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I have never written an email like this before. I have a feeling BP goes way way lower. Maybe eventually bankrupt!

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:13:42 +0000

Dear Friends,

If this type of thing does not interest you please disregard and my apologies for sending it.

Ok, so I was looking at some charts tonight on BP and combining that with reading articles. Attached is a chart, and some data that I was going through. If I am crazy for thinking this, please write me back, but basically I am going short (this is a way to make money on a stock for the downside) on BP (British Petroleum) according to 3 things. If I get this right in my account I may soon retire Just kidding, but seriously… ( I would not try this at home)

My 3 reasons

1. Chart on BP looks horrendous. Absolute capitulation.

2. The data posted below.

3. Gut feeling.

My Price Target on the downside is $25.80 for now. and the second sell-off to $20. IF they get the well capped all bets are off.

Please read below. Very Interesting. May be the short of a lifetime besides Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.
In an exploration plan and environmental impact analysis filed with the federal government in February 2009, BP said it had the capability to handle a “worst-case scenario” at the Deepwater Horizon site, which the document described as a leak of 162,000 barrels per day from an uncontrolled blowout — 6.8 million gallons each day.
Now, I am warning that the amount of oil still in the reservoir might be much bigger than BP is admitting.

Specifically, BP claims that there are 50 million barrels worth of oil in the reservoir underneath the leaking spill site.

But the Guardian noted Friday:

But the 50m figure cited by Hayward took some industry insiders by surprise. There have been reports the reservoir held up to 500m barrels – the figure quoted by Hayward’s questioner, Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas.

“I would assume that 500m barrels would be a more likely estimate,” said Tadeusz Patzek, the chairman of the department of petroleum and geosystems engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. “I don’t think you would be going after a 50mbarrel reservoir so quickly. This is just simply not enough oil to go after.”
Indeed, Wolf Blitzer said:

One — one expert said to me — and I don’t know if this is overblown or not — that they’re still really concerned about the structural base of this whole operation, if the rocks get moved, this thing could really explode and they’re sitting, what, on — on a billionpotential barrels of oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
Bloomberg notes:

The ruptured well may hold as much as 1 billion barrels, the Times reported, citing Rick Mueller, an analyst at Energy Security Analysis in Massachusetts.
Oil industry expert Matthew Simmons also puts the number above one billion barrels (see thisBloomberg interview, for example, where he says that – unless stopped – 120,000 barrels a day will leak for 25-30 years; that adds up to 1,095,000,000 to 1,314,000,000 barrels).

And Rob Kall claims that a source inside BP tells him:

Size of reservoir – estimated by BP and its partner, Andarko to be between 2.5B and 10Bbbl. (that’s 100,000,000,000 gallons and 400,000,000,000 gallons).
Yes – all of those numbers are BILLIONS.
Given that BP’s nearby Tiber and Kaskida wells each contain at least 3 billion barrels of oil (see this,this, this and this), estimates of more than a billion barrels for the leaking Macondo reservoir are not unreasonable.

Basically if this well blew up and billions of oil leaked into the ocean it would be the worst thing to ever happen to BP and in the world as far as manmade disasters go.

I used to work as a CDO Bond Trader and here is some more data as far as counterparties that would also blow up. RIG, APC and several credit facilities that banks are holding for this company.

BP’s Bankruptcy Would Impair 117 (18% Of Total) Collateralized Synthetic Obligations, Lead To Pervasive Losses

Even as increasingly desperate falling knife catchers try to convince someone, anyone to buy up some or all of their shares of BP stock, which is certainly on its way to a guaranteed doubling, tripling or more, the real investing community is ever more carefully looking at the worst case, and its implications. Said implications would be vast, and in addition to wiping out billions in capital from BPs direct counterparties which are already limiting their BP exposure, a topic we touched upon briefly previously, would also impair indirect holders of pre-packaged securitized BP exposure. Today Moody’s provides an analysis of which CSOs (just like CDOs but packed purely with synthetic products – think Goldman’s Abacus) would be impaired should BP go bankrupt. The rating agency does not stop there, and also analyzes what a bankruptcy of BP peers Halliburton, Anadarko Petroleum, Transocean Inc., and Cameron International would look like, and who would be wiped out. Below are the results, which upon further analysis will likely indicate total loss potential well beyond BP’s total outstanding debt exposure.

