If you want to bet on some big moves, cashed up small-cap resource stocks could be the best bet of all.

Kris Sayce sees the stage being set for a boom in the Australian share market that will take it over 7,000 points within two years.

Today’s miners are increasingly going where no miner has gone before. One of the most exciting new mining regions is in West Africa.

They’re some of the reasons small caps are a stock pickers dream, really. There’s simply less interest and less competition. But where to look right now?

We had lunch with a couple of old broker pals yesterday. The broad opinion was that we were all worried that the stock market was heading for a fall. But not the whole stock market, just one bunch of stocks in particular.

What’s the next catchphrase the financial drones will make up as an excuse to buy or sell stocks? Who knows? But to be honest, we don’t care. We’ve long stopped caring what the self-important drones think. We’d rather stick to picking good stocks at a fair price.Trouble is where do you start?

We can’t claim we saw the capital gains coming in 2012 for big blue chip stocks, but we did strongly suggest you have a big chunk of your savings (your ‘safe money’) in dividend paying stocks.

We’ve republished one of the most popular articles of 2012 for you. It looks like nothing is going to change to a large degree in 2013. But it’s also a good reminder that to get ahead financially in the year ahead you must embrace risk.

It’s not very often Money Morning editor Kris Sayce has time for a chat. Luckily for us, he kindly agreed to sit down and reflect on the year that’s been and the one that’s coming. Including his investment strategy for 2013.

The next twelve months will continue the trend from the last twelve months. It will continue to be a stock-pickers market. But rather than investors picking blue-chips for yield, the action will come in the small-cap sector.

The strong Aussie dollar is hiding big profit opportunities on the ASX – namely in small-cap stocks.

Kris Sayce explains how if you’re sensible and you don’t get in above your head, you can use margin lending and small-cap stocks as a conservative way to boost your share returns.

Rather than taking a big risk by putting all your cash money into shares, look at the alternative.

When small-caps are so far out-of-favour that indices are setting new lows, the bargain hunting contrarians come out to play.

Along the way the evidence of long-term outperformance of small caps has been forgotten.

The fact is smaller companies offer more growth potential than large ones. Small-cap stocks are the best chance for big percentage gains.

Sometime our seemingly contrary advice often leads to us getting questions like this from readers, ‘How come you’re telling me to buy stocks when Murray says the market is about to crash? I’m confused.’ It’s a fair question, and we’ll answer it today…

These were some of the Aussie market’s most beaten down stocks. And quite frankly these stocks are still beaten down, and would still make a good starting point for people building a new share portfolio.

As a speculator in small-caps stocks we’re always looking to buy because we see small-cap investing as a gold mine of optimism, innovation and entrepreneurialism.

Each year there is a ‘hot commodity‘ that tends to emerge at the start of the year. By picking it early, investors can make huge gains over the following twelve months as all stocks in that sector have a manic run up.

[Ed Note: This is an extract from the Australian Small-Cap Investigator September 14 weekly update] By now you probably know that the US Federal Reserve has launched a new money printing program. The media refers to it as QE3. The ‘QE’ refers to the term quantitative easing, and means that the Fed will increase the [...]

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It’s a question that was getting asked as far back as three years ago, and seems to pop up again every time the Facebook stock price hits another new low: Will Apple buy Facebook? Some tech pundits think that because Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) has so much cash – $117 billion as of the June quarter [...]