Stock Options Trading Strategies - Lean
Professional stock options traders use the term lean to refer to one's perception about the directional strength of the stock. When you own a stock option and intend to hold it for a period of time, you are aware that you will probably be holding it while it goes up... Read More
The Golden Goose is Sick
It is finally catching up with them. The brokerage companies I mean. For years they have been feeding bad food to their flock and now the flock is rebelling. The customer has been low man on the totem pole for too long. That food has been the disinformation that has... Read More
Bad News is Good News
For weeks, no, months we have been bombarded with nothing but negative news about the economy in general and thousands of individual companies. The stock market has dropped thousands of points and more than $8 trillion in paper assets have disappeared.Note I said paper assets because until you turn it... Read More
A Common Misconception about Stock Prices
I cringe every time I hear a novice investor tell me that they only purchase low priced stocks because they offer higher potential gains. A common phase I hear is "I like to buy $1 and $2 stocks because they can double easily and I will make a 100% profit".My... Read More
3 Components Needed for Beating the Market
Time to look back2004 is over, now we are in 2005. This is time to seriously look at performance of your personal investment, such as mutual fund, or individual stocks holdings, etc. Does your fund beat index last year? Does it beat index over past many years? How are you... Read More
The Seven Mistakes All Novice Traders Make and How to Correct Them
We learnt the following the hard way! If any of these things applies to you, don't worry ? there is an easy solution!MISTAKE ONELack of Knowledge and No PlanIt amazes us that some people expect to trade the stock market successfully without any effort. Yet if they want to take... Read More
Laws and Efficiencies and Theories of Diminishing Returns
The basis of diminishing return discussions surround such simple notions; that when you have a very fast aircraft, you also have coefficients of drag issues. When you are building a quarter mile car and want to go faster you must realize that for every tenth of a second you need... Read More
Investment Capital Gains
Have you bought any mutual funds this year or late last year while the market was doing its skyrocket thing? Last year it was hard to lose money. This year it has been easy.You should be calling your mutual fund (they all have 800 numbers) to find out if and... Read More
The Secret to More Winning Trades is as Simple as Avoiding This Common Mistake
If you're a normal human being, your need to feel good about yourself probably causes you to sell your winners too soon ? and -- your need to avoid feelings of regret, causes you to hang on to your losers too long.At one time or another, we're all guilty of... Read More
Investment Research - The Dalbar Study
Very few people, even professionals, have heard of the Dalbar Study that originated in 1995. Its purpose is to determine the profitability of trading for the small investor of mutual funds. Their results are even worse than I thought.The BuyNHolders will love the results as it "proves" that buying and... Read More
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Stealth Bull
If you have been watching the stock market at all... Read More
Hill of Hope
Just about now everyone is confused as to which way... Read More
Overvalued & Underbought
With all the bad news that has been dumped upon... Read More
Hedge Funds: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Alfred Winslow Jones started hedge funds in 1949. He was... Read More
Economists
In today's volatile and confusing stock markets everyone is searching... Read More
Mindset
In 1960 an engineer working for a watch company in... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype vs. Investment Help
With the internet such a huge part of our daily... Read More
Race Horses and Mutual Funds
For years investors have been taught to look into the... Read More
The 10 Commandments
Wall Street has been preaching for years and years to... Read More
Analyzing Growth Stocks: An Important Focus For Any Investor
Analyzing growth stocks is an important focus for any investor.... Read More
You Don?t HAVE To Be Trading
As a novice trader, you'll often feel the need to... Read More
Psychology ? How to Reduce Negative Thoughts Relating to Trading?
The thinking process of the brain relating to the... Read More
The I Word is Coming to a Town Near You
Hello Inflation, it has been awhile, I see you on... Read More
Fools Gold
The stock market has been in an up trend for... Read More
Picking Mutual Funds to Outperform the Market
With over 6,000 mutual funds available, it may be tempting... Read More
Shadow Bull
As one of my regular readers you know I have... 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
Market Timing?
