Long time no see, I thought that you had fallen off of a cliff somewhere. Sorry about beating up Ecig. Glad to see that you got in low enough to take profit yesterday. Maybe Pier will be able to bank some profit today past .06. Man... I think that you guys are holding a lit firecracker with ECIG. Hope it allows you to make profit and get out before it blows up. I think a R/S will kill it for good if it's not too late already. At least they bought some time according to the PR yesterday. If it was the truth.
The main reason that I am speculating with a minimum in VPCO is because of these (three insider/10% owners of VAPO: Mike Brauser, Barry Honig, and Dr. Phillip Frost). VAPO is merging with VPCO.
Frost is a billionaire and extremely successful entrepneur. He owns an Investment Bank. Honiq and Brauser are multi-millionaires who invest alongside of Frost.
Frost owns about 40% of this otcbb biotech startup company: COCP They just merged with a privately held biotech. Phamapseutical companies are where the three made thier fortunes. It's trading @.47, I am thinking about taking a small position in it if it drops back.
This guy's name is Ken Moraif, I have made money just by listening to his weekly radio program. Barron's Magazine has named Moraif one of the top Financial Advisor's in the U.S. for the past two years. He makes the jim cramer look like a bigger idiot than he makes himself look.
He called 18k for the dow last year and is calling a top @ 19.5k this year a recession begining late 2015.
If he says take your profits and get out, you can bank it until he gives the all clear to buy the market.
Jan. 25th, 2015 - The news last week went a long way towards strengthening my conviction that the market is going to climb to new highs over the next several months.
So far, the data is validating my fearless forecast that the economy is going to continue to grow and that excess supply of goods and services is on its way. The pent-up demand for businesses to expand coupled with the increased demand from consumers is what usually leads to a massive oversupply which in turn leads to a recession.
I see this acceleration in economic activity continuing into the fourth quarter of this year but I also see that it is when the expansion will come to an end.
The economy is always at it’s best just before the next recession. The stock market is also at its very best right before the next bear market. This time will be no different.
The next bear market could be quite severe given that the government has used up many of its weapons already.
In addition, if the foreign countries are experiencing severe economic difficulties, they do not have the sophistication or the expeditiousness to act in the appropriate manner to address their issues. This could exacerbate the problem and we could be in for a doozy.
While I do see the market continuing to climb from here, this is not a reason for complacency. This is the time when you need to be thinking about how to protect the gains that you have accumulated over the last several years. Another bear market could set you back five or six years and I know that is not what you want.
I encourage you to start building your defenses now. The 2008 bear market wiped out 12 years of gains in just 17 months.
I view that the economy is going to continue to grow but at a decelerating pace. The theme is the same as I have been reporting to you over the last several weeks and that is that the US economy is going to be slowed by the overseas economies.
As I have also been anticipating, the European Central Bank decided to enact a Quantitative Easing program similar to the one that we used here in the United States to help our economy improve. They are going to try to drive down the value of their currency and their interest rates so as to attract business to the Eurozone.
In the short run, I anticipate that this will help the European economy to improve. Since they are our largest trading partner, this will also help our economy as they buy more of our goods and services.
Lowered interest rates in Europe will make the interest rates in the United States more attractive and we should see a shift towards our stock market as well as our bonds.
Foreigners will want to be invested here because our currency is going to strengthen and they will get a double benefit. Not only the potential for capital gains and higher interest rates but also profits from the currency exchange.
This infusion of money into our economy will also help to keep our interest rates down and should help to provide investment that will increase economic activity.
All of this bodes well for our stock market as it is a reflection of corporate profits. Increased economic activity and investment is always good for corporate profits.
In the meantime, we got some good news on the real estate front as builders had an unexpectedly large gain in housing starts in the month of December.
More single-family homes broke ground than we have seen in almost 7 years.
The jobs associated with new home construction are many and this is also a very good sign for the economy over the next several months.
The housing data is not overly surprising given that consumers are starting to see wage gains and have gotten a big increase in their spending power given the reduced gas prices. Consumer confidence is also at a high level which is very important since they represent 70% of our economy and we need them to be out spending.
3 million people found jobs in 2014 according to the Labor Department and those people will certainly contribute to the economy going forward.
If all of that was not enough, the index of U.S. leading indicators increased in December for the fourth month in a row according to the Conference Board’s index.
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