05/21/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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FADEbook

The stock closed down today 4.20 to 34.03. This was a 38 dollar IPO. Now, as you know before this very noisy and overhyped IPO came out, I simply said  the opposite of what everybody else was telling you. And believe me, I know what the brokers were saying. I knew what I a lot of people were saying.

I simply told you: “Pick your poison. Know what you’re getting into. Understand that valuation ultimately counts and that I had no idea what they would open this up at. But you know what I thought of valuations. And that fact of the matter is, if I was bringing this company public, I would have brought it out at 25% to 50% lower than the price they brought it out at, as well as shares put out there to the public.

It has turned into a fiasco. Not really in price. From IPO 38 to 34, it’s down about 12%.

But it’s the people who, at the open paid 42 to 45. For me it’s the same issue continued.

Take a moment to read this article on Facebook that I put out today.

Sometimes I say things that some people get offended by. But the fact of the matter is that there is a certain area of Wall Street that just plain old sucks. They put fees ahead of the investing public and in this case, that’s exactly what they did. There’s no doubt in my mind that they were trying to create another bubble in which they hoped this one was going to pop so that they could bring other things public that don’t even have the fundamentals that Facebook has.

And we saw it in the late 90s.

Do you realize that in the late 90s, because you enabled them, they brought out companies public like Webvan? They delivered food locally. And they called it an Internet company because you ordered you food over the Internet.

You may remember they brought a company public called Buy.com. You know what they did? You buy stuff from them on web, like Amazon. But their motto was to lose money on purpose and then make it on advertising. Now that’s one heck of a business model.

I could continue. But you pretty much get my point. And I believe my job, first and foremost, is to protect you from the ills of what goes on around you.

Day 1 of an Attempted Rally

It was a strong up day pricewise in the market and it was long overdue. I have been telling you it was overdue. It could have happened anytime recently. It just decided to happen today.

Coming into this week, the markets have been stretched and extended and it was oversold to the downside. I told you that last week. I told you last week that, any day we could get a bounce and it could be a big bounce. The fact is you don’t know where you’re going to get one. You just know that eventually you will.

What does this mean? Simple. It’s Day 1 of an attempted rally and now we’re looking for a Follow-Through Day (FTD) starting with Thursday. That would be the fourth day off of today. We’ll look for a high volume day and a big day off the Nasdaq or S&P that potentially turns the market. Just because you get a FTD does not mean it’s doing to work. Every bull phase the market has had started with one. Not every FTD led to a bull phase.

Do I have any type of educated guess? Not really. But, if I had the market to do my bidding, I’d like to see some backing and filling here and then a FTD.

We’ll see.

There really is a clear loss of Leadership. So many stocks and sectors have broken down. I think we’re going to need some repairing, which is usually comes in the form of time and price, before we can potentially move up in earnest.

Just remember, we’re heading into a holiday weekend and into the end of the month on massive oversold conditions both on price and in sentiment.

And while sentiment is a secondary indicator, some of the things I follow have gone down to massive extremes on a sentiment basis.

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05/18/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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After the First 5 Minutes of the Facebook Open, I Started Tweeting the “Uh Oh” Moment

Just remember and don’t forget that somebody warned you about how Wall Street works and how you need to be careful.

For the past several weeks I have told you that I had absolutely no clue about what happens when Facebook opens. There was only one thing that I did know: That the valuation they were bringing out at was an absolutely joke. It is based on greed and fees and the complete ignoring of the investment community.

Facebook came public today. It was a 38 dollar deal. They opened it at 42.5. It went down to 38. Rallied back up to 40.5. With about 5 or 6 minutes to go, it was at 38. And they were selling the 38 dollar stock off. And then somehow somebody bought 10 million shares at one time to get it at the close to 38.28.

Now, I must tell you that this is not surprising. Wall Street is a hype machine. And the hype machine went into overdrive recently. They overpromised and underdelivered again.

And why? Greed.

