A picure of the worst trader in the world?

$100 oil not a problem for the economy
Chairman B. S. Bernanke.

But what do YOU think???

Please vote in our poll and post your comments proclaiming or defending him as the worst trader in the world.

All my best,

Look for big moves today in Equities, Crude, Gold and the Dollar

Look for equities to move lower today.

Crude and Gold to rally … and the Dollar to go down.

Quote from our interview yesterday with Marketwatch.

"We are in a new phase in the dollar/euro relationship, as demand for euros powered the market through the psychological $1.50 ceiling. Our model shows that the market can now realistically look at the $1.55 zone as the next major target area for the dollar," said Adam Hewison, president of INO.com, a technical analysis site."

Now take a look at the USD/EURO chart.

So, fasten your seat belt, it's going to be a big day.

Adam Hewison

Blog readers get it right, time and time again.

To participate in our poll please visit our main blog site at http://club.ino.com/trading/ltblognetwork

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Announcing the next president of the United States of America …

Our smart blog readers have voted, and the poll results are in.

Announcing the next President of the United States of America … Barack Obama.

You can agree or disagree with the results, but the votes are in, and our blog readers have an awesome track record for getting it right. Having predicted the fall in stocks, the rise in gold, 100 dollar oil and the current recession, our blog readers views are important, serious and accurate.

We congratulate all our blog readers for their views on politics and the markets. We value your feedback.

Blog readers predict that Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States of America with 37% of the vote.

Here's what the other contestants received in votes.

McCain 30%

Clinton 13%

We will see …

Vote in our new poll. "Is gold headed for $1,000 in Q1?"

Thanks,

Adam

New Video Trading lesson on GOOGLE

Did someone ring the bell on GOOGLE?

What happened? Did the world change overnight?

How did this once darling of the tech world implode and slide into one of the most dramatic meltdowns in tech history?

Is it all over for Google? Has Google experienced it's 15 minutes of fame?

Have some of the largest mutual funds in the industry thrown in the towel on Google?

Here's what we do know. Google is going to remain a force in online advertising and search.

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This from AP

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer Tue Feb 26, 4:45 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. economy is wheezing so badly that even Internet power Google Inc. and its once-robust stock is looking haggard.

The focus on Google's recent deterioration sharpened Tuesday as investors reacted to the latest evidence indicating fewer people in the United States are clicking on the Internet ads that generate most of the online search leader's profits.

The unsettling trend, captured in a closely followed report from Internet research firm comScore Inc., shoved Google shares to an 11-month low. The drop extended a slump that has lowered the Mountain View-based company's market value by 33 percent, or about $70 billion, during the first seven weeks of the year. The tech-laden Nasdaq composite index has declined by 12 percent during the same stretch.
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Google is also going to be a great trading instrument now, and into the future.

Check out our new 5 minute video on Google and see how MarketClub's "Trade Triangles" tamed this Internet monster.

Enjoy,

Adam Hewison
President. INO.com.

FREE: Sneak peek

It's not often that I get the chance to say that I am WOWed by a new product. The last one was the iPhone from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).

But the truth is, I really am WOWed about this new product.

For the past six months our IT department, along with our content media division, has been working hard in developing and putting the finishing touches on INO TV.

So what is INO TV?

INO TV is the fastest, easiest, most intuitive way for you to improve your trading.

Thanks to the internet, INO TV delivers streaming trading seminars right to your computer. With INO TV you have instant access to over 150 gurus, and over 500
trading seminars with just the click of your mouse.

It all streams directly to your computer… now how cool is that?

Thanks to INO TV your traveling days to out of town trading seminars are over. Forget expensive hotels and the hassle o having to go through metal detectors and then take off your shoes to fly to some strange city. That's all in the past, thanks
to INO TV.

INO TV is instant, it's 24/7 and it's available now.

Can't sleep and it's 2 am in the morning? Take in a seminar on INO TV. It may not put you back to sleep, but at least you will learn something valuable.

I could go on, but I decided to have Lindsay from our company show you exactly how INO TV works in this 5 minute video. Lindsay, does a great job covering all the INO TV bases.

Watch it with my compliments.

Just tap here and start watching right away.

I'll see you on INO TV.

