It’s Possible to Use the Long Tail of Investing to Accurately Predict U.S. Dollar Behavior, Including Short-Term Rallies

January 9, 2007-

My colleague Kaeho mentioned in his last blog that I would soon blog about the benefits of utilizing the long tail of investment strategies over traditional investment strategies. I figured a good place to start is to review how utilizing the long tail of investment strategies has benefited myself and my readers in 2006 regarding my predictions of gold and dollar behavior. It’s safe to say that those that followed the advice in my blogs and newsletters aggregately built substantial wealth from the free advice I provided just regarding these two topics.

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Ten Reasons Why Dollar Denominated Bonds Aren’t as Safe as You Think

January 7, 2007 - Many people think of any type of dollar denominated bonds, whether they are U.S. corporate bonds or U.S. Treasury bonds as a safe place to park your money for reliable sources of income stream. In fact, the U.S. Treasury Department on their own website, even tout U.S. Treasury Securities as a “great way to invest and save for the future.”

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How Understanding the Success of the Mixed Martial Arts Champions will Make You a Much Better Investor.

January 5, 2007 - Time for another format change in this blog. Every Friday will still remain the space for casual blog entries, but instead of J.S., from this date forward, every Friday, you’ll receive an entry from Kaeho’s Corner. Today, I’ll tell you how understanding the success of the top mixed martial artists in the world can vastly improve your performance as an investor. Before you brush this blog off, just take five minutes to read this entire article and you’ll fully understand what I mean.

As an avid martial artist for many years, it’s interesting to watch the evolution of martial arts competition to its current MMA (mixed martial arts) status in Japan, where MMA Pride events regularly attract crowds of 60,000+ and the MMA UFC events in the U.S. where UFC pay-per-view receipts now exceed those of world heavyweight championship boxing bouts.

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Chinese Technology Companies to Watch in 2007

January 4, 2007

In Part I of this two-part blog entry, I said that I would discuss some specific Asian companies that would benefit from the global technology adoption of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). Two Chinese companies, KongZhong (NASDAQ:KONG) and ZTE Corporation (ZTCOF.PK) may fit the bill.

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Will the 2006 Year End Rally Continue into 2007?

January 3, 2007 - This is inherently a difficult question to answer because though U.S. markets will continue at least for now to drive the global markets in both negative and positive manners and China will continue to drive Asian regional markets, there will always be significant differences in the market performances of different countries. Read more …

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