February 22 – Just Thinking Ahead

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As mentioned in recent reports, I am expecting the markets to pull back soon.  There have been some great gains in the run out of the lows for the General Markets, Oil, and Precious metals / miners,   but we really are due for a rest.  Just because I am expecting a pull back soon,  that doesn't mean that we are finished yet though.  The Theme picture may give you an idea of what I am talking about.   Lets discuss the markets and do a little thinking  ahead...

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Wait Just A Minute! Fed Minutes Released

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At 2 p.m. we had our F.O.M.C. Minutes released, and some things changed right away, so we'll discuss that.  Is it likely to be a short term knee jerk reaction that only lasted for the rest of Wednesday?  Or does it look to be more of a medium term change, with days of similar action to follow.   I almost think that the readers here already know the answer to that, but we will discuss it further.

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Wednesday – Juggling Time And Ideas

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If you were in front of a screen during trading hours yesterday,  you may have also noticed a multitude of  trade ideas in various sectors popping up all over the place. It was a lot like juggling for the active trader, and a couple of questions received in emails reflected the fear of missing out on some really good moves in the blockchain trade ideas that I mentioned on Feb 8th, saying,

" XXXX was up 20% and YYYY was up 50%, my stocks were only up 5%- 7%, am I in the wrong stocks?".   Those  blockchain stocks are very hard to just buy & hold and as mentioned, they are NOT for everyone, so I would not chase those.  I'll discuss them more at the end of the report.     Let's take a look at things and answer a few questions...

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