits/losses over the last 10 years:

2010 = +55%
2009 = +7.5%
2008 = -40%
2007 = -15%
2006 = +27%
2005 = +3%
2004 = +42%
2003 = +42%
2002 = +18%
2001 = +60%

The probability of up years versus down years is as follows. Out of the last 10 years, the probability of up years is 80%. That's awesome folks. So if the pattern holds, we have an 80% chance of making profits in TNA if we buy today, and hold until the end of December.

Next, let's figure out what our average gain would be. I'm going to throw out 2008 because in September of 2008, the entire real estate market collapsed and emergency meetings in Congress resulted in $800 billion in tax payers money to prevent big banks from collapsing. This is not a normal occurrence. I want typical years in my dataset, not anomalies. However, if you took a stats and probability course in College then you know you can't just throw out the year with the biggest loss without throwing out the year with the biggest gain otherwise you'll create a bias in your dataset. Throwing out 2008 (biggest loser), and 2001 (biggest gainer), we are left with a dataset that reveals a 20% average gain, each year, for 8 years.

Looking at the chart of the S&P 500, we have crazy buy side volume coming in as hedge fund managers and institutional traders position themselves for the 4th quarter. So what is the smart money buying? If we look at which sectors are performing the best, one of them is Basic Materials. Not only do we see the Basic Materials sector exploding with inflows of new money, but the Stock Trader's Almanac says that Basic Materials are a good play this time of year. Therefore, I'm adding the Direxion Daily Basic Materials Bull 3X Shrs (MATL) ETF to the website portfolio as well.

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Hedge Fund CartoonBig 401K money managers don't get a lot of respect, because frankly, they are really big and move slower than us amateur traders. They just kind of sit there and move really slow, right? They can't move or think or make their plans against nimble traders like us. Actually, that's just what they want you to think. It turns out that money managers are capable of some pretty sophisticated, even downright nefarious schemes. For instance, using the media to make scary, dire economic predictions, then secretly buying when everybody else is running for cover and there's blood in the streets. The Stock Trader's Almanac just issued an alert about the MACD bullish crossovers and buy signals in the market today on the S&P 500 and DOW. They write that Europe's crisis will be worked out and its time to buy stocks right now for the seasonal 4th quarter rally. Dude, I'm still shell-shocked from the trading range that screwed me when I tried to play the short side and I kept getting stopped out. Here's how I'm going to play the seasonality. I'm going to play the seasonality trends by buying the Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares (TNA) ETF. I'm going to hold it and not try to swing trade it. This is a long-term hold for the 4th quarter and will be added to the website portfolio in the morning. For a FREE DAILY EMAIL ALERT on the trend of the Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares (TNA) click here! Just leave PACF_TNA in for the symbol and enter your name and email address! Now, let's look at some stock charts and figure out some probabilities. Buying TNA in October and holding until the end of December (the entire 4th quarter) has produced the following profits/losses over the last 10 years: 2010 = +55% 2009 = +7.5% 2008 = -40% 2007 = -15% 2006 = +27% 2005 = +3% 2004 = +42% 2003 = +42% 2002 = +18% 2001 = +60% The probability of up years versus down years is as follows. Out of the last 10 years, the probability of up years is 80%. That's awesome folks. So if the pattern holds, we have an 80% chance of making profits in TNA if we buy today, and hold until the end of December. Next, let's figure out what our average gain would be. I'm going to throw out 2008 because in September of 2008, the entire real estate market collapsed and emergency meetings in Congress resulted in $800 billion in tax payers money to prevent big banks from collapsing. This is not a normal occurrence. I want typical years in my dataset, not anomalies. However, if you took a stats and probability course in College then you know you can't just throw out the year with the biggest loss without throwing out the year with the biggest gain otherwise you'll create a bias in your dataset. Throwing out 2008 (biggest loser), and 2001 (biggest gainer), we are left with a dataset that reveals a 20% average gain, each year, for 8 years. Looking at the chart of the S&P 500, we have crazy buy side volume coming in as hedge fund managers and institutional traders position themselves for the 4th quarter. So what is the smart money buying? If we look at which sectors are performing the best, one of them is Basic Materials. Not only do we see the Basic Materials sector exploding with inflows of new money, but the Stock Trader's Almanac says that Basic Materials are a good play this time of year. Therefore, I'm adding the Direxion Daily Basic Materials Bull 3X Shrs (MATL) ETF to the website portfolio as well. For a FREE DAILY EMAIL ALERT on the trend of the Direxion Daily Basic Materials Bull 3X Shrs (MATL) click here! Just leave PACF_MATL in for the symbol and enter your name and email address! For a FREE DAILY EMAIL ALERT on the trend of the Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares (TNA) click here! Just leave PACF_TNA in for the symbol and enter your name and email address! For a FREE DAILY EMAIL ALERT on the trend of the Direxion Daily Basic Materials Bull 3X Shrs (MATL) click here! Just leave PACF_MATL in for the symbol and enter your name and email address!


