When we showed them our Q4 results they were shocked.
Many people thought our Q3 results were a fluke … when we showed them our Q4 results they were shocked.
It’s an indisputable fact that the last 6 months have been tough on a lot of investors. According to many experts the markets have been at there most volatile levels in over a quarter century.
So with all this volatility, talk of recession, high gas prices, what’s an an ordinary investor to do to make money, when on the surface, the markets make no sense?
Like a lot of things in life, when you dig below the surface you find the answers to what’s really going on.
Our common sense, market proven approach, digs beneath the surface for you everyday to find market truths. Our straight forward, easy to understand approach, cuts through all the clutter and baloney to find winning trades for you everyday.
Even in tough markets like the ones we are in now, we can help you find ways to make money.
Check out our Q3 ‘07 video results first. No registration required. This video will show you step by step how we approach the markets.
O.K. so what have we done lately? How did our we do in Q4?
In Q4 we used the same market proven approach and game plan, that we used in Q3. All the buy and sell signals were generated using MarketClub’s “Trade Triangle” technology. The results for each market show how well you can do when you follow MarketClub’s easy to use, market driven “Trade Triangle” approach.
In times like these, having a market proven approach gives you a tremendous edge over other investors no matter what happens to the economy in the future.
Watch our new Q4 results video (it’s only 90 seconds) with our compliments. No registration required.
If you think the results are worthy of you consideration, I invite you to join thousands of other MarketClub members like 75 year old Charles Mercer, who wrote this email to Brad Stafford of our support staff.
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Subject: Re: MarketClub
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:58:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Charles V. Mercer, Jr <email is private>
To: Brad Stafford <support@ino.com>
Dear Brad,
When you see Adam thank him for me. Thanks to him I was flat or short
all , I repeat ‘ALL’ my positions. I am 75 years old and this is my
retirement account. God bless him.
best’
cvmjr
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Thanks Charles, you see, you are never too old to learn the tried and true methods of MarketClub. Getting emails like the one Charles sent to Brad, gives everyone here at the company a sense of purpose and a great deal of job satisfaction.
Want to see more testimonials? Go straight to this page.
If you have question about MarketClub and our proven “Trade Triangle” technology, contact our offices directly at 1-800-538-7424 or email us at support@ino.com.
Let’s put MarketClub to work for you today.
Adam Hewison
President, INO.com
FED gets trumped by Fitch Ratings
Is the BEAR market here?
Keep your powder dry. Pick your spots.
Adam Hewison
What Asset Allocation Can Do For You?
I have recently been reading a blog written by a registered investment advisor and affiliate of Abraham Bedick Capital located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Andrew Abraham has been tinkering in the financial arena since 1990, has spoken at numerous investment conferences and provides commentary and analysis for various financial publications. His blog, Abraham Bedick Capital Management posts various trading tips as well as specific analysis of international and domestic markets. Worth a look for sure.
Thought you might like his post in November regarding asset allocation, it reminds me of one of Adam’s “10 Golden Rules Of Trading,” wouldn’t you say?
What Asset Allocation Can Do For You?
Asset Allocation simply means distributing your money across various investment avenues in order that the poor performance of any one avenue or asset does not jeopardizes the entire investment plan and yearly return. Asset Allocation is one of the basic premises of having an investment plan. As basic of an idea, it is one of the rarest traits in a financial plan. Would you even consider getting on a plane without a flight plan and the pilot not knowing where he is going? It is an obvious answer.
Many times I have encountered investors that feel that they are well diversified. They feel that they fulfilled the premise of asset allocation with stocks, bonds,cash and a little real estate. They would own some Large Cap or Blue Chips, some mid caps,small caps and a sprinkling of some international shares or funds.
However, when you diversify across assets you give yourself a lot of leeway to counter market uncertainties. When the stock markets is progressing well, one probably cannot appreciate the importance
of asset allocation. In fact, you may even feel that asset allocation is a hindrance when having all money in equities seems to be a smarter way to ride the stock market rally. It usually takes an adversity (such as a sharp fall in stock markets) to fully appreciate that having more than just stocks and bonds in your portfolio can be a big bonus.
