Friday, January 27, 2023

Use Buffett's SIMPLE strategy

 

$1,000,000 retirement fund from contributions of $250 a month

Keeping your contributions in a low-cost tax-FREE account is the easiest way to make sure you have enough for retirement income for life. The contributions of $250 a month must be steady (automatic investing). You must avoid any advisor charges, stock picking or trading. Your best investment option for your long-term goal is a low-cost stock-market index since you own shares in the largest 500 US companies. Most are profitable for extended time periods. They have already proved their successful products/services.  You are using the Warren Buffett strategy of compounding your earnings over time. His advice may seem simplistic but he has proven it works for investors who recognize that there is no advisor or strategy that is better at achieving long-term goals. Wall Street firms and advisors/brokers must take your earnings in order to survive. You pay less so you earn more: it is that simple. Wall Street costs a lot to run and most personnel don’t take a cut when they fail. This chart says it all: Over time, owning the 500 largest equities at cost provides on average 11% per annum. Over time, your $102,000 total contributions compound TEN times to over $1 million. It is time IN the market not market timing that defines a successful strategy. Use a long-term strategy for a long-term goal.

https://www.amazon.com/MasterClass-Buffetts-SIMPLE-Strategy/dp/1983485268

 

 

Where is your portfolio as market gains 3% in 2023?

Is your advisor waiting to re-enter the market? Sometimes market jumps are huge and if you are not in it, you lose. It may take time to recover the 20% drop but you won’t be able to if you are sitting in cash. Buffett has said that we should not bet against the US economy. In the past, stock market lows are followed by market highs. A low-cost balanced portfolio will help you stay in the money over time. Fast trading, market sector rotation and momentum are usually poor long-term strategies. No one knows the future so gambling will mean more losses than gains. You don’t need the expense of advisors since you pay even when they lose your money. Take Buffett’s advice.

https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffett-Your-Investment-Advisor/dp/1518690963

 

How much do you give up by investing through an advisor?

One analyst has estimated that over time, you give up 63% of your eventual total return by using “professionals” who claim they can improve your money management. However, they must sell expensive products and charge fees to stay employed by their firms. Financial firms are in the business of transferring your money to theirs. You pay every quarter or every transaction no matter how well or poorly your account does. But most folks don’t even know they pay costs. Because of 2022 negative returns more of us are changing advisors. But advisors could not predict the bond fallout or the equity downburst. We are more likely to need a psychologist to handle our expectations. We panic because we think of our security accounts as bank accounts. If we consider investing in companies as a partner in good businesses, we would not panic during a global pandemic. For long-term investors, there is no better asset class than equity indexes. This chart says it all: Over time, owning the 500 largest equities at cost provides 11% per annum. Buffett proved it: Vanguard 500 Index beat 6 hedge funds.

https://www.amazon.com/You-Beat-Wall-Street-professionals/dp/1986031373

 

The most important financial lesson to live by

“My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.” Warren Buffett, one of the greatest investors of all time, credits compounding as a source of his financial success. Most of us have never heard of this in high school or college. Financial firms that charge us for promising to “manage” our money, have convinced us the Buffett’s strategy of “buy and hold” securities, allowing compounding to work, does not work. They claim they can help us meet our money goals. Perhaps in the short term they can sometimes. However, the price we pay in lost time in the market compounding our returns can never be made up. Dalbar tracks the total return of different assets “managed” by advisors vs just holding the indexes provides us with the evidence that Buffett is right. For instance, investing $250 a month over 10 years or longer time periods in a low-cost large stock index compounds to $54,700 vs only $36,500 if managed by a “professional” money manager. Since most investor don’t understand the cost benefits of compounding a “buy and hold” index fund account, they end up with only $167,700 vs $707,000 after 30 years of investing a total of $90,000. That is the power of compounding in the low-cost market index rate fund.

