Commodity Picks for 2011, by Jeff Friedman
The big question this article will address is: will the bull market in commodities continue? The...
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Wild Light Volume Ride
Today’s stock market action has been very volatile intra-day. However, the overall trading...
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Don’t Trade Like Brett Favre
There are a lot of similarities between sports and trading the financial markets. Yes, I am aware...
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Cyclical Stocks are Outperforming
The following stock price indexes closed above their closing price highs of the previous 2 years,...
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Final Downleg for DUG?
The enclosed hourly chart on the Proshares Ultrashort Oil & Gas ETF (NYSE: DUG) represents...
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Key Vote Alert – “YES” on Repeal of ObamaCare
KEY VOTE ALERT Our Congressional Scorecard for the 112th Congress provides a comprehensive rating...
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Stocks Selling at a Huge Discount
Here’s one of your more traditional “Buffett-like” stock screens where I am...
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Treasury Bonds and Other Such Stuff
Today is a pot-pourri day (Does anyone use this French term anymore?). Okay. Today, I have three...
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Short Option Trade of the Day – March Bonds
1-6-11 Short Option Trade March T-Bonds we like selling the March 126 calls based upon the overall...
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The Markets Await Jobs Data, Hover Flat To Lower
The markets are continuing to hover slightly lower today. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY) is...
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Transitioning From Crude Oil To Natural Gas
Crude oil has been beaten down this week and a transition from oil to natural gas seems to be...
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01.06.11 – Pivot under Attack
Depending on one’s point of view, the daily SPY pivot is either under attack -or- providing...
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Solar Stocks Start To Shine
Solar stocks have been weak of late with many selling off from recent 52 week highs while the...
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Natural Gas Continues to Give Bulls Hope
The Commodity Specialist view – Last year was dominated by a bearish corrective phase which...
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Fox Business: CIO Bill Smead talks about pharma and financials (12/23/2010)
The information contained in this tv appearance represents SCM’s opinions, and should not be...
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Lunch Bite: Rare Earths Pay on the Short Side
After watching Fast Money last night on CNBC and hearing what they had to say about Molycorp, Inc....
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Research In Downward Motion
Research In Motion Ltd.(NASDAQ:RIMM) announced today that Sprint Nextel Corp.(NYSE:S) will be the...
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The KRE Situation
KRE is the SPDR Regional Banking ETF for those who don’t follow this sector and I’ve applied...
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Oil Services Stocks In Play
The Oil Services Holders Trust(NYSE:OIH) is trading slightly lower on the session by $1.16 to...
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