Investors should take notice that March 31, 2010 is a key date for the global financial markets for three reasons:
 

March 31st marks the end of the quarter for all mutual funds, hedge funds, professional money managers and any other financial institution who manage money.  Since the S&P 500 advanced by approximately 5% for the quarter [...]

In my November 25, 2009, blog posting entitled “A Huge Trap Is Being Set By A Vigorous Super Bear” I said that the Super Bear had been laying a trap for novice investors who lacked bear market experience.  My rationale on the trap (the inverse relationship between the U.S. Dollar the U.S. stock market) and [...]

One of my followers sent me this information on the current Secular Bear Market this morning.  I thought that it would be of interest to my subscribers.
Secular Bear Market: Are We Still in One?
by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
Since my book Safe Strategies… came out, I have been saying that we are in a secular bear [...]

 
Dow down 95 points yesterday.   26/30 Dow stocks down.  Losers led by AXP, BAC, CAT, CSCO, CVX, DIS, GE, JPM, TRV.  AA, DD up 2%, MMM and WMT were the only four gainers.
Sharpest demand drop for electricity in 50 years according to a NY Times front page story.  
Comment:  The fall off in demand is not [...]

 
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer recommended Charming Shoppes last night on his July 7th radio show.   He said that he believed that it was a take over candidate because of its extremely low valuation.
 
I disagree with his recommendation to buy Charming Shoppes (CHRS) because of the following reasons: 
 
1.            Annualized revenue has declined for the last [...]

 
Why you should be out of mutual funds during a Super Bear Market? 
 
The super bulls and bears are driven by mutual funds.  For example, during the last stage of the previous super bear, Home Depot (HD) went public.  When it did in 1981 it had little if any mutual funds who owned its shares.  [...]

  
The Dow was up one day out of five last week.  The one day in which it gained was likely attributable to window dressing activities that are being conducted by those professionals, which manage mutual funds, hedge funds and institutional investments.   Window addressing occurs in two ways:
 

The first is that the managers of those institutions [...]

 
Ned Davis research confirms that we are in a Super Bear.   This is relevant because in my recent blog debate on whether we are in a Super Bear or a Super Bull, my opponent, Bruce McCain of Key Private Bank out of Cleveland OH based his Bullish argument on the fact that Ned Davis Research [...]

All of the U.S. liquid asset classes including stocks, bonds and the U.S. Dollar declined by between one and two percent yesterday. The rout was on after Pimco’s co-Chief Executive Officer, Bill Gross said that the AAA credit rating of the U.S. Government could also be subject to a downgrade after Standard & Poor’s put [...]

May 13, 2009
Today’s Topics
Expect pressure on the market to continue

Economy still weak, retail sales unexpectantly down

GOOG, RIMM, AAPL accounted for most of Nasdaq’s gain over the last couple of months.  Other major indices including the SP 500 also had narrow leadership, the [...]