The advantage of having different assets in the portfolio is that a decline in any one asset can be partially offset with the presence of other assets. Many times different assets react differently to the same set of factors.
This brings me to my plan on how to expand one’s asset allocation… In many inflationary periods ( such as now) Managed Futures have excelled and propelled a portfolio. All one has to do is look at the price of oil. How much has it gone up? What about Gold?
How much of an allocation one should you own’ is a little tricky, because it will vary from investor to investor and their risk profile. Depending on the exact plan such as money management, correlation and risk per trade different levels of volatility can be experienced. In inflationary times commodities trend upwards and in deflationary times commodity prices fall and trend downwards. I am not a proponent of one trading these vehicles themselves but rather in a managed account or fund. The volatility and leverage can be great. At a minimum one should consider managed futures for at least 5% of their portfolio.
These are very uncertain times and one owes themselves to be aware that they need to think outside the box and look to assist in protecting their investment portfolios.
Courtesy of Andrew Abraham of Abraham Bedick Capital Management
Stops are for wimps …
In this blog posting we are going to focus on STOPS!!!!!
Stops are enormously important part of a traders arsenal of trading tools. Some traders confirm that stops are the most important part of their trading armour.
So here are three ways to use stops to protect your capital and lock in profits from a trade. These three money management techniques can be used in stock, futures and forex trading. The important rule is that you do use a real stop in the marketplace. A friend of mine joked with me that that he had never seen a “mental stop” filled in the pits.
If the market is good your stop will not be hit. If the market is bad or changing direction then you’ll want to be out of it anyway. That is why stops are so crucial to trading success.
Here are the three most commonly used types of stops. Which one do you use?
(1) Dollar stop.
(2) Percentage stop.
(3) Chart stop.
If you chose (1) you’d be correct, but, you would also be correct if you had chosen 2 or 3. All three are money management stops and are used to either lock in profits or protect capital.
1) A dollar stop, is when you set a predetermined dollar amount to a trade. Let’s say you want to risk $500 on a grain trade or $750 on a stock trade. Once you get your fill back from your broker or electronically online you simply figure from your fill price where to put your stop.
Pros: Easy to implement and use.
Cons: Can place stops too close in a volatile market
2) Percentage stop, is a very simple way for you to place a stop on a position. Here’s how it works. Let’s say your trading account is 100,000 dollars and let’s say you only want to risk 1% of your total portfolio on any one trade. You simply take a $1,000 risk which represents 1% of your over all portfolio. This can help enormously in taking BIG LOSSES. A 1% loss is easy to absorb. A 30% or 40% loss is an account killer and can and should be avoided at all cost.
Pros: Easy to implement and use.
Cons: Can place stops too close.
3) Chart stop, a chart stop is where you place a stop that is either above or below a crucial chart level. The good thing about a chart stop is that this level is often used by other traders. That can both a good thing and a bad thing, here’s why. Using either stop 1 or 2 only you know where the stop is. With a chart point a great many traders/brokers know that is where your stop is. In an illiquid market this type of stop should not be used as many time brokers gun for the stops. In a highly liquid and active market this is a good stop to use.
Pros: Very easy to implement and use.
Cons: Can’t be used in thinly traded markets.
So there you have it. Now you have all three ways to manage your money and protect your profits at the same time.
Some say stops are for wimps, or “if I put my stop in the market they will only stop me out”. In big liquid markets nobody is big enough to make their presence felt for more that a day so no one is going to stop you out.
Use stops…they let them work for you.
Have a great trading week.
Adam Hewison
Markets & New Home Sales
If you missed Adam this morning on CNBC check out this video….
A look at what weak housing means for the economy and markets, which Adam Hewison of INO.com, Herb Greenberg of MarketWatch & CNBC’s Diana Olick
Adam Hewison on CNBC today at 11am
Adam Hewison on CNBC
Adam Hewison, president of INO.com, will discuss the market outlook on CNBC on Monday, January 28. The segment begins at approximately 11:00 a.m. Check your local listings for details.
The IRREFUTABLE LAWS of the MARKET
SIX STEPS and the IRREFUTABLE LAWS of the MARKET
What Every Investor and Trader needs to know to Succeed in the Markets.
