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Banking Fears Have Put Billions of Dollars in Weed Profits in Limbo... Until Now

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - • Print | Email

Think about the last time you ran out for a bottle of wine or stopped someplace after work for a few groceries: Did you have to swing by an ATM first? Did you make sure you had plenty of cash in your wallet to cover the cost?

If you're like most Americans in 2018, the answer is probably… of course not.

It's more likely you used a debit or credit card, or even iOS, Android, Venmo, or PayPal. A debit here, a credit there, all effortlessly unfolding in the ones and zeros of cyberspace.

I'm simplifying here, but the cashless, convenient transaction between you and the merchant took place via computer – your bank, the merchant's bank, the clearinghouse – everyone involved used the U.S. communications network and financial system to "settle up" and get business done.

Now, I'm going to ask you to imagine something completely ridiculous – just for a second.

Then I'll show you how you can clean up on unique solutions to the legal weed sector's biggest problem...

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Stocks Are on Thin Ice - Here's What's Lurking Underneath

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

The markets took a break for the funeral of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and I'd bet most investors are grateful for the pause in the "Groundhog Day," Yogi Berra "déjà vu all over again"-type action we've been going through since, yes, October.

Yeah, the market just did what it did just last month; the FAANGs rolled over and played dead, only to come roaring back for a seemingly strong push up north and, just when things looked brighter, tanked again.

Rally and swoon, rally and swoon… While there is still a fighting chance for the old bull, it's looking increasingly grim.

We're rapidly getting to the point that investors who are unprepared or out of position could be in some serious danger.

That's why I'm looking so closely at these specific numbers...

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Put These Brilliant Mathematicians to Work... While You Count Up the Gains

By , America's No. 1 Pattern Trader, Money Morning • @powerproftrades - • Print | Email

Math isn't everyone's favorite subject, but it can be the key to your next triple-digit profit.

But fortunately, great technicians like John Bollinger have put the power of math at our fingertips. They've done all the hard work of making it easy for us to find stocks that have been stretched, beaten down, or hugely inflated, and are ready to snap back the other way.

And that's why today, I'm showing you three ways you can put these folks to work for you to score your next massive winner.

The only math you'll have to do is figuring out how much cash you've made...

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Trust Me, Dude: This Millennial Trend Could Make or Break a Portfolio

By , Special Situation Strategist, Money Morning - • Print | Email

I was talking to an old friend on the West Coast the other day. His business is located in Sacramento, but most of his customer base is in the Bay Area, so he was looking for an apartment and a small office space in San Francisco.

His search turned up rents that were, as he put it, "more than the cost of [his] first three cars combined, each month."

Office space was even worse. The deciding factor for him was that his price range put him soundly in the middle of what can charitably be called "urban war zones," where a trip around the corner for a bite to eat could turn into something like a bad day in Baghdad – a real bullet festival.

So there was no way my friend wanted to – regularly, each month – fork over exorbitant sums for digs like this. He said he'll continue to make the drive in and stay in a nicer, less hectic, and far more reasonably priced smaller city.

It is the same story I am hearing about other hot spots like New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other big-city markets.

The economy is booming for the moment, and with a red-hot labor market in play, pricing in markets like Washington and New York, already on the steep side, is probably going quickly worsen (or "improve," depending on how you're invested).

There's no way around it: If you want to live downtown in the big city today, you will have to pay through the nose.

Increasingly, we are finding there are a lot of people who do not wish to do so - and that's the key to the shares I'm going to tell you about right now...

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Believe It or Not, the Market's Not Quite Volatile Enough Yet

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

Okay, this volatility is certainly getting tiring, isn't it? Or at least it would be if it weren't so insanely profitable.

Last week, I pointed out that the S&P 500 – "the market" – had arrived at another critical point at which the important 200-day moving average would hold – or die trying.

It died trying, falling through support, and that's led to an accelerating slide for stocks ever since. As I write this at Monday mid-morning, the S&P 500 is down almost 1%.

Stocks, like a lot of other things, like to move along the path of least resistance. And right now, the path of least resistance is d-o-w-n. 

Let's look at what's greasing the wheels for this persistent downward momentum, when it will get even choppier (and it needs to), and how we might bank a little cash ourselves...