While history has shown us that there shouldn’t be much correlation between the stock and commodity markets, the current inter-connectedness between the two at the moment is still very evident. We’re still seeing large, intra-day and intra-week price swings, most of it coming on the heels of stock market moves.

The small-cap universe is packed with thousands of stocks. And we know it can be a daunting task to find just two or three solid names… In fact, readers e-mail us every single day to ask how to search for the best penny stocks.

Bernie Madoff’s guilty plea to a decades-long $50 billion-plus Ponzi scheme pretty much guarantees the 70-year-old will have his likeness immortalized on the Mt. Rushmore of scammers.

If you’re like many investors, you are probably sitting on the sidelines right now, unsure of what to do. If you want to buy, you may be thinking “let’s wait a little longer.” If you want to sell, you might be concerned about “missing out.”