Ireland Bailout Talks Timed to Save the Global Markets

I'll be brief here. If you retrace the events over the past two years and you are familiar with the market activity, you will come across one recurring trend; the timeliness of bailouts and other meas...

Read more  

A Great Time to Buy?

Buy you ask? Yes. Not stocks, unless you’re talking about oil. And unless you’re the best of the best of traders you’ll probably want to buy the oil trusts, but only if you b...

Read more  

ALERT: Close All Accounts With Charles Schwab ASAP

I want to warn those of you who have accounts with Charles Schwab to close your accounts immediately. The situation involves errors in order entry for which Schwab refuses to acknowledge or correct.

Read more  

Filtering Through the Noise

Early last month, the Commerce Department released the latest GDP data. For Q2 of 2010 the GDP growth came in at 2.4%, missing the consensus estimate of 2.5%. The Commerce Department also released it...

Read more  

Interview with Mike Stathis Released

Effective immediately, and for a limited time only, we are offering readers a transcript of a recent interview given by Mike Stathis, the Chief Investment and Trading Strategist of...

Read more  

More Lies from Greenspan

Today, the criminal PR arm of Wall Street, CNBC, interviewed Alan Greenspan hoping to draw a big audience of sheep using the "big name" tactic. Forget Greenspan is the single person most r...

Read more  

A Blast from the Past

I hate repeating myself over and over. Who doesn't right?   Well, it's especially cumbersome to repeat oneself when the only form of communication you have is writing (albeit with extr...

Read more  

Which Company Faces the Highest Risk of a Slowing Growth Due to the Deep-Water Drilling Ban?

I'll be concise here. The White House's recent 6-month ban on deep water drilling could send ripples throughout the industry, specifically for oil exploration firms that have a large amount of ul...

Read more  

Which Country Has the Largest Percentage of Governent Debt Due to Net CDS?

I've added this question to the website poll to the left, so I want to encourage you to take a stab. Before you place your vote, I will go ahead and tell you the answer is NOT Greece. So y...

Read more  

Brief Market Notes

I wanted to give you an overview of what I see today and explain how you should view things, emphasizing the need to understand your own investment strategy, because I know that those who read th...

Read more  

New Market Forecast + Update on BP

As subscribers to the AVAIA newsletter know, the special report released on May 9 was quite accurate. In short, anyone who had access to the special report could have avoided up to an ...

Read more  

Update on British Petroleum

A couple of weeks ago, I released a report discussing how I was able to get in on Merck for big gains, while virtually everyone else left the company for dead after the Vioxx scandal played out. /arti...

Read more  

More Misguided "Forecasts" from Peter Schiff

In the past, I have addressed the errors made by Peter Schiff's analysis of the economy and healthcare.  For those of you who are still behind the curve and actually think Schiff...

Read more  

Huge Market Sell-off. What Should You Do? Buy, Sell or Hold?

Subscribers to the AVA Investment Analytics newsletter will be receiving a special report that discusses forward direction of the market, as well as analysis of selected securities. Thi...

Read more  

How to Catch a Falling Knife (Yes it Can Be Done)

In the Wall Street Investment Bible, I discussed other securities I that had a good chance of bankruptcy down the road (e.g. Blockbuster and Sirius Satellite). Regardless what ultimately happens...

Read more  
0:00
0:00