Time Keeps on Ticking…

100% of the shots you don't take don't go in. - Wayne Gretzky

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want. - Zig Ziglar

No matter what holiday you celebrate, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa or Festivus, we all know the most important part. It’s not the “airing of the differences (although most families get around to this anyway).” It’s about the TOYS!!! When your child is getting to the age where the toys are more than rattles and shakers, it’s even more about the toys. I just spent the last forty five minutes playing with my four year old son’s new remote control car (while he was asleep).

Onto the important stuff. Each of the three publications we will cover today has been in previous posts. The first one is the Argus Vickers Weekly Insider Report. The most recent release, entitled “NYSE Insiders Again Our Weakest Link” talks about how insiders from the NASDAQ have started to show some bullish signs, but the NYSE counterparts have not jumped on the same bus. He covers the performance of the model portfolio and also lists all insider trades. David E. Coleman is also calling for us to be “hitting the sweet spot in global economic recovery” in 2010.

From Roger Williams, we have the Sector Fund Timer. The 12/14/09 edition gives us commentary about last week’s trading and the “momentum rankings” of all Rydex & Profounds. An investor can create a portfolio using this list and the “Buy, Hold or Sell” strategies Williams lists here.

The Spear Report discusses the potential opportunity in Chinese Real Estate and how it resembles California before the big run up. “Sinofornia” also speaks about Anthony Bolton is coming out of retirement for Fidelity. He managed the Fidelity International Special Situations Fund for 28 years and is calling this “the opportunity of a generation.”

The year is wrapping up and as we head to the final moments of the decade, we will be here to help you make the right, informed investment decisions for the end of this year and the start of the next.

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The Wild Card

Man plans. God laughs. – Yiddish proverb

Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?
– George Carlin

So this post was supposed to be written yesterday, but sometimes life gets in the way. As we head into this holiday season, it will be like no other in recent history. In order to survive, retailers will try just about anything to create traffic in the coming weeks. Based on some of the leaked news coming out about Black Friday deals, many of these stores will be practically giving away merchandise. Considering unemployment is still extremely high and the housing market hasn’t seen much improvement, these stores may not have a choice.

Most families will try to make due with less this year, and like my family, they’ll try to hide the difference from the children. Like the retail markets, the stock market is still having a sale. While the product isn’t as cheap as it was a year ago, there are still many great deals out there for investors to take advantage of. ZepInvest has brought together a group of investors, analysts and money managers to help you uncover those hidden gems.

John Bollinger’s Capital Growth Letter is a monthly newsletter that applies technical analysis to value investing. It covers stocks, bonds, commodities, FOREX and the international markets. The current edition titled “New Bollinger Band Tool” discusses the current state of the market and uses charts to analyze the different indexes and sectors. Read about his opinion on gold, oil and some of the sector plays that he thinks are available as well as a new analytical tool he has developed.

The Spear Report by Gregory Spear is a weekly publication that uses over 125 sources of unbiased financial information daily and uses a performance-weighted ranking system. The current release, “Inflection Point,” they discuss disconnect between the consumer sentiment and the rally in the stock market. “Mom and Pop are not celebrating this rally.” Another point made is with the major surge in the deficit, “the U.S. will not be able to afford a tax cut, so the only recourse the U.S. has is to let the dollar slide.”

Jim Lowell’s Fidelity Sector Investor is a weekly newsletter that uses a highly technical and aggressive approach. This publication is designed for active and risk-tolerant investors. In the most recent release, “Betwixt and Between Recovering and Having Recovered,” there is a short market commentary followed by market data for many of the FSI portfolios. Lowell uses Fidelity sector funds to build his portfolios.

After the first week of this newly established blog, we have covered 16 of the over 70 newsletters and publications available to you through ZepInvest. Whether it is daily, weekly or monthly information you are looking for, equities, mutual funds, ETFs, etc…the information is right here at your fingertips.

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