The more shares sold at IPO and the higher the price, the bigger the fees the investment banks get. Screw the investing public and the price that they have to pay. As I’ve told you on this show, I think the stock is probably worth 15 to 20 dollars on amount of shares they just brought public. Not 38.

A company should not be brought public with $100 billion market cap that does only does $3.5 billion in revenues…and doesn’t make a product. But yet, that’s what they did. And everybody that bought stock today lost money and the people who were told by the brokers to buy were also told they were going to make some big cheese today. If you didn’t sell early, you haven’t made a dime.

But you know who has made money? All the insiders. All the investment bankers. All the private equity companies that funded them. And I’m sure a lot of them were selling today, because here’s what happens now:

All the people that expected a monstrous pop are now realizing “uggggh” and if that 38 dollar price is taken out on the downside, you going to see some serious selling and you’re going to see it in the low 30s…from the beginning. And then we’ll see what happens afterwards.

You know who owns the IPOs? A lot of retail investors that were sold but also a lot big people like the hedge funds and the like. And they’re not going to sit on this.

So the bottom line is: I’m not surprised. As you know I don’t watch financial TV but I turned it on today. Their face was going ashen as it was hitting back at 38 bucks. And all the people came on to talk about how surprised they were this.

Price counts. Valuation counts. And the market spoke today. But it spoke in other ways too.

You see, there have been companies that trade on the market that were able buy stock in the initial market before Facebook went public. I was look at this FirstHand Tech Value Fund (SVVC) because the psychos ran it up from 14 to 46 based on Facebook. The stock was now 7.5 to 19.24. It hit 46 just about 5 or 6 weeks ago.

I often talk about “picking your poison.” Pick your poison carefully. The investment bankers did you wrong again. They’ve done it so many times. In 1999, they brought companies public that didn’t have a dime in sales. And they brought them public because YOU THE PUBLIC bought it at any price…because you thought it would never end. Well life doesn’t work out that way because if you don’t have a business model and you have not sales and you have a $3 billion market cap, there’s a lot of money to be lost. And all those stocks went to zero.

So some of these things like SVVC are heading back into the real world.

Also, what we’re seeing now, because the “end all be all” Facebook didn’t do what everybody thought it would…is that stocks like Yelp (YELP), which also was brought out at a ridiculous valuation, with $90 in revenues and loses good money and (even at the close today it had a $1.1 billion market cap) was down 2.63 to 18.64.

Zynga…I warned you. The stock was down 1.11 to 7.16 today and is down 29% from its IPO. And it still has a $5.2 billion market cap as of today.

And I mention a few others, but it doesn’t really matter. I think you get the hint.

You can’t fit a10 pound salami in a 5 pound bag ladies and gentlemen and that’s what they tried to do. And I’m not surprised. I had no idea how it would open, but I saw the first 5 minutes and started Tweeting the “uh oh” moment. 

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05/17/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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Bloodbathian

Today was a big market day.

While was somewhat “bloodbathian,” it did not start today.

For weeks and weeks and weeks, we have been telling you about a worsening internal condition of the market. We walked you through the commodities and told you to stay as far away as possible from them. Then, we saw the Semiconductors and we told you to walk away from them. And then we brought in the financials and told you get away from them. And then we told you the tactics that should be used…that any stock breaking the 50-day/10-week moving average – bye bye!

We told you about the European markets, acting like the South end of a North bound mule.

We told you about the Asian markets. We also told you that we have no idea how long a bearish phase lasts or how far it goes, just that we know we’re in a bearish phase. And we’ll let it play itself out.

Well, all the evidence is in. The market is getting worse and worse. Fewer and fewer stocks are working. More and more stocks are breaking down.

This leads us to today, which, as I stated was “bloodbathian.” I know that’s not a real word. But I figured, what the heck.

And we told you the reasons. But we also have told you the reasons have been out there for months and months and months. That it’s how the market reacts to these reasons that matters most and for a while, the market couldn’t care less.

Well, the market cares now.