Learn: https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Compounding-Turn-day-into/dp/1470176513

 

How to have $ million dollars tax-FREE for retirement income

The simplest way to end up with an adequate retirement income is to follow Warren Buffett’s strategy. You don’t have to pay Mr Buffett for his advice—he is not a broker or advisor. He does not write hypotheses for a Wall Street firm. He does not change his advice on which stocks to buy from month to month. He proved his strategy by betting and winning against 5 hedge fund gurus. He says buy low-cost Vanguard funds for your retirement. Since most of us can only invest once a month, if we contribute $250 a month to a special tax-FREE account, we can end up with $1,000,000 in 34 years. Since this account allows us to take the money out without income taxes, we will have more to spend in order to overcome the drag of inflation and advisor/broker costs. He recommends funding a retirement account directly by avoiding Wall Street entirely. You can earn more by paying less and allowing the Miracle of Compounding to work a miracle on your money. A low-cost account allows us to invest just $102,000 total over 34 years and end up with TEN times your investment. No advisor/broker can accomplish that Miracle. Confirm how this happens without an advisor/broker picking stocks, buying and selling, charging when they lose money. Check it: set the 34 years from 1989 to 2022 in this annual market rate calculator using the 11% average annual return.

https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffetts-Vanguard-Funds-Retirement/dp/1496148592

 

What to do when your long-term care policy premiums triple

Insurance companies used a number of bad assumptions or tricks when they sold you the policy over 10 years ago. Recently, almost everyone’s premium has skyrocketed. The state regulators (funded by the insurers) have rubber stamped almost all rate hikes. If you are stuck, the insurer will cover their mistakes by reminding you that you signed a disclosure that protects them from any responsibility. Ask the company what your options are. 1. Pay the increase like every insurance policy. 2. Reduce the years of cover since the average stay is under 8 months. 3. Reduce the daily benefit instead of any inflation-protection benefits. 4. Reduce the years of cover for the male since most females will live longer. 5. Reduce the benefits with a paid-up policy. 6. Take a cash buyout if offered. Add this cash to a low-cost well-run balanced mutual fund like Vanguard’s Wellesley Income Fund. Since most policies are used to pay in-home care giving services, you may have enough funds from other sources to pay for help at home. Medicare covers rehab costs after a hospital admittance. Remember very few people need expensive long-term care in a facility. Add the amount of premiums to your retirement account since most of us won’t use a policy but we will need help sometimes.

https://www.amazon.com/Long-term-Care-Insurance-Updated-2013/dp/148274001X

 

Retiree plan changes

Medicare can negotiate drug prices. In 2025, no enrollee will be required to pay more than $2,000 out of pocket per year.  RMD age requirement moves from age 72 to age 73, starting on January 1, 2023 then to 75 in 2033. More time to compound earnings. You may start taking RMDs earlier and for a higher amount. The bill also allows higher “catch-up” contributions. Benefits of Medicare and Social Security are left in jeopardy since the wealthy Congress and their constituencies do not wish to shore up retirement needs for the future. House GOP has made it clear it will cut programs for the poor and middle class in favor of tax cuts for the rich, business subsidies and war spending. The current economic downturn will be overcome by more layoffs and higher prices, not by taxing the wealthy, GOP says. Most unbiased analysts favor using other resources before starting RMD withdrawals. Since Congress has not tried to fix the under funding of Social Security or Medicare, we must invest for the coming SS shortfall in 2034. Find your previous employer’s retirement plan assets at https://unclaimedretirementbenefits.com/

Boost retirement income: https://www.amazon.com/Maximize-Social-Security-Benefits-Retirement/dp/1495439224/

 

 

 

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Like 1776, this period is a test of democracyWe rejected an "American fascist" once

 

 

The Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030

 

Parallels of this era in the past may hint at our future: democracy breaks apart legally

 

 

Jan 21 2010 Corpor­a­tions’ election-spending unlim­ited

Billionaires paid $881 million for votes in 2022 midterm elections

 

Nov 2020 Wealthy discredit election process

 

Nov 21 2020 Trump’s Plans for a Coup: criminal

 

Nov 21 2020: Trump plan: US Marshals seize voting machines

 

Jan 6 2021 Direct assault failed: guns & bombs ready

 

Trump engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" to stop Biden

 

I don’t f—ing care that they have weapons

 

Trump was “detached from reality”

 

Trump used mafia-style intimidation on the defenseless

 

Trump still terrorizing election woman

 

Parscale: “a sitting president asking for civil war.”

