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Don't Fall for the "Fake Recession" - You Can Still Make a Killing in This Bull Market

By , Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW - • Print | Email

There's a recession coming; that's a given. But it's not here. In fact, there isn't one in sight, not even on the horizon.

And yet that's not what you're hearing from an overwhelming number of mainstream media and financial news outlets.

According to them, the next great recession is bubbling up, about to spill out of the containment towers built around it.

Investors not participating in the roaring bull market are being cautioned that it's too late. Even worse, investors sitting on spectacular gains amassed over the almost 11-year bull market are being targeted with sell recommendations.

Purveyors of the recession narrative want investors on the sidelines to be afraid. Moreover, they want investors who've amassed fortunes to sell their stocks and profit from the recession they say is imminent by selling stocks short.

The truth is there's no recession in sight, and the stock market is going higher – a lot higher. And every moment you wait to jump in, you're missing out on profits.

Today, I'm going to reveal what the recession narrative's all about. I'll show you who's behind it, how the economy's really doing, and where the markets are going and why.

Then, I'm going to show you how to make 25%, 50%, even 100% or more, over and over, as markets head higher...

Trading Strategies

How to Profit in the Last Great American Bull Market

By , Special Contributor, Money Morning - • Print | Email

Turn on any television, click on any hyperlink, and you'll be bombarded with… "versus." It's tiring: bulls versus bears, expansion versus recession, and of course, red versus blue.

Well, we can put these polarizing debates to bed, once and for all… The old rules of economics and approaches to investing – the tired old sacred cows of the pundit class – are rapidly receding in the rearview mirror. And investors who align themselves with that kind of thinking are, to be blunt, doomed.

Even now, we're way past talk of "bulls and bears." I'll show you in a minute how the Fed and its renewed money-printing – $278 billion and counting fast – are pushing us toward what old sailors and cartographers used to call "terra incognita."

The edge of the map. The Twilight Zone. Think "Australia in 1603." Unknown land. "Here be dragons." Strange territory, indeed.

And just like those early modern explorers found, there are almost unimaginable riches to be had. There's peril, too, but I'll show you why you don't have to worry about that.

The Fed's unprecedented – let's call it what it is, folks – stimulus has created a gravity-defying, absolutely gangbusters market melt-up: a colossal opportunity for making money. One that we may not see again in our lifetimes.

If that sounds strange to you, I agree. The fundamentals don't support a market like this, but the Fed is the market now, and this market is having a melt-up for the history books.

And I don't want you to miss a red cent of the profit potential… Full Story

And Matt doesn’t want you to miss this insane profit potential…

Trading Strategies

Here's My Most Bullish Pick Yet in 2019

By , Quantitative Specialist, Money Morning - • Print | Email

By now, even the most tuned-out investors have got the sense that the market's changing from the flat-out bearish trend that closed out 2019.

But is the new trend clearly bullish? Well… Let's just say if I had to grade overall bullish sentiment and, more importantly, action out there, I'd give it a solid "C."

Not bad, could be better.

But we're staring down a huge number of earnings reports starting this week, and given the shot in the arm IBM's positive reporting gave stocks, this week could be very exciting and profitable indeed…

… especially for the stock I've got to share with you.

So join me online at my virtual "desk," and have a look at my screen. We'll look at the sectors I expect will be in play this week, and I'll give you the name of a company I'm really fired up about...

Dow Jones

Dow Jones Industrial Average Rallies Today Ahead of FOMC Decision

By , Executive Producer, Money Morning - • Print | Email

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is rallying early Wednesday ahead of today's critical announcement by the Federal Reserve on interest rates.

Despite outrage from President Donald Trump, the U.S. central bank is expected to hike interest rates for the fourth time in 2018, raising concerns that the Fed will put a halt on America's economic expansion and rattle investor confidence for the balance of the year.

Here's everything you need to know about the market today...

stocks

This Is the Longest Bull Market Ever, but It's Time to Steer Clear of the Herd

By , Money Morning - • Print | Email

On August 22nd, the bull market entered its 3,453rd day, making it the longest bull market in American history.

The title is well earned. Since its inception in March of 2009, this bull market has clocked historic gains for all major indexes.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen nearly 20,000 points. The S&P 500 has quadrupled. The Nasdaq has risen nearly six times its 2009 value thanks to surging tech giants like Amazon and Netflix.

While returns have been phenomenal, the bull market's push into uncharted territory has many investors wondering if the market's best gains are in the rearview mirror...

For You: a High-Profit "Present" to Celebrate the Bull Market's Big Milestone

By , Executive Editor, Money Morning - • Print | Email

We'd lived in two places in Connecticut and another in a Pittsburgh suburb – renting in all three places – when my folks finally were able to buy their first house, a redbrick colonial in a Steel City suburb known as Murrysville.

It was late 1967 – my Mom was expecting my youngest sister, Carol Ann – and we moved in just before the Christmas holidays.

Because the house was finished late in the year, the yard wasn't fully graded and seeded. So at the bottom of the stone driveway that snaked down from the street and wrapped around the back of the house to form a decent-sized parking pad was a decent-sized dirt pile.

To the seven-year-old mind, that dirt pile seemed to reach for the very clouds above.

The earthen pinnacle conjured images of Mt. Everest, which I'd read about in school. The dirt clogs that helped comprise its bulk were great for throwing at enemy neighbors. The soil-and-clay mound (and the muddy pool beside it) gave me a "Guns of Navarone-ish" backdrop for my olive-drab-plastic Marx Battleground tanks and army men – and a stage for reenacting the D-Day Invasion.

And when us kids wanted to trade places with those plastic soldiers – and "be" the combatants ourselves – that dirt hill served as the ultimate stage for rounds of "King of the Hill."

You know the game, of course. One person climbs to that peak – and tries to stay there by fending off the energetic shoves or aggressive yanks of those who would be king.

In the world of kid-dom, this was the ultimate kind of combat: The winner stood tall, ready to take on all comers; the loser endured an ignominious tumble to the bottom.

As memories go, this is a timely one to share with all of you.

And here's why: Today, at 4 p.m. EDT, barring an extraordinarily bearish slap from an unforeseen threat, U.S. investors will witness the crowning of a new "King of the Hill."

You see, by the time the market closes today, the current bull market will dethrone its predecessor – the 114-month 1990 to 2000 bull market – as the longest bull run of all time.

I'm really excited about what's coming next...

Market Correction

I Don't Think the Bull Market Is Going Anywhere

By , Technical Trading Specialist, Money Morning • @DRBarton_Stocks - • Print | Email

First things first: Don't panic. The raging, grinding bull markets are "officially" in correction territory.

It's a healthy thing.

Though I've been consistently bullish in my outlook over the past year or so, I've said that a 3% to 5% dip in the markets might be in order and that a correction like this would be welcome.

Why? It's not that I enjoy watching stocks fall… unless I'm planning to recommend that my readers play the "rubber band snap" (although I did, and they made a quick 50% gain). 

Rather, this downturn is good for the simple reason that we needed to see that capitulation.

Let me show you what I mean, and why this week's rough sledding has been a good thing, even in the very short term...