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Hope you all had an excellent weekend. With very little impactful news in the small cap space today, we wanted to take an opportunity to focus on the major markets as a whole and give you what may be a much different editorial view of what's going on right now than what you're likely going to find anywhere else.

Since we tend to filter out much of what the financial media's reactive coverage tends to provide investors, I think it's very important to make sure you don't fall into the same trap that many average investors will fall victim to right now, which I'll call "fear based journalism". It's important to understand that the media achieves ratings by herding sheep into thinking either the sky is falling or that you're on the verge of missing out on one of the market's greatest runs in history. The media thrives on extremes, or at least making you think everything is extreme. The reality, in our opinion, typically couldn't be farther from the truth.

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With the bulls and bears jostling for control of the market right now, there's an extremely interesting underlying story brewing that you may or may not be aware of, so we're going to have a technical look today at what I consider to be the "Big 3" in the market these days, gold, oil and tech. Since two of the three seem to be problematic for the economic landscape and tech is the growth driver, these three sectors of the market deserve some attention right now.

As I type, the major indexes are getting awfully excited trying to retrace and erase the losses from the last week or so. However, I wouldn't get overly exuberant here as one day does not a rally make. It's quite possible this market can turn on a dime again since we've got options expiration at the end of the week. Volatility is doing its best to catch traders on the wrong side of the options trade but it's important to note that all we've done on the hourly chart is rally to another potentially profitable short entry for the market to go lower.

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What ever happened to Yo-Yo's? Remember "Walking the Dog" and "Around the World?" Ok, whatever. Good Monday All... I'm sure most investors and traders in the market can't say they're off to an excellent start to the week but we can. Our fade trade against the major indexes is working like a charm once again and it reminds me of the Yo-Yo. When the market acts like a Yo-Yo and you can predict its moves as easily as a Yo-Yo, profits can be fairly easy.

We suggested toward the end of last week to get back to buying the index put options when the market makes attempts to rally, then close them out when the market blows off to the downside. For those of you who maybe don't quite understand what I'm referring to, I've included an hourly chart here of the QQQ's, which is the Index ETF for the NASADQ 100.

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Good morning all. We sure hope all of you have experienced the value of our market intelligence of late. If you've been following along, then you know our market commentary and calls have been spot on and have provided money making opportunities even in a downward trending market. Even though the market has shown some weakness of late, I think this market is due to bounce back and the strength of the bounce is likely going to tell us where this market is headed in the coming weeks.

Let's take our put options strategy in the major indexes off the table for the time being. The easiest money has already been made and we suspect a fair amount of volatility in the coming days before truly knowing if the recent selloff has legs or was simply consolidation for this market to move higher.

We've been noticing certain small and micro-cap names have been bucking the bearish trend and we say all the time if you can catch the right idea building positive momentum in a bearish environment, the results can be explosive. We've got a new idea for you today that is clearly starting to get some positive attention and our suspicions tell us this may only be the beginning of what could prove to be a very exciting opportunity.

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Don't like the direction the market is headed? No problem - just wait until tomorrow, 'cause it'll be pointed a different direction then. Geez, what an exercise in extreme moves and constant reversals the last few days have been, both up and down. Don't worry though, because we've got a pretty good bead on things for you.

Actually, today's newsletter is just an extension of yesterday's, as the saga seems to be a daily and even intraday affair now. Our overall outlook is still the same as it has been for a while though ...after nearly a 17% runup from mid-December, we're due for a dip. And yes, I mean a dip slightly bigger than the one you've already seen.