As the recent civil case involving Goldman and the Abacus (and soon potentially others) CDO showed, collateralized products have a special place in the heart of the regulators, due to their avalanche quality of blowing up seemingly completely unrelated entities, which share merely the stupidity of having invested in the same entity. BP, as a company with over $20 billion in debt outstanding, has over the years, seen many of its CDS packaged and repackaged in the form of many and increasingly more complex CSOs. Last week’s blow out in BP spreads, in which the 1 Year CDS surged beyond 1,000 bps, has got many people concerned: the least of which are counterparties that are on the other side of the short risk trade. Others include investors in just such CSOs, and other companies whose CDS comprises various tranches in these synthetic obligations, as forced liquidations in any given CSO would result in the blow out spreads in even perfectly solvent companies who just have the displeasure of being packaged in one and the same CSO.

Moody’s summarizes:

In the event of BP’s restructuring or bankruptcy, CSO transactions referencing BP or its affected subsidiaries may experience what is called a “credit event.” If the credit event occurs, the CSO transactions will have to meet their payment obligations to the protection buyers, which will result in the loss of subordination to the rated CSO tranches. In cases where the subordination is no longer available, CSO investors will incur the loss.
The rater elaborates:

Last week, credit default swap (CDS) spreads on BP plc widened to all-time highs, reflecting the mounting costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the ensuing rating actions. BP’s credit deterioration is in turn a credit negative for collateralized synthetic obligation (CSO) transactions that reference BP or the companies involved in the Gulf incident.

Rising Costs of the Spill. After almost two months of unsuccessful attempts to stop the worst oil spill in history, BP is potentially facing billions in containment, clean-up, and litigation costs. It is unclear what these expenses will ultimately amount to over the coming years, as the assessment of the damage is just beginning.

BP Downgraded, CDS Spreads Widen. Our recent downgrade and placement on watch for further possible downgrade of BP and its guaranteed subsidiaries reflects intensified risk that the extended oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will significantly siphon the company’s free cash flows. Spreads on BP’s credit default swaps rose as much as 124.5 basis points (bp) in one day to a record 630.6 bp as of 16 June 2010. BP’s debt maturing next year recently traded at distressed levels, and there is a growing concern among credit investors over a scenario where BP plc might default.
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My advisor has been losing my money for the lost decade.

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:23:53 +0000

Ten years ago on a sunny afternoon, I walked in into my advisors office. The rich, plush, leather chairs invited me to sit down. He greeted me with a warm smile and a firm handshake and asked how he could help me as he adjusted his $70 tie. I plopped my checkbook on the table and proceeded to tell him that I wanted my money to grow, that I wanted to “invest in the markets”. He gladly told me that he had some financial investment vehicles that he could show me to make that money grow. Since I was young he told me the best scenario was to go aggressive with my investments.

You have heard of this scenario a thousand times, and may have gone through the same process in your life with your advisor or broker. He started with a spreadsheet about how if I invested by the time I was 30 my account would grow by 50%-60% and that every year after that it would grow exponentially. Told me by the time I was 60 the account value would be in the millions! I am 26 and ten years later that money is now in the red. Let me break this down. If Joe Advisor had not collected an advisor fee every year my account would be positive by 9%. Since he collected his fee every year and paid himself off of my account and others, it chipped away at the performance of that account. My cash not only sat in those investments collecting dust, but also were not properly managed. If sold at the peaks and re-bought at the valleys, my account would be up 60%-150%. I could show you on a chart that as the bad news emerged into the market place that it was obvious the market top had been reached, therefore it was time to sell. With the market bleeding to new lows in March of 2009, and the world seemed to be ending, it was followed by a powerful rally after Bank of America and Citigroup posted profits, the bottom had essentially been reached… Time To Start Buying!

