Sell Short: GLD, Target Price: $80, Time Frame: 1 month

This is actually a 2 part trade in which you can short gold at 2 separate levels, but I'll get into that later. Firstly, this is a short term trade more-so than anything. Secondly, this is a very risky trade and so I just want to caution everyone before proceeding. Gold, just like numerous other commodities, fluctuate rapidly and can have some extreme volatility. As the saying goes, they take the escalator up and the elevator straight...

There have been several aerospace and defense companies this past quarter that have really done well with respect to earnings, some of the companies are small and some quite large, but most have beaten. DCO is a small cap company that just posted earnings of $.49 per share vs. $.44 based on Street estimates. This was $.12 a share better than a year ago. Sales jumped 12%. Quarterly revenues were $98.7 million vs. $88.1 million a year ago. The company was bolstered by sales in their military and...