Capital Waves Investing: How to Profit From the "New Normal"

Buy-and-hold investing is dead. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the fact is that there are far too many strong financial institutions and armies of traders manipulating the financial markets. And that has relegated buy-and-hold investing - a hands-off strategy that for decades was a mainstay for retail investors - to the rubbish heap. Today's investor has to employ a hands-on approach that uses so-called "capital waves" - the huge swaths of cash that flow from one market to another around the globe - to generate quick profits, says Money Morning Contributing Editor Shah Gilani, a former trader and hedge-fund manager whose trading service, the Capital Wave Forecast , has kicked off 2011 with 17 straight winners. "Trading is the new normal," Gilani said in an interview. "Capital movement is the benchmark of normalcy." Gilani recently sat down with Money Morning Executive Editor William Patalon III to discuss the recent successes of his trading service - and to give readers a glimpse of what's to come in the financial markets. "There were several capital waves that ebbed and flowed in the first quarter that created opportunities for us," said Gilani. "There was money moving in and out of Treasuries, the euro, stocks, and commodities." Identifying and understanding " capital waves " is the first step to unlocking massive amounts of wealth and not getting beached by Wall Street, according to Gilani. The second step is to avoid trying to fight the tides of investment capital that are swirling from market to market in the modern world. Instead, investors should ride their momentum to big-time gains. What follows is a full transcript of Gilani's Money Morning interview. In it, he discusses the areas in which he's had success predicting profit-making opportunities this year, as well as his current investment prospects. To read about what market strategies Gilani is using, please read on...