Stock Watch 2010
Company Answers Corporation.
Stock Symbol: ANSW
January 8th Closed at 8.78
December 31st Closed @ 8.75
Positioned as a long trade. Status
The price action of the stock this week went as high as 8.94 and ended the week at 8.78. ANSW the leading Q&A site announces at the Las Vegas CES Conference thatthey will be connecting to the social web sites like Yahoo, Twitter, and Facebook.
Current Investment Opportunity
by CM Capital Services
Super Collateralized
First Trust Deed 9% Annual Interest
Paid Monthly Many of you have taken advantage of our Super C program this year. These first trust deeds are characterized by "extremely low Loan-To-Value Ratios and a 9% annual return". This will be one of the last Super C deals we see. We found an excellent opportunity with our current offering "CM Elsinore". Our collateral is 70 acres of residential land located in the hills just above Lake Elsinore, California. The property is zoned R-1 (single family homes) and is mapped for the development of approximately 300 home sites. Our borrower has $7.9 Million in Cash invested in this property with Zero debt. We are placing a first trust deed on this property for $1 Million. At less than $14,500 per acre, and less than $3,400 per paper lot, we believe this first trust deed is very secure. Should the borrower default and we have to file foreclosure, we believe we could easily dispose of this property very quickly for considerably more than our loan amount. This investment is a fully collateralized first trust deed. You are lending at a fraction of today's value. This investment pays monthly interest at a 9% annual rate and has an 18 Month Term. Our investment minimum remains $10,000. If you have any interest in participating or would like to discuss our highly collateralized, fixed income investments, please call or email us at the numbers below. This will be one of the last Super Cs. Current Opportunities
First Trust Deed Opportunity
HCM Elsinore 1-421 LLC
(3252)
For More Info Contact:
Jay York
jyork@CMemail.com
702-739-9090
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Anatomy of a Trading Blow-Up
By Robin Dayne Blow-ups can bring a quick end to a trading career or slow it down. The good side of a blow-up is, if survived; it can be the best learning experience and prove to establish the most valuable rules in our trading strategy. We tend to learn some of the most amazing things when we are the most challenged. It becomes very clear that our mind and lack consciousness during a blow-up puts us in a place we where we are not in control. Additionally, when a trader realizes just how important managing emotions can be and the reality is it's 90% of the game, things begin to fall into place and turn around. Mind control is essential to each and every trader, at any level. So, maybe if we know more about the process of a blow-up, how it begins and what the warning signs are, before they happen, we can avoid them or at least minimize the impact. Facing the villain head-on can cure or avoid a bad situation when trading. Remember awareness is the first part of changing anything and identifying the conditions before the blow-up happens in time allows us to take hold of our mind and intervene. Blow-ups are a combination of personal, market and trading conditions, that stimulate the subconscious thinking creating an environment that is fertile for the mind to morph into, what I call "traders trace". This is when we become zombies take bad trades, one after another and then the killer, increased size with the uncontrollable urge to get it all back quickly. So why do we do this? Please know I include myself in the "WE" as I have experienced this 3 times over 17 years. Also, I am happy to say each time I experience a blow-up it takes less of my cash each time and each time I find myself more in control, so I must be getting the lesson. It's important to be aware that blow-ups can also come on the heals of several great trades or trading days in a row and don't only happen after a losing trading pattern. Increasing size and letting greed take over also can have the same disastrous results and end up in a blow-up. Lets take a look at the conditions before the blow-up after a losing pattern. Some of the warning signs can be and are not limited to, the pattern of adding money to a trading account over and over. Here the losing pattern is taking over and there is a lack of rules in place to avoid the repetition of a bad habit. This is the easy part to fix the mechanics, but the importance here is to figure out what needs to be changed. Looking at the details of the trade, setting new rules and a defining a new approach is the solution to this part. The other part of the blow-up and the catalyst for impending doom is the way the mind is thinking and processing. The mind seems to go into the same process and shifts from the, in control conscious thinking, into the out of control sub-conscious thinking, before a blow-up. First the trader is conscious about what they're doing. They may even know what they're doing is "wrong" but they can't seem to stop. The subconscious mind is in control and takeovers when this happens. Next the repeated bad behavior and trading pattern starts, over and over losing more and more. Than the danger zone happens, brain freeze, traders trance and the mind goes into the "I don't care zone". Some have called this "the deer in the headlights". Here is where the big losses can occur. It gets really dangerous when a trader begins to take trades they have no business being in or staying in a trade that's not working way too long and worst case increasing size on a losing position. It's almost like the trader wants to fail. They get mesmerized and not in their conscious mind. When the subconscious takes over it is really coming from emotions and fears and the body is on, autopilot. Emotions while trading that shift the conscious mind to the subconscious mind are fear based and can come from thoughts like: · I'm afraid I'll miss out causes the trades to take bad trades or enter too soon, and feelings of anxiousness
· I have to get the money back causing over trading
· I can get it back faster causes a trader to increase size
· I'll take just one more after a losing pattern, when they should stop
· I'm afraid to lose more money so the trader will stay in the trade too long.
