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When it comes to investing, time is your most valuable commodity.  The Indices have a tendency to trade higher over time.  In the last 89 years, the SP500 has been up 73% of the time with an annual gain of 21%.  Negative years have occurred 27% of the time averaging an annual loss of -14.29%. This doesn't mean that pullbacks are not painful, stressful, stomach churning, etc.  In hindsight, they are a walk in the park, but when you are going through a drawdown, your behavioral flaws will fail you almost everytime.  Hence, the importance of knowing the history of [...]

Today will be a big day.  The Fed will decide whether or not they are going to raise rates and hint what they plan to do or not do.  Many including myself expect a volatile environment; the fact that we have quadruple witching tomorrow will only help exacerbate the move.  How the market reacts no one really knows, based on the recent up move lately, one can assume that something has been priced in and a small retracement of this recent move is probably to be expected.  I believe that in the short term any extreme move from the announcement [...]

To become successful in the market long term, you have to become a student of the market. You have to know yourself, and match your personality with a particular time frame, and strategy. For one, I feel more comfortable holding on to stocks for a short period taking advantage of the many short term momentum bursts that many stocks exhibit.  A typical stock that goes up 100% or more in one year will make a bulk of those gains in a handful of days. The rest of the time it consolidates by either trading sideways or down.Top 9 stocks ranked [...]

The volatility ETF's are currently the talk of the town (VXX, UVXY, TVIX, VIXY).  Most investors I have spoken to have no idea how they work, the most frequently asked questions is; why is the VIX up 10% and the VXX is only up 2%? Over time, this cost adds up, and is the primary reason VXX is down an eye-popping 99.6 percent since its launch, and down significantly in every year since inception. Fluctuations in the underlying VIX Index matter, too, but over longer-term horizons, contango are what's been killing returns for the ETN.--ETF.COMRead the rest of the article [...]

David Tepper manages more than $20 billion dollars for his fund Appaloosa Management.  The fund returned a record 42 percent in 2013 and has had only three down years in its history: 1998 (down 29 percent), 2002 (down 25 percent), and 2008 (down 27 percent), according to the book "The Alpha Masters".  But the years after those declines, the fund had a record net performance in 1999 (up 61 percent), 2003 (up 149 percent) and 2009 (up 132 percent).-CNBCInstitutional Investor's Alpha ranked Tepper number one for earning a $2.2 billion paycheck in 2012, in 2013 he earned $3.5 billion.  David [...]

Akebia Therapeutics up 70% in the after hours is why you should consider buying biotechs and Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals down 79% is why many don't.  Small-cap biotechs offer the biggest mispricing (opportunities) in the market; a promised land full of landmines.  A basket of biotechs and or the ETF's (XBI, BBH) make more sense to me than a flyer with one.Getting Started Is Easyfzorrilla@zorcapital.com   @Zortrades#STOCKS 

Ever since the SP500 broke down from a 7-month range on 8/20/15, it has become very volatile. We have seen huge down days, followed by huge up days.  This all comes after one tightest six month ranges in the history of the SP500.I still believe that the current situation is similar to the summer of 2011, which we have mentioned numerous times, initially on 8/24/15.  In the summer of 2011 the SP500 hit its first low in August, it whipsawed back and forth for two months before it ultimately bottomed in October.In this environment, one must avoid chasing rips after multiple [...]

**The market and stocks go up AND down, Not up OR down.**Stocks are nothing but letters and numbers; they don’t know who you are and at what price you own them.**There is a big difference between a company and its stock!!! Many companies continued to be great companies for months, quarters, years after their stock peaked.  And also vice versa, there are a ton of "bad" companies that have great acting stocks.  Would you rather own a good company or a good stock?**You don’t know if something is a good buying opportunity until you sell it.  AOL, CSCO, SUNW, MSFT, [...]

I continue to believe that the market is following the same trajectory it did in 2011 that we mentioned here a week ago, CLICK. With that being said, don't short in the hole and certainly don't chase any rallies after multiple up days.Getting Started Is Easyfzorrilla@zorcapital.com   @Zortrades

This week was a historical week on Wall Street.  Within the first few minutes of trading Monday morning the Dow Jones was down 1,000 points and the SP500 -5%.  There was panic in the air; we had hundreds of mini flash crashes in stocks and ETF's.  The QQQ after the open was down 17%. Many Good Til Cancel stop orders were hit at levels way below where they were set.  I heard of one situation in which the broker had a stop for GE at $23 and was executed a shade below $20.  To throw salt to the wound, the [...]