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The trend is your friend and this article reviews the 7 most popular trend indicators to help you make an extensive and in-depth assessment of whether you should be buying or selling stocks, bonds, ETFs, gold or silver for your portfolio. If ever there was a “cut and save” investment advisory this article is it.

I’ve been thinking about scams. Actually I’ve been thinking about the internet/ emails, phishing, money, banking, credit cards, lotteries, business deals, and a very dear friend in “trouble.” Last Friday morning when I went on-line to retrieve my first emails of the day, I got something I wasn’t expecting.

How do you tell fact from fiction? How do know when a statement is truthful or false? Is something logically correct or is there an error in the train of thinking of the writer? This article will illustrate some hints and kinks of thinking and recommend further study to assist you in doing just that. Think correctly.

The following is commentary that originally appeared at treasurechests.info for the benefit of subscribers on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010.

President Obama is turning into one of the main political casualties of the oil spill. Like his predecessor, he has become adept at the “politics of blame”. By personalizing, vilifying and threatening to take the boots to BP and its CEO Tony Hayward, Obama did not of course stifle the spewing oil well...

Do you feel lucky punk? Did he fire six shots or just five? That seemed to be the implied question to Fed Chief Ben Bernanke when it came to whether the Fed was going to be able to provide additional “help” to keep the economic expansion going.

The Fed is a wild card in making portfolio decisions in the coming weeks and months. Ben Bernanke told the Senate Banking Committee, “We remain prepared to take further policy actions as needed to foster a return to full utilization of our nation’s productive potential in a context of price stability”. This means the Fed stands ready to take further action to support the economy and asset prices.

The hubbub started when hedge fund guru George Soros proclaimed gold to be in a bubble, and it is still roiling nearly six months later. Gold advocates jumped to its defense, while critics took the offensive.

Mr Levine of HSBC in a recent gold conference pointed out that some top U.S. Asset Managers were fearful of the possibility of government confiscation of gold. He explained, that on being told that the bank's U.S. vaults had sufficient space available for their gold...

Market psychology has as much input to the price trends of an investment as do the fundamentals. Contrary to gold bears, the psychology behind gold as an investment has nowhere near reached the peak in its secular bull cycle.