So first off, here are the reasons:

  • We have $16 trillion in debt and a president that does not give a crap about it. And he is not even pretending to care about his $1.3 trillion a year in deficits as far as the eyes can see. He’s not talking about. He does not care about it.
  • On top of that, all he talks about is how he’s got to tax more people. We need more money in government, even though the government is the most inefficient corrupt blob we have ever seen in our history.
  • Europe…socialist countries that have run out of workers to pay for the people that are no longer producing…and the promises to those people that are no longer producing till death. And the fact that all these countries bought the debt of those other countries making them intertwined with those countries and having to take care of those countries. And this is after when they decided to adopt the Euro, they had promised they would not prop up a country.
  • Then we have our employment problem here in the U.S. 8.1% is a blatant lie. The crooks in Washington have taken millions and millions of Americans out of the workforce to make that number look better. The fact of the matter is you just had the same amount of people in the workforce as it was in 2009, we’d somewhere near 11%.

But there is nothing like the debt and the people in power who couldn’t care less. And media watchdogs are lying on their backs with their paws in the air saying “scratch me” and give me a dog bone. Lapdogs…while they are sitting there letting the deficit swell every day.

Now why does the deficit matter?

Who pays those deficits? The economy. Now if the economy only produces $2.5 billion in revenues to the government every year, at $16 trillion, you add it up. That’s six years of taxes already spent! And it’s been done on purpose by Republicans and Democrats.

So now the market is reacting to all this stuff and in case you don’t know, initial claims for unemployment were higher than expected today. In case you don’t know, they came up with the economic indicators which much worse than expected.

And the market reacted to that.

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05/16/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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Take a Vacation

Nothing has changed in the markets today. It’s been another day where the market was up nicely and then sold off badly.

I can go into the “who,” “why,” “where,” “when,” and “how”…but we care about the reaction to all of that.

There was news from the Fed today that three Fed Heads came out and said that maybe we’re going to need QE 3. The market got bid up for 5 minutes and then went right back down.

There was news out Europe. First, Greece is okay, then it’s not. Then we’re gonna do this and then we’re gonna to that and then no we’re not.

And the list goes on and on in the news that came out today. But the only thing that matters to me is how the market reacts to all that stuff.

And to be clear, the market is not acting well.

Again, the market had a chance to be up and be up well. Again the market was sold off. And I gotta tell you…VISCIOUSLY.

Early in the morning, all the worst areas were up nicely. By the close, they were all smacked to smithereens.

Early on, the Financials had a little bid. By the end of the day, the Financials were once again got smoked and smoked badly.

And there’s not much more I need to add.

  • The market remains in a corrective mode.
  • All buying has been knocked out with a bigger bout of selling.
  • Price is not holding up.
  • First support levels have been taken out.
  • Now some secondary support levels have been taken out.
  • Fewer and fewer stocks are working, which means that more and more stocks are breaking support and/or moving averages.
  • Which means…take a vacation.

We have no idea how long this lasts or how far it goes.

I just know that again, today, they were distributing stock in a very big way. And if there’s anything you have learned from this show, never argue with action in the market. Because you will get run over.

Never argue with the market. The market is a great forecaster of things to come.

Remember just recently, I think Apple was around 640 at the high. And a couple guys came out and slapped 1000 price targets on it. Yippee yay yay. It’s 545 at the close today.

Don’t ever dictate to the markets.

That’s all. 

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05/15/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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A Very Crappy Day in the Market Today

As I have taught you, it is never good when the market is up nicely and then finishes down. We’re getting loads of that right now.

We believe in characteristics of bull and bear phases and the understanding of them. We look at them on a long-term basis, an intermediate-term basis, and a short-term basis.

We look at the daily action because we know that in bull phases, the market will tend to open down and finish up. In bear phases, they tend to open up and finish down.

How do we know this? The study of bull and bear phases. You just have to do a little bit of studying.

And the bottom line out of today is really nothing good came out of today.

I can tell you the news.

