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Penny stocks are any shares that are traded anywhere between a fraction of a penny up to five dollars. Investing in them is riskier than average investments, but with that comes the opportunity for a high potential for reward.  There have been cases where these stocks have gone from a few cents to over $20, and other cases where they have lost all value.

Penny stocks have had a negative connotation to them because of the risk and the lack of information associated with their companies.  Today, it is known among investors that penny stocks represent the many small companies all across the United States that are in the process of growing and have yet to be discovered.

One reason for the appeal for penny stocks is that investors can own a stake of a company and only pay a fraction of the price.   That small investment can later be turned into a fortune.

The downside of these stocks is the risk, instability, and lack of information from the corporation.

While many companies initial go public starting at $10 or more, there are a number of well known companies that started off as penny stocks that are well around and well known today.

As penny stock companies grow over the years, they have the chance to radically climb in price.  This is when people who trade in the penny stocks territory can make huge gains from a small starting investment.

Begin researching penny stock companies and follow them for a few weeks and review their corporate history.  A rule of thumb when dealing with penny stocks is the sooner one gets started, the better.  To begin dealing with investing, one can read online newsletters or find information from an investor professional.  Many times these professionals can assist in helping one to go the right direction for their desired investing purposes.  However, there are a number of these professionals that are being paid to promote certain stocks.  They give a negative connotation t penny stocks and lost money to their investors.  Many times they use pump and dump schemes to take advantage of people looking to invest in these types of stocks.  To defend against one of these types of services make sure that the information they provide neutral and unbiased information.

More often than not, investors put money into penny stocks without fully understanding what they are investing in or how to trade.  In the end, this causes them to lose the money they put in.   Getting involved prior to learning the avoidable dangers will save people from the ‘dangerous’ penny stocks.  Check to make sure that the company you plan to get involved with has positive and strong financials

Good penny stocks companies look the same as any other successful company; the only difference is they are smaller.  They will have a strong and experienced management team, solid numbers, and will be providing a great service or product.  If there isn’t much information available about a company, call and speak to their investor relations representative for additional information.  Compare the company with their competitors along with other investment options that you can look into.

Taking the time to learn about penny stocks, finding good companies, and understanding how to avoid the pitfalls associated with trading penny stocks are some of the steps to help turn initial investments into huge profits.

Apple (AAPL) is looking to replace the netbook groundswell with the iPad craze. Eventually, it is conceivable that the iPad replaces even the laptop for many people.

The iPad would also be cloud computing friendly and fit into the cloud computing wave that could be upon the masses shortly. Cloud computing will need cloud service and who better to offer cloud service than Apple?

The iPad may be characterized as a “giant iPhone” by most, but don’t be fooled one second. The iPad is a calculated product in Apple continuing its dynasty. Apple is putting together a mobile computing dynasty that has slowly assimilated more and more PC users to their platform through the iPod and iPhone. The iPad will now take away some of the time that users spend on their Windows 7 powered laptops and PCs.

It has been speculated that the iPad could remake the print, TV, and publishing business in a similar way as how iTunes remade the music industry. Once again, it’s just version 1 of the iPad and we believe it goes up from there.

For those who have tried the Kindle, it was a first mover in the eReader space, but it looks like a dinosaur now compared to AAPL’s iPad. Those who have a Kindle will probably still buy books through it and then just use the Kindle App on the iPad to actually read the books. That’s one great use for the iPad depending on how much a person is into reading books on an eReader.

It is speculated that the iPad (3G version) will have support for Slingbox® so iPad users can watch TV while away from WiFi. This would occur through a Slingbox® app. AT&T just recently started allowing iPhone users to Slingbox® their TV to their phones over their 3G network.

The iPad will be a lot easier to browse the Web on while relaxing than on an iPhone or Laptop.

The iPad will not be for everyone, but it will find its niche and go from there. As for Apple’s stock, there is no reason why AAPL shouldn’t keep moving higher. As long as Steve Jobs stays healthy and at the helm, the sky is the limit for Apple.

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There is no doubt that the Apple iPad is a hot topic. Apple will ship their iPad on April 3rd. Commercials for the iPad have begun with spots during the Oscars Sunday night.