The recent criminal fiasco in the mutual fund industry is... Read More
Tips to Finding Other People?s Simple Trading Plans
Did you know you can make money (and a lot... Read More
Using Sector Funds to Construct Diversified Mutual Fund Portfolios
'Sector funds are too risky.' 'I doubled my money with... Read More
Buying Mutual Funds
It looks like the market is ready to start up... Read More
Price Targets
Every day in any financial publication you will find the... Read More
Defining a Long-Term Investment in the Stock Market
For some "long term" would mean holding a stock position... Read More
Exchange Traded Funds Primer
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a group of passive index... 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
The Club
Yesterday I received my monthly issue of MONEY magazine. This... Read More
Analysts - Do They Really Know The Stock Market?
When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund... Read More
Trading Tips No 6: The High Cost of Low Cost Stock Market Information
It has been said that low cost or even free... Read More
Shorting Stocks ? The Basics, Part II of II
After the publication of the first part of this two... Read More
A Penny for Your Stocks
According to Investopedia Inc. the penny stock market has seen... Read More
401K-itis
Are you one of those many people who dread reading... Read More
Traders, Defend Against the Dreaded Death Spiral.
It has often been said that there is only two... Read More
Mid-Cap Stocks: Asset Class with an Identity Crisis
Much like the middle child, mid-cap stocks have long struggled... Read More
Dont Lose All Your Money
That sounds like good advice doesn't it? Don't lose all... Read More
Dividend Reinvestment Plans: Investing on Automatic Pilot
If you're like many investors who squander those small dividend... Read More
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Stock Market
On the 40 year journey through the turmoil of a... Read More
Evaluation II
As I said in Part I everyone in the insane... Read More
Stock Market Course .... Day Trader Online Seminar ... Can You Generate Profits Trading from Home?
When it comes to stock market trading it PAYS to... Read More
Some Good News for A Change
Before we get into all the good news out there,... Read More
The Stock Market - Part 1: Believe It Or Not, Its Always Been Your Best Friend And Always Will Be
Regardless of the fact that the world's stock markets have... Read More
Stock Trading Diversification
This is the continuing story of our two imaginary traders,... Read More
Is The Bear In The Cage?
For the last few weeks we have seen the stock... Read More
Lies, Damn Lies and Mutual Fund Returns
How many times has this happened to you? You're at... Read More
Paddle Your Canoe
At some time in your life you have been on... Read More
Box Of Chocolates
Ever have one of those sample boxes of candy? Each... Read More
Complacency Indicator
If you haven't heard of the technical indicator with the... Read More
A Common Misconception about Stock Prices
I cringe every time I hear a novice investor tell... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype vs. Investment Help
With the internet such a huge part of our daily... Read More
How to Read an Annual Report
Every publicly traded company is required by the SEC(Securities and... Read More
Hold Em and Fold Em
When most analysts, financial planners, fund specialists and investors try... Read More
Market Timing
Every broker and financial planner will tell you that you... Read More
Trading Systems
To become a successful trader you must have some kind... Read More
Stock Market Investing: Knowing When (and when not) to Sell
One of the greatest challenges of investing in stocks is... Read More
Pension Plans
If you have a pension plan at work you will... Read More
Buy Low - Sell High
Now where have I heard that before? I know. It... Read More
Emotional Involvement
I'll bet with almost anyone that has stocks or mutual... Read More
What is a Trading Plan ? and Why You Need One?
How do you make money without picking tops and bottoms?I... Read More
Your Trading Objective: Why is that so Important?
You've decided to try your luck at trading stocks or... Read More
Dont Buy Worldcom! A Guide to Wise Bottom Fishing
Over the past few months, several investment professionals have brought... Read More
8 Penny Stocks to Avoid
There are many good penny stock investments available, which could... Read More
Long-Term Investment In Todays Market?
The stock market is very unstable at this time going... Read More
Trading as a Business
What can I expect to make my first year of... Read More
Your Job
There are so many kinds of work that needs to... Read More
Low Expense Ratio
One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds... Read More
Nest Eggs and Omelets
Do you have a nest egg? You know, a place... Read More
VooDoo Training For the Stock Market
If you go to Haiti or other places in the... Read More
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