Adam Hewison
President, INO.com

Oil Prices Close at New High Above $100

By ADAM SCHRECK

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NEW YORK (AP) — Oil futures surged to close at a new record Tuesday as traders focused on supply concerns and a bullish stock market rather than renewed signs of a shaky U.S. economy.

Crossing the psychologically significant $100 mark once again — oil prices previously crossed that hurdle last week — in itself may have helped fuel the rally by triggering computer programs set to buy at certain levels and enticing new speculators into the market, said Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Ill.

"You see additional buying among people who think they're missing something," he said. "Any time you move above ($100 a barrel), you're going to ignite some fresh buying."

Light, sweet crude for April delivery jumped $1.65 to settle at $100.88 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. At one point in the session, prices surged as high as $101.15.

Investors who recently were selling on weak economic data seemed to take a spate of bad news in stride.

The Conference Board, a business-backed research group, reported its Consumer Confidence Index fell to the lowest since February 2003, far below what analysts had been expecting, indicating that consumers might continue to curb their spending in the coming months.

Meanwhile, the Labor Department reported that wholesale inflation jumped 1 percent in January, more than twice what analysts had been forecasting. That report, coupled with the consumer confidence index, pointed to an economy that is slowing even as prices are rising.

And Standard & Poor's added to homeowners' angst when it said its quarterly home price index tumbled 8.9 percent in the final quarter of 2007 — the indictator's sharpest decline in its 20-year history.

But traders in both the energy market and the stock market, which also advanced, seemed largely unfazed.

"We're seeing a solid tone to the stock market," Ritterbusch said. "I think the oil market is using the stock market as a proxy for future economic activity."

Last week, March oil rallied to a new settlement record of $100.74 and a new trading record of $101.32 before the contract expired.

Hedge funds looking to cover future positions and foreign buyers, who because of the weak dollar can still lock in oil prices at a relative bargain, may have helped accelerate the day's buying, said Adam Hewison, president of INO.com, a financial Web site that specializes in futures trading.

"In euro terms, oil is not that expensive, and it's likely to go even higher," Hewison said.

Also supporting prices were concerns about supply disruptions from unrest in Iraq, a major oil exporter, and warnings by Iran against further international sanctions. Turkish ground forces pushed their offensive against Kurdish rebels deeper into the north of Iraq, seizing seven guerrilla camps, officials said.

Oil has risen in recent days amid an increase in speculative buying, with some traders believing that global demand will be high enough to support higher crude prices even if the U.S. economy is slowing. That thesis will be put to the test Wednesday, when analysts expect the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration to report that the nation's crude stocks rose for the seventh week in a row.

The government inventories report also is expected to show supplies of distillates, which include heating oil and diesel, fell by 1.8 million barrels last week, according to a Dow Jones Newswires poll of analysts. Cold weather across the Midwest and Northeast has also helped push heating oil prices higher.

On Tuesday, heating oil futures gained 2.97 cents to settle at $2.8150 a gallon, after earlier setting a new trading record of $2.8188 a gallon.

Gasoline prices rose 0.8 cents to settle at $2.5505 a gallon. Gas prices at the pump rose to $3.142 from $3.137 Monday, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service.

The EIA report also is expected to show that crude oil stocks rose last week by 2.4 million barrels, which would be the seventh straight week of gains. Gasoline inventories are expected to rise by 400,000 barrels.

Natural gas futures rose 2 cents to settle at $9.206 per 1,000 cubic feet. Earlier, Gazprom, Russia's natural gas monopoly, again threatened to cut supplies to neighboring Ukraine, according to Russian news agency reports.

In London, Brent crude futures rose $1.78 to settle at $99.47 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Government Mandates = Record Highs??

Trader,

I've wanted to do a posting about this for quite a while, but haven't had the chance…until now!

What's driving up the price of Wheat and Crude Oil??

Is it SUV's? Could it be that Americans HATE bread? Are there enough barrels of oil?

Well it could be any of those things, but one thing in particular has been a BIG contributing factor…Bio Fuel Mandates.

The reality is Corn, the key ingredient in ethanol, is more profitable for the farmers to farm due to the heavy subsidization. Therefore the price of Wheat is going up, up, up because the supply is going down, down, down…it's simple economics yes…but how do we profit from it??