Many people have already asked themselves if they need or even want this less-than-apple-like device. Apple has great marketing and they will get a plethora of people to buy something that they don’t really need. The combination of stunning, sexy design and astoundingly brilliant marketing by Apple is why they have around a $200 billion market cap. In comparison, Microsoft, a long rival of Apple, has around a $250 billion market cap. Remember, Apple almost went extinct due to poor management throughout the 1990’s while Steve Jobs was at Pixar.

Not a huge amount of people will “need” the iPad. Some will have a specific use for the iPad which will make it worth buying for them.

One important fact that people should know about Apple is that they believe that shipping the product is most important. As Steve Jobs has stated in the past, “Real Artists Ship.”

The iPad shipping on April 3rd and the 3G iPad shipping shortly after are just version 1. Apple will improve the iPad and it will most likely fit brilliantly into a greater strategy down the road that Steve Jobs has already envisioned.

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So the DOW broke 10,600 yesterday and held despite a gloomy day for International markets.  Well, we could ask France evidently about the average cash positions of some HSBC private banking clients to substantiate that there is a considerable amount of Cash on the sidelines.  Again we reiterate our opinion that investing in the US stock market is one of the more attractive opportunities currently.  It could be argued in a myriad of directions, but our economy is gaining de facto strength by the weakness the EU is experiencing and uncertainty in China.  Google will see some beta increase today as China and Google are hashing out issues related to hacking issues traced back to some of China’s “government universities computer departments.”   In keeping with the humorous positioning we have seen many governments take in statements related to “diplomatic issues,” China has neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing and a China minister was quoted, “Hope Google will respect China law…internet will develop in China with or without Google.”  It’s also odd to watch the IMF and Amnesty International line up in Nigeria (after a massacre of 100-500 people this week in ethnic conflict), Congo and Sudan.  All countries that China has invested Billions in with the Sovereign Human Affairs clause “we don’t tell you what to do, you don’t tell us what to do.”  Western Africa is also coming under tighter scrutiny.  The Continent is a powder keg that is becoming a focal point in the international game of Raw Materials…China are like the Borg on Star Trek.  The Borg are an alien race that assimilates everything they come into contact with into a dense matter floating platform.  Again note that 100,000 people have been displaced in Somalia since January while China has pumped more than 10Billion into infrastructure in the Country planning a railroad track across the continent to access the iron ore and other natural resources they can take from the Country.  This is going to come to a head with the IMF and the UN.  They are smart and run everything through dual tax treaty tax havens.  Ironically, the Chinese entrepreneurs are taking after their Western counterpart with the brightest and “most creative” figuring how to even get around full tax exposure between African economies and China.   Cameroon cracks down on journalists.

The BOK intervened in and the Won traded up.  This is a platform for artificial parity with the dollar rally vs. the Euro.  Perhaps Korea is also attempting to pace with the Yuan hikes in China.  China traded down today as there is still concern growing about regional banks and tightening.

UBS is urging the Swiss government to pass what is a quasi dual tax treaty document.  As Obama plans to kick his effort to eliminate offshore tax benefits.  It will be interesting to see how the Swiss government responds.  The recent exposure of HSBC private banking information most likely has the country on edge.  Anyone who plays the game of RISK or has done business in Switzerland knows how seriously they take business.  It is still unclear what stance Switzerland will take thought it seems the US is challenging some very sensitive sovereign issues.  I think that Zurich will go silent for a period until the storm blows over.

Europe is trading up on new relative negative news and a strong day for the DOW.  Most of the EU could use ending the week on a positive note after much uncertainty prevailed throughout the week.  Especially after it is being reported that the European Economy will take 2-3 years to recover.  What does that really mean?  It would seem as if the other (or many) shoe(s) may drop in Europe as Greece, Spain and Portugal continue to remain in serious risk of defaulting no matter how they attempt to sugar coat it.

