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.

Penny Stocks and Penny Stock Picks

Investments made in oil stock have always been thought of as sound investments. Investments in Oil companies can be made in many ways; you could either purchase oil stocks of large public companies or participate in private, projects. You might also invest in oil stocks through mutual funds.

Over the years, most of the investments made in oil stock have been found to be profitable in the long run, also because of the ever increasing demand for oil and the replenishing stocks, oil stocks enjoy high returns. On a note of caution however, before you invest large amount of money in oil stock you should try to analyze the varying risks and rewards associated with such companies. Besides doing a background research on oil stocks you should also look at company expansion plans and financial health of the company.

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Investment stocks could be a good idea for those who want to invest some amount of extra money. There are many people who think in terms of stock ideas if they have a little money that can be spared which they would like to use as investment stock to make a sizeable profit. Your stock ideas can translate into various areas of investment. Investment stocks, come in various forms of day trading, swing trading and long term trading too. While day time trading and swing trading are riskier stock ideas, the serious investor might think of investment stocks for a long time period.

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A bulletin board stock is basically an OTC stock which is issued by startup companies which are not yet fully developed enough to meet the requirements necessary for registering on the larger stock exchanges. The bulletin board stocks are traded through broker-dealers, who in turn interact with the market makers on a one to one basis.

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All of us who invest in the stock market want to make some good money, and your odds increase if you find the best stock at a certain time. However, there arises the problem of knowing or identifying the top stocks which could be converted to the best stock for you. There are plenty of software, newsletters, TV and radio stock pickers as well as sites that will tell you which top stocks you could invest in. But in spite of all of this one needs to do their own homework in order to guarantee better profits from the best stock at a certain time.

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Small cap stocks are a type of stock characterized by their market capitalization size. Market capitalization is a procedure to measure the financial size of an organization. Against the owning stocks, which represent the ownership of all stable and liquid assets of a company, the capitalization of stocks represents the market valuation of the company’s net worth.

A method of evaluating the market capitalization of a company is to multiply the number of outstanding shares with the prevailing cost of each share. However, the evaluation of the complete market value of any corporation requires the addition of its bonds for public trade. The market capitalization has constructed different classes of corporation with large and small cap or capitalization stocks.

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Today everyone wants to buy hot stocks, in order to make a nice profit that can mean a passport to a luxurious life. A search on the World Wide Web will bring about; hordes of sites that claim to give you stock tips that can make you instantly rich. A sensible look at the whole concept of understanding stock tips for buying hot stocks tells you that it isn’t as easy as it sounds. Using the information available and perceiving it correctly is half the job done.

Some of the stock tips that can help you in buying hot stocks are:

-With the help of a stock market expert and the stock tips that he will give you, decide what kind of hot stocks you want to buy and for how long. Ask your investment advisor for stock tips that will brief you on the time span you should hold on to a particular stock for.

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Most people are of the opinion that, buying value stock is equivalent to less expensive stocks. Though the adage may be true for most of those who invest in value stocks, there are also many such buyers who have made profit by buying cheap stock that has turned out to be value stocks.

Many might think that making profit from a cheap stock may be a matter of luck. But apart from the luck factor there are other methods that may be utilized to convert a cheap stock into a value stock.

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SpeculatingStocks.com Releases 3 Scary Good Stock Picks for Halloween

SpeculatingStocks.com has chosen BIDZ, IVN and ATVI as its 3 Scary Good Stock Picks for Halloween and beyond!

October 28, 2008 — SpeculatingStocks.com has released 3 Stock Picks for Halloween and beyond! Begin watching the stock picks below. SpeculatingStocks.com believes they will start moving to the upside this Halloween week.

BIDZ is an online jeweler, somewhat of a niche mini-eBay in the used jewelry space online. SpeculatingStocks.com’s second stock pick, IVN is a small cap, gold penny stock currently in talks with the Mongolian government to receive approval to develop a copper and gold mine in the country. For IVN, approval from the Mongolian government could be a watershed event for them and their partner Rio Tinto. Their third scary good stock pick released is ATVI. Activision Blizzard (ATVI) is positioned for rapid growth through their World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Guitar Hero brands.

SpeculatingStocks.com founder Russ Urban commented, “We believe these stock picks have a great shot at creating significant returns for investors.”

SpeculatingStocks.com Stock Pick: Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (IVN)

Stock Price: $1.94

Ivanhoe Mines, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a mineral exploration and development company. The company holds interests in and conducting operations on mineral resource properties principally located in Central Asia and Australia as well as projects in Mongolia and Kazakhstan.

On September 30th, a company executive from IVN commented that he saw no reason for IVN’s drop. At that time, IVN was trading at $6.40. IVN has been severely oversold and now appears to have finally found a bottom just below the $2.00 level.

Rio Tinto, one of the largest mining companies in the World, is a strategic partner of Ivanhoe Mines. IVN and Rio Tinto are negotiating with Mongolia’s government to develop a copper and gold mine in the country.

They are looking to develop the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia’s South Gobi Region. If IVN receives approval by the Mongolian government, we could see IVN shares rebound and correct big to the upside.

We believe gold will rebound and benefit IVN as well.

SpeculatingStocks.com Stock Pick: BIDZ.com, Inc. (BIDZ)

Stock Price: $6.22

BIDZ.com, Inc. is an online jewelry retailer offering its products through a live auction format at Bidz.com as well as a fixed price online retail store at Buyz.com.

BIDZ has been profitable the past several quarters. We believe BIDZ will benefit by people selling their gold jewelry.

BIDZ is currently trading at a market cap of only around $147 million, which we believe is low considering their growing brand and future potential.

BIDZ could see a major short squeeze with over 25% of its 12.12 million float short.

SpeculatingStocks.com Stock Pick: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (ATVI)

Stock Price: $11.69

Activision Blizzard, Inc. operates as an online and console game publisher. Some of the company’s brands include World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Guitar Hero and Call of Duty.

We believe ATVI is the #1 gaming stock in the stock market right now with the most future potential in its industry. World of Warcraft is about as big of a money maker as it gets in the gaming industry.

It is speculated that ATVI could be releasing Starcraft II around February or March of 2009. The original Starcraft is still regarded as one of the greatest games of all time and Starcraft II is expected to be a huge money maker as well.

Guitar Hero is very popular with console gamers. Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft create a ton of positive buzz marketing for Activision Blizzard. We believe it will be hard for any other gaming company to compete with ATVI.

ATVI is down at pre-Blizzard merger levels and appears significantly undervalued at a market capitalization of around $15.4 billion.

It is important to find great companies at the right time in their stock charts. We expect the stocks mentioned above to become hot stocks after the recent stock market downturn.

All of us who invest in the stock market want to make some good money, and your odds increase if you find the best stock at a certain time. However, there arises the problem of knowing or identifying the top stocks which could be converted to the best stock for you. There are plenty of software, newsletters, TV and radio stock pickers as well as sites that will tell you which top stocks you could invest in. But in spite of all of this one needs to do their own homework in order to guarantee better profits from the best stock at a certain time.

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