Step 1: A move begins with the sponsors (smart traders) who have insider knowledge as it relates to a particular stock or market. This information will move a market up or down depending on the insiders’ information. These buyers are smart, very smart, and recognize trading/investment opportunities very early in the markup cycle.
Step 2: Days, weeks, or sometimes months after a move has started, there is a brief mention in the electronic media (radio, cable, TV) or on one of the internet chat boards that a market has moved. The public hears for the first time and begins to get interested, but does not buy.
Step 3: A blurb of information appears in print media. The move also begins getting more exposure on blogs and internet message boards. The public starts paying a little more attention, and will buy a little bit.
Step 4: Wall Street and LaSalle Street brokers go into full hype mode and hawk the market to their customers. The public begins buying in greater volume.
Step 5: A full-blown front-page article appears about the particular stock or market in one of the major financial newspapers, magazines, or financial websites. This is often six months after the fact and after a market has shown its greatest appreciation. There is often heavy public buying, even a possible frenzy, as all media, brokers, and so-called “gurus” start to tout the market.
Step 6: As step 5 gets underway, the sponsors or smart traders begin to move out of the market and take their profits off the table.
The finale Step: The move ends, the market falls, and investors lose money.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? If it does then you know the key rules of engagement in the market. If none of this is familiar to you then learn to recognize these six step asap. Your financial life depends on it!!
This trading idea really WOWed me
It’s not often that I get the chance to say that I am WOWed by a new product, the last one was the iPhone from Apple.
But the truth is, I really am WOWed about this new product we are introducing today.
For the the past six months our IT department, along with our content media division, has been working hard in developing and putting the finishing touches on INO TV.
So what is INO TV?
INO TV is the fastest, easiest, most intuitive way for you to improve your trading.
INO TV delivers thanks to the internet, streaming trading seminars right to your computer. With INO TV you have instant access to over 150 expert gurus, and over 500 trading seminars with just the click of your mouse.
It all streams directly to your computer.. now how cool is that?
Thanks to INO TV your traveling days to out of town trading seminar are over. Forget expensive hotels and the hassle of having to go through metal detectors, taking off your shoes to fly to some strange city. That’s all in the past thanks to INO TV.
INO TV it’s instant, it’s 24/7 and it’s available now.
Can’t sleep, and it’s 2 am in the morning? Take in a seminar on INO TV. It may not put you back to sleep, but at least you will learn something valuable.
I could go on, but I decided to have Lindsay from our company show you exactly how INO TV works in this 5 minute video. Lindsay, does a great job covering all the INO TV bases.
Watch it with my compliments.
I’ll see you on INO TV.
Adam Hewison
President, INO.com
Volatility and 600 point swings … learn how to profit from them.
The results of our Traders Blog survey are in and 62 percent of our respondents got it exactly right when they said that they are bearish on the economy.
The other 38 percent of our respondents said that they were bullish or neutral on the economy. I hope they were able to avoid the recent collapse in the markets, otherwise it has been an expensive month for them.
The one great thing about markets, is that there are two sides to every trade. You can trade from the long side, or trade of the short side. Both sides offer you a way to make money. Why trade only half the time when you can easily trade both ways and make money.
The only thing you can count on in the markets is that they will fluctuate. Your job is to determine if the fluctuations are headed higher or lower.
Members of MarketClub can easily determine market fluctuations by using our “Trade Triangle” technology. Most member using this technology are either short stocks or out of the market. It’s safe to say that they have done very well in this downturn.
Here’s one of the realities of the marketplace. You cannot and should not follow the crowd. Unfortunately every talking head guru seems to talk about the same things at the same time as the other talking head gurus. Last summer it was global growth, remember that was going to send stocks into the stratosphere, now it’s doom and gloom. They the gurus are always the most bullish at the top, and the most bearish at the bottom. The fact is, no one knows exactly where the market is headed, except the market itself.
Here’s what I mean …
Let’s have a little reality check on some of the (former) darlings of the tech world.
