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Money and Markets: Investing Insights

My #1 profit play for 2012 …

Mike Larson | Friday, December 30, 2011 at 7:30 am

Mike Larson

It’s no secret that I’m calling for major market weakness going into the New Year.

Why?

Because I don’t believe any of the bailout hype coming out of Europe …

I don’t believe that U.S. politicians are ready to make the serious (and painful) decisions that are needed to right our own country’s troubled financial situation …

Plus, when I look at individual stocks, I see a whole bunch of companies that are currently selling for outrageous prices!

I call these companies the “momo” darlings because they’re all about momentum. In other words, they ride waves of investor enthusiasm to incredibly lofty heights, even though their underlying businesses are nothing but hot air.

And what happens when these balloons spring a leak? They come crashing back to earth in spectacular fashion!

Just look what happened to Netflix (NFLX) or Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) earlier this year. Or what’s happening to Salesforce.com (CRM) or Sina (SINA) or Baidu (BIDU). Or how about what just happened to Oracle — one of the biggest-name momo darlings — last week.

The minute the company released a bad earnings report, its shares started tanking … and then tanking more … ending one single day down 11.7 percent! That was the single-biggest one-day decline for Oracle going all the way back to March 2002 … in the midst of the tech wreck!

I expect a ton of these kinds of meltdowns in the coming year. And that is precisely why my number one profit idea for 2012 is a special play on the demise of another momo darling. I think it could produce gains as high as 228 percent!

I’m planning on giving our VIP members very specific instructions on this play at our special investment briefing just over 48 hours from now — at 12 Noon Eastern Time, New Year’s Day.

In addition, other members of our team are also going to reveal THEIR favorite plays for the coming year including …

Larry Edelson on why gold will hit $5,000 per ounce — and why you should NOT buy it now: Plus, Larry will name the world’s single best gold stock and when to buy it … the everyday ETF that could double your money in short order … and the dead give-away that will tell you when it’s time to jump on it.

Nilus Mattive on the income investment set to pay you 35 percent in 2012 alone: It’s a household-name income stock. The dividend is 26 times more than one-year treasuries pay. The last time Nilus recommended it, the stock soared 32.5 percent in 60 days.

Nilus has also uncovered an intriguing master limited partnership: It makes money no matter which way oil prices go. Better yet, it pays you an 8.1 percent dividend each year just for owning it — and Nilus sees its share price jumping as much as 12 percent, handing you a 20.1 percent total return for the year!

Plus …

An Asian juggernaut stock: This company is riding a huge megatrend and offers products that Chinese consumers are clamoring for. No wonder its revenues have been rising an average of 42 percent over the last five years while its profits have been DOUBLING year in and year out!

A truly brilliant double-play on Europe’s debt crisis: As if its debt crisis wasn’t enough, the entire euro-zone economy is now grinding to a standstill, compounding its troubles. This single investment DOUBLES your profit opportunity. European stocks plunge: You stand to make money! The euro currency plunges: You stand to make MORE money!

A little-known gold stock that could rocket higher! It’s a relatively small company with a market cap of only $131 million. But unbeknownst to most investors, it has one working mine and two more fast-tracked projects. Plus, it has loads of gold in the ground. We think that makes it an attractive takeover candidate in 2012!

And MORE!

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We’ll be revealing all of these investment ideas at our exclusive briefing for V.I.P. investors at high noon on New Year’s Day.

Best wishes,

Mike

Mike Larson

Mike Larson graduated from Boston University with a B.S. degree in Journalism and a B.A. degree in English in 1998, and went to work for Bankrate.com. There, he learned the mortgage and interest rates markets inside and out. Mike then joined Weiss Research in 2001. He is the editor of Safe Money Report. He is often quoted by the Washington Post, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, Orlando Sentinel, Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel, and he has appeared on CNN, Bloomberg Television and CNBC.

{ 10 comments }

mike massey Friday, December 30, 2011 at 1:38 pm

i hate to say it but it sounds like the same song and dance. You and Klaus have been seeing a top in stocks for years, guess what? You might guess right eventually! What a moneymaker!

Frances Friday, December 30, 2011 at 2:21 pm

hardee, Har-Har…mo-mo stocks??…MIke Larson has NO IDEA how to play a mo-mo stock…up or down…he can’t even find one…….that’s the key!!….

and..then….guess what?/..he’ll miss the massive rush up…maybe even miss the stock split…wait?/…he’ll put shorts on halfway and get killed by the stock split….mo mo stocks don’t necessarily just collapse….

ask FCX and POT…..

If you can even identify a mo-mo stock before it is one, good luck shorting it….as usual….their plays will be too late…

umm..shorting a mo-mo stock pushes it higher, suckers, not investor enthusiasm….clowns…(FCX/POT)

Let me guess??…he never had any plays on the scenarios he mentions above??…prove in the pudding…
just a parrot..

Frances Friday, December 30, 2011 at 2:28 pm

Can anyone out there tell me if Mike or MArty had any short plays on:

Netflix (NFLX) or Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) Salesforce.com (CRM) Sina (SINA) Baidu (BIDU). Oracle — one of the biggest-name momo darlings — .

he’s bragging up on them as examples of his strategy…..50 bucks says he missed the boat then…and misses it in 2012….how do I know…behavior…he missed them in 2011…

what a maroon…

Dellaroush Friday, December 30, 2011 at 4:53 pm

I sold my BIDU at 144, SINA at 136, SOHU at 103, and AGQ at 348. Another losing year!! LOL LOL LOL

Frances Friday, December 30, 2011 at 5:18 pm

Yeah….those “mo-mo” stocks are real portfolio killers, aren’t they, on the way up……Congrats on your income tax liability problem, “Della”….nice problems to have…

All the world’s markets are going to crash down because of mo-mo stocks!!!!!….Run away…run away!!!…

wait a minute….if the stocks he mentioned above had their momenteum crash this year??….

how come the markets didn’t crash this year.???…oh, wait….that’s in 2012….

Dellaroush Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 4:09 pm

ROTH is the magic word. Some people just don’t understand those famous bull words, STOP ORDER. When SLV goes from 10 to 50ish, then the STOP kicks in at 47, who cares if it’s gonna go to 25?? I’m getting ready to buy again.

Howard Monday, January 2, 2012 at 7:44 am

Hi Mike
It appears that regardless of the will of U.S. politicians the Fed is making loans through the IMF to bailout proflicate european sovereign debter nations. When will the public wake up to the risk that they carry. It just appears as more bank protection.

carlos Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 12:08 pm

Happy new year

Frances Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 1:28 pm

“It’s no secret I’m calling for Major market weakness going into the New Year”…..?????????????.

oh, brother….S & P is gonna be at 1340 loooooooong before Mikey’s “call”…..

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……..

Frances Friday, January 6, 2012 at 1:52 pm

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