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Last year, Republicans Chris Christie and Meredith Whitney predicted that the world was going to end in 2011 with municipal defaults.

Whitney told investors to expect 100 and probably more municipal defaults in 2011, a domino fall that would bring the $2.9 trillion muni-bond market down with "hundreds of millions" in losses.

She said towns and cities across the U.S. were going to fire government workers en mass and that garbage was going to pile up on lawns, and entire city blocks would burn because fire stations would sit empty.

This dooms day prediction sent the market that finances local government into a downtrend. About $50 billion has been cashed out of municipal-bond funds since last year. Investors haven't finished selling, with $3.69 billion being pulled out from municipal bonds in April of 2011.

Republicans are engaged in cutting off the purse strings of Congress for this President in the name of blocking any policies he attempts to pass in his less than 2 years left in office.

Obviously it's hypocritical that the Republicans, who took a budget surplus left to them by Clinton and the Democrats, and turned it into a multi-trillion dollar deficit, are now suppose to be champions of cutting spending. When they were in office they were the biggest spenders ever. But minus the glaring hypocrisy, look at how disingenuous these doomsayers are.

Chris Christie used tax dollars to take a free helicopter ride to his son's baseball game. Obviously the whole we need to cut spending is a bunch of baloney and is nothing more than a play from the Republican's play book to block any Obama policies for the next 2 years in the name of 'saving money' while secretly, they take helicopter rides for personal enjoyment at tax payers expense.

And what about Meredith Whitney and her dire predictions of 100 municipal defaults in 2011? A report issued this week by Deutsche Bank says that defaults by local governments are actually declining. The firm figures a total of 39 defaults for all of 2011. As of last month there have been 14 defaults totaling $605 million. Furthermore, the report argues that 2011 is shaping up to have the lowest number of defaults since the recession began three years ago. Deutsche also says that to reach even $200 billion in defaults -- out of the "hundreds of billions" that Whitney predicted -- more than $800 million in defaults will need to occur "every single day (including weekends) from May until the end of the year."

Whitney has been hitting Fox news and MSNBC hard lately, arguing that her prediction of billions of defaults this year was really, well, more of an estimate. Focusing on the timing of the defaults "misses the point," she says; rest assured, a flood of defaults will happen.

The one who focused on the timing of the defaults was Whitney who said in 2010, that within 12 months, 100 municipal defaults would occur.

Last year, Republicans Chris Christie and Meredith Whitney predicted that the world was going to end in 2011 with municipal defaults. Whitney told investors to expect 100 and probably more municipal defaults in 2011, a domino fall that would bring the $2.9 trillion muni-bond market down with "hundreds of millions" in losses. She said towns and cities across the U.S. were going to fire government workers en mass and that garbage was going to pile up on lawns, and entire city blocks would burn because fire stations would sit empty. This dooms day prediction sent the market that finances local government into a downtrend. About $50 billion has been cashed out of municipal-bond funds since last year. Investors haven't finished selling, with $3.69 billion being pulled out from municipal bonds in April of 2011. Republicans are engaged in cutting off the purse strings of Congress for this President in the name of blocking any policies he attempts to pass in his less than 2 years left in office. Obviously it's hypocritical that the Republicans, who took a budget surplus left to them by Clinton and the Democrats, and turned it into a multi-trillion dollar deficit, are now suppose to be champions of cutting spending. When they were in office they were the biggest spenders ever. But minus the glaring hypocrisy, look at how disingenuous these doomsayers are. Chris Christie used tax dollars to take a free helicopter ride to his son's baseball game. Obviously the whole we need to cut spending is a bunch of baloney and is nothing more than a play from the Republican's play book to block any Obama policies for the next 2 years in the name of 'saving money' while secretly, they take helicopter rides for personal enjoyment at tax payers expense. And what about Meredith Whitney and her dire predictions of 100 municipal defaults in 2011? A report issued this week by Deutsche Bank says that defaults by local governments are actually declining. The firm figures a total of 39 defaults for all of 2011. As of last month there have been 14 defaults totaling $605 million. Furthermore, the report argues that 2011 is shaping up to have the lowest number of defaults since the recession began three years ago. Deutsche also says that to reach even $200 billion in defaults -- out of the "hundreds of billions" that Whitney predicted -- more than $800 million in defaults will need to occur "every single day (including weekends) from May until the end of the year." Whitney has been hitting Fox news and MSNBC hard lately, arguing that her prediction of billions of defaults this year was really, well, more of an estimate. Focusing on the timing of the defaults "misses the point," she says; rest assured, a flood of defaults will happen. The one who focused on the timing of the defaults was Whitney who said in 2010, that within 12 months, 100 municipal defaults would occur.


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Molycorp (MCP) is already up more than 100% from its IPO in July of 2010 but I still feel this stock has plenty of upside potential.

China supplies 97% of the world's rare earth elements but all that changed a few months ago.

