I Love To Lose Money

Well, not really. What I mean is I don't mind losing a small amount when I have to sell a stock or mutual fund that is going down or taking away the profit I have made. During this past 3 years I have made money each year because I was... Read More

You Wont Like This

Why? Because I am going to shatter your conventional wisdom as I have many times in previous columns about the lies that Wall Street continues to tell you. This time we are going to go deeper into the economy to unearth the truth about lies the politicians are telling you.Let's... Read More

The Secret Art of Backtesting

If you have not back tested your trading system, you might as well trade with your eyes close. In fact, whatever technical analysis criterion you use to trade with, be it moving averages, candle sticks, volatility breakouts, fibonacci retracements or any other trading system you have devised you're going to... 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

Will the Stock Market be Lower in October?

The stock market often closes a week in the middle of a "perceived primary-trend range." SPX closed at about 1,234 Fri, which is between a multi-year Fibonacci level at 1,253 (i.e. 38.2% retracement level from the peak in 2000 to the trough in 2002) and the 20 day MA at... Read More

Inertia Syndrome

When it comes to buying a stock or mutual fund most people act pretty quickly. There are some who will take the time to get a report from Morningstar (it is worthless) or get reports from their broker (also worthless) or even do a search on the Internet (if you... Read More

Prosperity

It has fallen upon the consumer to make our economy strong. All the politicians, economists and talking heads on TV are telling him (that's you and me) to get out there and spend your money. Buy that new car, build a new house and fly off to some remote place... 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

What is the Most Important Indicator of All?

Most stock market traders have a favorite technical indicator.The one that they have the most confidence in. The one that, from experience, they trust the most. Or the one that they always look at first.For some it is the RSI. Others like the Stochastic or the MACD . Or one... Read More

Trading Tips No 5: Stock Trading Curve Drawdown and Commitment

All stock trading and investing methods must deal with the inevitable drawdown from the most recent peak in one's stock trading curve to a bottom before reversing and making a new high. Seasoned systems traders are well familiar with the drawdown phenomenon and the importance of drawdown as a percentage... Read More

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Its Snowing

The Winter Games for the Olympics are coming up soon... Read More

Inverted Interest Rates

Inverted interest rates? What's that? Who cares? Even if you... Read More

My Neighbor Got A New Car

I don't know what kind it is, but I saw... Read More

DIY Portfolio Management

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are growing. Investors are choosing low... Read More

Shorting Stocks ? The Basics, Part I of II

What does it mean to short a stock?This means that... Read More

How To Make, And Keep, Money Trading Stocks

If you are serious about making and keeping money by... Read More

What To Buy Now

I am sure that if you have a brokerage account... Read More

Exchange Traded Funds Primer

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a group of passive index... Read More

Investing Basics - Stocks, Mutual Funds, Real Estate & Online Investing

Have you ever thought of investing? Do you have a... Read More

Starbucks Stock is Up

Starbucks earnings are up again and so is their stock... Read More

War Market

There is no question that the stock market is being... Read More

Direction

It is difficult to make money in a bull market,... Read More

Stuff

I continually hear from economists, talking heads, other market letter... Read More

Parachute Investing

Ever jumped out of an airplane? It's OK if you... 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

Analysts - Do They Really Know The Stock Market?

When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund... Read More

Small-Cap Stocks: The Beginning of the Journey

When an individual investor wants to roll up his sleeves... Read More

Paddle Your Canoe

At some time in your life you have been on... Read More

Two for the Money

Look back over the years and try to remember how... Read More

Top 25 Growth Funds

On Monday, November 25, 2000 Investor's Business Daily listed on... Read More

Perfect Storm

Having lived aboard a sailboat for 2 years I was... Read More

Staying Sane While Wall Street Crashes

Everybody is riding the Wall Street Roller coaster. Even if... Read More

Dividends

When is a dividend not a dividend?The latest thing "conservative"... 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

Gurgle Gurgle

Caught in a whirlpool and being sucked under. No life... Read More

Mutual Funds are Dead

You may have wondered why your mutual funds have been... Read More

Protectionism

First let's see what protectionism is. According to Mr. Webster... Read More

Diversification

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

Size Counts!

What the heck am I talking about?It is often said... Read More

KISS Formula

There are formulas for just about everything, but it has... Read More

10 Tips For Creating Wealth From the Stock Market

1. Do not spread your money too thin.My friend has... Read More

Hedge Funds

You read and hear a lot about hedge funds. Unfortunately,... Read More

Stock Insurance

You have a lock on your house. You have a... Read More