The Disciplined Investor

In this episode we discuss why the problems in the Ukraine are causing markets to swoosh lower. The problem may not appear to be simply an uprising and often times it is the little things that disrupt the market trend. Add to that the fact that global economics appear to be slowing and perhaps it is a time to give back a little of the recent gains. LISTEN TO PODCAST NOW | @ iTUNES We also discuss retail and in particular - restaurants. Gold, oil and other commodities are moving on the Ukraine news and we spend some time exploring the latest findings on the London Gold Fixing.  Check out AIRO - our newest strategy....  

Guest: Blain Reinkensmeyer from Stockbrokers.com takes us through the recently published 2014 results. There is some great information available in this study/ranking. We also take a look at some tools that are available on the Stocktradingtogo site. Some nice tools and more coming. We also have to talk about the potential rise in volatility and the parabolic move in Natural gas. LISTEN TO PODCAST NOW | @ iTUNES Follow @andrewhorowitz Also discussed in this episode: StockBroker Rankings for 2014 Stock Trading To Go Journal Reink Media Group was founded in the spring of 2009 by Blain Reinkensmeyer with StockTradingToGo as its flagship site. In the summer of 2009 the domain tradeWISER was privately acquired and soon thereafter developed as a full comparison shopping site for online stock brokers. Then, in the fall of 2009 Reink Media teamed up with IRA Sean Hannon to launch EPIC Insights, an investment advisory service focused on stock picks and insight. In 2010 Reink Media continued to enhance its offering of quality financial information. tradeWISER was relaunched with a completely new design in May and StockTradingToGo successfully passed 11,000 RSS Subscribers for the first time in June. Brandon Reinkensmeyer, Blain’s brother, joined RMG as a partner in June as well. EPIC Insights ownership was sold in Q4. In 2011 Reink Media made its first strategic acquisition of investing blog TraderMike.net. The team followed up with the launch of the 2011 Online Broker Review. Soon after the review, the undeveloped premium domain StockBrokers.com was acquired and tradeWISER was migrated to the domain. The team began building out several key comparison tools the remainder of the year. Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy? Click below for the virtual tour....

Guest: Charles Biderman, TrimTabs discusses why buying stocks with shrinking float is a good way to beat the markets. We discuss buybacks and other methods companies are using to take shares out circulation. We also discuss the overall markets as well as the recent economic outlook. LISTEN TO PODCAST NOW | @ iTUNES Charles Biderman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TrimTabs Investment Research. After earning his MBA from Harvard Business School, he began his career as Alan Abelson’s assistant at Barron’s from 1971 to 1973. There he predicted the collapse of real estate investment trusts (REITs). After Barron’s, he worked in the Wall Street short selling community and recommended shorting REITs on their way to perdition.  AdvisorShares TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF Mr. Biderman is interviewed regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg and is quoted frequently in the financial media, including Barron’s, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Investor’s Business Daily. He is the author of TrimTabs Investing: Using Liquidity Theory to Beat the Stock Market (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). He holds a BA from Brooklyn College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Guest: Dennis Gartman provides us with some interesting commentary on the Yen, precious metals as well as the markets. How is he positioning and what makes sense with the current trend. We also look a bit closer at the recent jobs report as well as some stocks that may benefit if the emerging markets take a turn for the better. LISTEN TO PODCAST NOW | @ iTUNES ___ Dennis Gartman is editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter and has been directly involved in the capital markets since August of 1974. In just over a decade, Mr. Gartman worked as an economist for Cotton, Inc., traded foreign exchange and money instruments for NCNB National Bank, and was chief financial futures analyst for A.G. Becker & Company. He was also an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade until 1984, trading treasury bonds and notes and GNMA futures contracts. In 1984, Mr. Gartman moved to Virginia to run the futures brokerage operation for Sovran Bank, and in 1987 he began producing The Gartman Letter on a full-time basis. Clients of The Gartman Letter, LC, include many of the leading banks, broking firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, energy trading companies, and gain trading companies. Mr. Gartman often appears on CNBC, ROB-TV, and Bloomberg Television, discussing commodities and capital markets, and speaks before various associations, trade groups, central banks, and financial ministries around the world. He has taught classes for the Federal Reserve Bank’s School for Bank Examiners on derivatives, and served a two-year term as an outside director for the Kansas City Board of Trade. Mr. Gartman has been a member of the Suffolk Industrial Development Authority since 1998 and now serves on the Investment Committee of North Carolina State University. (Free Trial of The Gartman Letter ) ___ Reserve your spot for Wednesday's  TriggerCharts Webinar - Introducing Aileron ___ Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy? Click below for the 14-minute virtual tour....

