• The markets closed – AGAIN – FLAT today –  S&P 500 (+0.14%); DOW (-0.01%); NASDAQ (+0.08%).
  
• Market Overview =  The market is in a confirmed uptrend since the October 4th pivot point that we identified at its inception and profited from. Click here for today’s SMC S&P 500 (ETF SPY) chart. The market attempted to move higher today, in “bull-market” fashion (please see below for details) but again, at the crucial moment – there was very little enthusiasm to push it higher.  We are cautious now, with many stocks exhibiting over-bought patterns and raw material processing companies like Freeport McMoran (FCX) – Copper, Alcoa (AA) – Aluminum, and U.S. Steel (X) not finding any buyers over the last weeks.
  
• We had our “hat” handed back to us today on Dendreon (DNDN $11.81), validating the importance of keeping entries small, placing appropriate stops, AND weighing the relative merits of entering an investment in a company immediately before it announces quarterly earnings!  Please click here to see the detail in this SMC Successful Investing Video from today.
• Definition of what the G20 is and results from this past weekend’s G20 meeting, below.
  
• Stock Market Companion received this excellent review from CathyDuffyReviews.com as a teaching tool. Summary quote = “The Stock Market Companion is a great tool for parents and children to work together to learn about global and business finance, the stock market, and the characteristics of excellent companies and eventually develop their own investment portfolios.”  We would like to extend a very special “Thank You!” to Cathy Duffy at CathyDuffyReviews.  She is a leader in the home school community, a curriculum specialist, and has been providing families in the U.S. and internationally with extensive curriculum reviews and encouragement for decades (since 1984!) through her reviews, articles, books, and speaking engagements.  www.CathyDuffyReviews.com
• Special “Thank You!” to SMC Member Chad.  He reported these great results since becoming an SMC member – “I have been using your 15Minute Market Update Program on our Florida Stock Market Simulator and have moved from last place to first place among our 6 groups. Good information.” – Chad. B. Yulee, Fla.  USA.
• Did you know that SMC members ALWAYS get 1 free month for each new paying member they recommend who joins our 15Minute Stocks Program?  It’s a great way to help friends and gives everyone something new to talk about!  NOW you can call 360-695-6985 or email support@stockmarketcompanion.com for a special, significant discount code to give them.
• We introduce a NEW Feature to the SMC 15Minute Update Program = Advanced Investor Opportunities … Please see below for details.
• Please click here to send us your feedback.  Let us know how we are doing – We are here to serve you. Support@Stockmarketcompanion.com

• Here is a video interview of a father and son using the Stock Market Companion successfully together – as a teaching and investing tool.
  

– Stock Market Companion – ADVANCED INVESTOR OPPORTUNITIES –

We will streamline this section with a link to a table in the days ahead.

Our objectives are to teach principles of successful investing and to offer you as many real and excellent investment ideas and opportunities as possible.  When we launched Stock Market Companion in October 2009, we knew that we would eventually be faced with the situation where we had more ideas and more opportunities presenting themselves than we would be able to invest in ourselves.

We want to make sure that we present you excellent opportunities that are unfolding NOW, even when we do not engage them ourselves.  Many of you are already using our SMC Watchlist and monitoring it to see such opportunities unfolding, on your own.  But we don’t want to be confined with just what is in our SMC holdings and in our SMC Watchlist.

A recent, excellent example of this: On 1/13/2012 we presented the idea that Sears Holdings (SHLD) director Mr. Eddie Lampert  purchased approx. $140 million of SHLD shares on the open market between approx. $27.50 and $30 / share.  The stock jumped higher the next day and for us was “overextended” – but the shares roared on another +60% in a few days!  For some SMC members who are more risk tolerant, SHLD may not have appeared overextended and our thoughts on the investment may have kept them from participating or participating more fully.  We want to give ideas and offer valuable insights, but Get out of the Way!

We are introducing this section so that at SMC, we can “get out of the way” and let you decide for yourselves and not influence members so greatly with our own risk-tolerances and objectives at the time.  We WILL point out key characteristics that we think are important to consider, or logical areas to place stops or offer realistic targets based on our over two decades of investing experience, but we will be less inclined to judge these opportunities beyond that.  What we list in this section will be cover many dimensions:

• Growth stories following our successful S.I.M.P.L.E. investing method
• Unusual opportunities arising from oversold or overbought conditions
• Opportunities presenting themselves due to key technical developments in the shares (key support and resistance line engagement, high volume clues…)
• Stocks that offer excellent dividend yields and measurable risk
• Covered Call ideas
• Higher risk but possibly quite unique investment opportunties
• Excellent mutual funds and ETF ideas (including off-shore)

At this time, we are including this section in the SMC Basic Membership.  Our advisors may determine that these insights should be offered outside of the basic membership for a modest additional fee. That decision is for sometime later.  Let’s proceed …

Nr.	Introduction Date	% Gain or (Loss) (Introduction)	Co.	Ticker	Possible Opportunity NOW	STOP Level or Other Considerations	Possible TARGET	REWARD / Risk Ratio	S.I.M.P.L.E. Notes +

– Markets “At a Glance” –

• The markets were AGAIN divergent today, just as yesterday revealing further weakness in the technology sector while the broader market (S&P 500) and the DOW (DJ-30) held POSITIVE.
• Research in Motion (Ticker: RIMM $27.75) reported earnings last night that were a major disappointment.  We go through the details below.  The company received 2 broker upgrades going into earnings.  The stock then lost -21.45% from yesterday’s close into today.  We go through our steps in handling our brief investment in the stock this last week – AND WHY, below.
• Crude oil continued to descend today, reflecting a drop in value of the U.S. dollar – BUT also  concern of future demand as the global economy slows down.
• The S&P 500 is finding support at its 200 day exponential moving average.  If the broader market doesn’t find strength here and begins to sink further, the next near point of support is the low it plumbed during the recent nuclear crisis in Japan.  If it fails that point, then the intermediate term trend will be DOWN.
  
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