I am not saying that Joe Advisor needed to catch the very tops or bottoms, just close to it, you know like hand grenades, or horseshoes. With that being said I want to tell you how I went to interview to be an advisor with a huge advisory firm and what they told me. I sat in this meeting with a few other candidates and they gave me three criteria to pursue in order to become a “successful advisor”.

1. List as many people as you know that would have money to “invest” (AKA buy, pray, and hope). This included family members. Those poor poor people.
2. Ask these new prospects/clients what their “dream goals” were for their portfolio and their investments. (Sound familiar) In other words financial sales…
3. Create a plan for their portfolio and start investing their money in these financial instruments and start holding their hand as you build the relationship over the years to come. (This is ridiculous! If I want a friend I do not need to manage his money first.)

To carry on… I left that interview and this is the first thing that I thought about. How are my interests aligned with the investors interests. They are not aligned! No matter what happens in the market I still would collect my industry standard 1% management fee off of the assets under management. Let us assume that I had $4,000,000 under management, that would equate to $40,000/yr for my salary. That did not make any sense to me, as long as I was good at sales, then I would succeed! I could not continue thinking that I could pitch a lie and win in life. I needed truth, and a new business model to pitch with conviction.

Here was my newest investment pitch:

1. Account Owner shall immediately establish under his name one (1) Trading/Investment Accounts with TD Ameritrade, with Margin and all Options-Trading features activated, and shall fund the Trading Account with a sum of $1,000,000.00; and

2. Account Owner shall pay to Authorized Trader Or Account Manager weekly Commissions, based upon net profits generated each week within the Trading Account; and said Commissions shall be paid according to the following Commissions Schedule:
20% of the week’s net profits (realized gains only) generated within the Trading Account or Investment Account, if those net profits increase the value of the respective Trading Account(s) by less 1.5%; or
28% of the week’s net profits (realized gains only) generated within the Trading Account or Investment Account, if those net profits increase the value of the respective Trading Account(s) by 1.5% or greater,

3. In the event that the Account Value of the Trading Account or Investment Account shall fall to $950,000, (5% loss) Account Owner may opt to close that particular Trading Account or Investment account, and terminate this Agreement with the Authorized Trader or Manager, managing that particular Trading Account.

In other words if I didn’t make that account grow then I would not be paid!

As I started doing research over the years I started to assemble a strategy that would grow my account at an incredible rate. Yes at first I LOST, this is where I learned my most valuable lessons! My thesis concluded that 65-70 times out of 100 I would be correct in my intelligent speculations. There were two primary things that I learned. Most investors would buy the stock blindly (Ill explain)… because the company was fundamentally strong, a low P/E, no debt, great management, the strongest competitor, and a great stock price compared to tangible book value. I saw this flaw and started to analyze charts or also known as technical analysis. As I started to study charting, I realized a miracle! I could really identify the bottoms and tops of the move in the stock. As I mixed my new “market eyes” with fundamentals, my investments/trades started to take off! In three months I had my $800 baby/test/account which I was just playing with to see if I could grow it, go from $800 grow to $6800 in three months!

BAMM I fired my advisor!

You are Fired!

Then I decided to take what I had learned and teach others and here I am today, doing just that. So as I invest then I will learn more and more about the markets. This year will be opening my own advisory and hedge-fund based off these underlying profitable principles. Many of my current subscribers are very happy as I show them my techniques and show them how to find the best stocks to put your money in. The thing is that I am just showing them what I am doing, and if they want to follow in, that is totally up to them. Many of them have anywhere from $1000-$600,000 accounts so these techniques are applicable across all account sizes.

Well anyways, I am off to downtown San Diego to swim with the dolphins at Sea World… Maybe. Have a great Martin Luther King Day!

How Did Jesse Livermore Trade?

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:49:04 +0000

For one check out this link.