  • Greece? Ain’t nothing good going on there. There’s now rumblings that they will leave the European Union.
  • Spain? Their 10-year bond is now 6.25.
  • Italy? Their ratings have now been taken down another notch.
  • Why? Not because of the great people of these great nations. It’s because the people running government decided to spend them into oblivion and forgot that they only way they get an money is to get it from those same taxpayers. And when you let too many taxpayers retire at the age of 50 and get salary equal to 75% for the rest of their lives, you’re eventually in trouble.

And mind you, this has been done on purpose That’s what socialism is all about. Clear no accountability of the tax dollar. So that’s a bit of the story over there.

But over here, in the U.S…

  • Massive deficit and a president that couldn’t care less about them and a president that lied that they cared about them.
  • A major tax increase coming in January if nobody does anything about it. Go read about it.
  • A fake employment number at 8.1%. You know I think it’s really around 10%. Because they’re trying to tell you that things are improving, but all these people are leaving the workforce. You know that’s not how it works. In a better environment for jobs, more people enter the workforce. And the unemployment rate first goes up! So who are they trying to kid.

So that’s all the news.

But we’ve seen markets that accept “not so go news” and they go up…and that’s a bull phase. And we’ve also seen markets where the just keep going down and that would be a bear phase. That’s what we are in right now.

And the genesis of this bear phase is about:

  • More about more stocks breaking support
  • Fewer and fewer stocks working.
  • The Semiconductor Index rolling over badly
  • The Financials breaking down
  • The New High List contracting and the New Low List expanding.
  • All major indices breaking the all-important 50-day moving average on volume, which happened on May 4
  • The NYSE, believe it or not is sitting on its 200-day moving average which is quite amazing.

And that’s how you get into this position.

But that doesn’t change the story of today which mind you was God awful ugly.

Now here’s a few notes today on something I haven’t mentioned in a while…the Dollar and Euro.

The Dollar was soaring because the Euro was crashing. Go look at FXE which is ETF of the Euro. It almost closed at new yearly lows. Why? Nobody trusts the Euro. And keep in mind how this worked. 17 countries got together and agreed to have a common currency. The problem is that you have 17 countries thinking differently and acting differently. The had a treaty that said, “If you want to screw up and spend your way into oblivion and run massive deficits, nobody’s going to help you.”

Well they changed all that realizing that “we own their bonds” and we better do something about it. They talked austerity and they’d do something about spending government-wise. But they really have not…just like here.

So the markets in a little bit of a soup. If and when things change, I will gladly let you know. 

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05/14/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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Heading into this week, we’re into a “no earnings” period. No one’s really reporting, except for a few retail names this week. But the big story right now is a softening the economy here and a softening economy in Europe and Asia.

And the question is: “What happened to the save of Europe?”

Well isn’t any save of Europe and now there’s talk of Greece getting out of the European Union. So, I don’t what to tell you except, “DEBT KILLS.”

And we have monstrous debt here and nobody’s doing anything about it and…this president doesn’t even pretend anymore. And that’s where we stand.

Markets remain in corrective mode. All I can you right now is that they’re coming to get’em all…or just about them all.

When you get into bearish phases they eventually get most names – not every name, but most names. And more and more names went into the negative side of the coin, on another very rough day in the markets.

Basically, Europe was weak and we were weak. We started off weak, rallied back a decent amount and sold back off. When oversold conditions get relieved in the middle of the day and then sell off again, usually it’s not good news for the market.

The good is (and this is about the only good news)…oil prices are plunging.

Hmm….I’m waiting to hear Obama blame the speculators for the oil prices now plunging.

Because he was blaming them for them going up.

Now, of course, Obama is going to take credit for oil prices going down.

Now let me be clear. There is a direct correlation between the market and oil prices. So when the market is going down, oil prices are going down and vice versa. The good news is that oil is down 10% for past several days, so we’re going to get knocked down at the pump. That is quasi tax cut for every American. And the airline stocks are now acting better because a huge portion of their expense is oil.

As you know, little by little, piece by piece, more and more names have been breaking support and/or moving averages, which means:

  • Fewer and fewer stocks are working
  • The ice is getting thinner
  • The market tends to come down when that happens

…and that’s exactly what we’re getting.