Guest, Jon Markman discusses the how the market's performance in January can foreshadow the rest of the year. Is there any truth to the common wisdom of : "As goes January......"? We also talk about some of his favorite picks for 2014. Gold, Cocoa as well as other commodities are also in focus on this episode. Listen in as we explain why Emerging Markets are plunging as the FED continues their plan to slow bond purchases. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Jon Markman, a veteran money manager and award-winning journalist, is editor and founder of the investment research newsletters Trader’s Advantage and Strategic Advantage. A pioneer in the development of stock-rating systems and screening software, Markman is a co-inventor on two Microsoft patents and author of the best-selling books “Swing Trading” , “The New Day Trader Advantage” and “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – Annotated Edition” Click here for a free 2-week trial to Markman's Strategic Advantage ! Markman was a portfolio manager and senior investment strategist at a multi-strategy hedge fund from 2002 to 2005; managing editor and columnist at CNBC from 1997 to 2002; and an editor, investments columnist and investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times from 1984 to 1997 and currently writes for MarketWatch.com. Write to Jon: jon@gemini252.com The TDI AIRO Strategy is now available...

Larry Williams is our guest in this episode and he is one great expert on the areas of markets. We talk about futures trading, commitment of traders reports and his outlook for the short- and long-term for markets. We also dig into the situation in the emerging markets and the trouble it could have for global markets. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Larry Williams has been trading futures and commodities for well over 46 years. He is the most highly regarded and well known short term trader in the world. No other futures trader is as accomplished as Larry Williams. He has more trading and investing books on the market than any other futures trader. The majority of his books have been best sellers. (see Books for a list of Larry Williams books). Larry has taught thousands to correctly trade the markets, won many trading championships, and has been the only futures trader in the world to repeatedly trade $1 million of his own money live at seminars around the globe. 1962 was when Larry Williams began following the markets. His interest was sparked by the Kennedy market crash, when President Kennedy forced a roll back in steel prices. The crash was front page news everywhere. People lost millions but Larry was more taken by the fact that if you had been "short" the market, you would have made millions. The TDI AIRO Strategy is now available...

In this episode we cover several topics. We start with a review and in depth look at the employment situation and the market's reaction. Then, we spend some time on the earnings season and what to expect from banks. From there we get into what to look for in creating a strategy based on a quant or technical model and how to back-test. Some of the recent retail earnings have been abysmal - find out which ones in this episode as well as the biotechs that are looking ripe to rip. McClellan Presidential cycle chart discusses - HERE. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy? Click below for the virtual tour....

Earnings season begins this week with the release from Alcoa (AA) on Thursday. Before that we have the ISM non-manufacturing number that will be important and the inch up toward the release of the BLS Unemployment report. We explore some ideas for stocks that may move on announcements from the upcoming CES conference as well as the good practice of trading/investment plans. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy? Click below for the virtual tour....

We are talking with Frank Curzio to close out the 2013 year and find out what is ahead for 2014. Franks talk about some of the potential in the shale oil arena as well as gold stocks and cloud computing. We then talk with Ken Shea about the potential for growth of the e-cig market. This could be a real winner from the looks of the growth track. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Frank Curzio is an equity analyst for Stansberry & Associates. (3-month money back if you are not satisfied) Check out Frank’s Podcast on iTunes – HERE. Frank has over 15 years of investing experience. He was recently the editor of TheStreet.com’s Stocks Under $10 newsletter where he significantly outperforming the markets during his tenure. He was also a research analyst for Jim Cramer and host of The Real Wall Street podcast – one of the most widely listened-to financial podcasts on iTunes.                                      Follow @FrankCurzio  Frank has been a guest on various media outlets including Fox Business News, CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and CNBC’s The Call. He has also been mentioned numerous times on Jim Cramer’s Mad Money, is a featured guest on CNN Radio and has been quoted in financial magazines and websites. Before TheStreet.com, Frank was the editor of The FXC Newsletter and received one of the top rankings by Hulbert’s Financial Digest for risk-adjusted performance. Also, Frank was portfolio manager for Greentree Financial. Kenneth Shea, Senior Analyst with Bloomberg Industries has covered the Food and beverage industry since 2009. Prior Bloomberg, Ken was the managing director of Standard & Poor's Financial Services. He covers many areas including Tobacco which is the topic of discussion in this episode. According to his latest research, E-cigarette sales are expected to reach $1.5 billion this year, based on Euromonitor data, vs. a previous $1 billion industry projection. Based on this new forecast, Bloomberg Industries has revised its e-cigarette model. Cigarette consumption is falling, while demand for non-combustibles is rising due to rising prices and smoking restrictions. Euromonitor forecasts e-cig sales to double annually through 2018. The BI U.S. E-Cigarette Market Model helps assess this fledgling market.   Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy? Click below for the virtual tour....

