Prudent Squirrel by Chris Laird

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Here is a list of our big calls the last 2 years, charts follow below:

2008 Summer commodity crash we anticipated by two months- USD rally to come and the commodity complex will be killed when speculators get out. Commodities crashed that summer hugely. We warned subscribers two months in advance of that crash. I know of no other analysts who made that call (although there must be a couple of others).
Dec 2008 gold rally- November 2008 we suggested it might be time to start going back into gold. That was a very difficult call as at that time gold got hammered after Summer. It rallied a great deal since and recovered all losses. We were the only one who made such a call that I know of that early (again there must be a couple others but that was one prescient call).
November 2009 USD rally- The USD had fallen as gold rallied in 2009, but we foresaw a renewed flight to safety for the USD and it then rallied a great deal from roughly 74 on the USDX when we made that call to now 86 roughly. We stated we thought gold would hold up despite that coming rally and that is exactly what happened. Gold and the USD rallied together in renewed flight to safety.
Dow 11,000 peak- Around late April 2010 we said the Dow had peaked. The Dow rose to about 11200 then crashed. We had various reasons for that call, some of which I have not stated, but the major reason was the ending of QE and the rapidly building Euro crisis and sovereign debt crisis. It has not recovered since the flash crash Thursday March 2010. This remains to be proved but the basis of the call has already been met, as the Dow crashed over 10 pct albeit for a brief moment.