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I put out a Flash Alert last Saturday on Dendreon that a subscriber immediately posted to the Yahoo message board for DNDN. It was then picked up by the Investor Village message board. DNDN stock opened sharply higher on Monday morning, and all subscribers who wanted to trade my new buy limit and target price, or the suggested options positions, were harmed.

Otherwise, I have to file suit and get a court order to force Yahoo to reveal your name, and if I have to go that route your subscription will be canceled with no refund and a filter enabled to block you from ever subscribing again.

Dear New World Investor:

10000. A nice round number for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to hit in the least-loved stock market rally of all time. Those who warned us in August that September is the worst month of the year, and then followed up with warnings of all the Crashes that happen in October, are now pointing out that these big round numbers usually cap the market for many months or even years, just as 100 did during the Great Depression and 1000 did after 1966.

Gee, thanks. Here’s to you, too.

The stock market and oil are going up because the economy has been pulled back from the brink of a deflationary abyss, and the U.S. dollar is falling. Gold is going up because the government deficit spending and money creation that pulled the economy back from the brink is going to be very inflationary, and the U.S. dollar is falling. The U.S. dollar is falling due to fear of future inflation due to the government deficit spending and money creation that pulled the economy back from the abyss.

It’s actually a small, neat, logical package that is not that hard to wrap your head around. We have another jobless recovery, just like the last two, and the market soared long before the unemployment peak – just like the last two. Consumer spending is terrible, but government spending is taking its place for now:

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Dear New World Investor:

October is the last stand for the bears. In August, they tried to scare everyone about September being the weakest months of the year, and it worked for one day. The S&P 500 lost 2.2% on September 1, steadied itself the next day, and closed up 3.6% for the month.

The bears came back with warnings of terrible declines in October, a month known as the “bear killer” for the number of bear markets that have bottomed around mid-month. This time it worked for two days, taking the S&P down 32 points last Thursday and Friday, and breaking the 1045 energy level. But this week started with the best two-day gain since mid-July, popping the S&P right back up towards 1060. If investors are waiting for September quarter earnings reports before putting their cash to work, they’d better start writing their “buy” tickets. After the close yesterday, Alcoa said they returned to profitability after three loss quarters, and beat the consensus expectations for sales and earnings. Today we closed back over 1065.

A new market climbing a wall of worry is subject to setbacks when any indication of weakness is reported, but it then rebounds quickly and moves to another new high. That’s what we have been seeing for seven months, during the least-loved market rally ever. Right about now is

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Yesterday, QLT Therapeutics (QLTI) announced they have sold Eligard, their palliative treatment for advanced prostate cancer. Eligard is injected under the skin and forms a solid implant that then slowly releases leuprolide acetate as the implant is bioabsorbed. Leuprolide acetate lowers the levels of testosterone in a man’s body, on the theory that will suppress tumor growth in patients with hormone-responsive prostate cancer.

This is absolutely the

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Dear New World Investor:

The third quarter ended yesterday with the S&P 500 up 15.0%, second only to the June quarter’s 15.2% gain in the last 11 years. We have to go back to the December quarter of 1998, when the dot-com stocks were running and the S&P added more than 20%, to find a stronger quarter that the last two. So much for “sell in May and go away,” as well as all the fears about September being the worst month of the year. The S&P rose 3.6% in September.

The gut-wrenching volatility we’ve seen in the last year has settled down, too. A year ago, on September 29, 2008, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has its biggest point decline ever,

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