Marc’s Notes:
The market shot up on today’s open because of hopeful news from China that counter acted the recent onslaught of dire news pieces that have pummeled the US markets. You have to admit this market is dying for good news and any hint of it sends the indexes soaring. Keeping that in mind we must realize investors are still very positive on the “recovery” and believe the spin coming from the Wall Street Cheerleaders, amazing as that may seem. I find it incredible that also out today was a bad hiring report showing more job losses yet the market ignores that and focuses on China. What this tells me is that we are nowhere near a bottom as contrarian economics says when most investors give up, a bottom is near. With all this “hope” and investors buying ANY good news, they are nowhere near capitulation. This means the markets still have buyers waiting so we are not done going down, but these rallies can be violent. Wow, up 230 as I write this.
Gold is looking great still and we are looking to close out our UNWPX when it doubles, but we are still a long way out from there. Meanwhile our dividend payers are holding up, those that didn’t get stopped out that is.
This thought made me mad yesterday. I was thinking about that Flash Crash a few months back and how many listeners, clients and investors got stopped out of their positions way below their stop prices. The markets rebounded immediately and good people lost positions and profits to Wall Street. This was a blatant fleecing of the American public. The SEC could have negated the whole day, or at least paid people what their stops said, but know, you got railed and Wall Street Brokers got great deals on shares sold to them way under market, then these shares immediately went to real value and the brokers got all these shares in the end. Is it possible these houses needed money and engineered this thing? Maybe. Or maybe they just saw a good thing come their way and said too bad. Do you think if the brokers and banks were on the burnt end, they would have had the trades reversed?
Of course.
This whole market, this whole bail out thing, this whole bank rescue, its all a disgraceful sham, sanctioned by Washington in exchange for campaign money. The system is rotten from stem to stern.
We as investors are stuck with it however. So we do the best we can. Realize this market is now one big casino, where you pay your money and take your chances. When even legitimate stops and protections are by-passed thru flash crashes, you have to wonder where can we go for protection, to keep what we earned.
The answer is TRUE DIVERSIFICATION.
That means:
Gold and Silver in possession.
Overseas money. (Offshore).
FDIC SAVINGS ACCOUNTS where they have to guarantee your money. (Not money market funds by the way).
Dividend Paying stocks, not NON PAYING mutual fund or stocks.
Gold and Silver funds and stocks.
Overseas stocks.
Your primary residence.
Foreign Currencies.
Energy.
A bit in gamblers plays if you are a sophisticated investor and can tolerate loss possibilities.
Gun, Garden, Dog, Jeep, Gas, Cash, Friends, Family, Local contacts, debt free, healthy and mobile.
Stay tuned for FALL market activity. Tis’ the season. Its about to get volatile.
Upcoming Show Tomorrow: THURSDAY Sept 2, 2010. Noon PST.
“You Print, I Print”.
I describe the relationships between countries and currencies when one entity prints massive amounts of money (debt) and how it affects other economies and currencies. Important topic to comprehend so listen in.
All for now,
Marc