Is GOLD the last store of value on the planet?

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Hi, Adam Hewison here. I've just finished a new movie on gold and I would like to share it with you. This new video shows what may happen to gold in the next one to three months. There's a lot of potential in this market, but there also is potential risk involved. The good news is that risk can be managed with stops and potential target zones can be measured through chart patterns.

I hope you enjoyed the video I made on 7/09/08 (well before today's big jump in gold) to illustrate that sometimes the markets tip you off to what they're going to do next.

With all the financial turmoil in today's troubled world, it seems like gold may be the only store of value that everyone's going to turn to in the very near future. Many of the European banks have not fessed up to all of their investing/trading problems and I expect that this could well be the other shoe that falls.

On 7/10/08, our "Trade Triangle" technology signaled a new buy for the spot gold market. Watch the video and I'll show you exactly how high we think this market could go in the future.

As always, we welcome your comments and thoughts on the markets.

Every success,

Adam Hewison
President, INO.com

250,000 reasons to read this post

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Today is a very special day for our company as we are announcing to the investment and trading community that we now have trading alerts for all members. The great news is, this new alert service is available now at no additional cost to members.

We have put together a short video to show you how to get the most out of MarketClub ALERTS and how you can best use them in the marketplace. It doesn't matter if you trade stocks, futures, ETF, precious metals or foreign exchange, we have you covered with these alerts. Every few seconds, our proprietary Smart Scan technology jumps into action and scans over 250,000 symbols to find trading opportunities for you.

We think you'll find this service invaluable to your trading. Not only will it help you spot winning trades on the upside, but more importantly it will protect your portfolio when things start going the other way. Look upon MarketClub ALERTS as an upside opportunity finder as well as an insurance policy to protect your trading capital.

To the best of our knowledge, there is nothing quite like MarketClub ALERTS on the Web. We think you'll agree once you watch this free video.

Enjoy the video and please share your comments and give us your feedback on this exciting new addition to MarketClub.

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Are you really committed to being a successful trader?

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Continuing with our guest blog posts for the week, I would like to introduce Pierre Charlebois from Tradingpostfinancial.com. After reading his posts for a while, I finally asked him to write a post that would help our thousands of readers!

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I was asked to offer something educational as a guest blogger and I was trying to think of what could I write about, to have the greatest impact. How can I get through to the readers what it is like to trade for a living? How can I explain what the one, most important ingredient in trading is? What is the one common thing that all traders need to do well, to get solid results overall. And how do I help them understand it? And then how can I teach them to do it? Then I thought: Man that is no small task.

If anyone could do that well on a consistent basis people would be knocking down their door. Let’s face it, trading for a living isn’t all that easy. Well, let me rephrase that statement. The average person can learn to trade. That is, most of us with a little effort and time, can learn all the basic concepts of trading and develop a reasonable system to apply to trading. So how come more people aren’t successful? More importantly: how come you’re not?

Simple; Learning to trade and ‘Executing Trades’ are two very different things. Learning the techniques is not what is difficult. Learning the ability to execute well, is!

You see, what separate the few good traders from the many mediocre ones is the real commitment of doing what it takes to be successful as a trader. I said earlier in the article that I wanted to try to explain the one thing that would be common to everyone who trades. Well that one thing is: You. Each one of us is what makes the difference in our trading. Not the next system, not a better market, but simply our own ability to find the discipline of executing our system well.

When I got this about my trading, my first reaction was that all I needed to do was be consistent as to when I trade and how I trade. Boy was that ever easier said that done. I had to really force myself to set the proper priorities of what to do, how to do it and when to do it. Frankly, it is still the greatest thing I am challenged with everyday. You see it takes time and repetition to reinforce good habits and shed old ones. And some of our old habits may never disappear entirely.

So I say, stop looking for the next system that you believe will beat the market and work with a simple system you can easily apply, and then; apply it well and consistently. That’s when you will see your trading improve.

Pierre Charlebois

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Please be sure and check out Pierre and what the team at Trading Post Financial has to offer!

