Investing 

Investing is a bit like learning to swim. One usually begins by going into the shallow end of the pool, so that drowning can be avoided simply by letting your legs touch the bottom, as you get better you slowly venture out further and further. Finally you are a pro and you don’t need to swim in an area where the water only is waist high, now you can swim in the deep end where you have several feet of water without any fear.

Why then do most investors instead of slowly taking the time to learn what investing is about, feel that after they read one book they have what it takes to dive into the depths of the market only to get killed. If one could graphically depict this process in terms of people get beheaded, you would witness a massacre taking place every month. 

I am going to suggest a few little strategies one can implement. 

First go to our tools page and familiarize yourself with Technical Analysis. A good place to begin is our site,  go the to section titled tools for better investing http://tacticalinvestor.com/page17.html 

www.incrediblecharts.com make sure you read the sections on the psychology of the markets. Then download the free charting programs; the links are on our site.  Spend 30-60 minutes a week learning and fully understanding the basic concepts of TA. Understand the premise behind trend lines and also make sure you drill the trend is your friend concept into your head. 

If you spend enough time going through the links on our tools for better trading I can assure you, you will be a better investor than you were before you took the time to educate yourself. For those of you looking for a system without having to do any work, John Tyler from the info gnome has come up with some very unique systems, I have actually looked at them all and can honestly say they do work, however you must put in a little time. http://tacticalinvestor.com/tacticaltoppicks.html 

Of course if you are prepared to do some work you can do just as well by spending time on our site using the free tools, the above books and courses are for those of you who are to lazy or just don’t have the time.

One important factor to note if you are paying some advisory service, is to make sure that they don't quote their gains as annualized gains, the difference between actual gains and  those  that are annualized are extremely huge, this is very deceptive and sneaky. Example say they invested in a stock its up 30% for the month, instead of saying its up 30% they chose to state those figures as 360% or so.  See the difference.  Services that have to use deceptive means to lure customers in usually have something to hide and should be avoided like the plague. 

The point I am trying to make is education is always good. It never hurts to learn new concepts, in addition would you not like to be able to spot a good or a bad service immediately. Empowering oneself is the key to successful living and investing. 

Taking a look at the geo political scene we see that the war in Iraq has gone from a victory to a screaming tragedy, as every aspect of the military operations have been mishandled, the sad part is that poor young innocent American soldiers are getting killed like flies. Many of them have far different opinions on the war, but their opinions matter little. With the way this administration is spending money like its water we can expect the costs to keep rising higher and higher. This off course will be very bullish for Gold and all commodities. I am currently looking at oil very closely with my close and trusted Associate John Tyler and if the pattern we envision unfolds then the cost of a barrel will be heading of towards the 48-50 range in the not to distant future. Off course we cannot reveal all our plays here as our paying subscribers would string us up to the nearest pole if we were to do so, however we can give you the macro view of what is going on and reserve the micro for our paying subscribers. In addition we will mention sectors which we think will start performing well and every know and then we will drop some specific company names. 

On a different note it was rather surprising and offers the appearance of nobility, I am referring to Bush’s trip to Iraq. Lets hope he was truly sincere and this is not just some politically planned event.  Whatever the reason the public will take this as a positive and it should have positive effect on the markets.

Currently the natural gas, oil service sector, natural gas exploration and drilling sectors are pretty much extremely oversold and from a contrarian perspective offer the opportunity for better returns in the next 2-4 months then other sectors. For the more aggressive I see the biotech sector is oversold and close to putting in a short-term bottom, if this bottom holds there could be a very large rally in the works. Many of the stocks that we were and still are bullish on have should some incredible gains since we took positions in them. We still think the oil service sector is extremely oversold and still think there is very significant up ward potential left in the natural gas and independent oil exploration sectors. 

Today we are going to mention some stocks  in the above sectors that we think have great potential, however we recommend that you do your own research and talk to your financial advisor before taking positions in these stocks.

WEL, seems positioned  to benefit tremendously should the oil and oil service sector take off. they are coming out of a nice base. 

DYOLF they are a natural gas and independent oil producing and exploration company their revenues doubled this quarter and profits increased by 87%

TLM also looks very strong if you can buy shares in the 50-51 range you should be rewarded nicely in the future.

CHK is another very good play that has great long term prospects.