Welcome to the Grand Illusion
Come on in and see what’s happening
Pay the price; get your ticket for the show
The Stage is set, the band starts playing
Suddenly your heart is pounding
Wishing secretly you were a star Read more about Dark Horse Traders' Hedge: 3 Tickets Punched for Grand Illusion

Obsessive, Compulsive

Suffocates your mind

Confusion, delusions

Kill your dreams in time

You ask me how I took the pain

Crawled up from my lowest low

Step by step and day by day

‘Til there’s one last breathe to go

Live to win ‘til you die Read more about Live to Win With These 3 Buy/Writes Reviews

Stocks Buffeted by Macro Forces

by David Brown, Chief Market Strategist, Sabrient Systems

What does the market want, anyway? I know that's the name of this newsletter, but it's not an easy question to answer in recent months, and especially in the last couple of weeks. Read more about What the Market Wants: Stocks Buffeted by Macro Forces

DARK HORSE HEDGE - Where Do We Go From Here?

By Scott Brown at Sabrient & Ilene at Phil’s Stock World Read more about DARK HORSE HEDGE - Where Do We Go From Here?

DARK HORSE HEDGE UPDATE

The Dark Horse Hedge is a new portfolio being built by Scott Brown of Sabient and Ilene at Phil's Stock World.  We started the DHH newsletter on June 30, and have been adding long and short positions over the past two weeks.  Click here to read more about DHH and our thoughts on the market, and to follow along as we add new stocks to our growing portfolio of long and short positions. Read more about THE DARK HORSE HEDGE 7-18-10

To follow the Dark Horse Hedge and read from the beginning (just last week), click here. - Ilene Read more about DARK HORSE HEDGE 7/11/10

Last week, the market was very selective, with only Large-cap Growth in positive territory -- think Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Amazon (Nasdaq:  AMZN), and American Express (NYSE: AXP). All other cap/styles were negative -- and the smaller you were, the more you lost. In fact, this entire month the market has beat up on small-caps with its "the smaller you are, the more you lose" bias. Read more about What the Market Wants: Market Bullies the Small-caps