What's Happening To The Smaller Banks?

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By: Tim Melvin of Benzinga

Consider the life of a banker running a small bank today.

It used to be a great life running one of these little banks. You oversaw a network of 10 or 15 branches in smaller towns or suburbs across the country and were a well-liked business leader of your community.

More than likely you weren't just a member of the Rotary and other civic groups, you were an officer of the group.

Bankers helped people buy homes, grow their businesses, put their kids through college and even save for and fund their retirement. The employees had good jobs and made decent money and really liked the bank and the officers. The stock price was at a nice premium from the original offering price and most folks in town were pretty excited about that. On weekends, the bankers probably played golf and went to local college games with local politicians, developers and car dealers. Continue reading "What's Happening To The Smaller Banks?" →

Chart to Watch - Natural Gas

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We've asked our friend Jim Robinson of profittrading.com to provide his expert analysis of charts to our readers. Each week he'll be analyzing a different chart using the Trade Triangles and his experience.

Today he is going to take a look at the technical picture of the December Natural Gas Futures (NYMEX:NG.Z13.E).

I hope you are having a GREAT week !

This week we will take a look at December Natural Gas.

When trading futures with the MarketClub system we use the weekly Trade Triangles for the trend and the daily Trade Triangles to time the entries and exits.

Natural Gas has put in a green weekly MarketClub Trade Triangle and has put in a red daily MarketClub red Trade Triangle. Continue reading "Chart to Watch - Natural Gas" →

Disaster Averted, Fast Forward To January 15th

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Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, President of INO.com and Co-creator of MarketClub, with your mid-day market update for Thursday, the 17th of October.

Late last night the United States averted what would've been a disaster for the country. But did we really avert disaster, or did they just "kick the can down the road"? I had the good fortune to appear on CNBC Asia last night when this historic vote was cast. If you missed my appearance, you can see what I said right here.

While Washington politicians are patting themselves on the back and thinking about what a good job they did, most folks in the real world have a different view and are incredibly angry at what Washington is doing. It really doesn't matter if you are on the left or the right of the political spectrum, the divisiveness in the country is not healthy for the economy and the stock market in the long run. Continue reading "Disaster Averted, Fast Forward To January 15th" →

Insurance in Wonderland

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The following is excerpted from the October 13 edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole.  The segment followed a review of NFTRH's big picture stance on gold vs. various assets positively correlated to the global economy.  Specifically, the previous segment concluded that yes, the NFTRH big secular view is under threat by a technical analysis signal favoring US stocks over gold on the big picture per this monthly chart of SPX-Gold.  NFTRH first began managing this as the bottoming pattern broke above its neckline and then the EMA 10 crossed above the EMA 20 for the first time since 2001. Continue reading "Insurance in Wonderland" →

Did you miss Adam on CNBC Asia last night?

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If you missed Adam on CNBC Asia's Cash Flow with Oriel Morrison and Bernie Lo during last night's (10/16/13) historic vote to reopen the government, we have the video for you to watch. Watch as Adam discusses Apple's upcoming event on October 22nd (NASDAQ:AAPL) along his views the Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN).