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IMDB.com, also known as Internet Movie Database, publishes STARmeter ratings of anyone who has ever had anything to do with show business. The STARmeter shows what people are interested in, based on the actual behavior of millions of IMDb users, showing if there is a high level of public awareness and/or interest in the person. Here is a list of several noted traders, investors, and other well-known individuals in the financial field, along with their STARrating change from last week. George Soros +511%Warren Buffett +24%Jim Cramer +14%Suze Orman +3%Al Gore 0%Robert Kiyosaki -1%Bill Gates -2%Maria Bartiromo -4%Erin Burnett -36%T. Full Article…

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“Do stocks show an upward bias at the end of the month? It looks like they do.”

– Larry Connors, “The End of the Month Strategy,” Short Term Trading Strategies That Work

This is how Larry Connors introduced Chapter 11 of his book, Short Term Trading Strategies That Work. And for stock traders trading stocks using PowerRatings, this concept of stocks moving higher toward the end of the month proved to be an excellent guide to locking in gains in a number of top rated stocks as August drew to a close.

Consider for example the move in Westlake Chemical Corp (WLK | PowerRating).

Shares of WLK earned Stock PowerRatings of 9 on August 23.

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It’s hard to believe that Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ:WFMI) was trading in the $50 range just one year ago. Today, the stock is struggling to stay above $10 a share. Of course these days, few stocks are immune from the global economic implosion we’re dealing with now. But Whole Foods has become that one company that I can’t help but to defend. You see, when Whole Foods first went public, it was a punching bag for every armchair analyst and media blowhard that took some kind of sick pleasure in the fact that in the first nine months of its IPO, the stock had dipped more than 30 percent. Of course, we cheered (and profited), after the stock enjoyed a meteoric rise in the years that followed.

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A Scout’s motto is “Be prepared.” But how can you be prepared for something completely unexpected? Today’s investment markets are riddled with uncertainty, seesawing in poor economic headwinds, and pockmarked with burst bubbles.

We think we’ve seen the worst, but are we sure about that?

Late last week, the financial market’s buzzword was “Black Swan.” A black swan is an unforeseen event, random and extremely difficult to predict. Most often, the term refers to something bad.

An article from The Wall Street Journal on Friday was titled, “How to Profit from Black Swans” Here’s an excerpt:

A growing number of money managers and financial firms are rolling out investment products designed to exploit big declines known as “black swan” events.

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Over the past year I’ve spoken to hundreds of traders, many of which were recorded and posted at TraderInterviews.com. If you had asked me a few years ago how the best traders approached the markets, I would have said that they all had similar strategies. But after talking with traders of every market imaginable, I’ve found they all have very different methods.

However, while they each may use wildly different techniques (I spoke with one very wealthy trader who confirmed his chart patterns by looking at planetary movement and moon phases), all of them follow five rules without exception.

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