Stock Trading Secrets?

How often have you come across an advertisement or e-mail proclaiming to "teach" you the stock trading secrets that Wall Street Insiders don't want you to know? Usually included in the descriptions of these trading products are claims such as "Make 10K monthly in minutes per day", or "Learn the... Read More

Understanding a Stocks PEG Ratio

A PEG ratio cannot be used alone but is a very powerful tool when integrated with the basics (price, volume and chart reading). You must enjoy crunching numbers and have a calculator handy to estimate your own PEG ratio. Access to quality statistical information from the web such as past... Read More

Are You A Stockaholic?

Today's society gives special recognition to alcoholics, sexaholics, binge-aholics, shopaholics, chocaholics and other "-aholics". What about stockaholics? Stockaholics are people who are overly obsessive about their stock market investments.As approximately 50% of U.S. households directly or indirectly invest in the stock market, it is likely that there already exists a... Read More

Selection Vs Direction

As I have said many times before in this column it really doesn't make any difference what you buy ? stocks, funds or indexes - it takes smarts to know when to sell. Direction of the general market is more important than selection of any equity.Everyone from the multimillion dollar... 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

Mindset

In 1960 an engineer working for a watch company in Switzerland discovered that a small crystal would vibrate at a constant rate. He found this was so accurate that it could be used to calibrate time so he took it to company management and said it would make an entirely... Read More

How To Be A Winner

Everyone who invests in the stock market wants to be a winner. Each person's definition of a winner will be somewhat different, but there is hardly one who isn't looking for that stock that will double in price within one year.Can it be done? Yes, but when you look at... Read More

KISS Formula

There are formulas for just about everything, but it has been shown that the simpler the formula or method of doing a particular task the better it works. It has evolved down to KISS ? Keep It Simple Stupid.This also applies to trading in the stock market. There are literally... 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

Market Timing?

The recent criminal fiasco in the mutual fund industry is being used by Wall Street to persuade investors that market timing is a bad thing. The late trading by Janus, Bank America and several other well known mutual funds is falsely being called market timing.Wall Street, better known as Maul... Read More

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Intervention

Intervention. Now don't let that big word scare you. The... Read More

Cash

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

Hedge Funds: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Alfred Winslow Jones started hedge funds in 1949. He was... Read More

Is the Stock Market for You?

Many people would like to diversify their portfolios to expand... Read More

Inertia Syndrome

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

Investment Attorneys and Garbage Stocks

How is it possible that trash Companies are posting less... Read More

Buy and Hold Investment Strategy

"Buy and hold" is one of the most heralded investment... Read More

Investing in Stocks and The Game of Monopoly

To begin, you might look at playing the stock market... Read More

How (NOT) to Buy Mutual Funds

When it comes to mutual funds, there is a lot... Read More

How to Read an Annual Report

Every publicly traded company is required by the SEC(Securities and... Read More

Stock Trading Secrets?

How often have you come across an advertisement or e-mail... Read More

Diversification

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

The Big Bad Bear

The big bad bear is stirring again. So far he... Read More

Dont Buy Worldcom! A Guide to Wise Bottom Fishing

Over the past few months, several investment professionals have brought... Read More

Trend Trading - Trading Stocks Using Technical Analysis and Swing Trading Strategies

Peter is a professional trader, Paul is not. Peter has... Read More

Economists #2

Economists know more about how the fragments of society work... Read More

Trading Baskets II: The Crapolio, A Roll of the Dice in the Stock Market

In a previously written article, we expanded the use of... Read More

Historical Briefing: Stocks, Finance and Money

The World Bank claims that some two billion of the... 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... Read More

Using Sector Funds to Construct Diversified Mutual Fund Portfolios

'Sector funds are too risky.' 'I doubled my money with... Read More

Rebalance And Diversify

The stock market has not been very kind to your... Read More

A Triple Dipper: How to Make 3 Profits on 1 Stock Trade

This is a rather simple strategy with which I am... Read More

Why Technical Indicators

The fight continues to rage among traders who use technical... Read More

Bollinger Bands Strategies

The Bollinger Band theory is designed to depict the volatility... Read More

Zero Sum Game

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

Who Knows?

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

Picking Mutual Funds to Outperform the Market

With over 6,000 mutual funds available, it may be tempting... Read More

My Stock - Right or Wrong

We all know the expression, "My country, right or wrong",... Read More

Discipline

One of the great "secrets" of successful people is discipline... Read More

The Elephant

Four blind men were asked to give a description of... Read More

Low Expense Ratio

One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds... Read More

What Can Model Airplanes Teach You About Trading?

I was devastated!I just couldn't believe it. I was 10... Read More

Planning Your Dive and Diving Your Plan ? Trading!

A colleague of mine just returned from a scuba diving... Read More