The chart above shows exactly how…Get LONG on the GREEN and EXIT on the RED. The above chart screen capture was taken at 1pm est live, so this could continue to go higher and continue with the profits…or it could hit a stop and lock in your profits in that trade.

So how do Government Mandates affect Crude Oil?

I don't have enough space to write about it all!!! But I do have room to tell you how to profit from it:

The chart above shows exactly how…Get LONG on the GREEN and EXIT on the RED. The above chart screen capture was taken at 1pm est live, so this could continue to go higher and continue with the profits…or it could hit a stop and lock in your profits in that trade.

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**Your Feedback**
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What I'm doing is keeping records of NEW and OLD Government Mandates and how they can/will effect the trading markets both Futures and Stock related for a future blog posting. So if you know of any mandates, and you're curious how they can/will effect your markets, post a comment to this posting and I'll get to work on it.

OH, and if you want to learn more about the charts above and the buy and sell signals see link below for a few free videos explaining how they work:

Brad's Videos

Have a GREAT trading day/week/year!

All my best,

"Traders Whiteboard" two killer chart patterns the pros use

In this week's "Traders Whiteboard" lesson, I dive into two chart patterns that the pros use everyday to great effect. The chart patterns that we will be looking at are two of my favorites as they have a reliability factor of around 90%.

The chart patterns in this video trading lesson are well known inside the professional trading community. However, outside of the pro circle they seem to be shrouded in mystery.

In this 5 minute video, I peel away the layers of mystery and show how you can benefit from these two very reliable and profitable chart formations.

What's amazing about these two chart patterns, is the fact that after my 3 decades of real world trading, they continue to repeat themselves, over and over again.

http://broadcast.ino.com/education/traders_whiteboard_2/?ltblognetwork

This phenomenon is likely to continue into the future as it reflects human nature. We know for a fact that no matter how smart we think we are, our basic genetic nature has not changed in over 2,000 years.

With that fact on our side, I think it's a safe bet that these two chart patterns will likely stick around for the next generation of traders.

Enjoy the lesson.

Adam Hewison
President, INO.com

If I had a brother …

Dear Blog reader,

If I had a brother, I would want to share this market proven approach with him … 

Why?

Because I know it works.

So why am I sharing this information with you, someone I am not related to, and
don't know personally?

Here's the reason. 

I am just tired of seeing individuals getting ripped off with all these get rich
quick systems that look great on paper, but fail miserably in the real world. 

Call it my personal crusade to help investors become even better investors
and traders.

I have just finished a new video on gold  that I want to share with
you to kick off this crusade. You can watch it here with my complements.


Then take a look at this earlier video I made on gold and see how
it confirms my latest gold video.


One last thing, we are conducting a new survey on our blog on the
presidential election. 


Enjoy the weekend.



Adam Hewison

President, INO.com

Is $100 / Barrel Oil Justified? - Adam On CNBC

See Adam's appearance today on CNBC

Triple digit oil prices might not last long,
with Daniel Yergin, Cambridge Energy Research Associates;
Adam Hewison, INO.com
and CNBC's Bill Seidman

11:20 CNBC - Adam analyzes crude oil LIVE

Don't miss Adam today on CNBC. He will be analyzing Crude Oil live at 11:20 am (EST).

What has Adam been saying about crude lately anyways? If you have unfortunately missed our Traders Blog, you can see Adam's most recent video on crude here.

If you can't make it to your TV today, check back after the show to see a video of Adam's appearance and don't forget to leave us a comment with your own crude oil analysis.

Legally trade like an insider with this information

It's no secret, earnings can make or break any stock.

But what if you knew what a stocks earnings might be before the crowd? How valuable would that information be to you?

Is it possible to have this kind of priceless, none public information, before anyone else?

Is it legal?

Yes on both counts, and I am going to prove it to you in a new 6 minute video that I just finished editing late last night I am releasing this video today for a limited time only.

Watch it here.

There's no charge or registration to view the video.

In the 6 minute flash video (it will even play on a dial-up connection) I guide you step by step on how we traded three very well know public companies.

Two of the three stocks covered in this video had great earnings, one did not. See how we traded all three, and more importantly see how we traded the one stock that had terrible earnings.