If you look at the major indices:

  • The Dow is sitting a little under support which is about 12,710 with a close at 12,695.
  • The S&P 500 which has support at 1340, closed at 1338.
  • The Russell 2000 which has support at 780, closed at 778.
  • The Nasdaq which closed at 2902, has support at 2900.
  • The Nasdaq-100 has support at around 2975, closed at 2590.

So…we’re on the cusp. You don’t want to see any further deterioration from here.

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05/11/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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Let’s Hope We Don’t Have a Repeat of 2008

Thursday, after the close J.P. Morgan announced a $2 billion loss on “stuff.” I looked at what they were doing and how they were doing it – and let me be clear and concise. I don’t know what the heck they did. I don’t think Einstein knows what they did. But what do know is that the stock took a big hit. It was down almost 4 bucks to 37 dollars on 216 million shares today. Average daily volume is 30 million.

What does this mean? As you know, I was one of the ones that were out in front of the 2007-2008 debacle. Let me tell you my biggest issues. First and foremost – and I wish I was making this up – there’s anywhere from $500 to $750 trillion of what they call derivatives. Instead of going on a long dissertation on what derivatives are, let’s just say…it’s “stuff.” And a lot of it is leveraged and it’s backed by “that, that and the other thing.”

It’s just one big, gigantic merry go round.

Now what happened in 2008 is that a lot of these derivatives were based on one entity and that was housing. And, of course, housing prices crashed. And all those derivatives basically crashed.

Here’s what I think is the outcome of this:

  1. I think it’s good that it happened. You think I’m crazy right? No, it’s actually because it’s a wakeup call. Hopefully all these banking goliaths are in their boardrooms this week asking each other the question: “Do WE have any issues?”
  2. Hopefully, the people that are supposed to have oversight on this stuff say to themselves or to each other, “Let’s go over the offices of these goliath banks and let’s make sure.”

And that’s that. It was a bad bet. A lot of people are going nuts over it. J.P. Morgan has had a good reputation. It’s just tells you how much stuff is out there and that anything can happen.

Now the last part of this equation:

I better not hear that government gives another freaking dime to another one of these banking institutions if they lose money.

I am sick and tired of privatized gains and socialized losses.

You do realize that’s what happened, right?

These morons got a gigantic put with our dollars in 2008. It should have never happened. Government should have told them to take a flying leap, put a bunch of them in jail, and took away the key. But no. Some of the same people ran the show back then are still running the show right now.

It makes me ill.

Now I am a big fan of Jamie Dimon. I have no idea what happened here, who’s at fault – whatever. But we’ll find out more. I’m glad that something like this gets out the open…that risk is still out there. And it can hit at any time.

And let’s just hope that this nightmare of derivatives that the regulators have still not lassoed…let’s just hope that we don’t have a repeat of 2008.

So that’s the story.

As far as the financials are concerned, of course J.P. Morgan had some influence on them. Goldman Sachs got hit a lot – Citigroup also — but I really didn’t see a lot of damage out there. 

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05/09/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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“…I will not treat your tax dollars like Monopoly Money…”

Everybody who has been in Washington for the past 12 years – Republican or Democrat is an unmitigated failure, as a steward of our taxpayer dollars.

I know that France is going the other way. I’m going to do my darndest to make sure that we don’t go that way. Everybody keeps wondering how come the economy isn’t better. I gotta tell you, politicians are taking victory laps because we’re at 8.1% fraudulent unemployment. What? We were in the 5% range for years and years!

There is a direct correction between $16 trillion in debt – most of it accumulated since George Bush…and went into hyperdrive under THIS president – and this economy.

The people in Washington D.C. are castrating the future dollars of taxpayers and business and they all know it. Business people are smart. The only way government gets dollars is from them and individuals. And they know when the crooks in Washington spend $16 trillion that they don’t have, they know it’s coming out of who? Businesses and individuals. And if you haven’t noticed yet, there is a tax hike coming next year – the biggest one in history for $4 trillion coming out of the economy into Washington D.C. And they say they’ll cover the deficit, but they won’t. They’ll just keep spending it on stuff that is inefficient and makes no sense whatsoever.

