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Play These Sectors to Profit from Earnings Season

By , Money Morning -

earnings

2016's Q4 earnings reports begin in earnest this week. Given the "Trump Bump" that played out from November through the new year, and the incoming administration's regulatory stance, most analysts expect financials to be the standout performers.

We happen to agree this time, but with a big difference.

We think investors who focus only on playing the financials are going to miss out on some big opportunities coming up this month (like Tom Gentile's Money Calendar Alert special gold trades) - opportunities that are going to come with a fair amount of volatility, to boot.

So CNBC World's "Capital Connection" asked Tom to make his first television appearance to name what he thinks will be the absolute best, most lucrative sectors to play - heading up and down - as we move past the inauguration and deeper into this earnings season.

He also made some rare stock picks in this interview to beef up your profits.

My 2017 Stock Outlook Offers Something You Won't Get Anywhere Else

By , Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt -

2017 stock outlook

Money Morning Members who've been with us a while will remember my 2016 Forecast, when I called for the S&P 500 to drop 10% to 15% and predicted Marco Rubio would be headed to the White House.

Well, stocks hit my predicted target in the first month of 2016... and then spent the rest of the year recovering and rallying until well after the election Donald Trump won.

That's a fancy way of saying I was wrong, by a long shot. Now, in my free service alone, I made 14 very profitable long and short stock recommendations. But instead of the crash I expected and markets frankly deserved, we got an endless rally, albeit one totally divorced from economic fundamentals.

Investors shrugged off Brexit, Donald Trump, and the Italian constitutional referendum; disguise wholesale capital destruction as "stimulus," distribute it cheap-as-free worldwide, and you've got one helluva market drug. 

That said, I may be the only guy currently in financial media who can honestly and freely admit that he was wrong. I've never shied away from making tough calls and holding people (including yours truly) accountable.

That's always been true, and that's the one thing that won't change in 2017.

Stocks, on the other hand, are in for quite a year. And passive, complacent investors could have a very rough time. I'll give it to you straight, right now, in my official outlook...

If You Think "Dow 19K" Is Great, Wait Till You See What's Coming Next

By , Managing Editor, Money Morning -

Shah Gilani, our Capital Wave Strategist, is in pretty high demand these days as the keys to D.C. change hands and the Dow rockets past the critical 19,000 mark. Not only is he fresh from making his readers some of the biggest, fastest gains in the history of his trading services - 717% on Sturm, Ruger & Co. puts in a week - he's been all over the news giving his take on where the markets are going next. 

But Shah took a break from his busy television schedule to chat with me by phone about some things he just can't say on TV, including exactly how important this milestone is, what this unknown territory holds for investors, and how to position yourself for the maximum possible upside at a time like this.

This is big...

This Medieval Italian Guy Can Help You Maximize Your Upside Every Time

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

While the markets and media were obsessed with last week's Fed nonevent, they missed a huge move in gold.

In the run up to the FOMC meeting, gold was in the grips of a two-week slump. But right after Yellen announced that there would be no rate hike, gold smashed through several resistance levels, including the "38.2" line (you'll see why that's important), and posted the biggest gains of the past two weeks.

Now, we've talked about resistance lines before. But what you may not know is that everything you trade - gold, oil, stocks, bonds, even currencies - follows the same pattern involving that line.

The pattern can tell you when a pullback is forming, the size of the move in the markets, and even how long it's likely to last.

Learn how to use this pattern, and you need never miss a pullback again.

Here's how every trader can use this to make as much money as possible...

How to Handle More Than 40 Triple-Digit Winners

By , Executive Editor, Money Morning • @privatebrief -

New Year's Resolution

Today I want to talk to you about one of the most pressing problems in investing.

It's one my Private Briefing readers tell me they encounter regularly, and one you may have dealt with more than a few times, too.

But don't worry - I guarantee this is one of the sweetest quandaries an investor has to cope with.

It's about the profits.

Now, when you've got good independent research, bagging triple-digit gains is no problem - 20,000 readers have done precisely that more than 40 times since Private Briefing began in August 2011.

But... believe it or not, holding those winners (especially in 2016's volatile markets) and parlaying them into even bigger profits does pose a bit of a challenge.

Fortunately, we've got access to the best "battle-tested" and proven strategies for handling this welcome dilemma.

Let me show you...

How to Trade Brexit Like the Mother of All Earnings Announcements

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

brexit

Global markets are absolutely enthralled by the possibility of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, the so-called "Brexit." We're seeing volatility in all the big global markets, particularly currencies, like the euro and pound sterling.

That's partly because the competing "Leave" and "Remain" camps are in a statistical dead heat, and partly because investors fear the disruptions to trade and commerce that would come from any British exit.

Now, it's true that, should a majority of British voters decide to leave the world's largest economic bloc, we can expect markets to take the brunt of it.

But that doesn't mean there aren't many compelling plays available for traders to make money on what could be a historic event of massive proportions. This is no time to hunker down and go to cash.

Instead, I'd like to show you one of my favorite trades for this kind of event. Yes, while this will be a unique historical moment, it's nothing we haven't seen - or more to the point, traded - before.

In fact, this is a trade I make regularly. Let me show you...

How to Invest for Permanent Wealth with $5,000

By , Executive Editor, Money Morning • @privatebrief -

How to invest

There's one guaranteed, can't-miss way to go flat broke and leave nothing behind...

It's easy; all you have to do is listen to the doomsayers and keep your money out of the markets and on the sidelines. Depreciation and inflation will take you most of the way toward abject penury, and then once you die, the taxman will come and pick over what remains. You can rest assured... he won't miss a cent.

That's the reason why "in or out?" is hands down the most important, challenging investment decision you'll ever face. "What to buy?" pales in comparison.

So when I realized that the endless cable news debates over volatility and where stocks would go next were scaring folks onto the sidelines and into catastrophic losses, I went ahead and published an easy, one-stock investing strategy that anyone could use to make the right decision and build their future... with just $1,000.

I call it my "One-Grand Approach to Wealth."

Today I'm going to go "one better" and show you how you can do even more with $5,000 to invest. It's just as easy, and it can be made all but totally automatic, just like my "One-Grand Approach."

But first, let me show you exactly what you're risking by keeping your hard-earned money out of the stock market.

This is as sobering as it is surprising...

How to Invest for the Recession That's Already Here

By , Chief Investment Strategist, Money Map Report -

recession

In a meeting with The Washington Post's editorial board earlier this month, GOP presidential primary candidate Donald Trump said the economy was so dicey that the United States was headed for "a very massive recession."

As I noted on FOX Business' "Varney & Co.," I think we're already there, even if the Fed doesn't realize it yet.

Here's the thing - the measures the Fed uses to judge economic activity are based on a manufacturing economy that we enjoyed more than 100 years ago. They simply don't reflect the services-based system we live in presently.

The hard truth is millions of American families are living paycheck to paycheck. The economic "recovery" that the Fed and legions of economists are so proud of having engineered doesn't exist - and hasn't for a very long time.

Here's the real state of American prosperity - and what you can do to ensure you're not left behind...