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Grab Profits in Five Days or Less with These Rapid-Fire Trades

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To call the markets "volatile" right now would be an understatement.

They're more like the "Batman" roller coaster at Six Flags – a 50-mile-per-hour free-fly ride that's been known to make riders black out due to its sheer speed on inverted loops.

After reaching an all-time high of 3,393.52 on Feb. 19, investors blinked – and boom, the S&P 500 was down a whopping 18% in just seven trading days.

But then, the ride took a quick swing back up with an 8% bounce on March 2.

Following that, Wednesday, March 4, saw a 4% jump after Joe Biden's Super Tuesday win – only to have the major indexes open 2% lower the next day.

Feels like the fast ups and downs of a roller coaster, right? The kind that makes your stomach squirm. And the ride is far from over…

On March 3, the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by 50 basis points, its largest cut since the 2008 financial crisis. The simple fact that the Fed feels the need to cut rates at all means there's only more volatility to come.

But while most investors suffer from the market's whiplash, those "in the know" are enjoying the ride, snagging fast profits right under their noses.

In fact, some of my readers just had the chance to score a 50% profit in three days.

All it takes is perfect timing and fast-moving trades – and I'm here today to show you exactly how you can achieve both… Full Story

All it takes is perfect timing and fast-moving trades - and I'm here today to show you exactly how you can achieve both...

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The 2 Best Ways to Hedge Coronavirus Volatility

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Even though the U.S. Federal Reserve suddenly cut interest rates 50 basis points on Tuesday to combat the market dropping 12% last week, it wasn’t enough to calm markets down.

The day of the emergency rate cut, the Dow Jones dropped 700 points.

On Wednesday, the Dow was up 1,100 points… Only to give back most of the gains on Thursday, when it dropped another 1,000 points.

And halfway through the trading day Friday, it’s already down another 600 points.

Whether coronavirus is the event that takes out the market or not, you have to be prepared.

You need a plan.

And we’ve done the research on how to protect your money.

Here are the two best ways to hedge coronavirus fears in case this volatility continues.

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Trading Strategies

How to Lower Your Risk While Taking Advantage of This Historic Trading Volatility

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Looking at the wild markets this week, one thing – maybe the only thing – for sure right now is that market volatility is here to stay.

Long-term investors will want to simply stay the course. Stay disciplined and stick to your established strategy.

Of course, daily 1,000-point swings have handed us many new short-term profit opportunities. Exploiting this volatility, as many smart traders do, can be very profitable.

Smart trading does not mean trying to find a stock that will pop and time your buying perfectly, as some investors have tried to do recently. Piling in to the "hot" biotech stock that's jumping on vaccine rumors can be extremely expensive and high-risk – and it rarely pays off.

That's why I love options. In a market like this one, they allow you to get in and get out in a short time frame, with much lower risk, much lower cost, and much lower stress, as well.

Of course, huge moves like this can bring increased risk to your trades – but there's a simple way to lower that risk while taking advantage of this historic volatility… Full Story

Of course, huge moves like this can bring increased risk to your trades - but there's a simple way to lower that risk while taking advantage of this historic volatility...

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Use This Free “Insurance Policy” to Protect Your Portfolio

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It's the holiday season, and the markets are setting all-time highs for the longest bull run in history!

Typically, a bull run like this would have investors swimming in profit. But trade wars and impeachment news are dominating the headlines, and high risk is threatening to keep people on the sidelines.

We may be just a tweet away from a major market correction, but that doesn't mean you have to get out now and run for the hills. Instead, it's time to protect your profits… and maybe even increase them while you're at it.

The last thing you want to experience is a major loss in your portfolio while you're sipping the holiday eggnog.

Here's an easy way to insure your stocks for free - and even a credit - just in time for the holidays...

The Fed

What to Do About Today's Fed Interest Rate Move

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Stocks are sitting at or near record highs, so, naturally, Jerome Powell's Federal Reserve is expected to do its part with another 25-basis-point rate cut this afternoon at 2 p.m.

After all, the stock market is up – the Fed's unofficial, unsanctioned signal to open the cheap-money taps a little wider.

If the Fed moves as markets are "expecting" (read: demanding), this'll be the third reduction in the Fed funds target rate since July, totaling 75 basis points in all, just as it did in 1995 and 1998.

The Fed would be cutting against a backdrop of sky-high stock valuations, decelerating economic growth and job gains, a deepening manufacturing recession, and a political situation that threatens to boil over into full-blown constitutional crisis at any minute.

So this is a really dicey time for investors, but there are some opportunities for savvy folks who understand how to play the Fed against Wall Street – and Wall Street against economic reality.

Let's talk about what to do… Full Story

Let's talk about what to do... Full Story

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How We Can "Front-Run" the Fed's New QE Policy and Bank Market-Beating Gains

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The printing presses have barely cooled from the Federal Reserve's post-crisis $4.5 trillion quantitative easing binge. 2014 seems like a long time ago, but $4.5 trillion is still a lot of money, and that debt is still actively wreaking havoc down in the bedrock of the economy.

Unbelievably, they're firing up the printing presses yet again down in the bowels of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building.

This time, they're engaging in a $60 billion monthly bailout of the Treasury market, specifically in the short-duration (six months or less) T-bill space.

That's $60 billion a month, folks. Annualized, this money-printing adds up to another $720 billion in fiat money creation and nosebleed-level deficit financing.

This reeks of pure desperation – panic mode at the Fed. But for savvy investors, there are three unique, easy ways to cash in on the chaos.

Let me show you… Full Story

Let me show you...

Trading Strategies

Here's What to Do About This Market Rally

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I could almost hear the sigh of relief from Cincinnati when the Friday jobs report came in higher than expected.

It was useful to note that stock futures didn't really move lower, but the Treasury yield did. That, my friends, is a pretty clear sign that the market is absolutely, positively counting on the Fed to juice the market with another rate cut in 12 days.

Now, interestingly, the last Fed meeting saw a drop in rates just as the market anticipated.

The S&P 500 was around 3,015 just ahead of the announcement. At the time of writing, we're at 2,983.91 – and trying like mad to get back to 3,015 just before the next meeting that is likely to yield the same action from the Fed.

So here's how I think it'll play out...

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The Market's Getting Ahead of Itself - Here's How to Profit

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If you've been with us a while, my "10 Commandments of Trading" have probably helped you make easy shovel shots in all kinds of markets. My Costco recommendation this summer bagged a cool 297% profits for anyone following along.

The commandments are "rules" that are designed to turn chaos into something easily understandable. They help you make money, sure, but they'll also make you a better trader over time.

I was thinking about stocks (as I do basically all the time), and one intriguing thing stuck out:

There are three of my commandments "in play" in stocks right now.

That alone tells me the tension and interplay of market forces is going to make something happen - something that could be mighty profitable if you follow my recommendation... Full Story

The Fed

Exactly What the Fed's Latest Testimony Means for the Market

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On July 10, everyone's eyes and ears were on one thing – the Fed. And there's a good reason why.

You see, after the U.S.-China trade war heated up last May, the market fell further than it had all year. And the Fed was the only thing that was able to pull it back up.

Yesterday, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell delivered his long-awaited testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.

And the market was listening for one very important catalyst…

Rate cuts.

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