I think we’re great. I think the American people are great. American people are smart. They work hard. They want to do the best that they can for themselves and their families.

The problem is THEM. Simple as that. They have shown a complete uncaring for you and me and our dollars. They have set rules for themselves that are different from ours. They live in a different land. Before recently, they were able to legally do illegal insider trading. And I could go on and on.

And unfortunately, we have a liar in the White House of the highest order and the lies are all there on video.

“I will not treat your taxpayer dollars like Monopoly Money. I will go line by line through the budget.”

They haven’t even put out a budget in three years!

He lied. He’s a charlatan. He represented himself as one thing and is another. He is a major league, over the top “tax and spend” socialist. A redistributor of wealth. And he has the wonderful people in the media enabling him. The media is supposed to be a watchdog. But no. And there’s just no talk about deficits by the media now.

This whole week has been on gay marriage. And, of course, Mr. Politician changed his stance today. Or “evolved.” Terrific. I’ll throw a party.

But I got news for you, in the pecking order – $16 trillion in debt and counting is Number One. But they don’t think it’s Number One because they’re economic advisors are a bunch of mutt hounds. They think it’s okay. Gimme more. And the reason they think it’s okay is because the markets haven’t collapsed. But even if that happens, they’ll just blame the other guy because that’s all they do. Naw, it wasn’t me. Just because I was in the White House for 3 plus years…no it’s Bush’s fault.

So get my point.  I want them all gone.

Find me 100 senators that care about balancing the budget.

Find me governors that care about balancing the budget of their states.

Find me 435 people in the House around the country representing their districts that “get it.”

Or I’m going to keep talking.

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05/08/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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As you the markets have been in corrective mode and they’ve been hit pretty hard. And when it comes to names getting hit, the market is starting to leave no stone unturned.

And it was one of those very rough days in the market today. But then something happened…the defense came it. Yesterday, on my radio show, I had outlined major support levels in the indices. Most of those support levels were breached today to the downside…during the day. At end of the day, most of those support levels taken back by price. This indicated defense in the market and that, maybe from here, in the near-term at least, the downside is limited.

Let me explain. What a market is going up and up and up on a strong up day, yet finishes close to the flatline or finishes down – that usually means that the buyers have been wiped out and sellers get the upper hand.

Today was the opposite. Though the market still finished down, the Dow today at one time was down 190 some odd points and yet it finished down only 76. The Nasdaq at one point today, was down 57 points, and it finished down only 11 on big volume.

This indicates defense, for now.

I don’t worry about why.

I don’t worry about whether the Fed decided to do something.

I don’t worry about “who.”

I worry about outcome.

And the outcome today was that the market has a chance to have a very bad down down. Now don’t get me wrong. There were a lot of stocks that were down a lot today. But then, there were a lot of stocks that came back today and showed some good defense.

So I’m going to call this day, a defense day, where the market had a chance to have a brutal downside day, but turned some of the way.

What’s next?

Let me be blunt and honest.

I have no clue.

And I don’t want to have a clue.

I want to play it by the book. I want to do my scans and know what the strongest names are. What names held up the best with the best earnings and that reacted well with the earnings.

I want to wait for a Follow-Through Day on the market that will tell me that maybe and potentially that the coast is clear. Notice the word “potentially.” I have this sneaking suspicion that this bad boy is going to get really touch.

So take your time.

Normally, I would tell you that today was a really good day and that the bleeding has been stashed. I can’t tell you that just yet. As I’ve been going through scans, it’s like a kid scribbling on a sheet of paper now. More and more names have broken and are out of the leadership category.

We’ll see what happens in the next few days.

I need some cards coming out of the deck. 

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05/07/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST

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Last week was rough. Over the weekend, the futures were down big time. In case you didn’t know, a socialist won the French presidency. He is the first socialist president in 17 years. He has openly admitted that he does not like the rich and that his real enemy is the world of finance.

