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Penny Stock Investing: Avoiding Pitfalls and Positioning for Triple-Digit Profits

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Penny-stock traders are like the Rodney Dangerfield's of the investment world – they get no respect from their bigger brethren.

But that doesn't mean they should be ignored.

Fact is, while penny stock investing can be risky, it can also be extremely lucrative. Some of the most successful investors in the world became rich buying stocks for pennies on the dollar and selling for $10 or $20 a share.

The key to success is to fully understand all those risks…avoid them at all costs… and then make the right moves so you can safely realize the big profits.

Let me explain...

The Ultimate Guide to Options: How to Make Mega-Profits With the World's Best Options Strategies

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If you feel like Alice, lost in Wonderland, when you start to explore options, you're not alone.

So many traders and teachers and even so-called "experts" struggle with options. It gets even uglier when they attempt to bring it down to earth for their readers.

Yet that's just what Money Map Press Publisher Mike Ward has asked me to do for you. My job in this book is to show you the beauty of options – that part will be easy – and then demonstrate how these trades work.

If anyone can do it, I can. I have written six books about options, and probably more importantly, I have been trading options myself for more than 35 years (meaning I have already made every possible mistake you can make).

Here's my promise to you...

U.S. Dollar Forecast: How to Play A Short-Term Rally and Defend a Long-Term Crash

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The U.S. dollar is currently on an upswing – but don't let it fool you.

What we're seeing is only a short-term rally inspired by Europe's travails. In the long-term, the U.S. Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy and the United States' own debt burden will drive the greenback back down.

That's the consensus among experts who follow the global money markets and the leading currencies, including several of Money Morning's own analysts.

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Facebook's (Nasdaq: FB) $16 Billion IPO: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Truth

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

Face it, you want it. It seems that everyone wants a piece of the Facebook IPO.

But can you handle the truth? Will the hyped sensationalism be a boon or a boondoggle?

I'm not going to tell you what to do, whether you should buy Facebook sooner rather than later. That's up to you.

However, I will tell you that I won't be buying it right away. But I will be buying it if…

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Gold Prices to Break $2,000: Here's How You Can Profit

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Gold prices are still far from last year's record $1,920.30 an ounce.

Given the economic volatility in 2011, last year was a banner year for gold prices. Fears of global market turmoil helped push the yellow metal to record highs.

While the long-term bullish outlook for gold remains, short-term pressures have halted its steady climb.

"Gold has found more support recently, but it doesn't have all of the catalysts in place to be driven substantially higher yet," Suki Cooper, an analyst at Barclays Capital, told Reuters.

Here's why this dip isn't the start of a bearish gold year. Instead, it's a chance to stock up before gold prices head to $2,000 an ounce. (Want to know the best way to profit from soaring gold prices this year? Take a look at our latest special report today. It shows you how to get daily market information and specific recommendations in gold… silver… penny stocks… Asia… and biotech, to name just a few. Find the report right here.)

The Fed, India, and Gold Prices

For the next three months, the U.S. Federal Reserve is focused on a stabilizing U.S. economy and low inflation. In fact, the Fed's most recent forecast cooled talk of more monetary stimulus (or "quantitative easing").

The Fed expects U.S. economic growth to progress at a steady pace throughout the quarter. With moderate expansion rather than rapid growth or deflation, there's no need to curb borrowing, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke plans to keep interest rates near zero.

This bodes well for the U.S. dollar, and what's good for the dollar is often bad for gold prices.

It's no secret that a weakened dollar sends investors running to the real value of hard commodities. A stronger dollar does the inverse: It causes the big investors to be less cautious with regard to investments in liquid capital, creating a dip in gold prices.

Lagging Indian imports have also contributed to lower gold prices at the beginning of this quarter...

Uranium Prices Report: Uranium to Double on "Nuclear Renaissance"

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Uranium stocks got hammered in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.

But now uranium mining stocks have finally begun to bounce back… just like we told you they would.

After getting pummeled last year, shares of Cameco Corp. (NYSE: CCJ) – the world's second-largest uranium miner – are up 32%.

Meanwhile, smaller American competitors Uranium Resources Inc. (Nasdaq: URRE) and Uranium Energy Corp. (AMEX: UEC) are each up about 30%. And the Global X Uranium ETF (NYSE: URA) is up 25%.

But that's just the beginning...

Classic Cons: How to Avoid the World's 10 Biggest Financial Scams

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Over the past 40 years, only one new entry has been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) roster of "Top 10" investment scams – the very broad category of "Internet fraud."

The other financial rip-offs listed are merely new versions of tried and true swindles that have been around for decades or more – from Ponzi schemes and pyramid systems to phony stock offerings and commodity cons.

The big difference is that the one new category – Internet fraud – has greatly increased the frequency, speed and effectiveness of the other types of financial fraud, as well as exponentially increasing the scammers' take.

In 2009, there were 6,062 robberies of physical bank offices and branches, netting the perpetrators a total of $45.9 million in loot, more than $8 million of which was recovered by law enforcement officials. By contrast, there were more than 14,000 reported (and countless unreported) online attacks on banks and bank customers, with the estimated loss exceeding $110 million, almost none of which was recovered.

In addition, where physical bank theft is local, online robbery is global. MSNBC recently reported that a ring of cyber thieves based in Eastern Europe had used a so-called Trojan horse computer program to steal more than $1 million from the accounts of more than 3,000 British bank customers in just four weeks – and, even though the banks had identified the problem, they weren't able to immediately stop the thefts.

That mirrored an even broader rip-off of banks and their customers…

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How To Buy Silver: A Guide To Today's Top Silver Investments

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As precious metals go, silver may not have quite the same mystique as gold.

But let's be honest: The "white metal" has its backers, too.

In fact, when Money Morning published its "How to Buy Gold" special report just a few weeks ago, one of the biggest questions that we received in response was: "When can you do the same for silver?"

That's just what we've done here. In this special report, we show you how to buy silver.

Silver: The "Other" Precious Metal

Although gold possesses the greatest allure of precious metals, silver has a longstanding tradition in many cultures – a tradition that in some cases reaches back thousands of years. Nearly 2,500 years ago, for instance, China was the first to use silver as money.

Here in the United States, silver alloys were still present in some of our everyday coins as recently as 40 years ago. Today, however, silver is no longer viewed that much as a monetary metal. But that's because about 40% of silver is used for industrial applications.

The physical silver market is small, with annual demand of slightly less than 900 million ounces.

Since the financial crisis of 2008, silver prices have increased by 300%.
And that's only the beginning. Silver is on the verge of a massive "short squeeze". The last time something like this happened, investors pocketed upwards of 195% in just a few months – but more on that later (Or you can get a sneak peek of our new silver special presentation right now. You can find it here.)

An important metric to understand and watch is the silver-to-gold ratio. It tells you how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one of gold. Historically, that ratio is 16 to 1. On this basis alone, silver should be much higher right now.

But perhaps a more realistic level, at least in the short term, is the ratio of silver-to-gold since the start of this bull market back in 2000. That ratio has been about 50-55 ounces of silver for one of gold. Even this more conservative estimate of silver prices vs. gold provides an excellent opportunity for investors to cash in as gold prices continue to rise.

How to Buy Silver

Like gold, silver investments can be made in a variety of forms. Let's take a look at some of the most popular.

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