JC published a bullish piece on Japan today. He’s been pounding the table on the potential for a massive base breakout for some time. He’s so exited about it, we even traveled to Tokyo last year to see what’s going for ourselves!!

One of the names he mentioned in the post stood out to me and I’m willing to step in and take a position. [Read more…]

2008-2009 was a dark period for the banking industry. The “Financial Crisis” nearly brought the whole system to its knees. Stocks in household name banks became penny stocks (Citibank!), Warren Buffet had to rescue Goldman Sachs, and a few had to put themselves up for sale (Merrill Lynch), or even became extinct (Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers).

For some long-term investors (and former employees in this sector), this is still a fresh wound.

But charts in this sector are starting to tell a different story.

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One thing you’ll read between the lines in nearly everything we do here at All Star Options and allstarcharts.com: We stick with winners. We ride trends. We get long relative strength and we get short relative weakness. We don’t overcomplicate things. We don’t need to be the Hero who shorts a parabolic stock at its zenith, or buys the oversold stock at its generational bottom. Those trades make for sexy stories, but that graveyard is a mile wide and 50 feet deep.

With this in mind, here’s an undeniable leader that is setting up again: [Read more…]

As Steve Strazza was putting together the latest “2-to-100” report, he and I were chatting about his latest great stock idea. He is pretty excited about this one, and who am I to not join him?

Let’s get right to it. [Read more…]