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I cannot remember the last time a 3% rise in the S&P 500 was met with such indifference. We all know the drill by now: stocks slump for weeks, then offer what amounts to a glimmer of hope to investors — only to slowly eat away at the gains in ...read more
2012 and Beyond: Explosive Opportunities With The Rise Of This Technology…
Dec 20th, 2011 | By Patrick Cox | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Recently, Agora’s media relations department asked me to respond to a question from a journalist about big technological changes coming for business. It is really important to understand an aspect of the convergence that most people haven’t considered...
We see clearly the ongoing convergence in the arena of mobile computing. Tablet ...read more
The Secret to Raking in IPO Gains in 2012
Dec 19th, 2011 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
There’s been a lot of attention on the IPO market in 2011 — and for good reason. With high profile social media companies like LinkedIn, Groupon, and Zynga going public this year with multibillion-dollar market caps, investors want to know if they’re looking at the next Google, or — gasp ...read more
Currency In Focus: Trading Opportunities on the Horizon
Dec 16th, 2011 | By Abe Cofnas | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Most of my weekly binary recommendations to my elite Strategic Currency Trader revolve around how the latest news will affect currencies, stock indexes or commodities. But it’s important to remember that there are other important intermarket relationships — ones that operate on longer-term scales and are easy to overlook...
For instance, ...read more
Momentum Meltdown: The Best Trade of 2011
Dec 15th, 2011 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
I don’t have to tell you that it has been a very difficult year for investors. But there has been a small yet significant group of stocks that have delivered spectacular returns. If you spotted these setups early on, you had the chance to book considerable gains — even as ...read more
Today’s Market Movers: GMCR, BEBE, FSLR, APP
Dec 14th, 2011 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
Conviction will drain your account faster than you could ever imagine in this trading environment. Just when the market looks to be breaking down, it will post a nearly uninterrupted three-day rally. And when a fresh breakout is confirmed and all bets are placed, it begins an unexpected move lower.
The ...read more
Future Opportunity From Better Tiny Machines
Dec 13th, 2011 | By Ray Blanco | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Back in 1959, Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman delivered a now-famous talk titled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” in which he envisioned the potential applications of tiny machines. Today, one of the most important innovations leading to the current generation of smartphones and tablets is known as MEMS...
Shorthand for ...read more
The Problem With Europe
Dec 12th, 2011 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
Europe’s at it again, clobbering stocks as the debt crisis grabs at the headlines with both hands this morning...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for most of 2011, it’s been hard to escape the European debt crisis that’s ravaging the U.S. stock market. Of course, if you’ve been living ...read more
You Could Make You 3,800% Gains from This Technology Breakthrough
Dec 9th, 2011 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
Insiders call it the “magic drug”... but it’s not a pill you swallow. It’s not something that your doctor will prescribe. It’s a special solution being injected right now into thousands of oil wells across America.
It frees up massive amounts of crude oil from deposits on dry land once thought ...read more
The Next Hurdle for Stocks: How to Spark a 2012 Rally
Dec 8th, 2011 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
The New Year could bring out the best in equities. For months, U.S. stocks have marched to the beat of the financial media, rising and falling lockstep with the developing eurozone crisis. But if stocks can break free from the international headlines, we could see the birth of a significant ...read more
