Is Santa on Vacation Yet???

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. - Kareem Abdul-Jabar

And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed). - Dr. Seuss

The gifts have been opened. Some returns have even been made. For many of us, the chaos is now over. We have a few more days to collect ourselves before we start all over again next week. With the new week, we have a new year, a new decade. All slates are wiped clean and we start from zero. We won’t forget the two major slides of this decade, but we can move away from it and create new opportunities. Where will you find them? Will they be American companies that have been oversold? Could it be new emerging markets that strike your fancy? The one thing we all know for sure is that there WILL be opportunity. The true question is “will we see it when it happens?”

It’s “Out With the Old and In With the New” at the Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report. Editor Paul Goodwin talks about the bounce around the world since the March bottoms. The results of the BRIC as of 12/18 (in local currency) are: Brazil 66.3%, Russia 83.4%, India 85.8% and China 55.9%. They also give the prediction of the year for 2010, “it will be like every year, with huge surprises and unexpected triumphs and disasters. And since we follow the market rather than anticipating it, we will react accordingly.”

Over at the CONSENSUS Bullish Sentiment Index, Robert E. Salva keeps his finger on the pulse of everything that you need to know about the markets. Think natural gas is oversold? Maybe currencies are your thing. Like the British Pound? Precious metals? Whatever your play, take a look at this weekly piece to get a feel for what people are thinking.

Just a few more days to get any tax loss trades in. Maybe this Santa rally will carry through a few more days. We’ll see…

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Commodities & Futures & Options Oh My!!!

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett

A great quote from, arguably, the best financial mind in history. Mr. Buffett is dead on in his statements. An investor with little experience or knowledge can hit a home run every once in a while, but it is the educated investor that can make a career and/or life out of it. Here at ZepInvest, we have many teachers just waiting for you, the student body, to take advantage of their information.

Glen Ring’s View On Futures covers the futures markets (obviously). If you want to know about wheat, soybeans, cattle, gold, the dollar and many others, this is a publication you need to read. In his 11/16/09 update, he talks about the run in gold. Does the rally still have legs? Find out what Glen has to say…

Bernie Schaeffer’s Daily Bulletin features stock picks, commentary on the Fed & the markets, sector breakdowns and even an option play. In his 11/18/09 release, he discussed crude oil in his “Commodity Connection.” How much will the report from the EIA play on crude prices and inventories?

The Agri-Food Value View written by Ned W. Schmidt focuses on using a value approach to investing in the global demand for food production and commodities. In his most recent release dated November 17, 2009, he discusses how weather has had an effect on the U.S. Corn crop as well as rice and wheat. He also has created the Schmidt Agri-Food Stock Index.

The CONSENSUS Bullish Sentiment Index by Robert E. Salva comes out weekly. Using data from analysts and contributors across the financial spectrum, everything from the stock indexes to coffee, T-bonds to the Euro is listed in this “sentiment index.”

Well, there you have it. Four for today. Come back tomorrow where we’ll take a look at mutual funds and ETFs.

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