Jesse used to work as a 14 year old kid in the tape reading rooms for a living. He would track the bids and asks on all the tapes and over time he started to notice patterns in the prices that were predictable. As he started noticing these patterns he developed a set of rules listed below that he followed for the rest of his life.

Here are the stock trading rules that made Jesse Livermore’s one of the world’s greatest fortunes. Many successful stock and commodity traders still base their methods on these rules.

* Buy rising stocks and sell falling stocks.
* Do not trade every day of every year. Trade only when the market is clearly bullish or bearish. Trade in the direction of the general market. If it’s rising you should be long, if it’s falling you should be short.
* Co-ordinate your trading activity with pivot points.
* Only enter a trade after the action of the market confirms your opinion and then enter promptly.
* Continue with trades that show you a profit, end trades that show a loss.
* End trades when it is clear that the trend you are profiting from is over.
* In any sector, trade the leading stock – the one showing the strongest trend.
* Never average losses by, for example, buying more of a stock that has fallen.
* Never meet a margin call – get out of the trade.
* Go long when stocks reach a new high. Sell short when they reach a new low.

These rules he followed are used by many professionals even today. He started with $100 or so and as he started trading he turned it into $1000. He ended up quitting his job and trading full-time because he was earning more than what his boss’s were paying him. He ended up being worth about 100,000,000 in those days. In today’s worth, that would be the billions.

To assess Jesse’s fortune more scientifically, the measuring worth calculator gave the following results for today’s value of $100 million in 1929:

$1.26 billion using the Consumer Price Index
$1.02 billion using the GDP deflator
$2.27 billion using the value of consumer bundle
$3.97 billion using the unskilled wage
$5.51 billion using the nominal GDP per capita
$13.7 billion using the relative share of GDP

The key I believe is that he followed his strategy to a tee and refused to deviate from his rules. He actually lost all his money at one point after breaking his rules, that is where he learned to stick by them. He was a resilient man. His lifestyle wasn’t to shabby after he had attained his riches.

In terms of the lifestyle Livermore’s wealth bought, Patricia Livermore, Jesse Livermore’s daughter-in-law gave a fascinating interview in 1990 for a documentary about the crash of 1929. Here’s part of what she said about the Livermore lifestyle:

“They had a beautiful place on 76th Street in Manhattan on the West Side, off Central Park. They had a floor at 813 Fifth Avenue because Dorothea did not like to go to the West Side to change her clothes. They had a house in Great Neck. They had a summer house in Lake Placid. They had a house in Palm Beach. They had a private railroad car, two yachts. The only yacht that was bigger was J. P. Morgan’s. And they used one of them, the big one, very frequently when they went to Europe. They lived very comfortably…

Jesse Livermore had a ticker tape in every home that he owned, on his railway cars, on his yachts… They had several Rolls Royces, lots of chauffeurs. They had a staff of about 20 or 25 and in each place, in each house, see, and with the exception of Dorothea’s personal maid, they did not take their staffs with them. They simply kept them year-round in all their establishments…

Oh, they lived. They really lived… Mrs. Livermore was a spender. And, of course, she loved to buy. She spent her days buying and buying and buying…”

So all this to say that the one of the world’s greatest traders has a lot of lessons to learn from. But first and foremost God provides these sort of blessings. In order to be able to do such a thing, you must conquer several things, greed, fear, human behaviors that can psychologically disable your trading. So… I hope you enjoyed this article and to end this week with a great week of trading, we will finish with a quote from Jesse Livermore himself.

On Odds

“But I can tell you after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies – the strongest and truest in the world; underlying conditions.”

On Charting Basics

“If a stock doesn’t act right don’t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.”

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admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:22:32 +0000

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SYNM is a company that is dedicated to creating alternative fuels of energy sources out of disposed Chicken fat from TYSON Chickens factories. They have been opening plants left and right and they are really a $14-$15 stock that should not be down here what so ever! They have a low pe and have plenty of equity, their books aren’t cooked and best of all they are American!

