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Gil Morales explains what he is seeing in these terrible markets right now.

Chris Katcher and Gil Morales talk to Dan Cofall about QE3: It’s effects on the general market and precious metals. Greece is rescued but other dominoes will fall in Europe Fallout: Countries that are "too big to bail".

Signs are showing that the latest bounce which began on September 12 is a dead cat bounce...

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Dr. Chris Kacher and Gil Morales, Founders of SelfishInvesting.com; Managing Directors of MoKa Investors, LLC. and Danny Stewart take calls from listeners who have stock picks. They also talk about Europe and what is going on with all the leaders that seemed to back away from the table as soon as they had a deal in front of them.

Copper losing its sheen? Gil Morales weighs in on copper prices and whether they are signaling an economic turn for the worse.

Chris Kacher discusses CMG, PCLN and HANS.
Even though the market direction model has been on a sell signal since August 31, if one has to buy a stock in this challenging environment, buy with caution. Always know your exit point if the stock heads south. When the general market falls, it takes most stocks with it. Just as a rising tide lifts all boats, a low tide can moor all boats.

A new era of extreme market volatility — recently with a fairly bearish overall tone — has left many longer-term investors in a major quandary. By and large, they've abandoned the old notion of "buy and hold" as either ineffective or overly nerve wracking (or both), but they haven't yet found a suitable replacement methodology.
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A new era of extreme market volatility – recently with a fairly bearish overall tone – has left many longer-term investors in a major quandary. By and large, they’ve abandoned the old notion of “buy and hold” as either ineffective or overly nerve wracking (or both) – but they haven’t yet found a suitable replacement methodology.

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Most investors use a 7-8% maximum stop loss. Always adhere to that first. On the long side, if the stock violates its 10 day moving average (dma) before it gets to that level, it depends on a number of factors as to whether you decide to keep your position or sell it.

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Dr. Chris Kacher discusses his Market Direction Model, Europe, precious metals, and his individual stock picks

Gold Can Still hit $2K in 2012. Gil Morales breaks down why he is long precious metals.

On Friday, Howard Gold argued in a column on MarketWatch that leveraged ETFs are the worst investment ever. We disagree.
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Gil Morales and Chris Kacher run MoKa Investors, a money management firm that use ETFs, particularly leveraged and inverse versions.

"People can make a case about the mechanics of leveraged ETFs. But it all depends on how you use it," said Morales.

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Gold and silver were opening Tuesday sharply lower as heightened tensions over Greece and a soaring U.S. dollar pressured precious metals.

Despite another rough patch — GLD has fallen roughly to the same price level as it was this time last week — some see prospects for both the yellow metal and silver a bit improved. Gil Morales and Chris Kacher, who run MoKa Investors and use ETFs in their client accounts and hedge fund, point out that GLD recently successfully retested its lows around $151 a share. Last week, its shares also pivoted higher on heavier volume past its 50-day moving average, a key technical indicator.

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Europe’s open spigot to support precious metals
When it comes to buying gold or silver, the best buy signals are found in what we refer to as "pocket pivots."

These are statistically significant buy signals we have developed and used with great effect in our own handling of the precious metals in 2011 as we ourselves have thus far outperformed the S&P 500 Index over 50-fold as of this writing.
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Gold Up 26% in 2011. Gil Morales argues that the precious metal could reach $2,000 by year’s end.

Are Leveraged ETFs Ever Right for Retail Investors?

A glance at the Nasdaq volume rankings shows certain leveraged ETFs among the most actively traded issues on any given day—broad market and financial sector funds in particular.

...Noted traders and authors Chris Kacher and Gil Morales, at virtueofselfishinvesting.com, use sophisticated timing models for their market entries and exits. For them, tools like leveraged ETFs allow them to efficiently capitalize on both upside and downside market moves.

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Technical Analysis: How Market Context Is A Powerful Tool To Separate The Leaders From The Laggards
Thursday, November 17, 2011 | 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Learn how to use market context to gain the edge in the interpretation of chart patterns. Learn how market context can take many forms, ranging from the obvious to the subtle. Learn how to spot potential new leaders during minor market pullbacks, intermediate market corrections, and full-blown bear markets. Learn how to buy into current leaders on market pullbacks.

The Secrets Of Trading Like An O'Neil Disciple
Friday, November 18, 2011 | 8:30 am – 12:30 pm

In this 4-hour intensive you will learn how to effectively position size and manage your risk-including the challenging trendless markets of 2011.

Dr. Chris Kacher and Gil Morales, authors of the bestselling book, Trade Like an O'Neil Disciple-How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market, reveal the secrets they learned as a result of trading with legendary investor Bill O'Neil during their respective tenures as portfolio managers with William O'Neil + Co. in Los Angeles, California. In this four-part intensive workshop you will learn:

• How the pocket pivot buy point strategy safely anticipates stock breakouts and provides low-risk early entry points in leading stocks
• How a buyable gap-up price move can signal the start of a massive gains in an established or emerging market leader even though such a gap-up can appear "too high" to buy into
• How the Market Direction Model, which is based on a proprietary algorithm, captures intermediate to longer-term moves on the upside and the downside that help keep investors on the right side of the markets.
• How to short the most vulnerable stocks.

The general market has been trendless, driven by headline news du jour. Today's news event regarding the Supercommittee unable to come to agreement on reducing the deficit caused the market to gap lower at the open.

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The general market has been trendless, driven by the headline news du jour. The supercommittee being unable to come to agreement on reducing the deficit caused the market to gap lower at the open yesterday.
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