Take a couple of minutes out of your day and watch the video. I am sure you'll agree afterwards that it was well worth your time.

Put the earnings advantage in your trading corner. We call it the MarketClub Advantage, and its here now.

Enjoy,

The MarketClub Team

The real "Holy Grail" of Trading

Dear Trader,

Here are 10 trading rules that can make you an extremely successful trader. This is the real "Holy Grail" of trading, I don't know of any successful traders who does not use some or all of these rules in their trading.



Enjoy,

Adam Hewison

Traders Whiteboard - A New Platform For Learning

One of the things I have always enjoyed, is sharing what I know with others. I have to thank my parents for teaching me the joy of sharing.

So it is in their memory, that I am excited to share with you, what I hope will be an informative, interesting and helpful series of trading lessons via our newly created … Traders Whiteboard

Participating in the Traders Whiteboard experience will teach you everything you need to know to become a successful trader.

In every Traders Whiteboard Video I explain in detail how to use many of the same trading tools that are in use today by some of the worlds top hedge fund traders.

You are probably wondering much all of this is going to cost? The truth is, the service is free, and there are no catches.

You can credit my parents for that.

There's no registration required or needed to experience the Traders Whiteboard videos.

Your journey towards greater trading knowledge begins right here.

Sincerely,

Adam Hewison,
President INO.com

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About Adam Hewison

Adam Hewison is a former floor trader and past member of several major exchanges, including the International Monetary Market (IMM) a division of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in Chicago, Index and Options Market(IOM) Chicago, New York Futures Exchange (NYFE) and The London Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE). Adam is the author of "Right on the Money, The Definitive Guide to Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates" and numerous other financial ebooks and web videos. His latest project with partner Dave Maher is INO TV. This newly created service is dedicated to educating traders through streaming video seminars. The new website can be viewed here.

A Trading Secret that's over 800 years old!

I can honestly say that 30 years ago I learned how to trade the markets in the pits of Chicago.

It was there, in one of those sweaty, tumultuous, in your face trading pits, that I learned one of the most valuable trading secrets in the world.

This one trading secret opened my eyes to why things happen in the markets.

This trading secret, which is over 800 years old, is one of the most monumental mathematical discoveries of all time.

The publication in 1202 of the "The Book of Calculation" was never meant to be a road map to success in the markets. However, it turned out to be an extraordinary blueprint for how modern day markets work.

The number sequences contained in this amazing 800 year old book, is like having a virtual DNA for every stock, futures and foreign exchange market.

No one knows for sure why these number sequences work. Some traders believe them to be mystical, others, like myself prefer to call them one of life's little mysteries.

I have been using this sequence of numbers to trade the markets for over 30 years. I have to say that after all this time, I am still amazed that these numbers still work!

My new 8 minute educational trading video that remains true to core principals of the "The Book of Calculation." Show you step by step, exactly how you can benefit from using this trading secret.

Once you view the video and absorb this valuable educational trading lesson, you can apply the exact same principals you learn to your own trading. What could be better than that.

We do not require you to register to view this video.

Discover and benefit today, from what I learned over 30 years ago in the trading pits of Chicago.

Every success.

Adam Hewison
President, INO.com.

Happy Valentine's Day

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day! This day may have absolutely nothing to do with trading, but if you don't have anyone special to share the day with… just remember we love you!

Crude Oil Rises as U.S. Retail Sales, Gasoline Use, Increase

By Mark Shenk

Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil rose after government reports showed that U.S. retail sales unexpectedly climbed and gasoline demand increased.

The 0.3 percent gain in retail sales for January reported by the Commerce Department is easing concern that the U.S. is in a recession. Gasoline demand advanced 1.2 percent to an average 9.02 million barrels a day last week, the Energy Department said. Crude-oil supplies rose 1.07 million barrels.

"The up-tick in retail sales and up-tick in gasoline demand are combining to further the recent rally," said John Kilduff, vice president of risk management at MF Global Ltd. in New York. "The smallish crude build is also providing support."

Crude oil for March delivery rose 49 cents, or 0.5 percent, to settle at $93.27 a barrel at 2:48 p.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices are up 58 percent from a year ago. Futures have dropped 6.8 percent since reaching a record $100.09 a barrel on Jan. 3.

