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We all know the older, more conservative investors in this country have been totally ignored by the FED in their quest to juice the economy with QE and their ZIRP.  We were personally reminded of the absolute screws that have been put to the income investor as we surveyed the end of month statement for a new Roth IRA we…

Hopefully you are all ready for another wild stock market again this week. Stock futures are off nearly 200 points tonight as we see traders using the excuse of a potential interest rates increase as a reason to sell--of course this reason and sentiment could all evaporate by 10 am in the morning and shares could shoot higher.The facts are…

Investors (mom and pop) have withdrawn a huge amount from the stock market in the week ending 8/26/2015 (Tuesday). ETF's accounted for the lions share of outflows with over $15 billion leaving the markets, with mutual funds accounting for another $2.6 billion in outflows. There is no reason this should come as a surprise to anyone--we have seen this time…

Well today we get the craziness to the upside in the equity markets--that makes 3 days straight of very suspicious activity in the markets.  Continually brokerage firms, market makers, high frequency traders, banks and others are working very hard to screw the little investor--the NYSE, NASDAQ and SEC are not bringing any solutions to the party either.  There were any…

Of course we have no proof of anything, but todays late day drop probably wasn't the work of you and I unloading our 'vast' holdings and probably was the work of high frequency traders and other traders scalping off the days gains.  While we were under no illusion that the early day 400 point jump would totally hold we were…