· It can't go any lower staying in a short too long Noticing the conditions that are happening and changing immediately can help to avoid a blow-up. Try asking these questions: · How many losing trades have I taken?
· Are they the same?
· How do I change the approach?
· Am I in control of my losses?
· Do I have stop-loss set correctly and efficiently?
· Do you feel mentally in control?
· Do I need a break?
· What do I need to do to gain my control again?
· What's most important to me in my trading? Additional lessons and warning signs and fixes: 1) If you are adding money to a trading account over and over something has to change and a strong look at you approach is important. The first time be sure you have new rules in place to avoid repetition.
2) Change your trading in some way and analyze the reason for all losses
3) Take a look at your stop loss rules and parameters and fine-tune
4) If your conscious mind is not in control, emotions and your sub-conscious are, so work to do what you can to get back in control
5) If you go into traders trace take a break ASAP also drink water
6) Get help if you need to Finally KNOW you are NOT the only one who has gone through a blow-up and if you have never experience one know we ALL run the risk. Even the most successful traders have their "war stories" of their blow-ups. Though not proud of them they will tell you the one main thing they learned and how the mind is so critical to be in control. They will also tell you what they did different to avoid another blow-up from happening. Till next time good trading! No
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Futures
By Chris Vermeulen
Nonfarm Payrolls this Friday could Dampen Commodities.
January 6th, 2010 Overall this week has not been that exciting. Volume is below average as the big money traders slowly get back into action and wait for Fridays economic data to come out. We have seen gold, silver and oil put in a nice rally this week but they are still not in the clear. If we get flat or better unemployment numbers we should see the US dollar rally. This seems to be exactly what the chart is telling us when using technical analysis. Here are the numbers for Friday. Friday unemployment numbers come out for both the US & Canada. 7:00 AM ET - Canadian Unemployment Rate, Forecast 8.5%, Previous 8.5% 8:30 AM ET USD Nonfarm Payrolls, Forecast 0%, Previous -11K 8:30 AM ET USD Unemployment Rate, Forecast 10.1%, Previous 10% US Dollar Daily Trend The current trend of the dollar is now up when looking at the daily chart (higher highs and lows). The strong price thrust in December has formed a nice flag pattern. This is a continuation pattern meaning the dollar should continue higher once this pause is complete.
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By Stan Moore
Buy the news good or bad. S&P 1200 is just a stone's throw away.
January 10th, 2010 It doesn't get any easier when you understand that fundamental news, money flows, etc. move markets and technicals only paint a picture of these fundamentals. The fundamental money flows out had the market going down into year end and the huge new inflows (mentioned in the last newsletter) told us the market would be higher the first week of the new year. The market's down 1.5% the last two days of '09 and now up 2+% the first week of '10. During late '08, the start of tremendous world stimulus programs by all governments and central banks told us the equity markets would move substantially higher into '09. In fact, every naked put suggestion or recommendation I ever mentioned in the Chart Room or wrote about since September '08 and again during March '09 will expire worthless this coming Friday 1/15/10. Nice work if you can ever get those put premiums again. Yes, some of the put premiums did go to buying calls that did extremely well. In hindsight I should have put all the put premiums into Jan '10 calls and took the year off. That good I'm not. I am a very cautious person by nature and I like to make money even if I'm wrong on the markets and the markets didn't go up. I will continue to sell puts on those stocks I'm willing to own below the market. This is not a strategy for every one even though it works rather well. Call me if this appeals to you.. Why you may ask? The largest part of the '09 Obama economic stimulus program is being spent during the first 6 months of '10. By design! Everything should come up roses these next 3 months. The FED is on hold for all of '10. S&P making 1200 should be easy as I said making 10,000 was for the DOW in the 3rd quarter. Furthermore, I now believe the one big geopolitical risk is off the table for at least the next 6-9 months. The IRAN's drop dead date of 12/31/09 has come and gone without a peep. I'm totally convinced the Obama team is resigned only to containing or trying to contain a "nuclear" IRAN. The U.S. is now slowly moving to help the Iranian opposition but Israel cannot wait. Stay tuned but the story is off the front pages for now. According to
Stratfor.com
in this week's Barron's Russia is moving quickly to recreate the old USSR and is moving ahead quite aggressively while we are pinned down with all our problems. This will give them even more power over IRAN in the future. Obama good luck here too! Russia and Germany are moving ever closer over energy and German technology which give Russia's energy and political future a huge boost. But that's a problem for another day and not quite tomorrow.
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