When?

When will the stock market stop going down and start up again? If we knew that we'd all be jillionaires. So what do you do now while stocks are going down and stealing away your money every day?What does history tell us? Here is one very interesting fact. From 1920... Read More

What the Hell is a Stock option?

A 'stock option' is a contract between two parties giving the buyer (also known as the 'taker') the right, but not the obligation, to either buy or sell a specific quantity of shares at a pre-agreed price (known as the 'strike price' or 'exercise price') by a certain future 'expiry'... Read More

Hold Em and Fold Em

When most analysts, financial planners, fund specialists and investors try to decide whether to buy a particular stock they immediately go to the financial statements to determine the growth potential of the company. Numbers and more numbers. Then management analysis and industry speculation. Unless you are an experienced financial analyst... Read More

Dollar Cost Averaging

Dollar cost averaging is one of the most popular ideas in the investment community. Everyone seems to like it and it has become a watchword among stock and mutual fund brokers. If it is properly done you will make money, if not you will lose money or at best stay... Read More

No Load Mutual Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?

If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund managers, read on. There is a quiet revolution going on in the no-load mutual fund industry and you, the individual investor, may benefit from it greatly.I am referring to... Read More

How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing

What are you thinking when it comes to your no load mutual fund selections? Are you saving pennies and sacrificing dollars?Are you spending your time looking at expense ratios, analyzing Morningstar ratings and searching for funds with low fees and no 12b1 charges? If you are like most people, you... Read More

Lights of the Stock Market

There are red lights, green lights, blue lights and spot lights. There are orange lights, pink light and flash lights. There are search lights and micro lights. And the one you must obey is the stop light.If you don't stop when the light is red you could easily have an... Read More

Never Fall In Love!

Recently I watched my favorite football team lose a vital game.I simply love this team.I became so emotional about it; I thought "?this isn't good for my health". Can you believe that, but that's how we get when we are passionate. I simply couldn't believe (I didn't want to believe)... Read More

The Surgeon General

The Surgeon General of the United States says that smoking cigarettes is harmful to your health. It is printed on every pack of smokes you buy. When was the last time a smoker read or paid any attention to it?Don't you wish your brokerage account had some kind of warning... Read More

Lemmings Are Gathering

Before they go over the cliff to their destruction these little furry ones get together for a party and celebration. Each tells the other how smart he has been with his investments and buying and selling of stocks and real estate.Wait a minute. Did I say lemmings? I think I... Read More

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Emotional Involvement

I'll bet with almost anyone that has stocks or mutual... Read More

Hot Stock Trader: How to Pick Momentum Stocks with Ease and Simplicity

Most stock traders know that momentum trading can be a... Read More

Cash

How many people went to a cash position this week?... Read More

How to Pick Winning Stocks

There is nothing more exciting than finding an undervalued stock... Read More

Buying Stocks and the Importance of Correct Timing

An investor can find and research the best stock on... Read More

Your Job

There are so many kinds of work that needs to... Read More

Successful Trading ? Taking Profits - Part 1

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

Expense Ratios

Mutual funds and brokers are always preaching not to buy... Read More

Struggling Stocks, Booming Commodities

04/28/2005NASDAQ dropped -12.5% year to date in 2005. S&P500 index... Read More

Invest, Be Wrong, and Make Money in the Stock Market

I have been trading for several decades and was an... Read More

Mutual Fund Honor Roll ? Buy High, Sell Low by Chasing Performance

Buy high and sell low -- It's not a typo.Millions... Read More

Making a Stock Watch List

I am taking the time to help others learn the... Read More

The Skinny on Mutual Fund Investing

Mutual fund investing is a lot like Thai cooking. Everyone... Read More

Mr. Market

I constantly hear the talking heads on CNBC-TV, the radio... Read More

Whitewater Stock Market

Ever done any whitewater rafting or canoeing? Long periods of... Read More

Understanding a Stocks PEG Ratio

A PEG ratio cannot be used alone but is a... Read More

Complacency Indicator

If you haven't heard of the technical indicator with the... Read More

Lights of the Stock Market

There are red lights, green lights, blue lights and spot... Read More

Risk Control

Everything you invest in has risk so you want to... Read More

Which Way The Market

I am hearing predictions by brokers, financial planners, talk show... Read More

Buying New Issues

Has your broker been calling you recently with the "great... Read More

Its A Duck

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... Read More

Stock Trading Diversification

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

3 Components Needed for Beating the Market

Time to look back2004 is over, now we are in... Read More

Moving Averages

Every day on CNBC-TV they show a 200-day moving average... Read More

Financial Crime

Congress recently passed another new law that is supposed to... Read More

Zero Sum Game

Most people think the stock market is a zero sum... Read More

Diversification

Wall Street's watchword has always been diversification, but what does... Read More

Price Targets

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

Inertia Syndrome

When it comes to buying a stock or mutual fund... Read More

Market Experience of a Naïve Stock Operator

Sometime in the third quarter of 1997, someone told me... Read More

NASDAQ 800?

In November of 2000 when the NASDAQ was trading at... Read More

Market Timing

Every broker and financial planner will tell you that you... Read More