Hedge Funds: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Alfred Winslow Jones started hedge funds in 1949. He was a pioneer of non-traditional investment strategies. "Non-traditional" categorizes hedge funds quite accurately. Hedge funds have the potential to make an investor quite a bit of money, but many do not understand the nature of hedge funds. Hedge funds have undergone... Read More
How We Eluded The Bear Of 2000
The date October 13, 2000 will forever be embedded in my mind. It was the day after our mutual fund trend tracking indicator had broken its long-term trend line and I sold 100% of my clients' invested positions (and my own) and moved the proceeds to the safety of money... Read More
Expense Ratios
Mutual funds and brokers are always preaching not to buy any fund with a high expense ratio. That is the annual costs of the fund to pay for trading of stocks within their portfolio, salaries, rent, telephone, analysts, etc. Most of them tell you not to buy one that exceeds... Read More
Trading Education: The Best of Both Worlds!
I made my very first investment in the stock market when I was ten years old. Ever since then I have been hooked! Now I check out hundreds of trades each year with the same excitement andenthusiasm, and each time try to find that one market at the right time... Read More
Maximizing a Stock Market Investment
Maximizing a stock market investmentThere are several factors an investor in the stock market should consider for a maximum return on an investment:1. All stock purchases should be commission-free.2. All stocks purchased should be from a company that has a history of raising their dividends every year.3. The company should... Read More
Why the Majority Fail at Stock Investing
The gleam and bright lights of Wall Street lure in many new investors each year, only to send them home crying to their friends and family. Why do so many people fail when it comes to the stock market? The reason is very simple: Hard work! Most people are looking... Read More
Small-Cap Stocks: The Beginning of the Journey
When an individual investor wants to roll up his sleeves and do some research in the pursuit of the next big winner in the stock market, the place many start is in the small cap sector.As with the other capitulation sizes (capitalization is a stock's market value), no one can... Read More
Enronization
Even if you don't own any of their stock or any stock at all you will want to read this.What Enron corporate officers did with their accounting firm is nothing new. It has been going on for years, but recently has become more egregious. Hiding facts from stockholders by showing... Read More
Parachute Investing
Ever jumped out of an airplane? It's OK if you have on a parachute. Pretty dumb if you don't.Every buy any stocks, mutual funds or Exchange Traded Funds? It's OK if you know how much you are willing to risk. Pretty dumb if you don't.Parachute investing is buying an equity... 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
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Keep Your Profits
It looks like we have now entered a new bull... Read More
Take The Time
You must take the time once a month to review... Read More
I Love You, Warren Buffet
Sometime around 1980, can't remember exactly, there was a flight... Read More
Making a Stock Watch List
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VooDoo Training For the Stock Market
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We have two candidates for president that have really different... Read More
Municipal Bonds
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Index Fund Trading Using Technical Analysis and Swing Trading Strategies
Index Fund Trading can be one of the most profitable...or... Read More
Size Counts!
What the heck am I talking about?It is often said... Read More
Different Ways of Buying Stocks
Let's say you are interested in this one company. You... Read More
A Personal Stock Market Investment Philosophy
∙ Make every investment in the stock market a long-term... Read More
Why the Majority Fail at Stock Investing
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Stock Analysis
I receive emails from Morningstar. This company provides statistics and... Read More
What is the Most Important Indicator of All?
Most stock market traders have a favorite technical indicator.The one... Read More
Dividend Paying Stocks
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The Bottom?
