Investors & Friends:

Here's a summary of our investment actions from the past week.

Option Strategies - Naked Puts

1) Aeropostale Inc (NYSE: ARO) - We sold July $15.00 puts. On Thursday Aero was down almost 10% resulting from analyst downgrades. Sales in November weren't as strong as peers such as Abercrombie, which may be taking market share from Aero as well as American Eagle. Aero's Great Recession low was $8.35 on 12/1/08.

Option Strategies - Covered Calls

2) ProShares UltraShort Russell 2000 (NYSE: TWM) - We sold April $18.00 calls.

Click here for the Investrio Stock Selector Fund Bull and Bear Market Indicators Report for the week ending December 3, 2010.

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Etcetera

1) Warren Buffett on gold... "You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?"

2) Recent observations that may indicate the bond bubble is beginning to deflate...

- The Barclays Aggregate Bond Fund (AGG) broke its 30-week moving average, the first time it’s done this since the depth of the financial crisis in October, 2008.

- For the past five years, bonds kept rising, outperforming most asset classes ex gold and global equities/emerging markets. For the past five weeks, bonds stopped rising and trended down.

- The 10-year T-Note index (TNX) is gaining steam.

- Did the bond bubble just pop? Click here.