What does CBOE equity put/call highest in 14 months, ISEE Sentiment Indicator lowest in 18 months, extreme levels in the VIX, and Investors Intelligence bullish going below 40% for the 3rd time in last year mean for the market?

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Individual stocks can make huge runs of 50%, 100%, or more but if there earnings come out bad they can also open 20 or 30 points lower. But, with ETFs, you have a distinct edge. read more...

The U.S. stock markets offer thousands of stocks to trade and invest in but 70% or more of their price movement will mirror the S&P and DOW.  This can be frustrating when scanning for trades but, with ETF's, the world is your oyster field for solid trade potential.

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In this age of electronic trading and globalism, the world stands at this spot in time peering off into a great precipice of the unknown. With the meltdown of Greece, the U.S. experiencing a 1,000 point drop within a single day in the DOW, Britain's election tri-locked revealing the struggle within that country on its next steps into the new century, and global terrorism waiting to jump from the shadows, thirsting to commit new 9-11 attacks upon the West, you can't help but wonder that trading in today's market is surely not for the faint-hearted. Yet, the markets go forward, always dynamic, and, with the advent of Exchange Traded Funds, there is, perhaps, an easier way to outperform the market while avoiding the world's chaos.

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An indepth look at some of the hidden pitfalls behind the strategy of shorting both the leveraged long and the inverse leveraged ETFs of the same underlying index. read more...