Apple, After trading over the $200 a share, Apple’s magic hit the skids as it fell from grace to trade below the $130 level in just 15 days. MarketClub members exited Apple (symbol appl) at 178.60 on January 7th. Now where would you rather be with Apple, on the sidelines, our hanging on and worrying if Apple is ever going to stop going down?
Now let’s take a look at Google (symbol goog). Google was the mega star of the tech world trading close to the $750 level on November 7th. So what happened just few months later that had Google on the ropes at what seemed to be a bargain price of $519? What changed? What happened in Google to cause such a fall? What happened was that market and traders perception changed and Google was not going to take over the world, at least not just yet. MarketClub members exited Google at $652.50 on January 7th. There must be a lot of unhappy folks in the Googleplex tonight who are feeling a whole lot poorer than they did two months ago.
You cannot hold onto stocks like Apple or Google forever, these are trading stocks. We are in a new world paradigm, a new world of trading and investing that dictates that you must remain fluid at all times. The message here is you have got to time your trade entry points and more importantly you have to time your exit points on when to get out! These two fundamental position plays along with money management are the key to successful trading.
If you are not already a MarketClub member, and you are reading this blog, I strongly recommend that you check out MarketClub. You will find that MarketClub can alert you and offer unbiased opinions on practically any market that trades. It doesn’t matter if you trade in stocks, futures, precious metals or foreign exchange, MarketClub has you covered.
Billions upon billions of dollars have been needlessly lost in this market in the past three months, much of it can be directly attributed to Chairman Benanke and the lack of action by the FED. But a lot has to be attributed to the individual investor who has yet to learn when to exit a market.
We have been saying on this blog for quite some time that Chairman Ben Bernanke is not the right man to lead the economy or the Federal Reserve. What we need is someone much stronger and someone who is in touch with reality.
The person who comes to mind is Paul Volker who was chairman of the FED in the early ’80s. The markets knew where they stood with Volker and he was no namby pamby like Bernanke. He made decisions and the markets respected him and knew what to expect from him. They have no idea what to expect with Bernanke and that’s why the markets are volatile.
Todays FED is clueless.
What strikes us as stunning is the fact that there was no coordinated cut in interest rates with any of the other central banks. It seems that the FED was just winging it on Monday night when it made the decision to cut the federal funds rate by .75 basis points.
This lack of a coordinated effort among the central banks tells me that the FED and Bernanke are in an ivory tower, isolated from the real world and the markets.
For future reference we expect to see the federal funds rate to evaporate down to the 2-2.5 level in the next twelve months.
Today’s bounce in the stock market from the previous low was encouraging, but it is just a bounce. All our indicators remain negative on the stock market.
Remember one day does not make a new trend.
Once in the game of trading, you must have a game plan if you are going to be successful. If you are just trading on emotion, eventually you will lose, it’s that simple.
At INO.com we supply traders around the world with tools they can use in the real market to become more successful. Our latest educational tool is INO TV, and our other global trading tool that used around the world and one we highly recommend is MarketClub.
Both of these products are affordable and will help you save and make money in the future.
I have included several videos in this blog that depending on which market you trade you can watch directly on your computer. No registration required.
The MarketClub approach performs extremely well in any market environment. Don’t allow the FED to kill your retirement nest egg or trading capital. Listen to what the market action is telling you, that’s the only way to make decisions based on facts and not fantasy promises.
This is Adam Hewison wishing you every success in the marketplace and in the future.
Adam Hewison
President, INO.com.
Two more ways to help your trading
Dear Traders,
Wow, what a week in the markets and it’s only Wednesday!
I wanted to use today to point out a feature of our blog that you may or may not know about. You can receive alerts whenever there is a new post on the TradersBlog. If Adam has a hard night sleeping and does a midnight post on the 24-hour world of Foreign Exchange… you receive an email. If a little inspiration strikes Brad to do a video lesson on a Saturday morning… you receive an email. Never miss a post!
We value your loyal readership and the endless contributions you make to this blog everyday. I also wanted to say that I read all of the blog comments and I encourage you to pass trading tips to us and fellow traders as well as post constructive criticism on how we can make this a helpful site for investors of any skill level, age, gender, or trading style.
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