Invest, Be Wrong, and Make Money in the Stock Market
I have been trading for several decades and was an exchange member and floor trader for 17 years. You learn fast there or you go broke in a hurry. As you can see I managed to hold my own for a few years until I found the secret and started... 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 one of the most important.It is?(drum roll please)? "the need to be right"!Now that probably wasn't what you were expecting. You might have thought it was going to be something like not picking the trend or putting too much money... Read More
Top 25 Growth Funds
On Monday, November 25, 2000 Investor's Business Daily listed on page B1 the Top 25 Growth Mutual Funds for the last 36 months along with their performance for the year 2000 to date. Only four showed a profit this year of 21% and the other three had increases of 12%,... Read More
Good News?
As the man said, "I've got some good news and I've got some bad news. What do you want to hear first?" It was replied, "Tell me the good news first". The good news is that they are going to make some changes in the mutual fund industry reporting to... 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
How to Read an Annual Report
Every publicly traded company is required by the SEC(Securities and Exchange Commission) to provide annual reports to it's shareholders, and the general public as well. These annual reports contain very important financial information, as well of summaries of the companies progress made by the CEO, board members, etc. I use... Read More
High Price/Earnings Ratios and the Stock Market: a Personal Odyssey
After some forty years of banking and investments, I retired in 2001. But since I do not golf, I soon found retirement to be very boring. So I decided to return to the investment world after ten months. However, those ten months were not a complete waste of time, for... Read More
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
Exchange Traded Funds Primer
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a group of passive index funds that trade on an exchange like an individual stock. At the time of writing there are 162 ETFs with $220 billion in assets under management trading on U.S. exchanges.ETFs hold a basket of securities that mimic the results of... Read More
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VooDoo Training For the Stock Market
If you go to Haiti or other places in the... Read More
Overseas Investing: Going Against the Mainstream
TOO OFTEN, INVESTORS SIMPLY CHOOSE TO follow the crowd. This... Read More
Are You A Stockaholic?
Today's society gives special recognition to alcoholics, sexaholics, binge-aholics, shopaholics,... Read More
Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses
A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys... Read More
Enronization
Even if you don't own any of their stock or... Read More
Long Term Financial Vehicles
Investing in long-term financial vehicles give you the most gains... Read More
Lies, Damn Lies and Mutual Fund Returns
How many times has this happened to you? You're at... Read More
Its Snowing
The Winter Games for the Olympics are coming up soon... Read More
How Eating Bitumen Made Me a Better Trader
Trading is a fascinating activity.There are so many layers to... Read More
Its A Duck
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... Read More
How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing
What are you thinking when it comes to your no... Read More
KISS Formula
There are formulas for just about everything, but it has... Read More
Low Expense Ratio
One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds... Read More
Successful Trading ? Taking Profits - Part 1
So you're started trading, you bought some positions with your... 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
Overvalued & Underbought
With all the bad news that has been dumped upon... Read More
Being Wrong Buying Stock is Okay
Being wrong is OK, but let's not carry it to... Read More
Online Trading Strategy: Collecting Cash when Stocks Go UP - It PAYS to Know More than Others
When it comes to stock market trading it PAYS to... Read More
Analyst Reports
When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund... Read More
Traders, Defend Against the Dreaded Death Spiral.
It has often been said that there is only two... Read More
Selling Strategies - Setting a Stop Loss
Sometimes the best way of lowering exposure to risk is... Read More
Parachute Investing
Ever jumped out of an airplane? It's OK if you... Read More
401K-itis
Are you one of those many people who dread reading... Read More
Lemmings Are Gathering
Before they go over the cliff to their destruction these... Read More
10 Tips For Creating Wealth From the Stock Market
1. Do not spread your money too thin.My friend has... Read More
Oil Stocks As A Long Term Investment
The demand for world oil is increasing while world reserves... Read More
How to Pick Winning Stocks
There is nothing more exciting than finding an undervalued stock... 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
Momentum
One of the basic laws of physics states that a... Read More
Duck
Duck! No I don't mean a quack, quack. I meant... Read More
This Market Is Different
All of the talking heads have been telling us that... Read More
Race Horses and Mutual Funds
For years investors have been taught to look into the... Read More
Dont Buy Worldcom! A Guide to Wise Bottom Fishing
Over the past few months, several investment professionals have brought... Read More
Inertia Syndrome
When it comes to buying a stock or mutual fund... Read More
Fake Money
Reach in your pocket and take out that big roll... Read More
The Three Little Pigs Went to the Stock Market
Three little pigs went to the market to stock up... Read More
3 Components Needed for Beating the Market
Time to look back2004 is over, now we are in... Read More
E-mini Day Trading - Day Trading for Beginners - Stock Market Timing Software
I mean it when I say that. While plastic silverware... Read More
?Fears Only Enemy Is Action?
What a great statement!I just heard someone use it in... Read More
Where Is The Beef?
Where is the beef? Or maybe it should be where... Read More
Quality Investment Information: Standing Firm In the Face of Opposition
THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR standing firm in the... 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
Hold Em and Fold Em
When most analysts, financial planners, fund specialists and investors try... Read More
Low Tide
When you stand on the ocean shore and watch the... Read More
A Penny for Your Stocks
According to Investopedia Inc. the penny stock market has seen... Read More
What Are You Waiting For?
Do you own any mutual funds? In an IRA or... Read More
Dollar Cost Averaging
Dollar cost averaging is one of the most popular ideas... Read More
How To Make, And Keep, Money Trading Stocks
If you are serious about making and keeping money by... Read More
Stock Loans
Hedge current portfolio positions and gain access to capital resources... Read More
The Great Stock Market Secret
When the stock market is going up and all your... Read More
Parachute Investing
Ever jumped out of an airplane? It's OK if you... Read More
Its A Duck
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... Read More
Investment Lawyers and Trash Stocks
The trash business in its efforts to cook their books... Read More
Political Investing
We have two candidates for president that have really different... Read More
Making Outsized Returns in the Stock Market - Using the Dow Theory
The Dow TheoryCharles H. Dow... Read More
Peer Groups
Whenever I see mutual fund comparisons in the trade publications... Read More
The Inside Scoop on Mutual Fund Rip Offs
The bear market that showed up at the end of... Read More
How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing
What are you thinking when it comes to your no... Read More
Lemmings Are Gathering
Before they go over the cliff to their destruction these... Read More
An Old Proverb for Investing
"If you don't know where you are going, any road... Read More
Investing in Trash Company Stocks
Refuse is a serious issue in any society, about as... Read More
The Shadow
The Shadow knows. There used to be a radio program... Read More
A Common Misconception about Stock Prices
I cringe every time I hear a novice investor tell... Read More
Lifestyle Funds Provide Greater Security?
With the stock market stubbornly refusing to settle down and... Read More
Bad News is Good News
For weeks, no, months we have been bombarded with nothing... Read More
Some Good News for A Change
Before we get into all the good news out there,... Read More
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