Guest Satyajit Das has a few items on his list to talk about. We cover the meaning of the taper, what is going on in Spain as well as the problems that an increasing dollar has on emerging markets. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Satyajit Das has worked in financial derivatives, risk management, and capital markets for over 30+ years. Since 1994, Mr. Das has acted as a consultant to financial institutions and corporations in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Previously, between 1977 and 1994, Mr. Das worked on the ‘sell side’ (Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Citicorp Investment Bank and Merrill Lynch) and the ‘buy side’ (Treasurer of the TNT Group, an Australian based international transport and logistics company). Das is the author of a number of key reference works on derivatives and risk management. His works include Swaps/ Financial Derivatives Library – Third Edition (2005, John Wiley & Sons) (a 4 volume 4,200 page reference work for practitioners on derivatives) and Credit Derivatives, CDOs and Structured Credit Products –Third Edition (2005, John Wiley & Sons). He is the author of Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives (2006, FT-Prentice Hall), an insider’s account of derivatives trading and the financial products business filled with black humor and satire. The book has been described by the Financial Times, London as ” fascinating reading … explaining not only the high-minded theory behind the business and its various products but the sometimes sordid reality of the industry”. Eurointelligence Minyanville Satyajit’s Blog ___ Get FREE TDI Updates right to your emailbox  

The Fed may be on the way to draining some excess liquidity and we discuss what that actually means. Also, with the change to the 1-child law in China, we have an interesting stock to discuss. Gold, Twitter, investor sentiment and some ideas for 2014 are all packed into this episode. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Get FREE TDI Updates right to your emailbox Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy? Click below for the virtual tour....

Our guest, Larry McMillan explains some of the ways in which investing with options can be beneficial. Some of his strategies that he uses and others that he stays away from are topics we hit on. In this episode we also explore the current markets, some of the signs that are pointing to the direction for equities as well as retail sales, hedge funds and the plunge in value of bitcoin over the weekend. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Founded by professional trader and best-selling author, Lawrence G. McMillan, McMillan Analysis Corporation ("MAC"), a Registered Investment Advisor, has been providing options-oriented advice, money management, and education since 1990. Known synonymously by its website name, OptionStrategist.com, our company offers a wide range of top quality products and services for the serious options trader. About Lawrence G. McMillan Founder Lawrence G. McMillan has over 35 years of experience trading options and is also well known for his educational option books and DVDs. His most popular publication, Options As A Strategic Investment is one of the best selling option books of all time and is commonly referred to as "the bible of option trading." Read Larry's full bio » About McMillan Analysis Corp. From mentoring and full service money management, to software and recommendations for the trader looking to manage his own portfolio, MAC covers all the needs of today's option trader. Our web site offers access to a wide array of learning and analysis tools for serious traders and option students. We strive to make an important difference for our clients, and we believe an informed and educated trader makes a better client. Get FREE TDI Updates right to your emailbox

In this episode we discuss the recent outsized and outrageous movement of bitcoins as well as a primer on what the heck is a bitcoin. Five "turkey" stocks are introduced for the holiday season that will be discussed daily on this site. Economic reports are in focus as this is a very big week for reports - including the mother of them all: BLS employment on Friday. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Get FREE TDI Updates right to your emailbox

There is a lot of ground to cover. With markets hitting highs and now a nuke deal with Iran, what is next? VIX products are smoked last week and Goldman Sachs (GS) predicts a substantial fall for commodities, especially Gold and Silver. Signs of overbuilding are showing up again as builders take cheap money and move to multifamily housing. Bubbles, valuation and sentiment are all discussed in this episode LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW Follow @andrewhorowitz Get FREE TDI Updates right to your emailbox

Guest: Vitaliy Katsenelson discusses several of his best ideas on the value front. His recent research on Apple (AAPL) and other companies are part of our discussion as well as the difference between value and growth investing. Earnings that are in focus for the week and the economics we need to watch for are all on this week's podcast. We also talk about the NSA backlash and China's new economic policies. LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST NOW TriggerCharts Webinars - CLICK HERE Follow @andrewhorowitz ________ From Vitaliy Katsenelson: The Chief Investment Officer at Investment Management Associates, Inc (IMA), a value investment firm based in Denver, Colorado. After he received his graduate and undergraduate degrees in finance (cum laude, but who cares) from the University of Colorado at Denver, and finished his CFA designation, as he wanted to keep learning. At first , he figured the best way to learn is to teach. Initially he taught an undergraduate class at the University of Colorado at Denver and later a graduate investment class at the same university that he designed based on my day job. Vitaley has authored the Little Book of Sideways Markets (Wiley, 2010) and Active Value Investing (Wiley, 2007).