• Three of the four largest bank failures ever happened in in 2023.
• Should you care?
• What is the fallout?
• What to do? The Bottom-line
• What’s the real rate of inflation if we use the calculations from 1980?

Should you care that three of the four largest bank failures happened in 2023. Certainly. Yet the government projects that all is well. It is not. All banks that hold US Treasuries as a reserve currency are in similar positions. It is only how they report holding the assets that determines the price at which they are held that determines the liquidity pricing of te treasury bond. If they are classified as long term assets, Banks can carry them on their books at the maturity value. As soon as the banks have a need to sell the bonds, as in a run on the bank the bonds are then re-rated to their “market price of call a marked to market price. These now prices at 50% less than their maturity value as in the case of 20 plus years and longer bonds. Snap your fingers and now the banks are insolvent. Many more banks are insolvent as soon as they need to Continue reading →

When an industry is “hot” money is put to work quickly through the buying of the ETFs of that industry. Money flows in, the ETF buys the stocks within that ETF and the stocks go up. Momentum buyers buy more of the ETF and the ETFs buy more of the stocks. It is a wonderful thing! That’s pretty much how seven stocks have driven the market higher over the past decade.

The seven stocks that have driven the market are Apple, Meta, Tesla, Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon. Money flows into the NASDAQ 100 (QQQ) and the S&P 500 (SPY) and because these indices are market weighted indices, an outsized amount of money goes into these seven stocks and less into the remaining stocks in the indices. Continue reading →

• Twenty of our highest conviction gold & silver junior miners. Yes, the industry is that over-sold!

“Mining stocks are as inexpensive to the price of physical metals as I have seen in my career.”

Ross Beaty founder Pan American Silver (PAAS*) and largest individual shareholder of PAAS. Beaty is also the founder and Chairman of Equinox Gold (EQX)

Billionaire Ross Beaty: “All Is Good for GOLD” YouTube Video 9/14/23– 23 minutes

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• Stagflation – rising interest rates and declining economy.
• Charts and comments on Oil, Nat Gas, Silver and Gold
• Brazil is set up for a market rally
• Try a one month trial to LOTM and get our just released, Ten Bagger List

Do you realize the price of oil has risen 33.7% since June of this year? How do we beat inflation when oil is this strong? We could increase production of oil here in the USA, we, the USA, has plenty of oil & gas. The choice of Fed Chair J. Powell is to increase unemployment instead. This was stated in a recent Powell media comment. Stagflation is the result.

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These two Videos popped up in my daily search for Strategies & Tactics in the market. They are worth watching. They are both related to the MACD indicator but used in different ways. We suggest you listen to both in the order presented. Video #II builds on video #I. Enjoy. They are really good and can help your trading success.

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I: Best MACD Trading Strategy – 86% success rate

The MACD indicator. Probably one of the most well-known / widely used indicators in the trading world. By itself, not that powerful. When paired with other indicators, easily one of the highest win rate strategies you can choose from. In this video I show you exactly how to pair the MACD trading strategy with others to get an insanely easy to use trading strategy that profits extremely well.  Continue reading →

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The article below accuses BlackRock of pushing the price of Bitcoin lower in a process of accumulation shares prior to a Bitcoin ETF approval. We find the claim credible and even normal process of large players when accumulating shares of an illiquid investment. There is nothing illegal in this. It is even normal procedure in the markets. Lets say I a Big Investor and want to accumulate a position in illiquid stock. I would call my broker/ market maker and place the order. The broker/market maker would check the street for other bids and offers. This is a pretty close group who is talking and dealing with each other frequently. One or more of these market makers might pull their normal bid from the group. This removes some support from the position. This pulling of the bid allows a vacuum to form in which the share price falls allowing the price to drift or fall lower. In the old days a well-known market journalist would write a negative article for pay to “help” the share price fall. This is called “Yellow Journalism”. This journalist was fined for such writing and though not often enforced, is illegal. Continue reading →