If you want to impress your friends with your vast knowledge of financial matters, then here are the Latin translations of the script on the backside of a US dollar bill.

?ANNUIT COEPTIS? means ?God has favored our undertaking.? ?NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM? translates into ?A new order has begun.?

The Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid are ?1776.? The better known ?E PLURIBUS UNUM? is ?One nation from many people.?

The basic design for the cotton and linen currency with red and blue silk fibers, which has been in circulation since 1957, carries enough symbolism to drive conspiracy theorists to distraction.

An all seeing eye? The darkened Western face of the pyramid? And of course, the number ?13? abounds.

Thank freemason Benjamin Franklin for these cryptic symbols, and watch Nicholas Cage?s historical adventure movie ?National Treasure.?

The balanced scales in the seal are certainly wishful thinking and a bit quaint if they refer to the Federal budget.

Study the buck closely, because there are soon going to be a lot more of them around, thanks to the efforts of former Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke.

What Did You Really Mean, Ben?

Expect to hear a lot about ignition in the next year.

No, I don?t mean the rebuilt ignition you bought on eBay for the beat up ?68 Cadillac El Dorado up on blocks in your front yard.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin?s (LMT) famed Skunk Works in California has finally come out of the closet and announced that it has made a major breakthrough in fusion research.

A small functioning reactor could be available in as little as three years.

If true, the news would be dynamite.

I have long been partial to Lockheed as a company, as it employed my mother on an assembly line in Los Angeles to build B-17 bombers during WWII.

When I visited a secret Russian airbase in 1992 to view the wreckage of Gary Powers? U-2 spy plane, the steel Lockheed serial number was unmistakable.

After I asked to take it home as a souvenir, my hosts replied with a very firm ?Nyet!? and hurried me out of the facility, citing it as a ?National Treasure.?

The new fusion technology would deliver ten times more power than conventional nuclear reactors at a fraction of the cost.

Fusion involves the combining of two hydrogen atoms to create one helium atom, releasing immense amounts of power.

To know how much, simply refer to Albert Einstein?s famous equation, E = MC squared.

If successful, the discovery could make available unlimited amounts of carbon free energy at near zero cost, without creating any toxic waste.

The breakthrough relies on using a ?magnetic bottle? to contain the several hundred million degree of heat generated, instead of four foot thick reinforced concrete containment structures.

So far, the stock market is clueless.

Economical fusion power, the type unleashed by thermonuclear hydrogen bombs, has long been the dream of physicists and long term planners everywhere.

The focus of research has until now taken place at the National Ignition Facility next door to me at Lawrence Livermore National Labs in Livermore, California. There, progress has recently suffered several set backs and time delays.

Mention California to most people, and images of love beads, tie died T-shirts, and Birkenstocks come to mind.

But it is also the home of the first atomic bomb, which was originally designed amid the vineyards and cow pastures of this bucolic suburb.

Dr. Robert Oppenheimer of the UC Berkeley School of Mining used to keep the first ever piece of purified plutonium in a file cabinet in his office that, thankfully, was made out of steel.

If it were a wooden cabinet, the US might have lost WWII.

Today, the world?s first cyclotron has been turned into a modern steel sculpture in a traffic roundabout, not a mile from my home.

The thinking at the time was that if someone accidently flipped the wrong switch, it wouldn?t blow up San Francisco, or more importantly, Berkeley.

The $5 billion Livermore project aims 192 lasers at a BB sized piece of frozen hydrogen, using fusion to convert it to helium and unlimited amounts of clean energy.

The heat released by this process reaches 100 million degrees, hotter than the core of the sun, and will be used to fuel conventional steam electric power plants.

The raw material is seawater, and a byproduct is liquid hydrogen, which can be used to fuel cars, trucks, and aircraft. If this all sounds like it is out of Star Trek, you?d be right.

I worked with these guys in the early seventies, back when math was used to make things, and before it was used to game financial markets.? I can tell you, there is not a smarter and more dedicated bunch of people on the planet.

If it works, we will get unlimited amounts of clean energy for low cost in about 20 years. Oil will only be used to make plastics and fertilizer, taking the price down to $10 for domestic production only.

The crude left in the Middle East will become worthless. Lumps of coal will only be found in museums, or in jewelry, its original use. If it doesn?t work, it will melt the adjacent Mt. Diablo and take me with it.

If Lockheed?s fusion success is scalable, it could lift its stock out of the pre-election doldrums from which it, and the rest of the defense sector has been suffering.

Those would include Northrop Grumman (NOC) and Boeing Aircraft (BA).

If you don?t get your newsletter tomorrow, you?ll know what happened.

Now what is this switch for?

It?s been a tough-fought battle. I have had to fight tooth and nail for every penny.

For the first time since September 2nd, I have been able to boost the six-year track record of Global Trading Dispatch to a new all time high.

It seems these days, you have to work twice as hard to earn half the money with more volatility.

We had an outrageous August, taking in a lip-smacking 7.52% profit.
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I began this month with the assumption that financial markets would remain trapped in narrow ranges.

September was problematic, with my Trade Alerts essentially breaking even, up only 0.27%.

So I narrowed my focus to the short-term trading of the violent day-to-day swings we are seeing in the market.

It worked like a charm.

After a long dormancy, the Volatility Index (VIX) climbed out of the basement, seeing single day moves up to 40%. That enabled me to reel in two quick winners with the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures ETN (VXX).

My brother in arms, Mad Options Trader ?Whiz?, has done even better on the volatility front.

Since then, I have been trading like a Mad man, fading moves in the S&P 500 (SPY) and the United State Treasury Bond Fund (TLT), and then taking profits in days.

This week, I cast my net over a broader range of asset classes, buying the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) and selling short the United States Oil Fund (USO) on top of the latest OPEC-induced spike.

Both positions turned immediately profitable.

Keeping a death grip on every dollar I take in, I am now running very tight stop losses. This has lead to an irritating jump in small losses, but has enhanced my profitability over all.

Keep in mind that this is an environment where almost no one is making any money at all.

I tell my financial advisor and long term investor friends to just turn off the TV, as there has been very little net movement in asset classes over all.

Things will be better in a year.

It is impossible for them to catch these short-term moves, let alone explain them to clients.

I expect this state of affairs to continue until the November 8th presidential election.

What we are getting is not a ?price correction,? but a ?time correction?, whereby prices grind sideways before breaking out to the upside.

This brings my 2016 year-to-date performance up to an enviable 16.81%, compared with 4.65% for the S&P 500. The trailing 12-month return is 18.25%

My six-year return now reaches an eye popping 208.49%, delivering an average annualized return of 35.75%.

These are numbers that any financial advisor, hedge fund manager, or retiree trading their retirement accounts from home would kill for. Most are losing money this year, net of fees and expenses.

Those who have made the effort to wake up early every morning, read my witty and incisive prose and actively trade my proprietary alerts have an impressive row of notches on their bedpost to show for their endeavors.
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