 

Trump: “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me” 

 

GOP fascism: “RINO hunt armed; no bagging limitJ6 comm threat

 

January 6, 2021A date which will live in infamy

 

Trump’s Supremes END personal rights & state laws except for weapons WMDs

 

Fascism: GOP to stop women leaving state for abortion

 

It’s not a court. It’s a junta: Two Americas

 

Trump: President Biden is 'enemy of the state'

 

Christian Nationalist Party (CNP) replaces GOP

 

Nov 8 2022 Trump’s “national revolution” failed

 

Nov 15 2022 Trump announces for 2024 to avoid lawsuits

 

Dec 3 2022 Trump: cancel Constitution rules so ‘I win

 

Jan 2025 Dictator pardons himself: his Supremes agree

 

 

How Govt wastes our money:

The Cost of Extreme Wealth: 200 millionaires want taxes; not bleed SS Medicare folks

Coal-oil-farm-Boeing-corporate offshoring subsidies raise deficit: middle class pays more

Many corporations fix their tax rates to 0%: 2 sets of books. friends in Congress get paid

 

Former senior FBI official accused of working for Russian: who can we trust?

GOP puts Greene plus omicron deniers (Dem’s hoax) on Pandemic Committee: US doom

GOP leader reinstated to hate, misinformation networks: dictator has his megaphone back

 

SCAMS/SPINS:

WW III begun: Blitzkrieg on Putin is what Germany feared: only US knows Abrams

 

Eleven of 17 House committee chairmen voted for end democracy: "big lie" supporters

2022 tax changes: Congress removes benefits from Covid era

Don’t File Your Taxes Until You Have These 7 Things

 

GOP leader tells his followers NOT to cut SS and Medicare:  Trump warns

 

AZ GOP legislators curb transparency of their own gov business dealings: hide mistakes

What ‘freedom’ means for GOP extremists: I do what I want: F..k everyone else

Self-appointed militia (not National Guard) guilty of trying to overthrow our government

Despite the mass killings recently, Americans, their kids chose guns to solve their problems

 

More than 1 in 10 older folks live in poverty: 10.3% in 2021 and rising

 

Luxury hotels post fake online reviews  to compete: who can you trust?

Tmobile 37 million customers’ addresses, phone numbers dates of birth hacked: “no problem”

6 year old shooter “acute disability” able to avoid school search: all shooter “disabled”?

 

Tells of a used car from a flood: carpet, moist spare, door sill, etc

Ford recalls 462,000 vehicles camera failure

 

Hackers: Online and mobile advertising is complex, murky business: our data is theirs

Environmental Charity Scams: emotional appeals best for taking our money

 

Lobbyists given $millions change TX law allowing casino gambling: Abbott, Patrick pd.

Celebrities probably know nothing about the products they endorse: not evil just greedy

Santos wooed investors for alleged Ponzi scheme: Harbor City FL brokerage

 

Binance moved $346 mln for seized crypto exchange Bitzlato

21% of respondents did not think that they paid any fees on their investments

 

Doesn’t matter what the motive is for mass murder: semi auto guns not for hunts but kills

 

Jobs

New Hiring Trends Job Seekers Should Be Aware Of

 

 

Who owns your account now?

Credit card bonus offers plus no interest for a year or two.

SS survivor’s benefits: only a third of those who lost a spouse applied for benefits

Best free backup software: check specs

 

Impossible” to hack blockchain crypto systems are hacked: you lose money

Securian Financial's Wealth Unit to Cetera: 1,000 staff; 30 independent firms

According to the IRS, almost 90% of taxpayers use the standard deduction.

 

Miracles:

Ancient Roman concrete give the material self-healing capabilities: fix bridges/roads

Active military tried to overthrow gov despite swear to defend Constitution

BEWARE: ChatGPT says it takes 9 women 1 month to make a baby

 

An ant’s sense of smell is so strong, it can sniff out cancer

6 ways to slow memory decline and lower dementia risk

Local NJ residents organize to stop book ban by conservatives: FL makes it felony

 

Brazil using Ap to help end hunger’s large number of families

 

 

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Our Universe is Mind-Blowing

Light is both a particle and a wave depending on how we look at the light.

