I noticed a small article in this morning's WSJ Market Watch newsletter that the Japanese government is preparing to present a report projecting that the deflationary spiral its been struggling with since 1990 is ending and data suggests that inflation will be manifesting itself in the Japanese economy in 2013.
In an article July 12, I forecasted the beginning of a bear market. The market averages have dropped over 10% since. The one safe-haven for investors has been gold - whether in its physical form (bullion) or as a security via the many ETFs tracking it, or even the shares of gold miners - gold has seen a meteoric rise over the past month, as the equity markets were getting crushed.
A few times a year, I like to release the complete text of an edition of my BullBear Market Report. Here's the report issued on March 17th in which I called the bottom to the Middle East/Japan panic sell off (after having previously identified the February top). Following the report are some of my subsequent updates to the report with comments and questions from BullBear Traders members.
In the last BullBear Market Report, I called for a bottom to the Middle East/Japan panic selloff while at the same time laying out the parameters for a bearish turn in the markets. The bearish conditions did not come to fruition and BullBear Traders were able to catch the exact bottom of the move after having lightened their positions at the exact top.