Stock Insurance
You have a lock on your house. You have a lock on your car. You have a lock on your tool shed. Do you have a lock to protect your stock market investments?Maybe you have a safe at home for your valuables such as jewelry, rare coins, special documents and... Read More
What the SEC Really Thinks About Mutual Funds!
Let's go into the details of why non-indexed mutual funds are such a bad deal. When Arthur Levitt became the head of the Security Exchange Commission in 1993 he had to sell off all of his individual stocks so that people would not claim that he was doing any dirty... Read More
Zero Sum Game
Most people think the stock market is a zero sum game because there is a buyer for each seller and seller for each buyer so each cancels the other and everything is equal. Not quite.There are losers here, both the buyer and the seller because each one paid a commission... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype vs. Investment Help
With the internet such a huge part of our daily lives, many investors have access to a wide range of instant investment information.Whether you're into stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures or options, there are tons of electronic investment newsletters offering to turn your small stake into a giant fortune. All... 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
The Stock Market is a Roller Coaster: Prepare for the Ups and Downs
IT'S REMINISCENT OF THE OLD children's tale about an old Chinese farmer who tells his friends his story, and they enjoin with "That's good" or "That's bad" on alternating lines:Farmer: My horse ran away.Friends: That's bad.Farmer: She came back with a majestic stallion by her side.Friends: That's good.Farmer: My son... 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 printed in Daryl Guppy's Newsletter Tutorials in Applied Technical Analysis on 26 March 2005 and is reprinted here with his permissionA stop loss is a predetermined exit point. When a trade is first planned, the stop loss is designed to... Read More
Patterns
The Law of Chaos is the theory of random unpredictable action applied to the cosmos, mathematics, mechanics, almost everything. Those who believe it will definitely think the stock market is in chaotic state at this time. Don't you believe it.When I was a floor trader people would ask me how... Read More
Starbucks Stock is Up
Starbucks earnings are up again and so is their stock slightly. It appears they are exporting America's weakness to caffeine and sugar around the world. This seems to serve the company's profits well and nations like China have quite an emerging population to sell to. Think of the exporting of... Read More
Buying Mutual Funds
It looks like the market is ready to start up again so it is time to buy mutual funds, but you only want to invest your money in funds that go up. First, you don't want to start with a loss so be sure to purchase no-load mutual funds. There... Read More
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Small-Cap Stocks: The Beginning of the Journey
When an individual investor wants to roll up his sleeves... Read More
Dont Buy Worldcom! A Guide to Wise Bottom Fishing
Over the past few months, several investment professionals have brought... Read More
The Big Bad Bear
The big bad bear is stirring again. So far he... Read More
Why Change Funds?
On November 17 I bought 7 different mutual funds and... Read More
Duck
Duck! No I don't mean a quack, quack. I meant... Read More
What Our Investment Advisor Wont Say Off The Bat
Most advisors will tell you they can beat the market.... Read More
Economists
In today's volatile and confusing stock markets everyone is searching... Read More
Do You Know What is the Single MOST Critical Mistake in Trading the Stock Market??
Well maybe that's overstating it a little, but it's certainly... Read More
Planning Your Dive and Diving Your Plan ? Trading!
A colleague of mine just returned from a scuba diving... Read More
Buy and Hold Investment Strategy
"Buy and hold" is one of the most heralded investment... Read More
Never Fall In Love!
Recently I watched my favorite football team lose a vital... Read More
This Market Is Different
All of the talking heads have been telling us that... Read More
Economists #2
Economists know more about how the fragments of society work... Read More
Inverted Interest Rates
Inverted interest rates? What's that? Who cares? Even if you... Read More
Performance Funds
Mutual funds are doing more and more to discourage investors... Read More
Overseas Investing: Going Against the Mainstream
TOO OFTEN, INVESTORS SIMPLY CHOOSE TO follow the crowd. This... Read More
Adding Funds
Someday you may want to retire and continue to live... Read More
Series 7 Exam
What is the Series 7 Exam? If you... Read More
Managing Investing and Stock Market Risks
Reduce your investing and stock market risks by:Setting your sights... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?
