Tyler Laundon

The S&P 500 index is down around 6% this month. If we close out next week in the red then the 'sell in May' trading pattern will have held true for 4 out of the last 5 years.

Apparently Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is offering a derivative product to the hedge funds that allow investors to go long gold and short the exploration sector.

It's every miner for himself right now in the gold and silver mining industry; a total rout. These stocks are getting trampled over as investors flee the sector with reckless abandon.

They say fortune favors the bold. At times you do have to be bold to make money as a small-cap investor, but up until recently it seemed more like you just needed to be present.

Too many investors buy mining stocks with no idea what they are really worth. We're going to change that by giving you the tools to figure out if that exploration stock is a good buy or not.

If you focus on the big picture and understand the analysis framework you'll be able to dissect and interpret mining reports pretty quickly.

The 20% spike in the S&P 500 doesn't mean there are no good values to be found in the market - it just means we need to look harder to find them.

The way I want to play a housing recovery is in construction related stocks. Here is a list of a few examples of advanced materials - made by publicly traded companies - that are currently in demand.

Unlike many other potential investments, junior mining stocks can deliver gains of several hundred - and even several thousand - percent.