Analysts estimated the report would show that U.S. crude-oil inventories rose 2.38 million barrels last week, according to the median of 14 responses in a Bloomberg News survey.

Crude-oil stockpiles jumped 18.2 million barrels, or 6.4 percent, in the past five weeks. This week's gain left stockpiles 1.2 percent above the five-year average for the period, the department said.

`$100 Range'

"We should move back into the $100 range in the next couple of weeks," said Adam Hewison, trader and president of Annapolis, Maryland-based Ino.com Inc., which provides technical analysis of markets. "The market is trying to tell you something when there's fundamentally bearish news and prices move higher."

U.S. crude-oil imports fell 7.4 percent to 9.74 million barrels a day, the lowest since December, the report showed. Supplies of petroleum products dropped 20 percent to an average 3.36 million barrels a day, the report showed.

"The crude-oil number was a little less than expected because of the drop in imports," said Antoine Halff, the head of energy research at Newedge USA LLC in New York. "There was a little fog that shut the Houston Ship Channel for a few days last week so we should see imports rebound next week."

The Houston Ship Channel, which serves the largest U.S. petroleum port, was shut for most of Feb. 3 and Feb. 4 because of fog. The Houston area's eight refineries represent 13 percent of U.S. oil-processing capacity, according to data from the plant owners and the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association.

Global Demand

The International Energy Agency reduced its 2008 forecast for global oil demand by 200,000 barrels a day to 87.6 million barrels a day because of the slowing U.S. economy, a monthly report showed. That cut the annual growth rate to 1.9 percent from 2.3 percent forecast last month.

"Global demand growth is still strong," Hewison said. "Demand growth in the U.S. may slow but it will continue to grow in India and China."

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which produces more than 40 percent of the world's crude oil, may cut production when it meets March 5 because demand for the fuel is falling, President Chakib Khelil said.

"One thing is for sure, we won't increase production," Khelil, who is also Algeria's oil minister, told reporters at a press conference in the country's capital of Algiers today.

OPEC rejected calls from U.S. President George W. Bush at its last meeting on Feb. 1 to boost production to help ease oil prices. The group instead maintained its output ceiling at 29.673 million barrels a day for 12 of its members. Iraq has no production quota.

OPEC Concern

"OPEC is worried that there will be more builds in the second quarter," said Rick Mueller, director of oil practice at Energy Security Analysis Inc. in Wakefield, Massachusetts. "I doubt they will cut output because they would take a really bad public-relations hit. Also, the Saudis would like to see prices down somewhat to help avoid a recession."

Brent crude for March settlement rose 46 cents, or 0.5 percent, to close at $93.32 a barrel on London's ICE Futures Europe exchange. Brent touched a record $98.50 on Jan. 3.

Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the state oil company, cut off sales of crude, gasoline and diesel to Exxon Mobil Corp. in retaliation for the freezing of $12 billion in assets in a legal dispute. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Feb. 10 to cut off oil sales to the U.S., a warning that was widely discounted by industry analysts in both countries.

"We are due for a pullback from the recent rally as the news sinks in on the Venezuelan front," said Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research in Winchester, Massachusetts. "The worst-case scenario is that Venezuela will sell the oil at a loss and Exxon will replace it with oil from somewhere else."

Venezuela was the fourth-biggest source of U.S. oil imports in the first 11 months of 2007, according to the Energy Department.

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*Bloomberg name belongs to Bloomberg

Crude Oil Trading

Crude Oil Trading
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When did you last gas up your car?

If you experienced the pain at the pump, plus sticker shock, you're not alone.

The pain at the pump is real, it's painful, and it's also affecting the daily pocketbook of millions of Americans who rely on the pump to get them to work. Now the bad news, there's no magic wand that any politician can wave to make all of this go away.

Here's the bottom line, the world runs on crude oil, and demand is likely to remain high in the foreseeable future.

It's not any one event that's causing oil prices to rise, it's a combination of several things. You only have to look at the value of the ever shrinking dollar, plus world wide demand for raw commodities, to understand why prices are moving higher.

Forget the pain at the pump, here's a way for you to profit from the pump.