Every day I hear someone on CNBC proclaim that "this... Read More
Market Experience of a Naïve Stock Operator
Sometime in the third quarter of 1997, someone told me... Read More
Lights of the Stock Market
There are red lights, green lights, blue lights and spot... Read More
Successful Trading ? Establish Your Risk Level
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Whitewater Stock Market
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Two for the Money
Look back over the years and try to remember how... Read More
The Surgeon General
The Surgeon General of the United States says that smoking... Read More
How to Short Stocks? How to Make Money when Your Stocks Go Down by Shorting
The stock market can present you with a lot of... Read More
DIY Portfolio Management
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are growing. Investors are choosing low... Read More
Inverted Interest Rates
Inverted interest rates? What's that? Who cares? Even if you... Read More
Bad News is Good News
For weeks, no, months we have been bombarded with nothing... Read More
Stock Insurance
You have a lock on your house. You have a... Read More
Forecasting the Stock Market
Every day I see in the financial section of newspapers... Read More
How Much Money Can I Make With Trading? What Account Size Do I Need To Start?
What account size do I need?How much money can I... Read More
Wall Street Paradigm
In 1960 an engineer working for a watch company in... Read More
Oil Stocks As A Long Term Investment
The demand for world oil is increasing while world reserves... Read More
Box Of Chocolates
Ever have one of those sample boxes of candy? Each... Read More
Its Snowing
The Winter Games for the Olympics are coming up soon... Read More
VIX
No, this is not a symbol for some Latin number.... Read More
Online Investing & Online Stock & Share Trading: Difficulty in Taking Stop Losses in the Market
This is an extract of an article which was first... Read More
Understanding a Stocks PEG Ratio
A PEG ratio cannot be used alone but is a... Read More
Pamplona, the Wild Investment Bulls
You remember (they show it on TV every year) the... Read More
My Neighbor Got A New Car
I don't know what kind it is, but I saw... Read More
Valuation
Every day I hear from the "experts" on CNBC-TV and... Read More
Analyzing Growth Stocks: An Important Focus For Any Investor
Analyzing growth stocks is an important focus for any investor.... Read More
Robert Rodriguez Weathers the Stock Market
Robert Rodriguez likes to buy stocks at their lows. When... Read More
An Old Proverb for Investing
"If you don't know where you are going, any road... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype vs. Investment Help
With the internet such a huge part of our daily... Read More
Perfect Storm
Having lived aboard a sailboat for 2 years I was... Read More
Mutual Funds are Dead
You may have wondered why your mutual funds have been... Read More
9 Deadly Trading Mistakes!
The following are a list of nine things you want... Read More
My Stock - Right or Wrong
We all know the expression, "My country, right or wrong",... Read More
Prospering with Mutual Funds: How Anyone can ?Afford? an Investment Advisor
Recently I was invited to appear on a live CNNfn... Read More
Stocks Options Trading
Let's assume that you want to make some serious money... Read More
Dont Buy Worldcom! A Guide to Wise Bottom Fishing
Over the past few months, several investment professionals have brought... Read More
Boiler Room 7/17/00
On Friday or Saturday evening my wife gets a movie... Read More
Time Out
Are you paying any attention to your retirement savings? Do... Read More
Municipal Bonds
Because there are so many stocks that are NOT paying... Read More
Being Wrong Buying Stock is Okay
Being wrong is OK, but let's not carry it to... Read More
The Holy Grail (of Investment)
Every year I go to the Money Show in Orlando,... Read More
Advisory Service for You?
It depends on your level of understanding of the market... Read More
365/7/24
What does it take to be a stock trader? It... Read More
Discover the Biggest Trading & Investing Online Mistake
Any online investor / trader seeks an excellent off or... Read More
How To Make, And Keep, Money Trading Stocks
If you are serious about making and keeping money by... Read More
Value Investing: Selecting From The Bargain Bin
Picking a beaten-down stock requires a different kind of selection... Read More
The Information Age
It is wonderful to be alive in the information age.... Read More
Bad News is Good News
For weeks, no, months we have been bombarded with nothing... Read More
Choosing a Stock Broker
If you were to find that you had some severe... Read More
Is The Bear In The Cage?
For the last few weeks we have seen the stock... Read More
Chart Reading
As an investor you will want to check out any... Read More
How to Maximize Your 401k Mutual Fund Returns
When it comes to 401k's there is an overabundance of... Read More
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