Joe-Duarte.com is the product of Dr. Joe Duarte’s experience as a trader, an analyst, and an observer of human behavior. Dr. Duarte has been investing since 1990. He is a former registered investment advisor and has authored several trading books, including “Futures and Options for Dummies,” “Trading Futures for Dummies” and “Market Timing for Dummies.” His books are well recognized around the world as manuals for individual investors and have sold tens of thousands of copies.

The Joe-Duarte.com web site is designed for investors who not only want to make money, but to understand what’s happening in the world and how it affects their investments, their financial decision making, and the overall effects of politics and policy on their money, their business, and their life.

Joe-Duarte.com does not provide financial advice but does provide useful information that can help individuals to make better decisions about their finances. It is best used in conjunction with Dr. Duarte’s books “Trading Futures for Dummies” and “Market Timing for Dummies” which provide the basis of the analysis and observations that Dr. Duarte provides on the web site.

Here is how the web site flows:

Market IQ

Dr. Duarte’s Market IQ is the flagship daily column, which sets the tone for the trading day. It is comprised of the following sections:

Tone of the market - An overall summary of the early pre-market futures and observations about the trading day

A Financial Events Calendar for the trading day – All the important economic numbers that are to be released on that day are highlighted

News for Thought – This is a section that carries important news items. In this area, Dr. Duarte highlights important polls, and stories that are often out of the mainstream but that may have important effects on the financial markets.

Market IQ – This is where Dr. Duarte distances himself from other analysts providing a no holds barred account of key news developments and analysis as to how they may affect market and personal trends.

Market Moves – This section is about a stock or an important sector of the market. It often highlights emerging trends or chronicles how a stock or ETF is progressing through an interesting trading pattern.

The web site has other important sections, which are divided into sectors:

S&P Timing – This section features timing of the S & P 500 via the S & P 500 SPDR ETF. It also features individual stock picks, small, midcap, and large cap. It also features a daily stock market technical summary including important support and resistance levels as well as trend analysis.

Bond Timing – This section specializes in timing the bond market via ETFs.

Dollar Timing – Dollar timing via ETF is highlighted here. This section features both long and short recommendations depending on the trend of the dollar.

Energy Timing – Energy stock timing via the Oil Service HOLDRS Trust is featured here, along with occasional timing of other commodity ETFs as appropriate for the market cycle.

Gold Timing – ETF gold timing, both short and long.

Biotechnology Timing – This section is all about health care stocks including biotech, traditional pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and health insurers.

How To Best Use Joe-Duarte.com

Dr. Duarte usually updates the individual stock sections, such as Biotech Timing overnight. New recommendations and updates are usually available by 10:00 Central Time. These pages should be reviewed daily as prices are updated and new recommendations are provided frequently.

Market IQ is available daily before the market opens. It is available on the web site first, but is also e-mailed to subscribers.

It is best to use Market IQ as a general guide to the current market environment and then to study each individual section for individual trading ideas.

By reading and studying all of the pages on Joe-Duarte.com, investors receive an outside the mainstream, no-nonsense, unfiltered, unbiased platform from which to launch the trading day.

Dr. Duarte does not provide investment advice but he often invests in stocks or ETFs that are featured on Joe-Duarte.com. There is full disclosure on the web site with regard to positions that Dr. Duarte owns in his own account