Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for February 4.

This week John Mauldin explains what a recession looks like, and how it affects people's lives and their investments.

Tim Bourquin interviews Joshua Hayes, who talks about how he uses the CANSLIM method to find profitable trades, and how he uses the 50-day moving average to find stocks that are ready to move.

Bill Bonner writes that capitalism is a jungle, not a zoo.  It lets animals get fat, but only so they can be eaten by hungrier beasts.

Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve told the markets that the reason why they lowered interest rates by 50 basis points to 3 percent was because the labor market is weak.  However, the severity of the problems with job growth was not clear until the release of this morning's non-farm payrolls report.

The release of Australian trade and housing data may encourage the markets to ramp up speculation that the RBA will move to hike rates on February 4.

Going into Friday Toni Hansen is expecting the market to slow. As long as the selling is kept modestly at bay on Friday, she will be looking for more upside into next week with the highs from the second week of January as the next decent daily resistance the market will need to deal with.

Price Headley shows that all of the major indexes have retraced to Fibonacci support lines.

The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by 50bp on Wednesday and indicated that they will be cutting rates further in the months to come. How much and how quickly they reduce interest rates again will be dependent upon the level of job growth in the month of January.

Another possibility, now, for speculators is the obvious one. One of the surest bull markets on the planet is in gold. And as the dollar continues its decent toward its true value – and indeed the true value of all paper currencies – our Trade of this Decade is one thing that will always be worth having .