Sweden today recognized the WW1 Ottoman slaughter of an unknown number of Armenians as genocide. Turkey begged to differ.  Having studied the matter we have an opinion, but the stock market cares little for History.  In fact, its greatest strength and greatest weakness is the inability of the market to learn from historical cycles.  We base much of our trading decisions on current international and national trends in conjunction with various algorithms allowing us to process the information in relation to historical trends.  Of course, disciplined trading is a difficult skill to develop.  Accepting stop loss trading points is essential to long term success as a clear definition of risk tolerance must be associated with any trading model.  It has been said that mathematics can provide the answer to any question. ..it would seem the world could use some answers.

The Stoxx 600 US Index is up on the day.  Sign of futures being up in the US, but that can always change over the hours leading up to the bell.  It will be interesting to see if the Dow can hold 10,600 today to go test 10,750 of if profit taking and the Bears will test 10,500.

On a side note, the Oslo exchange is up 78% over the last 12 months.  The performance is amazing and I can’t even interject pickled herring slight as numbers speak for themselves.  We do think that some of the better performing markets may have reached a bit of resistance and the US and perhaps a few South American Indexes, will be the next to perform.  We must also note that Carlos Slim of Mexico just replaced Bill Gates as the wealthiest man in the word per Forbes at 53.7 Billion.  To accomplish this in a country that manages to have the approximately the 5th highest per capita murder rate notwithstanding current international crisis abroad is nothing short of amazing.  Though if we consider the monopolies of Cemex and Pemex (Cement and Oil/Gas), this enormous growth in wealth makes sense.  We will leave conjecture based on banking activities related to ill-gotten gain from drug trafficking out of our discourse on Mexico.

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Well it’s no surprise that the smart money is taking some profits in this market.  Any level such as DOW 10,500 is going to have enough program trading in the derivatives market and the underlying stocks that selling is almost a given.  It’s good to see the DOW fighting off a late surge of bear aggression and holding above DOW 10,500.

Of course, as I predicted in regards to the EU situation, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreo went to Obama today and requested assistance in the current crisis.  This sent the EURO and Pound Sterling into a steep decline.  Fitch came out now concerned with debt concerns over Spain and Portugal (again as we predicted) but said Greece was concerned, a low level concern for default?  I mean who is he kidding?  Again that’s the great thing about the market.  Odd news coming out of China and negative news coming out of the EU will have an interesting affect on the markets today.  So it’s contrarian and right leaning news prevailing on the wires.  It’s a spooky day I must say with Hungry and Austria selling bonds. Biden decided today was a good day to pledge the US unvarnished commitment to Israel.  What does that even stand for?  Who writes these marketing slogans for the government?  NOC is out on the wires.  I say buy NOC as the need for high-tech weapons is rapidly increasing and Northrop has positioned itself as the leader in its sector.

Okay, the theme for today is xenophobia and nationalism.  Some U.S. special interest group is actually have a press conference launching about the “social costs” of pornography.  Online pornography alone is a $3 billion or more annual sector.  No matter the general moral opinion held by US citizens, this is running square into first amendment rights.

Futures are down in the US weighed by concerns about Asia and the EU debacle.  These Credit Default Swaps basically guaranteeing coverage of investment losses hedging offshore entities investments in underlying debt of EU governments and corporations are partly to blame for pressure on the weaker EU economies.  This is another round of exotic derivative garbage that will later be considered the impetus for some investment bubble creating the necessity for governments to bail out lemming banks that are consistently late to the party.

So hold on for an interesting ride today as futures are pointing to the US markets opening down.  There is pressure on Oil and Gold today as the Dollar rallied against the Euro and Pound Sterling.  Clearly this is one of the few times the dollar actually has nowhere else to go but up.  Well I still say that there are really not too many other places to put your money other than the US stock market.  I guess I might venture that South American Index funds may hold steady today.  I don’t buy China’s hint that it might unpeg the Yuan from the Dollar.  The bears are going to try to pound the open as it will be a fight to hold DOW 10,500 today.

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The US is officially showing some acute signs of decline.  Though, I love the DOW and our country, the fact that Cottonelle actually used Tori Spelling and her husband to determine if people rolled their toilet paper over or under is not promising.  The story was reported by PRN on the wires between a PBOC statement on Monetary Policy stance and the EU’s Barroso commenting on Nuclear Waste issues providing further evidence why people think the US decline is eminent.  Over / under on how long that ad exec will keep position?  It is March madness?