I don’t think that there is any such thing as a position or a velocity of a particle.

Everything (galaxies to stones) in universe made of subatomic energy ‘vibrations’

A subatomic ‘particle’ is the smallest possible vibration (quantum) of a quantum field.

 

Mass–energy equivalence: E=mc^2.  At the smallest level; Everything is moving a little

Energy into matter: scientists converted light energy directly into matter in one step

Physics Nobel Prize: “entanglement” 2 particles share info instantly at a distance

“It may be that gravity and quantum mechanics are exactly the same thing,” Leonard Susskind

Gravity might induce the collapse of quantum vibrations into 1 quantum state—our world

 

There is no TIME at this level because of force fields come and go in all directions. 

Universe expanding: events may not come together like they did before.

Inside protons, neutrons, it is the fields of the virtual particles that creates its mass.

Gold made from neutron stars: collisions produce more neutrons:79 protons,118 neutrons

The proton is so complicated science still finds new energy entities/forces every year.

 

“Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them.” Space expanding.

The electricity we use comes from the field around the wire not from election itself.

Scientists build 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact: inside quantum computer

starts-with-a-bang/universe-expansion-not-accelerating/

 

 

 

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We can apply for Medicare online: https://blog.ssa.gov/apply-for-medicare-online

We can apply for Social Security online: https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/

We can apply for health care online: https://www.healthcare.gov/

 

IAN

973.746.2014

http://www.theinsidersguides.com/

Alerts available at http://dankeppel.blogspot.com/

 

Friday, January 20, 2023

Annuities you may already have

 

Why the “Fiduciary” advisors that advertise on TV are not really fiduciaries

This chart is all you need to know about “fiduciary” sales people:

In every time period, a financial advisor even a fiduciary (column 1) managing your Equity Funds provides you with poor returns compared with holding an index fund of the S&P 500 which holds stock in all the largest US companies. Very low fees and no trading or market timing beats 90% of all money managers because despite what they say they don't know the future. Over time you earn 11% per year compared with 3.79% from the average paid advisor. Every year one in a 10 advisors may beat the 500 index but the winning advisor is different each year. Advisors and their firms have to be paid. Fiduciaries must give you advice that benefits you not them. They seldom recommend the best security: a low cost S&P 500 fund.

 

 

https://www.dalbar.com/Portals/dalbar/cache/News/PressReleases/DALBAR%20Pinpoints%20Investor%20Pain%202015.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/You-Beat-Wall-Street-professionals/dp/1986031373

 

 

Annuities you may already have

Advisors and brokers sell annuities because they pay the most revenue. The benefits are guaranteed income. However, inflation takes ½ the payout value over 20-25 years unless you pay a lot extra. Annuities provide an income floor so you always meet your basic needs. Annuities can provide a guaranteed earnings floor. You will never lose money in the stock market. However, if the guaranteed earnings are ravaged by high inflation, your annual earnings will be less than $0. You can’t get all your money back if you change your mind. Annuities cost more than other types of retirement income streams. For instance, your Social Security benefit is an annuity with an inflation guarantee you can’t beat. If you invested in an employer pension (401k, 403b) and IRA, your IRS distribution requirement is a great annuity—you must take an amount calculated to last the rest of your estimated life span. It is calculated on your account balance from the previous year—every year. For most of us the distribution is handled automatically by our mutual fund company without charge. SS benefits and IRS tax tables are guarantee by the US.

https://www.amazon.com/Not-Buy-That-Annuity-Guaranteed/dp/1466494573

 

