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by guest author: Adam Lass http://taipanpublishinggroup.com

Impressed by yesterday’s breakout? No, not really! In fact, I think you should short the pants off it.

I may as well start the column with the question everyone is asking me.

“If everything is as bad as you guys say, if the shoots are all shriveling, if banks are all screwed, if the technicals are calling for a whopping breakdown, why is the Dow breaking out?”

Are things really better all around than your erstwhile bearish correspondents have been telling you?

The simple answer is “no, it’s not.” And also, “no, they’re not.”

Facts vs. Slogans

Let’s address that second denial first.

As much as the cheerleading squad might wish to muddle the issues, the basic facts of the matter remain quite clear. Every honest economist concedes that the recession will continue through the rest of 2009 and into 2010.

We have become so numb to the word recession that many investors …

Every market period, just like the one we are in right now, has the silver lining of giving the experienced investor the very real chance of making a fortune. Conditions are perfect for the run of a lifetime.

Look in any direction and there are bargains. Stocks, commodities, even corporate bonds, after their recent run up, have started to drop off to the point where there are nice discounts again.

Options, usually the Vegas of investments, have had huge potential in the last few months. I have sold covered calls in the last two months that have given me returns as high as four to five percent per month.

Once again, though, the average Joe is being driven to inaction and all the wrong moves by information sources that seem to want to extend this period of economic bottom bouncing. Whether it is intentional or not, the outcome is always the

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These are uncertain and confusing times for investors, says Adam Lass. For those willing to hold for the long-term, Adam says the surviving financials and automakers could one day return huge gains for today’s investors. In the near future, Granite Construction (NYSE:GVA) could make investors 75% by the summer as shares soar on the stimulus plan.

This from Taipan Daily:

I’ve got an interesting stat for you concerning unemployment. It doesn’t predict recessions or crashes mind you, just presidential elections.

Seems that our economy has a really tiny window of tolerance in this area. Looking back about as far as the modern records go, I noted that anytime unemployment is over 7% (deflationary) or below 4% (inflationary), the party in power loses the White House.

I was starting to wonder if this rule would hold up, when today’s announcement of 7.2% unemployment came

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Bernie Madoff was a stock broker "managing" client accounts. He was never part of the hedge fund industry. His firm was "regulated" and fraud is already illegal. He did not charge 2 and 20 and had no prime broker, proper auditor or independent administrator. Few sophisticated investors invested directly with so many red flags. Due diligence ITSELF is an alpha source. Diversification with NUMEROUS strategies and managers is MANDATORY. Despite his "performance" Bernie was not a billionaire. With those "returns" on that asset size he should have been a stalwart of the Forbes 400. The chart below is the Madoff feeder, Fairfield Sentry, versus Gateway, GATEX, a mutual fund running the same strategy. Suspicious outperformance in the 1990s went from bad to worse in 2001. Split strike conversion is a ...

We have been bears for most of this year.  We are bears now.  Just look at the charts and it’s hard to be anything else, but the yields and price-to-book on US stocks are becoming attractive.

The critical factors we are watching to identify a prudent re-entry point — information we will use to become comfortable that the storm we avoided has passed by — are:

Technical Market Factors Valuation Fundamentals Risk Levels Government Intervention Policies Economic Conditions

All five of the factors look unfavorable, but the yield and price-to-book aspects of the fundamentals are becoming attractive — necessary but not sufficient for re-entry — closer, but not there yet.

Yield and Price-to-Book Fundamentals:

The yield on the S&P 500 (proxy SPY or IVV) is 3.41% and the price-to-book is 1.51.  The yield on the S&P 100 (proxy OEF) is 2.97% and the price-to-book is 1.99.

Those levels are much more attractive than a year ago.

Equity Income for Mature Accounts:

Considering

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