Here's the Most Important Breakout of the Year...

Death to the chop... February 18, 2015 Archives | Unsubscribe     Here's the Most Important Breakout of the Year...   Death to the chop A breakout more than a year in the making Plus: The great milk hunt   Greg Guenthner coming to you from Baltimore, MD... The ship's about to sail on one of our "trades of the year." The big breakout we've been waiting for is here. And you don't want to be left behind on the dock when it leaves, standing there in your Hawaiian shirt and holding a pina colada, lookin' like a doofus. OK, here's the quick and dirty: After three months of choppy, erratic trading, the major averages are once again breaking out to new highs. And our trade of the year is leading the charge... Remember this past earnings season? Well, you probably wish you had amnesia. Almost every single major company got torpedoed--especially the mega-caps that performed so well in 2013. Caterpillar, Procter & Gamble - even Microsoft - got flooded after missing earnings expectations. But through all this carnage shone a small beacon of hope--and a signal that a new breakout was gathering steam. Yes, even though blue chips were flaming out, small-caps were firing up the boilers. Like I told you late last month, when the market starts falling apart, there's sometimes one group of stocks, one sector, or one industry that avoids the carnage. That's a huge tell. When the big money is buying on a bad day, you know you're probably onto something... So, while the market looked dead in the water a few months ago, small stocks went full speed ahead. The Russell started churning forward in the fall (it has outperformed the S&P since October 13th - the week stocks bottomed out). And now it's making a good 20 knots Here's what you need to know: The Russell 2000 small-cap index didn't budge in 2014. Sure, we experienced some back-and-forth action, but aside from a short-lived breakdown in October, small-caps essentially treaded water all year. That sets us up perfectly for a big comeback year for small-caps...         [Free Book] You have no idea what you can get away with First-class seats on a free flight (to your dream location)... Free VIP treatment on a tropical cruise... Free ways to make money in your spare time... And much more. Click here to learn how to claim your free copy now.           Rude Numbers Targets, Predictions and Wild Guesses   18,047 is where the Dow Jones Industrial Average sits today. The big index looks ready to tear through its December highs... $53.39 buys a barrel of crude today. Oil continues to blaze a comeback trail thanks to a nice little short-squeeze yesterday... $1,205 is where you'll find gold futures this morning. The yellow metal continues to tank. It's down another $3 this morning... 215 points were added to the Nikkei today. After treading water for nearly three months, the Japanese index is back at its highs... 2,094 marks the spot for S&P futures just before the morning bell. Stocks are once again looking to pick up where they left off today...     Rude Trends When to Buy... When to Sell   I have failed you... I promised to try Coca-Cola's new mutant milk product over the weekend. But I didn't do it. Why not? Well, it's not that I chickened out (not yet, anyway). I just couldn't find the stuff. I went to a couple of different grocery stores... and no luck so far. But don't worry--I'm tracking this stuff down today. I hate grocery stores, so I'm not going to waste my time driving halfway across the county to find some stupid milk product. This time, I'll let my fingers do the walking. There has to be a local store that carries Coke milk. I'll report back to you on the matter shortly... [Ed. 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