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Help the individual investor and trader to profit from timing market movements while providing independent recommendations and advice.

What is Stock Barometer?

Stock Barometer is a paid subscription service comprised of several newsletters for both investors and traders. Written by trading expert, Jay DeVincentis, Stock Barometer specializes in using his sophisticated methods of technical analysis to uncover the most promising short-term trading opportunities as well as long-term investments.

Stock Barometer is completely independent. We have never and will not ever accept compensation from any company whose stock we recommend.

Our goal is to make you money. We offer you the tools and information to do so and leave it to you, the individual investor, to apply them in the best way possible.

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What isn't Stock Barometer?

We are not online brokers. We are not money managers. And we are not personal financial advisors. We don't parrot CNBC or corporate press releases.

We don't play favorites with companies. We're not tied to any one company, so we're not hopelessly devoted to any sinking ships. We're not on the payroll of ANY company, broker or investment bank. We work for you.

Which of your trading services is right for me?

The Daily Stock Barometer is issued each Tuesday through Friday by 7:30 am – and on the weekend to cover Monday’s trade. It provides the Buy or Sell Signal and has commentary on future path, time cycles, gold, bonds, Oil and the US Dollar and other technical indicators. You can use the signals to trade the QQQQ, Rydex or anything that moves in line with the Nasdaq 100.

The QQQQ/Rydex Trader Alert have the signals and orders only and are issued by 10 pm eastern on the night that we get a signal. There’s limited commentary, just the signal and what action you can should take. These services are set up to be auto traded.

Explosive Stock Alert is a weekly look at the markets, covering evey industry giving you the stocks that are in uptrends and the top strength in the industry. We do the homework for the investor and trader so they can make better decisions with their money.

Stock Options Speculator is a weekly options service, where we give you our top 10 option plays of the week, usually designed to double in value with as little as a 10% move in the stocks or underlying index. Saving you time and allowing you to focus your money towards the most effective trades.

Market Chat - a weekly chat room focused on answering your market related questions or questions about any of our recommendations.

What to trade?

The Stock Barometer uses the Nasdaq 100 to determine its timing because I believe that’s the most predictable index. In fact, it’s the added beta that provides the best return. So you can trade the following indices or indices related products using my signals:

1. QQQQ (Nasdaq 100)
2. Rydex funds based on the Nasdaq 100
3. Profunds based on the Nasdaq 100

How To Trade?

Since we’re issuing Buy and Sell Signals, you can trade them as follows:

1. Long Only
2. Short Only
3. Long and Short
4. Margin

It’s important to understand that Long Only will likely produce better results than Short Only in a Bull Advance and the inverse for a Bear Decline. I don’t think one can accurately predict (only in hindsight) which type of advance we’re going to get, that’s why I encourage playing both sides of the trade in all markets.

The use of margin (or leverage) is obviously a personal financial decision that you should discuss with your certified financial planner. We also recommend the use of leveraged ETFs and inverse ETFs (QLD and QID) to play both sides of the market in a retirement account.

Before I go further, I think it’s important for me to state that past performance can not guarantee future returns. For those of you who have been with me for the past several years, you know how brutally honest I am. And I’ll tell you this, we never know what kind of market conditions we are going to get. There is just no way to know what is going to happen in the market. We can only position for the highest probability event and if we don’t get it, we reposition for the next highest probability event. If we do this signal after signal without setting expectations and following the system in its entirety, then if market conditions allow, we should do well.

When To Trade?

Any Index ETF Trade is to be taken at the open price – some brokers will allow you to issue a market on open order. However, if you’re in front of your screen all day long and have the ability to trade the morning pivots, then I think you can do even better. If you don’t know what the morning pivots are then you should probably not try this. But let me give you an example. If I give a Buy Signal and the market is setting up to move lower at the open, then you can obviously improve your entry point by waiting until the market settles to the 9:50 or 10:20 am pivots. These are the morning pivots that many day traders utilize. By improving your entry by half a percent a trade over 50 trades per year, well, I think you can see the benefit of that.

Throw in margin and it’s further amplified (both up and down).

There are obvious limitations to trading mutual funds as I’ve recently discussed with several of you who have tried to do so in the past. But the way my system is designed is to get you in slightly early. One component of the barometer formula is designed to do that specifically. I can adjust the sensitivity of that indicator to make the barometer more or less sensitive to market moves.

The results of the test I did on the 2004 data clearly showed that trading on the open performed better than trading on the close, which is what mutual funds represent. But there’s no way to get around this and in fact, the performance of the leveraged venture/velocity funds still beat trading the QQQQ straight up because of the leverage component of the funds.

Expectations

It's important to me that your expectations are real. This is not a get rich quick scheme. It takes courage, confidence and discipline to make money in the financial markets. For example, for one period of 2.5 months over the past year and a half, the Rydex system had a draw down of 12%. The largest single drawdown was almost 15%. All during this time, you will also be incurring fees to trade. There will be drawdown and there will be periods of drawdown and underperformance.

What types of services are offered and how do they work?

If you’re an investor, we have a series of 5 stock trading newsletters, each of which gives you a manageable one to two stock trades per month - depending on our expectations for the market, as there will be some markets where it's not a smart idea to be buying stocks.

Whether you want only the highest quality stocks, the safety of Dividend-Paying Stocks, the risk/reward of Low-Priced Stocks, or the hedging quality of Gold Stocks, we have a service for you. While these are monthly services, each recommendation is sent to you in an e-mail alert on the day that the stock should be bought.

If you’re a trader, we have two trading services for the QQQQ and Rydex Funds. Each alert contains specific advice on when to buy, when to sell, and how to apply your stop (as necessary). These services utilize Jay’s swing trading "always in" approach.

If you’re interested in learning how to read the market or just want to get an idea of when to buy and sell your own investments, then you can receive Jay’s Daily Stock Barometer. This report comes out five days per week. You'll get an issue each weekend and Tuesday through Friday and one on the weekend setting up Monday's trade.

Contact Us!

For customer service or subscription questions, it’s best that you e-mail us directly at CustomerSupport@StockBarometer.com.

You can also reach us by phone or fax at 1-309-216-5878.

Please note that your phone message will be answered by our service and delivered via e-mail. This allows us to respond via e-mail 24/7. For faster response, if possible, please e-mail us at one of the e-mail addresses below.

With questions pertaining to the specific content of articles or alerts included in the Stock Barometer Premier Membership, or trading recommendations, you can e-mail Jay DeVincentis at Jay@StockBarometer.com.

For questions regarding any of our other services, please e-mail authors as follows:

Patrice V. Johnson at patrice@StockBarometer.com.

Bill West at bill@StockBarometer.com.

Lynn T at plus@StockBarometer.com.

Mark McMillan at mark@StockBarometer.com.

Angelo Campione at angelo@StockBarometer.com.

We will respond to all of your questions and comments. Please remember, however, that we cannot give you individual trading or financial advice.

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