Take a look at the latest video to come out of the MarketClub digital studios to see how you can benefit. This 6 minute video focuses on Crude Oil. See if it makes sense to you. I know this approach makes sense, because everyday we get calls and emails from traders like Milt in Virginia who tells us our approach works.

Here's what Milt had to say about our market proven strategy.

"When I started using the MarketClub, I checked out your signals versus the signals I generate for a few weeks. I used mine to verify yours... now I use yours to verify mine and the profits have been astounding!"

Milt Fall, Virginia

Now more than ever you need a plan to survive financially in what is turning out to be a very tough year for housing and the stock market.

Enjoy and learn from this educational trading video on crude oil. There's no registration required.

The rest is up to you!

Learn More About MarketClub for Stocks, Futures, Forex, Mutual Funds, ETFs and MORE.

For more videos by Adam visit: http://www.marketclub.com/?vidmar

How to profit from the pain at the pump

I have a question for you, when did you last gas up your car?

If you experienced the pain at the pump, plus sticker shock, you're not alone.

The pain at the pump is real, it's painful, and it's also affecting the daily pocketbook of millions of Americans who rely on the pump to get them to work. Now the bad news, there's no magic wand that any politician can wave to make all of this go away.

Here's the bottom line, the world runs on crude oil, and demand is likely to remain high in the foreseeable future.

It's not any one event that's causing oil prices to rise, it's a combination of several things. You only have to look at the value of the ever shrinking dollar, plus world wide demand for raw commodities, to understand why prices are moving higher.

Forget the pain at the pump, here's a way for you to profit from the pump.

Take a look at the latest video to come out of the MarketClub digital studios, to see how you can benefit. This 6 minute video focuses on Crude Oil. See if it makes sense to you. I know this approach makes sense, because everyday we get calls and emails from traders like Milt in Virginia who tells us our approach works.

Here's what Milt had to say about our market proven strategy.
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"When I started using the MarketClub, I checked out your signals versus the signals I generate for a few weeks. I used mine to verify yours… now I use yours to verify mine and the profits have been astounding!"

Milt Fall
Virginia
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Remember, we are not brokers, so we are not going to be asking you to open an account with us. We are trading educators, that's what we do best right after trading.

Now more than ever you need a plan to survive financially in what is turning out to be a very tough year for housing and the stock market.

Now more than ever you need a market proven, risk adverse formula for the future.

Now more than ever you need to be diligent, disciplined and follow a proven financial strategy.

Enjoy and learn from this educational trading video on crude oil. There's no registration required.

The rest is up to you!

Adam Hewison
President, INO.com

Oil Futures Add Gains On Supply Anxiety & Warning Consumption Fears (Oil Prices)

February 8th, 2008 (10:52 AM - MST)


New York - Oil futures surged back above US $90 a barrel Friday, adding to the previous session's gains on renewed concerns about soppy disruptions and waning fears that a U.S. economic recession would seriously curb demand.

Light sweet crude for March delivery jumped $3.03 to $91.14 a barrel late int he New York Mercantile Exchange session.

Crude gained on word that oil exports from Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil produces and a major U.S. supplier, could fall by as much as a million barrels a day due to a deteriorating security situation and planned maintenance.

Prices also rose on news that North Sea oil production has been cut by 280,000 barrels a day due to technical problems at a Total SA field, and that Russian crude output could fall this year due to depletion, JBC Energy GmbH, an energy research firm in Vienna, said in a research report.

Concerns that Venezuela might retaliate after ExxonMobil Corp. won court orders freezing the assets of its state oil company also pushed prices higher. ExxonMobil is seeking compensation for assets appropriated last year as part of President Hugo Chavez's nationalization of several large oil products.

Meanwhile, energy investors found reason to hope that the American economy will dodge a serious downturn.

"Crude traders also responded positively to the news that Congress has passed an economic stimulus package aimed a boosting consumption and staving off a recession," commented Addison Armstrong, director of exchange traded markets at TFS Energy Futures LLC in Stamford, Conn.

There also were worries that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would cut production to support prices which have pulled back from a record $100.09 a barrel reached early last month.

Analysts said technical factors also lifted oil futures. Twice in recent weeks, oil prices have dipped to nearly $86, only to bounce back.