Syntroleum Corporation engages in the research, development, and commercialization of the Syntroleum Process that is designed to convert natural gas into synthetic liquid hydrocarbons. It owns the Syntroleum Process for Fischer-Tropsch (FT) conversion of synthesis gas derived from biomass, coal, natural gas, and other carbon-based feedstocks into liquid hydrocarbons; the Synfining Process for upgrading FT liquid hydrocarbons into middle distillate products, such as synthetic diesel and jet fuels; and the Bio-Synfining technology for converting animal fat and vegetable oil feedstocks into middle distillate products, such as renewable diesel and jet fuel. The company has a joint venture agreement with Tyson Foods, Inc. Syntroleum Corporation was founded in 1996 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Finding the best Chinese companies.

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:03:16 +0000

As always in order to find the best Chinese companies its about looking at the numbers and seeing which one has the best P/E ratio (low ones are the ones that I prefer) I like to see their balance sheets and income statements being very steady in growth. I usually look for intangibles and goodwill values and subtract them from the value of the company to see what the tangible book value is.

I regard book value as important but not the most. I usually take this as one piece of the puzzle. These companies if they are just starting out and are trading on the American exchanges then I will take interest in them only if their products are in a market where demand is growing.

I also glance at the website of the company and try and dig through their investor relations materials to see if all the data is lining up. Here are a few of my favored Chinese stocks that I am currently holding positions in. BEST SYNM NEP TRIT CHBT, and EDS.

Meanwhile you need to be doing research on the economy on a macro perspective. This will enable you to be able to think clearly about where things are and to have good perspective on the economy in general.

Another way to find good Chinese companies is to see what companies here have been successful here in the states, and to see who is doing a similar thing in China and research their fundamentals to see whether it has a good brand, management and numbers.

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How will the 50:1 split on Berkshire Hathaway effect the current shares? Our new course is also available!

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:35:54 +0000

As everyone knows by now Buffet has bought BNI Burlington Northern Santa train company for shares of BRK-B. These are the common stock of Berkshire Hathaways Stock that are going to be splitting 50:1 so if you bought 2 shares right now at a price of $3330 each, after the split you would get 100 shares at about $65.

This will, in my belief effect the stock in a positive way allowing more investors to purchase the shares. the price at $3000 is a bit to much for the common investor, but at $65 it may get bought up a lot easier. The downside is that this will bring in the less intelligent investors and bring more volatility to the equity.

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The Most Research I Have Ever Done To Make You Money!!!

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:42:56 +0000

Greetings,

Tonight I spent hours researching, and drawing trendlines all over charts, its getting crazy in my den!!!

GNW I found that major support is at $7.00- $7.20 BUT on the 55 minute interval chart used on ameritrade’s strategy desk charts, it seems to be in a channel heading down, and it is at the bottom bollinger band/channel and the $9.40-$9.50 range. Today we saw it go as low as $9.17 and if this level holds here it may turn upwards for a nice swing to the upside with resistance at $10.55 IF IT FAILS I could see it going as low as $7.50 -$8 IF it heads to this level at $7and $8 and fails this $9 it could be a good short to those levels… However if you choose to go long at those lower levels, scale in at $7.20 with a third of your position and at $7.00 for another third etc…See the chart example attached for a more clear picture of the trendlines that are drawn.

MIC I found that major support is at $7.00 – $7.20 level BUT on the 55 minute chart it also is in a channel heading down but has had 6 consecutive down days ie 6 red candles. IF it hold this level at 8 and the moving averages start flattening out then this $8.00 mark could be a good place to get in, however if it fails 8 and cannot surmount the $8.40’s tomorrow then we could see $7 and $7.20 at this level you would also want to scale into the position. This trade could make for a great swing trade from those prices! See chart example and how there is no resistance between $8 and $7…

APL also has good support at the $7 range BUT I would like to see AND you prolly will see $6.80 – $6.86 which would be a great trade for the short term.

