Stock Trading Diversification

This is the continuing story of our two imaginary traders, Peter and Paul.Peter is a professional trader, Paul is not. Peter has a tested, proven, written trading plan that he follows each time he enters a trade, Paul does not.Peter and Paul have had vastly different Stock trading experiences -... Read More

Your Job

There are so many kinds of work that needs to be done and you are doing one of those jobs right now ? unless you are one of those two and a half million that have been laid off during the past 3 years. The press continues to blame China... Read More

Financial Crime

Congress recently passed another new law that is supposed to outlaw financial crime. Corporate officers will be sent to jail for "cooking the books" as it is called. Among other things it is taking the stockholders money and paying themselves huge bonuses for nonperformance. These guys are even worse than... Read More

A Personal Stock Market Investment Philosophy

∙ Make every investment in the stock market a long-term investment.My Mother worked as a teller in a small bank in Dover, New Jersey. The name of the bank was called The Dover Community Bank. While working at the bank (she eventually became a branch manager) she enrolled in the... Read More

Traders, Defend Against the Dreaded Death Spiral.

It has often been said that there is only two ways to get hurt really bad on a stock trade, getting caught in a "death spiral" by not using DTM: Decisive Trade Management in the way of stop loses and having a stock halted on you. Halts you have zero... Read More

Top 25 Growth Funds

On Monday, November 25, 2000 Investor's Business Daily listed on page B1 the Top 25 Growth Mutual Funds for the last 36 months along with their performance for the year 2000 to date. Only four showed a profit this year of 21% and the other three had increases of 12%,... Read More

Valuation

Every day I hear from the "experts" on CNBC-TV and the radio gurus that the way to buy stocks is find value. One man's Rembrandt is another man's connect-the-dots and fill in the spaces. Valuation is like beauty. It is in the mind of the beholder.If valuation is the key... Read More

It Cant Be Done

Wouldn't it be nice if you were only in the stock market when it was going up and have everything transferred to cash while it is going down? It is called 'market timing' and your broker or financial planner will tell you "it can't be done". What that person just... Read More

Stuff

I continually hear from economists, talking heads, other market letter writers, analysts and assorted "experts" that I need to know all kinds of "stuff" about the stocks and mutual funds I am going to buy and I should keep up with them on a regular basis.What is this important "stuff"?Let's... Read More

Hill of Hope

Just about now everyone is confused as to which way the stock market is going to go - up or down. For the past 3 years it has been headed south, but the Wall Street experts have told us that the market never goes down 4 years in a row... Read More

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Stock Market Investing Odds

The greatest stock market myth is the idea that investing... Read More

The Golden Goose is Sick

It is finally catching up with them. The brokerage companies... Read More

The Shadow

The Shadow knows. There used to be a radio program... Read More

Market Timing?

The recent criminal fiasco in the mutual fund industry is... Read More

Lifestyle Funds Provide Greater Security?

With the stock market stubbornly refusing to settle down and... Read More

Adding Funds

Someday you may want to retire and continue to live... Read More

Different Ways of Buying Stocks

Let's say you are interested in this one company. You... Read More

Play another Day

Money management starts with protecting your capital, realizing profits and... Read More

Where Is The Beef?

Where is the beef? Or maybe it should be where... Read More

Dividend Paying Stocks

I would like to share with the reader an article... Read More

Stocks Options Trading

Let's assume that you want to make some serious money... Read More

Mutual Fund Ball and Chain

The broker told me not to sell because the mutual... Read More

Stock Trading Diversification

This is the continuing story of our two imaginary traders,... Read More

Making Outsized Returns in the Stock Market - Using the Dow Theory

The Dow TheoryCharles H. Dow... Read More

Dont Fight The Fed

One of the great truisms of Wall Street is "Don't... Read More

VooDoo Training For the Stock Market

If you go to Haiti or other places in the... Read More

How To Buy And Hold

One of the most believed bits of conventional wisdom from... Read More

Who Knows?

The Shadow knows. Remember him? It seems a shadow has... Read More

Good Stock Market Tip; Good Return!

Forget making a profit; instead focus on the income provided... Read More

The 401(K): How The Insider Has Stolen Your Retirement!

Mutual funds were moderately successful in creating a presence in... Read More

Learn to Calculate a Stock?s Pivot Point

Stocks breakout from properly formed bases everyday but many investors... Read More

What Are You Waiting For?

Do you own any mutual funds? In an IRA or... Read More

The Stock Market - How Just One Question Will Tell You All You Need To Know About Your Stock Broker

Last time we looked at the real performance of the... Read More

Shorting Stocks ? The Basics, Part I of II

What does it mean to short a stock?This means that... Read More

Acapulco - The Stock Market Dives

There is a famous cliff on the ocean in Acapulco... Read More

Dont Buy Stocks based on P/E Ratio alone

I use the P/E ratio as a secondary indicator for... Read More

Never Fall In Love!

Recently I watched my favorite football team lose a vital... Read More

Stock Trading Success

The ABC's of Stock Trading SuccessStock trading success...why is it... Read More

Dont Lose All Your Money

That sounds like good advice doesn't it? Don't lose all... Read More

Stuff

I continually hear from economists, talking heads, other market letter... Read More

Is Active Trading The Answer?

One of the main reasons many of us get into... Read More

Price Targets

Every day in any financial publication you will find the... Read More

Successful Trading ? Taking Profits - Part 1

So you're started trading, you bought some positions with your... Read More