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Liberator Medical (NASDAQ—LBMH—$2.62) has stunk up the joint, down 11% since our feature a little while back. Have a little faith, baby. We think this is just a blip

Speaking of blips, our short term trading idea off of the VIX and a market downturn was anything but profitable as VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX ETN (NYSE—TVIX—$0.89—NR) has gone

the wrong way. Never fear, as this is still a great day-trading and risky vehicle when things are headed south. Speaking of short term trading, in the forex

Plasmatech BioPharma (NASDAQ—PTBI—$7.85—NR), the Soros company did what we thought—went up big a few times and is now essentially back where it started a few weeks ago, in the $7.00 range.

Now that the first five months of the year are in the books, it is time that we see how our Guide-profiled stocks have fared. For better relative comparison, we have segmented our profiled picks into three categories for now: Big Cap

India, and Small Cap. As we introduce more short term trading ideas and ETFs, we will add these categories with the appropriate benchmarks for performance comparison, later on in the year.

As you can see, our big cap picks, aided in large part by powerhouse Apple (NASDAQ—AAPL—NR) has been solid and canceled out the drop in Chevron (NYSE—CVX—NR). Meanwhile, India has been no China, and our picks have been nothing to write home about

Strong Small Cap Gains We are pleased to report that our picks trounced the index, with help from gains led by SKX, ORBK, VLTC (which is down from recent highs), ZIXI, and GLUU. Note the changes to the list in the footnotes below.

Beginning with this issue, we are featuring a teach-in section called The Investor Academy. Depending upon the topic, this segment can be viewed as Investing 101 or serve

as secrets of a former Wall Street insider that leverages our many years of experience in senior positions on Wall Street, including analyst and mutual fund manager.

Aside from the obvious low economic growth and high P/E multiples for equities, one of the problems with the current bull market is that a series of stealth events

of stealth events has likely prolonged its duration and its magnitude. Unfortunately, these events may soon come to a close and take the bull market with it.

The first cause for concern is the stock buyback. Stock buybacks have been a steady feature of the stock rally which has definitely had an impact on stocks

as companies that comprise the S&P 500 Index have spent hundreds of billions in stock buybacks over the past 6 years. With fears over the commencement of a market correction, management teams