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
Who Knows?
The Shadow knows. Remember him? It seems a shadow has a firm grip on this stock market. Since the terrible break in mid-April we had a rally and then a decline. Trying to choose a suitable stock or mutual fund has been like grasping at shadows.Two great Wall Street gurus,... Read More
One Way Street
Ever turn down a street, get half way and suddenly realize it is one way and you are going the wrong way? Is that the way you feel when you look at your stock brokerage statement?In either case don't panic. You can get out of that one way street by... Read More
Analysts - Do They Really Know The Stock Market?
When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund you can call your broker and he will send you reports on how the company is doing, what their management is like and what might be the projected earnings for the company and how the industry is doing. Great information.You... Read More
Dont Lose All Your Money
That sounds like good advice doesn't it? Don't lose all your money.After all what is an investor without funds in the brokerage account? Hint: BROKE!On the subject of investing, this means getting out of a trade when it goes against you. Don't lose all your money. This is the MOST... Read More
Dont Buy Stocks based on P/E Ratio alone
I use the P/E ratio as a secondary indicator for buying and selling stocks but I don't use the ratio in the same a manner as many value investors teach. I will explain the difference in my methodology for using the P/E ratio to your advantage.Many value investors will pass... Read More
Evaluation II
As I said in Part I everyone in the insane asylum looks normal, but at least the doctors are sane. Unfortunately, in the insane asylum known as the stock market all the doctors (brokers) are also insane.The doctors in the insane asylum went to medical school to learn how to... Read More
Option Spread Trading
Spread trading is a technique that can be used to profit in bullish, neutral or bearish conditions. It basically functions to limit risk at the cost of limiting profit as well.Spread trading is defined as opening a position by buying and selling the same type of option (ie. Call or... Read More
The Secret Method to Selecting a Winning Trading System
Every successful trader has a winning system. There are of course, as many systems out there, as there are traders. Some systems get you to buy on strength and sell on weakness others do the opposite.Some investors succeed as value investors , a la Warren Buffet ; others... Read More
Why Technical Indicators
The fight continues to rage among traders who use technical indicators and those who prefer fundamental information to establish new positions and to exit current positions.The fundamentalist believe in knowing all the facts about a company such as price earnings ratios, sales growth, product margins, management capabilities, cost of production,... Read More
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What To Buy?
Now that you have some money burning a hole in... Read More
Choosing A Fund
For years I have been saying you must have a... Read More
What the SEC Really Thinks About Mutual Funds!
Let's go into the details of why non-indexed mutual funds... Read More
Its A Duck
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... Read More
My Neighbor Got A New Car
I don't know what kind it is, but I saw... Read More
Being Wrong Buying Stock is Okay
Being wrong is OK, but let's not carry it to... Read More
The Stock Market Doesnt Care if You are a Beginner?. Get Prepared to Succeed at Trading
Stock trading remains a very competitive field and the stock... Read More
The Secret Art of Backtesting
If you have not back tested your trading system, you... Read More
Market Timing
Every broker and financial planner will tell you that you... Read More
Evaluation II
As I said in Part I everyone in the insane... Read More
Investment Research - The Dalbar Study
Very few people, even professionals, have heard of the Dalbar... Read More
How Much Information Do You Need?
You have decided to buy some stock or mutual funds,... Read More
Stops Make Money
During the day I watch CNBC-TV, the stock market channel.... Read More
Hold Em and Fold Em
When most analysts, financial planners, fund specialists and investors try... Read More
Stock Market Investing: Knowing When (and when not) to Sell
One of the greatest challenges of investing in stocks is... Read More
Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses
A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys... Read More
Losses, not Profits, will Stop You from Trading in the Market
Should the market turn against you, it is important that... Read More
An Old Proverb for Investing
"If you don't know where you are going, any road... Read More
Economists
In today's volatile and confusing stock markets everyone is searching... Read More
Adding Funds
Someday you may want to retire and continue to live... Read More
What is Involved in Peak Performance Trading?
There is so much involved in developing peak performance, that... Read More
How to Pay Less and Get More: Discount Broker vs Professional
How do you invest? What do you really pay? At... 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
A Penny for Your Stocks
According to Investopedia Inc. the penny stock market has seen... Read More
Eternal Sunshine
There is a current movie entitled "Eternal Sunshine of the... Read More
Low Expense Ratio
One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds... Read More
It Cant Be Done
Wouldn't it be nice if you were only in the... Read More
Complacency Indicator
If you haven't heard of the technical indicator with the... Read More
Race Horses and Mutual Funds
For years investors have been taught to look into the... Read More
Stock Market Education; Day Trading for Beginnners; How to Pick Stocks
The trading method you employ to approach the stock market... Read More
Lights of the Stock Market
There are red lights, green lights, blue lights and spot... Read More
How To Beat The Mutual Fund Companies At Their Own Game
You'd have had to be living on a desert island... Read More
Is Your Garage Full Of Junk?
I have a 2-car garage. There are nice shelves on... Read More
What To Buy Now
I am sure that if you have a brokerage account... Read More
Investing in Stocks and The Game of Monopoly
To begin, you might look at playing the stock market... Read More
NASDAQ 800?
In November of 2000 when the NASDAQ was trading at... Read More
?Fears Only Enemy Is Action?
What a great statement!I just heard someone use it in... Read More
Advisory News Letters
Several times each month I am solicited by various market... Read More
Size Counts!
What the heck am I talking about?It is often said... 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
The Surgeon General
The Surgeon General of the United States says that smoking... Read More
The Holy Grail (of Investment)
Every year I go to the Money Show in Orlando,... Read More
Why Technical Indicators
The fight continues to rage among traders who use technical... Read More
Successful Trading ? Taking Profits - Part 1
So you're started trading, you bought some positions with your... Read More
What is the Most Important Indicator of All?
Most stock market traders have a favorite technical indicator.The one... Read More
Analyzing Growth Stocks: An Important Focus For Any Investor
Analyzing growth stocks is an important focus for any investor.... Read More
Selection Vs Direction
As I have said many times before in this column... Read More
How To Buy And Hold
One of the most believed bits of conventional wisdom from... Read More
How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing
What are you thinking when it comes to your no... 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
Low Expense Ratio
One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds... Read More
Stock Market Investments
If there is one term over-used when talking about making... Read More
Choosing a Stock Broker
If you were to find that you had some severe... Read More
Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses
A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys... Read More
401K-itis
Are you one of those many people who dread reading... Read More
Online Broker Trade History Not Doing the Job
Let me start by saying that...Most online brokers do not... Read More
Investment Lawyers and Trash Stocks
The trash business in its efforts to cook their books... Read More
How We Eluded The Bear Of 2000
The date October 13, 2000 will forever be embedded in... 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
Bollinger Bands Strategies
The Bollinger Band theory is designed to depict the volatility... Read More
An Old Proverb for Investing
"If you don't know where you are going, any road... Read More
Never Fall In Love!
Recently I watched my favorite football team lose a vital... Read More
Frog In The Pot
You remember the story about the frog that was put... Read More
Advisory Service for You?
It depends on your level of understanding of the market... Read More
Using Sector Funds to Construct Diversified Mutual Fund Portfolios
'Sector funds are too risky.' 'I doubled my money with... Read More
The Golden Goose is Sick
It is finally catching up with them. The brokerage companies... Read More
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