If you are fed up with early redemption charges and... Read More
War Market
There is no question that the stock market is being... Read More
Stock Market System ... ONLINE STOCK TRADING ... Beyond Day Trading Basics & Tips
Day trading is all about making buy and sell decisions.... Read More
Price Targets
Every day in any financial publication you will find the... Read More
Why Investors Use Financial Planners
Do you have a financial planner? Does one of your... Read More
Why This Bear?
People are constantly asking me why is the stock market... Read More
Hedge Funds
You read and hear a lot about hedge funds. Unfortunately,... Read More
Discover the Retirement Breakthrough the Federal Government Created for You - The Roth IRA!
If you don't know what a Roth IRA is then... 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
Eternal Sunshine
There is a current movie entitled "Eternal Sunshine of the... Read More
Analysts - Do They Really Know The Stock Market?
When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund... Read More
What the Hell is a Stock option?
A 'stock option' is a contract between two parties giving... Read More
Traders, Defend Against the Dreaded Death Spiral.
It has often been said that there is only two... 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
Never Fall In Love!
Recently I watched my favorite football team lose a vital... Read More
Price to Earnings Ratio - P/E
After finding the price of a particular stock, usually the... Read More
The Importance of Using Stop Loss Orders When Spread Trading the Financial Markets
A Guide to Using Stop Loss Orders Stop losses are... Read More
What To Buy Now
I am sure that if you have a brokerage account... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?
If you are fed up with early redemption charges and... Read More
What Are You Waiting For?
Do you own any mutual funds? In an IRA or... Read More
Making Outsized Returns in the Stock Market - Using the Dow Theory
The Dow TheoryCharles H. Dow... Read More
Selection Vs Direction
As I have said many times before in this column... Read More
Evaluation I
An insane person cannot evaluate an insane evaluation system.As you... Read More
Intervention
Intervention. Now don't let that big word scare you. The... Read More
Enronization
Even if you don't own any of their stock or... Read More
Is Active Trading The Answer?
One of the main reasons many of us get into... Read More
You Wont Like This
Why? Because I am going to shatter your conventional wisdom... Read More
Size Counts!
What the heck am I talking about?It is often said... Read More
Analyst Reports
When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund... Read More
Stock Market Investments
If there is one term over-used when talking about making... Read More
Online Investing & Stock & Share Trading: 4 Reasons Why Most Online Investors & Traders Go Broke
Are you attracted to the idea of being in control... Read More
Trading as a Business
What can I expect to make my first year of... Read More
How (NOT) to Buy Mutual Funds
When it comes to mutual funds, there is a lot... Read More
Whos Calling?
Its dinnertime and the phone rings. It's Joe Noname with... Read More
Bull or Bear?
Cat or dog? Maybe Zebra. Shucks, I don't know, but... Read More
Stock Trading Diversification
This is the continuing story of our two imaginary traders,... Read More
The Cub; II
We keep hearing about this bear market and that the... Read More
Bad News is Good News
For weeks, no, months we have been bombarded with nothing... Read More
Cash
How many people went to a cash position this week?... Read More
Good News?
As the man said, "I've got some good news and... Read More
What is the Most Important Indicator of All?
Most stock market traders have a favorite technical indicator.The one... Read More
Value Investing: Selecting From The Bargain Bin
Picking a beaten-down stock requires a different kind of selection... Read More
Investment Clubs
Because you don't feel too sure about which stock or... Read More
The Stock Trading Plan - Why You Must Have One To Trade Successfully
This is the continuing story of our two imaginary traders,... Read More
Mutual Fund Commissions
You have heard about a particular mutual fund from a... Read More
Stock Insurance
You have a lock on your house. You have a... Read More
True Investment Road Maps
If you don't know where you are going any road... Read More
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