Nearly every major Asian stock index was up nicely on the day and Europe is trading up on the Greek news we commented on.  US Indexes are up in Europe so it looks like another great day for the US markets.  Breaking through Dow 10,500 may attract some profit taking though the technical momentum looks more like the market will test 10,750 or even 11,000 first.  And I admit my opinion is biased as I’ve projected Dow 12,000 for year end.  There is just so much cash on the sidelines and I don’t see it going too many other places unless the offshore funds sneak another round of air investments past the regulators in the form of asset based exotic derivatives stemming from the Trillion dollar looming commercial debt debacle.  There is significant uncertainty related to this situation and definitely high up on our watch list.

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It is sad to say, but it seems to me that investors trust corporations more than the US government.  Given the choice would you rather invest in politicians by buying bonds that yield next to nothing in return for your investment or invest in Procter and Gamble, GE, Microsoft or even Google?  I know that the government will certainly spend the money on something that may or may not benefit the country.  Financially, we are so overleveraged it is a joke with China owning the majority of our trillion plus dollar debt?  We would certainly be bankrupt if we were a corporation.  Market competition demands that companies hire the best minds to earmark investment for something that will benefit the Company giving it a competitive advantage.  The Company has to make money or its debt load will eventually sink it below the minimum listing requirements of an exchange resulting in bankruptcy.  Not a good investing opportunity.  Investors are looking for hot stocks. Stock market analysis points many directions when looking at the current market in respect to other periods of enormous default on notes.  It’s certain banks will fail, companies will fail and the government will falter.  However, large corporations and agile corporations that have good access to capital in conjunction with a unique business model will flourish. Defensive sectors and the DOW in general as a defensive market for world investments leads me to like the US markets and the Swiss market cause they are above the law with caves full of gold.

So 12,000-15,000 on the DOW between 2011 and 2013 is greatly possible and remember that trading futures is extremely risky.  It should only be attempted by very experienced investors who have filled out the necessary FINRA compliance paper work with their broker dealer in addition to consulting a FINRA Registered Representative before making any investment decision.

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Okay ITALY, I love Italy by the way. Their shoes and clothes are to die for. We have found several stock picks and penny stocks before related to shoes and clothes. Spending time in fashion shows in Milan there is A LOT to realize about Italy. Gelato at the canals of Milan, Gelato with an Italian model on the canals of Milan even better, or Double Chocolate Gelato with two Italian models on the canals at Milan may be the best. BUT BULGARIA, and even worse if you ask any northern Italian are the Chinese sweatshops outside Florence and further to the South. Bulgaria now knocks off shoes and sells them to the EU and pays its works a fraction of the skilled Italian artisan. Even Italians are ripping off Italians. What is the effect??? The largest industry fashion is in BIG trouble in Italy with 5% of companies already shutting down and another 30% on the fence. PETA has actually dented the industry a bit and I sadly say as I think any person who would walk right by a homeless man begging in LA on their way to attend a PETA rally should be tried in court for being a trader to their species. To each their own, after all, there are no homeless in the US. Then PETA can tell me to take off my crocodile shoes. The point of this mild digression was to point out that there are problems everywhere in the EU before they even really try to take on the issue of getting Greece out of default then what about Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and France???

Hmm… South America may have earthquakes, but that is part of the reason for the vast variety and yield of crops from there. The durable goods sector in South American can yield some hot stocks and penny stocks. I still say fade regional banks and go strong exporters (S.A.) and S.A. funds, and sell the EU. The Euro may fall for a while vs. the Dollar. I don’t care who is in political office particularly who is President as we have to make money either way, but at least entertain me and make a decision. At least Bush the sequel constantly made decisions followed by decisions about his decisions and made us laugh about it. Our current President took a nation so ultra left pulling where I heard comments from some of the hardest leaning right wingers out there that maybe the line between religion and politics had been breached in the GOP and that a bit of Democratic control might help and he actually turned this notion by inviting the Republicans right back into power. Putting down certain politicians would be redundant so I can’t say buy the dollar, but I really, really, really want to.