China cut its exports of rare earth elements by over 50%. This is to protect their own supply for their ever increasing consumption in now the world's second largest economy.

Rare earth elements are used in consumer goods in everything from smartphones, to hard drives and hybrid car engines, to even wind turbine magnets. Even the military uses rare earth elements in various combat vehicles, ships, and radars making a shortage an issue of national security.

China's export cut at the same time that demand is soaring will lead to an annual 40 billion ton shortfall by 2015.

Molycorp (MCP) is the only rare earth elements producer in the western hemisphere and they just purchased a large mine in California.

In the video below, I show you, in an entertaining way, why I believe MCP is a great stock to have in your portfolio. I have not purchased MCP at the time of making this video but may soon.

Disclosure Update: Went long Molycorp (MCP) in my own personal trading account the day after posting this video and article

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For a FREE daily email alert on the trend of Molycorp (MCP) click here. Just leave the NYSE_MCP in for the symbol and enter your name and email address.

Molycorp (MCP) is already up more than 100% from its IPO in July of 2010 but I still feel this stock has plenty of upside potential. China supplies 97% of the world's rare earth elements but all that changed a few months ago. China cut its exports of rare earth elements by over 50%. This is to protect their own supply for their ever increasing consumption in now the world's second largest economy. Rare earth elements are used in consumer goods in everything from smartphones, to hard drives and hybrid car engines, to even wind turbine magnets. Even the military uses rare earth elements in various combat vehicles, ships, and radars making a shortage an issue of national security. China's export cut at the same time that demand is soaring will lead to an annual 40 billion ton shortfall by 2015. Molycorp (MCP) is the only rare earth elements producer in the western hemisphere and they just purchased a large mine in California. In the video below, I show you, in an entertaining way, why I believe MCP is a great stock to have in your portfolio. I have not purchased MCP at the time of making this video but may soon. Disclosure Update: Went long Molycorp (MCP) in my own personal trading account the day after posting this video and article For a FREE daily email alert on the trend of Molycorp (MCP) click here. Just leave the NYSE_MCP in for the symbol and enter your name and email address. For a FREE daily email alert on the trend of Molycorp (MCP) click here. Just leave the NYSE_MCP in for the symbol and enter your name and email address.


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My latest pick is JA Solar (JASO). This is a rock'n research video I put together about why I like this stock. I bought 97 shares of this stock on 11/9/10 at $9.60

I see this as a longer term play.

Sound track used with permission: "You Can't Tell Me How It Is" by Slowride.

Enjoy and rock on!

My latest pick is JA Solar (JASO). This is a rock'n research video I put together about why I like this stock. I bought 97 shares of this stock on 11/9/10 at $9.60 I see this as a longer term play. Sound track used with permission: "You Can't Tell Me How It Is" by Slowride. Enjoy and rock on!


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The U.S. economy added jobs in October for the first time in five months as private-sector hiring picked up.


The economy added 151,000 non-farm jobs in October which beat estimates of 60,000. But the unemployment rate remained at 9.6% as many people began to look for work again.

The U.S. economy added jobs in October for the first time in five months as private-sector hiring picked up.

The economy added 151,000 non-farm jobs in October which beat estimates of 60,000. But the unemployment rate remained at 9.6% as many people began to look for work again.



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Earnings releases continue this week with Microsoft (MSFT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Procter & Gamble (PG), Texas Instruments (TXN), Sprint (S), DuPont (DD) and Chevron (CVX) on the list.

Daily Chart of Microsoft (MSFT)

MSFT Stock Chart

Daily Chart of Exxon Mobil (XOM)

XOM Stock Chart

Daily Chart of Procter & Gamble (PG)

PG Stock Chart

Daily Chart of Texas Instruments (TXN)

TXN Stock Chart


Daily Chart of Sprint (S)


Sprint Technical Analysis


Daily Chart of DuPont (DD)


Dupont Stock Chart


Daily Chart of Chevron (CVX)


Chevron Stock Chart Microsoft and Sprint are the two lagging charts shown above. That means that the market is not expecting really great things from either company.


Energy is another matter with all the energy stocks shown above in strong uptrends.


  

Earnings releases continue this week with Microsoft (MSFT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Procter & Gamble (PG), Texas Instruments (TXN), Sprint (S), DuPont (DD) and Chevron (CVX) on the list.

Daily Chart of Microsoft (MSFT)

MSFT Stock Chart

Daily Chart of Exxon Mobil (XOM)

XOM Stock Chart

Daily Chart of Procter & Gamble (PG)

PG Stock Chart

Daily Chart of Texas Instruments (TXN)

TXN Stock Chart

Daily Chart of Sprint (S)

Sprint Technical Analysis

Daily Chart of DuPont (DD)

Dupont Stock Chart

Daily Chart of Chevron (CVX)

Chevron Stock Chart Microsoft and Sprint are the two lagging charts shown above. That means that the market is not expecting really great things from either company.

Energy is another matter with all the energy stocks shown above in strong uptrends.

  



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