PCX is really tough to determine where it will go next…

BAC seems to be at support on the 55 minute chart and if it holds here could be a GREAT buy, BUT BUT BUT be very cautious as the next level of support is in the $13.50’s and maybe lower price range, and if this is the case, would make an AMAZING Short if it breaks here below $15 or you could buy the put options on it if it cracks below $15 and make a nice profit. See chart for more clarity two charts are included with BAC a 55 minute chart to see the Stock trying to turn and a daily chart extending back to the march lows where you can easily the support lines drawn out.

LNC If this fails this level here at 23.50 there is really no resistance until 20

HIG If this fails this level here at the $24 there is also hardly any resistance until the $18’s BOTH LNC and HIG could be great shorts if they crack these levels of support!!!

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Everything is on the bottom bollinger bands of the daily charts!

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:12:04 +0000

This market has accelerated to the downside as stocks continue their slide today. The market started to sell off individuals stocks which eventually pulled down the whole market. Finally the market is seeing a pull back to different levels after months of rallying up over 60% from the lows. We kept our eyes on several things today but the ones that really made us money were the stocks that were strong while the market was weak. AMZN, BCRX, FXP, and YRCW all were strong today as the market tanked, so in that weakness the traders all piled into the strength in those specific stocks.

We had an entry on AMZN this morning at $118.94 and we sold it to quickly as it went up 6 more dollars from the spot that we had entered. Also we made some money on BCRX and its associated strength on some good news about the FDA approving their swine flu drugs. YRCW caught our attention as it made new highs at 3.42 early on, and soared to $4 dollars, we missed that trade, but heard that alot of traders piled in and the shorts got squeezed so the stock moved up. http://stocktwits.com/streams/all This is a great website for seeing what some of the most active traders are doing in the markets for the day. YRCW rallied on good news talking about improved liquidity in their credit lines.

All in all we have seen the market sell off alot of these individual stocks down to levels that are close or on the bottom bollinger band, which is usually a place to start watching for swing-trade buys. If the 5 day moving averages start to turn upwards then consider entering any stock that meets that criteria that is on our watchlist which is posted on the forum. We hope that you are having profitable trades and if you are losing then consider our course which will walk you through how to have the best execution for your trades!

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Apple releases a New IMac and Destroys Earnings!

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:28:44 +0000

Last night after hours we saw AAPL beat earnings by 47% and saw the stock go from $188.50 ish to $204 in just a few minutes. We bought 100 shares and a dollar later we sold as we traded in and out of it. This is what we like to call an earnings play, and even today we pumped a few hundred dollars out of the stock as it continues to hit our buy indications and sell indications.

Our subscribers made another few thousand dollars today on a GNW stock alert this morning at 10 am.

They have a really cool I Mac that came out check out their new video

One funny thing about AAPL is that they are so cash heavy they could crush you with their wallets and that is definitely a reason to like the company!

This company is keeping their products in the spot light and and as long as they do that and continue to release new ones and be innovative this stock could really see $235 in the near term. They have come such a long way as a company but like anybody else they have their up and down cycles. Everybody knows that AAPL is going alot higher therefore its resilience in a down market like today.

On days like this individual stocks have been pulling back and getting nice retracements and may go lower before there is another ideal time to get in.

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Our Trades Today!

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:03:39 +0000

symbol shares avg open price avg close price profit/loss

CXM 7000 $1.12 STILL OPEN STILL OPEN

CIT 5000 $1.28 $1.31 $150

GNW 1000 $11.239 $11.25 $11

GNW 400 $10.90 $10.99 $36

BEST 1000 $1.64 $1.73 $90

RNN 2000 $0.811 $0.827 $32

AAPL 100 $200.45 $201.52 $107

MAN I sure hope CXM gets real tomorrow…..We will probably break even or make several hundred on this in the morning.

Here is an entertaining video about how bikers can maneuver their bikes on brick walls and up and down rails and it is called biketrials. I used to ride all the time in this fashion, and that disciplined life allowed me to learn several things that would enable me to be successful at trading. Trading takes great discipline…so watch this video and imagine how much discipline went into practicing to become this good at riding a bike. The more you practice the better you become.

We will see you bright and early for some amazing trading opportunities in the market each and every day.