President Hollande wants to:

  • Tax the wealthy (and I’m not making this up) up to 75%. 
  • Curtail Paris as a center for financial dealing.
  • Avoid going into the austerity measures to fix the deficits that are going on in France as well as the rest of Europe.
  • He wants to spend on social programs.
  • Lower the retirement age and basically dictate policy through tax dollars.
  • Be committed to equality regardless of whether you worked your rear end off, educated yourself, created a business, grew the business – he doesn’t care.
  • He believes that everybody should have just about the same thing.

He likes the word “parity.”

So the market was bad. But that’s not going to change the playing field for the markets right now. It is only one country.

My simple take is the same take that I have about the socialist that’s running the U.S. Again, let me say this. I don’t use the word socialist as a bad word. There are capitalists and there are socialists. Of course, there are also Libertarians and a lot of things in between. Socialists have a certain thought process:

  1. If you make too much money, you probably did something wrong to make it.
  2. If you make too much money, it shouldn’t be yours.
  3. If you make too much money, you have to pay your “fair share” (notice didn’t say a number).
  4. Socialists are smarter than you and they will be smarter than you would.

And that’s what we’re dealing with in France and that’s why we’re going to see a ton of people leave that country, if he does go to a 75% tax bracket.

Now does it remind you of anything in this country? And again, I’m not putting Obama down. I’m just stating who he is. Every bit of his policy…every bit of his rhetoric…is socialism. Listen to him in his campaign…”your fair share…equality…”

I have news for you. There’s always going to be inequality. If somebody decides not to educate themselves and smokes crack, they’re not going to make as much money as somebody who’s working their tail off. If somebody decides to be a teacher they’re going to make a certain amount of money vs. somebody who decides to run a big company.

If somebody decides to manage 2 or 3 McDonalds he is not going to make as much money as somebody who is managing a hundred of them.

That’s what is known as “individualness” which is a word I’m making up. It has to do with what I decide to do with my life, I should earn commensurate with what I decide.

If somebody decides to be a heart surgeon or an orthopedic surgeon and goes to school for eight years and does their residency and their internship and then does a lot of surgery and saves lives, they’re going to make a half million bucks, if not more.

There’s always going to be inequality. But according to other people, it shouldn’t be that way.

Screw you. You wanted to work your rear end off? You wanted to go to school for 8 years and be a doctor and make a million bucks a year? Screw you. 75%…give it to me.

Now, we’ve yet to get that in the U.S., but we’re going to. Why? Because socialists spend money and run massive deficits and then come after your money. And that’s exactly what’s happened here. Barack Obama has spent $5.5 trillion in three years that they don’t have. And he’s done it on purpose. And he refuses to do anything about it. And, of course, the media will not ask him about what he Obama said at the beginning of his presidency.

“At the beginning of your presidency, you said you would not treat taxpayer dollars like Monopoly money and you’ll go through the budget, line by line.”

And, by the way, the Democrats have not had a budget in the past three and half years.

So we’ll see how this plays out.

Now, a socialist cannot be elected without people. In this country, they lie. The President lied about who he was and what he was going to be.

In France, Hollande didn’t lie. He told everybody who he was and they still voted for him.

I don’t get it. I don’t understand it. I don’t know why people would want to vote for that. Because high taxes do only one thing: They prevent you from become rich. They don’t hurt the already rich. They prevent others from becoming rich.

So I don’t understand the French people. God bless’em. We’ll see how it plays out.

I believe in capitalism and the ability for somebody to become whatever they want to become, as long as they do it within the rule of law.

And that’s that.

I do not believe in massive over the top government.

I do not believe in government in your face. I reading now that the state of Massachusetts does not any longer allow bake sales in schools because the food is bad. Forget the fact that they’re raising funds for good things. No more cupcakes. That is small example of what I see happening. And hope that smarter heads prevail.

Because the greatness of this country is everybody wanting to be great and wanting to be wealthy and successful and do great things. And if you disincentivize that, great things don’t happen as quickly and as plentifully.

And they can talk a good game as Obama does, but they do they exact opposite every time. 

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