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I recommend watching programming on the channels G4, BBC, and Current. There is a fresh perspective in the documentaries those channels produce and the news is based upon user feedback from an international audience.  Not your typical scare and fear brainwashing news about local death, taxes and celebrities. You will find parodies of all these that are quite entertaining.  Many investing and research projects we undertake find their origins from watching international trends, progressive social networking on advanced platforms and from our international partners and subsidiaries.

A portion of our stock picks are companies that start out as penny stocks.  Some of the companies that are players in the Latin American Sector start as the best penny stocks in our opinion.  The platform that we have developed is quite unique combining the power of information to those who are most interested in it. The fact is that the best place to currently put your money is in performing sectors of the US stock market.  With China tightening banking reserves and loan policy and raising the interest rate to stave of inflation, it is imperative to closely monitor the world economies.  While we have an internal debacle in our banking sector as the typical conservative nature when faced with any economic crisis leads to the “Ostrich Syndrome”.  So we know clichés are not appropriate but the Ostrich is known when afraid to find a hole in the ground and stick its head into the hole.  This often results in an easy kill.  So these means the Stock Market will stay in a fairly good trend unless some unknown crisis hits.  Never the less there are always sectors that out perform any market as we have identified some trends for long and short positions in the market.

TODAY’S market looks pretty good as most Asian markets closed up with some good Corporate earning coming in.  The US Stoxx 600 index was up on trading a good sign for US Markets.  European markets are up despite Greece continuing to be a problem.  It’s really crazy to look at all the countries in the EU cooperating.  Spain, Portugal, and Ireland are all looking at debt issues with banks increasing shying from buying debt.  Even the US is considered risky b/c of the banking issues I detailed earlier.  It’s unlikely that Greece won’t get bailed out, but it’s a very shifty world.  Beta is high and the volatility signs are showing in many areas.

So expect US up and go to speculatingstocks.com for investment information.  We always attempt to blend a mix of world news, travel, entertainment and investment information as we peruse the world as we actually believe it to be.

So I’m just going to break it down on investing in the current market from the macro side.  I just spoke to a close friend who returned from Columbia.  Basically everything laid out from an economic analysis of their observations regarding the country further strengthens the stock market trends that we have been observing and reporting in our various stock newsletters.  The fact is that the strongest economies currently are those of exporters.

More specifically exporters of non durables where the country has limited exposure to the primary tidal wave of bank debacles associated with mortgage backed securities and the coming tidal wave of potentially devastating exposure of banks that own the debt from the commercial real estate market.  In the US, the regional banks have been falling like dominos and are either taken over by the FDIC or absorbed by investing groups that plan on creating the next round of debt related exotic securities.  This time the notes are from the billions of bad debt related to commercial property.

It is a simple pattern in the US that has been repeated a number of times.  This is perhaps the most devastating economic crisis the country has ever faced.  Basically the dollar is weak.  Companies in the US laid people off. This in combination with a huge number of loans on residential property handed out like hot cakes to non qualified investors.  Then the trading of this d and f or Omega in reality as my economist friend likes to liken it too, the last letter in a dead language quality wise.  Companies are no longer able to pay their rent.  Retail space has also been built out too quickly and even those buildings and strip malls once considered sure bets for high occupancy rates instead have record rates of available space.  This creates another phenomenon of commercial notes becoming non-performing and the banks are forced to rate it as bad debt.

Now the big four banks are decently positioned with their (our) TARP bailout money and other revenue streams to handle the bad debt on their books.  They have just stopped loaning and are pushing towards opening new accounts and fee based money management.  The huge problem is the billions of commercial real estate debt owned by the regional banks that did not receive any bailout money.  In Southern California, there are many regional banks that fit into this sad reality.  In fact, we’ve had a chance to look over many opportunities for investing in notes from various regional banks.  So investing tip number one, and this is difficult for us to admit as my life has been surrounded by stock picks for more than 15 years, BUY debt on commercial properties.  There are amazing opportunities out there to pick up the debt on commercial properties that are still performing.  Often the debt can be purchased for a 50%-70% discount to face value.  Further negotiations with the current owners of the property can increase that margin significantly as eventual failure and non-performance on the debt is likely and complete ownership will ensue.