Daily Market Beat

When the Government Gives You Lemons
By Eric Dickson

The market is still headed lower, how much lower depends on your definition of limbo.

One thing is certain, Europe is still in turmoil, the Middle East is still a volatile battlefield and we’ve got our own issues to worry about here domestically… like inflation.

But what it boils down to is leadership. How a government runs their economy.

Socialists economies don’t work, look at Europe.

Compet   read more...

A Candid Conversation About Facebook
By Tim Fields

Today I got a call from my cousin. He wanted to talk about Facebook and a couple of other positions.

He had some concerns and I felt they were absolutely applicable to talk about today with you…

First of all, I’ll give you a rundown of who my cousin is; his name is Steve and he’s been a trader for quite some time. He saw what I was doing for my IPO clients and basically wanted in.

So for months, weâ   read more...

Social Media: Driving the Market
By Tim Fields

Facebook is not the only stock out there being affected by its IPO… it’s evident, especially with the companies close to FB and its competitors.

For instance, Zynga (ZNGA), a DMB Recommendation, is up today and will probably be up for the rest of the week.

Shares of ZNGA have picked up nearly 6% today. Why?

Because, before the market opened, Facebook raised the price range for its IPO to a range of $34 to    read more...

Reverse Split: What Changes?
By Eric Dickson

Less than a month ago, Tim recommended a twice leveraged natural gas ETF – BOIL.

His thought process was that natural gas prices are bound to rally and this would be a great investment vehicle to take advantage of the impending explosion in price of natural gas.

Good call Tim!

He made his recommendation to buy BOIL on April 16th at the price of $6.53.

By this past Thursday (5/10), shares of BOIL had cl   read more...

Understanding ADRs – And Unleashing Their Profit Potential
By Tim Fields

I’ve occasionally talked about American Depository Shares and their benefits to American investors. If you’ve missed some of these articles, I’ll recap the ADR phenomena…

The acronym ADR stands for American Depository Receipt. The emergence of ADRs goes way back to the year 1927…

ADRs were introduced to let U.S. banks purchase shares from a foreign company and re-issue them as De   read more...