8 Great Ways to Fight Stock Market Stress

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Good Wednesday to everyone! Today's guest article comes from Blain Reinkensmeyer of StockTradingToGo.com, a site that provides free investment tips for online stock trading. You can read over 100 free stock education articles and share investment ideas on his stock forum with over 5,000 other investors. Yesterday I had the chance to chat with Blain about the market's current state and his words really conveyed an air of confidence. His post below covers 8 keys...that we all fall short on. So read and apply!

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We all know that stress is bad. As an investor, it is very important to stay balanced while trading because Monday - Friday you are in the game whether you like it or not. So how do you fight stress?

The key is to stay calm and be disciplined with your investing. Market induced stress can be caused by you being too involved in your daily routine and the second by second moves versus staying focused on the bigger picture.

How do you fight stress from the stock market? Here are 8 ways:

1. Use stop loss orders. Stop loss orders are like insurance, they are stock orders that will automatically sell your position at a pre-determined price if that price is hit anytime during the trading day. They remove the “do I sell now? Should I hold instead?” drama of investing and replace it with a disciplined strategy. They are also perfect for maintaining a strong profit vs loss ratio.

2. Don't watch your streamer live all day every day. The real time ups and downs of the market can really cause some temporary stress. If you are like me you have your real-time streamer streaming live quotes from your favorite stocks and the market all day. If you know you aren’t in the right mind frame it sometimes is better to just close the streamer for a few hours or the day and bring it back on tomorrow.

3. Refresh your portfolio balance only once a day. Are your stocks losing ground fast? Instead of refreshing your portfolio every 5 seconds and seeing fresh losses, wait till after the market is closed and then refresh your portfolio balance. Remember, your stop loss orders will minimize your losses for you so you don’t have to.

4. Have a investment strategy. Not having an investment strategy is like trying to play a sport blindfolded. Don’t be disorganized, trade with a plan. Every buy and sell should be part of that plan and as a result will greatly reduce any stress you may have. In fact, a well assembled investment strategy can mean the difference between daily stress and no stress at all.

5. Eat healthy foods. Eating healthy can help keep your body well balanced. I personally enjoy an Apple almost every day while watching the stock market. Eating junk food doesn’t help stress because if your body isn’t happy your mind typically won’t be happy.

6. Get enough sleep each night. Adults should sleep on average 6 - 8 hours a night. If you are getting 5 hours or less of sleep and are wondering why you are more sensitive when your stocks open down take a look at your alarm clock. Getting that extra hour or two of sleep will make a big difference in how you react and respond to different situations throughout the trading day.

7. Don’t surround yourself with stressed individuals. You act like those who you spend the most time with. Take a look at your colleagues, and if they are investors themselves assess how they handle their own stress. If they are emotional investing evangelists screaming at the computer screen and breaking keyboards like Jim Cramer you may want to take a step back and reconsider how much time you spend with that person.

8. Stay calm in intense situations: stop, think, then act. Perhaps the most affect way to fight stress is to take those stressful times head on with a calm mindset. Remember always to stop, think, then act. This applies with everything from making a tough call with a unknown earnings report coming up to finding your portfolio down several percent on the day.

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Take some time and visit StockTradingToGo.com, read over 100 free stock education articles and share investment ideas on his stock forum with over 5,000 other investors.

Traders Toolbox Lesson 4: How to profit and use pivot areas effectively

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Over the years, I have found certain areas of support and resistance to be especially effective in trend analysis. These special levels have been given the term pivot areas. These are areas which, once reached, act like a pivot man in basketball. The pivot man is faced with the choice of which direction to send the play; once the decision has been made and the ball has been passed, the play generally continues in that direction. When a market reaches a pivot area, a decision needs to be made to go higher or lower, and once a decisive close has been made away from or beyond the pivot area, the direction is likely to continue.

A good example of a pivot area is the 5040 level on the weekly hog chart. When the market has approached this level, it has either clearly turned or definitely con- tinued the existing trend with very little consolidation. Other examples include the 550 level in soybeans, 500 area in silver and sugar, 5500 area in cattle, 1500 level in soybean oil, the 80-00 area in Treasury bonds and the 205 level in soy- bean meal. Many markets exhibit pivot areas especially well on Gann (contract specific continuation) charts.