That price is seen as a psychologically important support level that may keep prices trading in a range around $90 for the foreseeable future.

"If we break below that, I think we're going to see further weakness," said Adam Hewison, president of INO.com, a website that specializes in futures trading.

At the pump, meanwhile, U.S. gasoline prices fell 0.6 cents overnight to a national average of $2.966 a gallon, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service.

Retail gas prices have retreated from above $3 a gallon in recent weeks, but remained about 77 cents higher than a year ago, and the Energy Department predicts they will rise to new records near $3.50 a gallon this spring.

Sneak peak at '08 trading returns … WOW

Many people thought our Q3 and Q4 results were a fluke … when we gave them a sneak peek for '08 at our gold trading results they were stunned.

I mean here it is, the world is coming to an end, right? The sky is falling in, and Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall. So what else can possibly happen to the economy, the markets and life as we know it?

No one knows for sure, but that's not the question.

The question is, how can you keep your boat afloat when everyone else's seems to be sinking fast?

Well making money in a stormy economy doesn't just happen by chance or luck. To make money, you must be prepared, and with preparation comes a game plan. This game plan has to be able to win in any market conditions.

Now don't get me wrong, there's a risk every time you buy or sell a stock or futures contract. If you are willing to accept a certain amount of calculated risk, in return for double or triple digit returns, read on, as that's our area of expertise.

To better understand this, take a quick view of our results in '08 in my new 4 minute video here

Afterwards check out our Q3 results. No registration required. This video will show you step by step how we approach the markets.

Q3 results Video. Part 1

Q3 results Video. Part 2

In Q4 and early '08 we used the same market proven approach and game plan, that we used in Q3. Why change something that works? All the buy and sell signals were generated using MarketClub's "Trade Triangle" technology. The results for each market show just how well you can do when you follow MarketClub's easy to use, market driven "Trade Triangle" approach.

In times like these it pays to have a market proven, experience driven approach that gives you a professional traders edge over other investors.

Compare our Q4 results against Q3 (90 second video) and see how you can benefit from the proven MarketClub approach. Watch with our compliments. No registration required.

Q4 results Video here

Join the club … MarketClub.

Let's put MarketClub to work for you today.

Adam Hewison
President, INO.com

We've seen it all before … have you?

"The past is the teacher of the future"
Old Hungarian Proverb

There is nothing new in the markets as financial history always repeats itself. The subject of todays blog posting is something you need more than ever in these volatile markets and that is money management.

In my previous blog postings we discussed diversification and stops. These two disciplines are all part of your money management suite of tools. But there are two other elements that make up a successful money management strategy in my opinion.

The two missing elements I am talking about are and the importance of using FOCUS and DISCIPLINE.. You must have these two elements in your money management toolbox if you are going to succeed and make the kind of money that allows you to enjoy the good life.

Just imagine not having to worry about Fed actions, or stressing out about if some companies earnings is going to miss expectations.

Well, all that is possible with good money management. The tools we have discussed in our previous posts stops and diversification allow you the luxury of not worrying and stressing out over things you cannot control.

THE NUMBER ONE SECRET TO MONEY MANAGEMENT

All credit goes to the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett for this secret. Mr Buffett who at 77 is a legend in the investment world. Here are Mr. Buffett two most important rules to investing.

Rule Number One: Never lose money.
Rule Number Two: Never forget Rule Number One.

If you follow this advice you will be very successful, perhaps like Mr. Buffett?

We were lucky enough to recently share some TV time with Mr. Buffett. You can watch it here.

Let's go back to our two topics today … FOCUS and DISCIPLINE.

Here's an example of FOCUS.

Say you are bullish on a certain stock or futures market. You need to FOCUS on three key components. 1. Entry price. 2. Trade risk. 3. Profit potential.

Here's an example of DISCIPLINE.

This is what I believe is the difference between winners and losers in the market.

It can be all summonded up in one word DISCIPLINE!!!

Without DISCIPLINE the odds of being successfull in the market are against you.

Here's a simple recap of the four basic components that make up your money management game plan.

1. DIVERSIFICATION
2. STOPS
3. FOCUS
4. DISCIPLINE

Once you have mastered these four elements there is no doubt that you will be successful.

Have a super profitable trading week.

Adam Hewison