ARCHIVED COMMENTARY
Tulowitzki Shirts
Are Tough to Find
For edition of October 24, 2007
Bosox caps and T-shirts are everywhere -- even here in Colorado, where Rockies fever has built to a crescendo. Of course, Yankees logos are everywhere too. But it’s not the same thing. People wear Yankees caps and shirts for many reasons other than to advertise their loyalty to the team. For instance, Hillary Clinton once donned a Yankees cap to seem more human, or at least less Hillary-like. And my 12-year-old wears one because, even though he’s never been to the Big Apple, he's heard that's where all the action is. But talk to someone wearing Boston’s colors and you know you’re talking to a die-hard Red Sox fan. Which they all are. Would any other kind of fan stick with a team that before the 2004 matchup against the Cardinals, had not produced a Series winner in 86 years?
The Rockies haven’t been around long enough to inspire that kind of loyalty, but they’ve been rapidly making up for lost time since August. The team has won 21 of its last 22 outings with some of the best defensive play in the glorious history of the game. Try to find a Tulowitzki jersey in Colorado and they are sold out. Playing shortstop, Tulo has not made an error in 44 games, although it’s not for lack of opportunities. Almost nothing has gotten by him on the ground in post-season play, nor have any line drives less than ten feet high. His off-balance throws to first are poetry in motion, recalling the great Ozzie Smith, and with a .291 batting average and 99 RBI’s he’s a good bet for Rookie of the Year.
TV’s Secret Prayer
Too bad television hasn’t discovered the guy yet, because his story is just the thing the network flacks could use to drum up ratings for the Series. Instead, these guys seem to have spent what little enthusiasm they evidently have for baseball praying fervently that it would not be a Cleveland-Rockies series. How deadly dull that might have been for big-city viewers! However, assuming Tri-State fans have an interest in the game that transcends their love or hatred for the Yankees, they should tune into this Rockies-Bosox series, since it promises to deliver some great baseball. Boston's entire lineup has been hitting plenty of balls out of the infield, so it’s going to be a different kind of match-up than the Rockies have experienced so far in the post-season.
I’ll be watching myself, although probably on television rather than from the stands in Coors Field. In the last four hours, my nearly 400 attempts to buy Series tickets online have failed, and at this point the only tickets that remain are for a fifth game that would be played here next Monday. Tens of thousands of Rockies fans are going to end the day without Series tickets like me, but you can bet most of us will be there for opening day next spring.
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Out-Forecast the Gurus
Take a look at the chart below. See anything that might have led you to predict that December Crude would make a very tradable top at 87.97? Would you like to learn how to forecast stocks and commodities as accurately yourself? Are you tired of having some guru tell you what to do? If so, then read on.
Now, Rick’s Picks has been predicting $100-a-barrel oil for quite a while. Even so, and bullish as we are on crude, we don’t always trade it from the long side. Consider the following short recommendation that went out to subscribers the other night. It is based on Hidden Pivot analysis: “[My rally target for December Crude] is 87.97, and you can short there with a 14-cent stop-loss… Since the correction could be shallow and brief, don't be too ambitious about profit-taking if the opportunity to do so should arise.”
Now take a look at the chart again and see how things played out:
A lucky coincidence? Hardly. Hidden Pivot targets get hit so precisely so much of the time that it couldn’t possibly be due to blind luck. Moreover, visit the Rick’s Picks chat room and you'll discover that the basics of the Hidden Pivot Method can be learned by anyone in just a few hours. But don’t take my word for it. Ask some of the regulars who have taken the Hidden Pivot seminar. They will tell you not only that it's possible for “amateurs” to forecast stocks and commodities with astounding accuracy, but that it's great fun! And why wouldn't it be, if it freed you from ever having to ask an "expert" what he thinks about a certain stock, or about "the market". Who cares what he thinks when you can learn how to do it yourself – to do it better, even, than quite a few gurus who do it for a living.
If you’ve heard about this course but could not attend earlier sessions in New York, Sydney, San Francisco, Denver, Vancouver and other cities where it has been offered, there is good news: It will be offered online the first weekend in November. And there’s an additional incentive that has never been available until now: Register for November 3-4 class and you will have immediate, 24-hour access to the full, recorded version of the course. I will also ship you a copy of the 109-page course manual as soon as I’ve heard from you. And if you are not currently a subscriber to Rick’s Picks and sign up by October 21, I’ll throw in a free month’s subscription – a $42 value.
Only 4 Seats Left
Don’t delay if you’ve been thinking of taking this seminar, since there are only four seats left of the original 14. They could fill up quickly, and there are no other classes scheduled at this time.
For your convenience, the seminar will be held on Saturday and Sunday morning, November 3-4, in two three-hour segments. In addition, after you’ve had some time try out your new skills, you’ll have a chance to query me directly during an open-ended, two-hour chart session online.
The Hidden Pivot course could be the best opportunity you will have to learn how to forecast as accurately and confidently as paid gurus. It doesn’t take a PhD to master the technique either, since you’ll be taught how to look at stock charts as “art,” rather than in the conventional way.
Training Manual & Recordings
Here’s what you’ll get if you sign up now:
· The two-day, six-hour Hidden Pivot course and training manual
· A two-hour Q&A follow-up once you’ve had time to try the system
· Free “continuing education” classes online
· Free 24-hour access to recorded seminars, tutorials and Q&A sessions
· A free-month’s subscription, with access to the Rick’s Pick chat room during market hours
· Access to thousands of annotated charts in the paid-subscriber archive
· Access to the Educational Pages, with simple but effective strategies for risk management and market timing
· Rick’s daily Touts, including detailed trading recommendation for stocks, indexes, futures and options
· Dave McDonough’s “Excellent Hidden Pivot Calculator”
· Rick’s idiosyncratic put-and-call advice, which distills more than 30 years of trading experience down to a few simple essentials
Sign up now and receive all of these benefits and more for just $960! To go directly to the registration page, click here , then on the “Upcoming” tab. If you would like more information about the Hidden Pivot Method, or about upcoming sessions, including a possible on-site session in Florida this winter, please click here.
Hope to see you in class!