What to cut now before recession hits hard

Finance charges on credit cards just touched the highest level on record, according to government data from 1970s. In fact, investors are planning on the extra profits from the higher credit rates we will have to pay. With the financing costs of buying a more expensive new car also reaching levels not seen for a while, you may have problems with the monthly payments later. The longer it takes to pay these finance charges off, the higher the costs of the credit card loans we pay. Save on vacation firms that NEED money. Save on eye glasses, bank fees, wireless, pet costs, hospitalization mode,   Term insurance rates have come down. Most of us don’t need any other type of insurance because our savings will cover any final expenses and legacy. Forget the new car; go for the 3 year old version. Not much new for bells and whistles. Some used cars are good for 200,000 miles so you can invest that $400 new car monthly payment. Over 10 years in a low-cost index account, this investment may provide you with $80,000. Using an advisor, you waste $10,000 or more. Advisors cannot beat a low-cost index fund because they must be paid. Over time you may give up over 63% of your potential earnings. Cut vehicle insurance too.

https://www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Insurance-Beware-Double-Coverage/dp/1480027634/

 

$50 low-cost index funds are a bargain for new investors

There are ETF (exchange traded funds) that you can buy for about $50 and pay minimal annual fees. This is the easiest way to begin investing. If you use automatic monthly contributions to a Roth IRA account, your money compounds at low cost. Over long periods, you may accumulate an account of up to $120,000 because an advisor is not charging fees or commissions. In a bank, you may end up with only $18,000 and you will owe taxes every year. With a Roth IRA, your withdrawals may be tax-FREE.

Start now: https://www.amazon.com/Give-your-child-leg-manage/dp/1096505355

 

How to survive if GOP uses SS Medicare Veterans Disabled to lever Biden

US has started "extraordinary measures" to avoid paying our bills: suspend contributions to funds of gov workers and state borrowing securities. Will the GOP force cutting SS, Medicare? Some of them helped criminals attack our Congress so we don’t know what they may do. If they bankrupt us, how can we survive to pay our medical, food, shelter, and transportation critical needs? These are the resources my readers tell me are their shields against these seditionists. Some readers have an emergency fund in a bank or balanced mutual fund. Some have a home equity line of credit that did not cost them anything to set up. Others have enough income from a non-Federal pension, annuity, or mutual funds to get by. Most have unused credit card lines to close any emergency short fall. A few have been building a tax-FREE Roth mutual fund that allows them to take out their contributions without a penalty.

https://www.amazon.com/dont-have-money-Financial-Emergencies/dp/1537636707

 

 

 

 

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Like 1776, this period is a test of democracyWe rejected an "American fascist" once

 

 

The Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030

 

Parallels of this era in the past may hint at our future: democracy breaks apart legally

 

 

Jan 21 2010 Corpor­a­tions’ election-spending unlim­ited

Billionaires paid $881 million for votes in 2022 midterm elections

 

Nov 2020 Wealthy discredit election process

 

Nov 21 2020 Trump’s Plans for a Coup: criminal

 

Nov 21 2020: Trump plan: US Marshals seize voting machines

 

Jan 6 2021 Direct assault failed: guns & bombs ready

 

Trump engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" to stop Biden

 

I don’t f—ing care that they have weapons

 

Trump was “detached from reality”

 

Trump used mafia-style intimidation on the defenseless

 

Trump still terrorizing election woman

 

Parscale: “a sitting president asking for civil war.”

 

Trump: “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me” 

 

GOP fascism: “RINO hunt armed; no bagging limitJ6 comm threat

 

January 6, 2021A date which will live in infamy

 

Trump’s Supremes END personal rights & state laws except for weapons WMDs

 

Fascism: GOP to stop women leaving state for abortion

 

It’s not a court. It’s a junta: Two Americas

 

Trump: President Biden is 'enemy of the state'

 

Christian Nationalist Party (CNP) replaces GOP

 

Nov 8 2022 Trump’s “national revolution” failed

 

Nov 15 2022 Trump announces for 2024 to avoid lawsuits

 

Dec 3 2022 Trump: cancel Constitution rules so ‘I win

 

Jan 2025 Dictator pardons himself: his Supremes agree

 

 

How Govt wastes our money:

US has no more money as of Jan 19: GOP wants to let us go bankrupt: cut SS Medicare

No one thinks reversing Trump tax cuts: $2.3 Trillions would be available for our debts

Cut deficit $1 trillion reduce “tax gap” the difference between rich owed and paid taxes

Statehouses try to raise taxes on the rich: What are the chances of tax to pay natl debt?

