About The Stock Post

The Stock Post LLC was founded by Brian Cook, a skilled financial researcher and entrepreneur. Brian spent eight years working for a small boutique investment firm in Denver, Colorado that specialized in locating capital for qualified start-up businesses looking to go public. Brian worked his way up to a partner level in a relatively short period of time by building significant relationships in the investment professional community and by showing a keen eye for quality independent financial research. In the world of finance and the stock market, investigative forensic research is often all that can protect you from investing poorly or profitably. In the fire that only actual trading can provide an individual, Brian forged an investment approach that can work for most investment experience levels. After spending 8 to 12 hours daily over the last decade studying how the stock market, geo-politics, and media blend together to create investment opportunities, Brian has now been able to develop a trading system based on macro trends, technical analysis, market timing, and prudent investment practices that are available for review upon subscription through our investment service.

Current geo-politics, the stock market, the economy, the media, and health and wellness are my passion. TheStockPost.com is a clear realization of these passions and this website is meant to provide focus to the highly distracted modern investment approach of most individuals. TheStockPost.com features many different kinds of articles, guests, and topics, but our focus is on providing a detailed understanding of the overall economic forces and trends developing in the United States and world economy. If you are getting all your information from the corporate media monopoly CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and Bloomberg, you are getting the information that "they" want you to hear, when "they" want you to hear it, and it will shape the way "they" want you to to behave and your understanding of everything. I'm sure you're wondering who "they" are? They are the elite global power brokers, the titans of industry, and the government that have the ability to control the population and consumer behavior through mass media campaigns, mass propaganda, and public political diversion. I bet you did not know that the mainstram media throws up diversions for politicians, the Federal Reserve and vice-versa if "they" want the media to do so? See recent media diversions Click Here TheStockPost.com believes that following the investment picture shown to you by the mainstream media will separate you from your hard earned dollars quickly. We have a contrarian approach to investing and a contrarian, investigative approach that helps us decipher the real meaning behind what we are being told by the mainstream media and politicians. It is never as they make it seem, TheStockPost.com assures you! There are many clues that can guide us to the gold at the end of the rainbow, but we have to avoid the numerous pitfalls that bestow investors along the way to stay in the game. Focusing on the "now" is a major mistake in investing and those that do not peer around the corner to try and understand the major market and economic macro-trends, are destined to fail over a long-term investment strategy.

Over the last 8 weeks (today is 5/8/09) the stock market has been rallying dramatically off the 4/12/09 lows, nearly 33% on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This despite the terrible fundamentals continuing to brew in the U.S. and world economy. Must read data for the bulls in doubt about this information. Click Here. There have been some early positive signs recently, including a significant up-tick in consumer confidence that occurred, but our research has led us to believe that this data is likely a false indication of where the economy will be, come the beginning of 2010. Those focused on the now or only on their own lifetime experiences, comparing the late 1970's inflationary crisis to today, are likely going to misdiagnose this stock market rally as a sign that growth and prosperity are again, right around the corner in the US economy. We believe there are many great trading opportunities during these sharp bear market rally's that will take place over the coming few years, but anyone entering a new buy and hold strategy at this stage could lose everything if they are not careful. Many blue chip companies will eventually go bankrupt during this great global financial crisis. Our subscriber service is currently named the "Bear Market Investment Service" because without any doubt at all, we are in a historic and dangerous secular bear market until the Dow Jones can eclipse its prior November 2007 high point over 14,000. Many investment professionals tell their clients that a new bull market has arrived after any 20% move up off the bottom, but that same advice would have led investors into the stock market during the Great Depression multiple times during bear market rally's, only to have the market drop dramatically right afterward. Those listening to the mainstream media now are likely going to enter long-term investments too early and at too high a price, believing all is clear and we are now in another bull market. We believe this secular bear market, which we explain in our Macro Trends section on the homepage, could be the biggest bear market of them all and it could end up being worse then the 1929 to 1933 crash that took the Dow Jones down over 88% during that period. This current rally we are experiencing in the stock market can be described as nothing more then a powerful bear market rally at this point and there was a 50%, 5 month long rally off the bottom in 1930, after the initial stock market crash in 1929. If we are to mirror this same bear market rally now, we could climb all the way through the summer over Dow Jones 10,000 and S&P 500 equal to 1160 before the major crash would again take us to even lower lows then March 12th, 09. For those not aware of the similarities between the debt collapse of the 1930's to today's greater debt collapse and today's global economic deflationary environment, we suggest you do your own research on this topic immediately. Clearly, I would agree that there are many unprecedented steps our government has taken in this great crisis that were not taken during the crisis of the 1930's. There are greater social safety nets now, for instance. For myself and this website community though, we plan to never rely or stake our livelihoods on the hope that government intervention will secure a comfortable retirement in the future. Especially when we are able to point out some ulterior motives the mainstream media may have when they throw up what we believe to be diversions from what is truely going on in geo-politics. Absolutely none of our "big picture" global trend research is pointing to near-term economic prosperity unfortunately.

Many trading in this market could end up losing everything. Many families could be destroyed, while many other families may be brought together by surviving and uniting under difficult economic times. The United States and the Constitution as we know it, depend on how this economic crisis is managed by the Federal Reserve, the Treasury department, and our government. Much more is at stake for our future here then people understand. We need to spread the word about our subscriber service and TheStockPost.com alternative media articles to as many citizens of this great country as we can. The more that people become aware of what really is going on in the world, the more they can protect themselves and their families during the period that could be before us.

Bear markets are well known for their ability to spin off large, quick profits for the select few investors that posses the ability to escape additional losses and recognize the kind of profit opportunities that exist in down trending markets. New exchange traded funds that inversely track stocks and bonds, can rise enormously in falling markets and they are accessible to novice investors in today's market. As all bear and bull markets eventually end, this bear market will also end. At the end of this bear market there should be many historic buying opportunities in large blue chip companies that pay significant quarterly dividends, in this country and in Asia. If this bear market ends like the the one did in 1933, there may be opportunities to buy companies trading under $5.00 dollars a share that will eventually appreciate back over $50.00+ a share while paying 10% annual dividends to shareholders. If we do not keep our powder dry now, we will not be ready to buy when no one else wants these investments at the bottom. We are searching for life changing recovery profits at the end of this bear market and we are entirely optimistic and realistic in believing that we will be ready to accumulate those profits as the recovery begins.

At TheStockPost.com we try to provide you with early investment due diligence, independent from the cheer leading and propaganda often presented by the financial media. Our commentary and our column articles are written for you to judge and you to do further independent research upon. We invite debate and encourage that you draw your own conclusions. We invite you to make up your own mind about our opinions and the data we present. Our subscriber service will upon occasion, trade in specific stocks and exchange traded funds that we believe will rise in the short-term, but we will remain in a bearish and risk adverse stance until the economy provides us with solid evidence we are safe to buy and hold stocks again. We will remain ready to capitalize on the next great decline in the markets that are coming in the not to distant future. Only true growth and profit opportunites in the private sector will allow for another buy and hold investment strategy in the stock market again. Please join us today and protect your self now from the dangers that may not appear in the market again until the Fall of 2009. We expect the market to pull back now, but still not head to new lows on the major indexs, before markets begin rising into mid-summer. There will be ups and downs over the interim in the stock market of course, but will you be ready to profit when the major down turn begins again? We plan to navigate this great financial crisis together here at TheStockPost.com. Please join our subscriber service today.

Best Regards,

Brian Cook