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MEXICAN BRIBERY GAVE ME A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY IN WAL-MART

May 17, 2012

This morning Wal-Mart (WMT) reported blowout earnings. As of this writing, Wal-Mart stock is up $3.20, or 5.4%, even though the overall market is down. Here is why I recently bought Wal-Mart and recommended it as a buy to my subscribers on the news of bribery scandal in Mexico. Investment Merits I focus on making money by identifying change early. I had concluded that a change was happening at Wal-Mart but not fully recognized. However I could not pull the trigger to buy Wal-Mart because the price at which it was trading posed more risk than my system allowed. The

CHANGE IN FACEBOOK AFTER MARKET BUY ZONE

May 17, 2012

This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert The after market buy zone for Facebook is being changed to $38 to $46. Please keep quantities no more than 20% of full core position size.

HOW THE MOMO CROWD HURT GOLD BUGS

May 17, 2012

The recent plunge in gold and silver has hurt gold bugs. The bugs have always contended that central banks and governments manipulate prices of gold and silver to support fiat currencies. It never occurred to most gold bugs that they would be hurt by the gold momo crowd. I have to admit that my respect for gold bugs is relatively newly found. Like most people, I knew about gold bugs, but never had much interaction with them until a number of accurate calls on gold and silver started bringing a deluge of emails, mostly negative. The hate mail started in

TAKE PARTIAL PROFITS ON WAL-MART (WMT)

May 17, 2012

This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Consider taking profits on a 5% tranche on WMT right here at $62.10.

WAL-MART (WMT) REPORTS BLOWOUT EARNINGS

May 17, 2012

This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert Wal-Mart (WMT) reports $1.09 vs consensus of $1.04; reports revenues of $112.3 billion vs consensus of $110.54 billion. WMT sees Q2 EPS $1.13 – $1.18 vs consensus of $1.16. Commentary in the earnings release is positive. In the pre-market, the stock is trading up $2 to $61.19. What To Do Now? Those in the position may continue to hold. Those not in the position may wait for a signal on the Real Time Feed to initiate a position.

THE BEST CHINA PLAY: APPLE, GOOGLE OR FACEBOOK?

May 16, 2012

It is not an exaggeration to say that all roads of growth lead to or through China. The obvious question for some of today’s most popular growth stocks is, “Out of Apple, Google, and Facebook, which company will do better in China?” The Facebook (FB) IPO is upon us Friday, and the last Apple (AAPL) earnings conference call was remarkable in its description of astounding growth in China. Google (GOOG) is the main competitor of Apple in mobile operating systems, and commentary on valuation of Google vs. Facebook has become quite popular. The biggest mistake I have seen gurus make in analyzing

3 WAYS TO PLAY FACEBOOK

May 16, 2012

In my 30 years in the markets, Facebook FB is one of the most anticipated Initial Public Offerings (IPO) I have seen. The stock will start trading on Friday if it gets all approvals. Here is a game plan investors may consider. Back up the truck and buy in the IPO For some time now I have been advocating that investors should back up the truck and buy all the shares they can get in the IPO. For those who are able to get shares in the IPO, buying Facebook with both hands is a no-brainer proposition. Demand is simply

TAKE MORE PARTIAL PROFITS ON GOLD (GLD)

May 15, 2012

This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert. Consider taking partial profits on a 5% tranche on GLD right here in the after market at $149.75. The equivalent in gold futures is $1542.