 

NASA will spend $425 million to develop greener commercial jets: NASA not an airline

US has started "extraordinary measures" to avoid paying bills: cutting SS, Medicare?

Supremes found that no one stole their secret Roe paper: Supremes not investigated

 

SCAMS/SPINS:

GOP to expunge Trump impeachments: OK to try overthrow gov: dictator to rule

Hate speech drawn to Musk’s new Twitter: one place to get our hate fix daily

GOP loser hires assassins: shoots Dems in their homes: missed child by inches

FL to ban masks and vaccines: de Santos’s law to restrict freedom to avoid Covid

Covid deaths have doubled since Nov 22: My neighbor got his shots but mask junked

 

Will Trump and Biden get a 5 year sentence for stealing gov secret documents?

Santa Rosa Catholic Diocese planning bankruptcy after new sexual assault claims

Trump, lawyers sanctioned nearly $1 million for 'political' lawsuit vs Clinton

 

list-of-unwanted-calls-reported-to-federal-communications-commission

 

Tesla caught using fake auto drive video to sell: can’t stop at red/can’t go at green lights

Aspen Dental caught deceived purchase services and products advertised as “free” fine

Lori E. Deveny lawyer caught stealing $4.5 million health care ins checks jail 8 years

Call Title lending caught charge 119% to 179% so never pay off principal: TitleMax

5 Cable TV Companies are taking more from  your bank account: fees + commercials

 

Santos elected with Russian money. Con man took Dem seat: Putin man in Congress

 

Jobs

15 Best Financial Business Jobs in 2023: Accountant, Loan officer, etc

fastest-growing-jobs-of-this-decade

Skills needed for remote worker

 

15 Best Occupations for Being Self-Employed

 

 

Who owns your account now?

File IRS tax return Jan 23 free efile; Last year, the average refund issued was $3,176.

Townhouse vs. House: which is best for you?

Compare how your advisor’s advice did in 2022. 2022-classic-periodic-table/#

 

Wall Street makes forecasts for rivals not for real investors: tricks are key to competition

 

Miracles:

Greenland finds temperatures are already 1.5C warmer than in the 20th century

Less smoking and more screening are two of the factors driving the drop in the death rate

Breakdancing will debut as a sport at the 2024 Olympics: yes a sport with trophy

 

 

 

 

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Our Universe is Mind-Blowing

Light is both a particle and a wave depending on how we look at the light.

I don’t think that there is any such thing as a position or a velocity of a particle.

Everything (galaxies to stones) in universe made of subatomic energy ‘vibrations’

A subatomic ‘particle’ is the smallest possible vibration (quantum) of a quantum field.

 

Mass–energy equivalence: E=mc^2.  At the smallest level; Everything is moving a little

Energy into matter: scientists converted light energy directly into matter in one step

Physics Nobel Prize: “entanglement” 2 particles share info instantly at a distance

“It may be that gravity and quantum mechanics are exactly the same thing,” Leonard Susskind

Gravity might induce the collapse of quantum vibrations into 1 quantum state—our world

 

There is no TIME at this level because of force fields come and go in all directions. 

Universe expanding: events may not come together like they did before.

Inside protons, neutrons, it is the fields of the virtual particles that creates its mass.

Gold made from neutron stars: collisions produce more neutrons:79 protons,118 neutrons

The proton is so complicated science still finds new energy entities/forces every year.

 

“Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them.” Space expanding.

The electricity we use comes from the field around the wire not from election itself.

Scientists build 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact: inside quantum computer

starts-with-a-bang/universe-expansion-not-accelerating/

 

 

 

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We can apply for Medicare online: https://blog.ssa.gov/apply-for-medicare-online

We can apply for Social Security online: https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/

We can apply for health care online: https://www.healthcare.gov/

 

IAN

973.746.2014

http://www.theinsidersguides.com/

Alerts available at http://dankeppel.blogspot.com/