Value Investing: Selecting From The Bargain Bin

Picking a beaten-down stock requires a different kind of selection process. Normally, most companies beaten down this far have no earnings to speak of. Of course, if the company continues to earn money, one can apply normal valuation techniques. By that measure, many of these stocks appear outrageously undervalued: an... Read More

Performance Funds

Mutual funds are doing more and more to discourage investors from leaving them and taking their money to a better performing fund. What does better performing mean? It has nothing to do with who the manager is, what the expense ratio is or how well they performed over the past... Read More

Emotional Involvement

I'll bet with almost anyone that has stocks or mutual funds in his portfolio that he has losers, but he won't sell them because he "likes them" or some similar excuse. This is the philosophy of a loser.You cannot become emotionally involved with anything you have bought whether it is... Read More

Stealth Bull

If you have been watching the stock market at all you are probably very confused. You are not alone. One day is a hundred points up for the DOW and the next a hundred down. What is going on? There are many stocks that are going up and unless you... Read More

Picking Mutual Funds to Outperform the Market

With over 6,000 mutual funds available, it may be tempting to pick funds from a popular star or index rating system. Savvy investors, however, balance multiple factors in their selection process. Ratings represent only the historical performance of funds and cannot predict the future. Performance consistency, management skill, and expense... Read More

The I Word is Coming to a Town Near You

Hello Inflation, it has been awhile, I see you on your way back again. Inflation? What inflation? Oh things like; Energy, diesel fuel, Aviation Fuel, Gasoline, Natural Gas, Milk, Wheat, Corn, Beef, Poultry, Hogs, Soy Beans, Building materials, paper, housing, Auto Prices, Health Care, Insurance, etc. You know the basics.... Read More

Stock Trading - Daddy, Why Arent We Rich?

One Saturday morning, while he was sitting at his computer studying the market, David's 7 year old daughter came up, tugged at his shirt sleeve, and said, "Daddy, why aren't we rich?" He looked his child in the eye, and thought to himself, what a great question - Why aren't... Read More

Wall Street Paradigm

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

Mutual Fund Ball and Chain

The broker told me not to sell because the mutual fund I owned had a 2% redemption fee and they would penalize me if I did.I got to thinking about it and did some simple math to see what that would cost me if I sold. Several months ago I... Read More

Buy Low - Sell High

Now where have I heard that before? I know. It was my broker.So I took his advice and bought some of the stocks he recommended. I am still waiting for the 'sell high' part of the equation. Everything he touted went up for a while and now it is lower... Read More

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Market Success

Who are the successful investors?There are those who follow the... Read More

Stock Market Investments

If there is one term over-used when talking about making... Read More

Good Stock Market Tip; Good Return!

Forget making a profit; instead focus on the income provided... Read More

Complacency

During the month of January the Dow Jones Industrial Average,... Read More

Dont Buy Worldcom! A Guide to Wise Bottom Fishing

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

Stock Options Trading Strategies - Lean

Professional stock options traders use the term lean to refer... Read More

Psychology ? How to Reduce Negative Thoughts Relating to Trading?

The thinking process of the brain relating to the... Read More

A Stock Market Investment Plan that Never Lets You Down

The bulls and bears of the stock market are both... Read More

Market Timing?

The recent criminal fiasco in the mutual fund industry is... Read More

Wall Street Paradigm

In 1960 an engineer working for a watch company in... Read More

I Love You, Warren Buffet

Sometime around 1980, can't remember exactly, there was a flight... Read More

DIY Portfolio Management

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

How Commodity Trading Differs from Stock Trading

There are major differences between trading stocks and trading futures.... 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

The Club

Yesterday I received my monthly issue of MONEY magazine. This... Read More

Dont Fight The Fed

One of the great truisms of Wall Street is "Don't... Read More

My Neighbor Got A New Car

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

Is The Bear In The Cage?

For the last few weeks we have seen the stock... Read More

Race Horses and Mutual Funds

For years investors have been taught to look into the... Read More

Forces that Move Stock Prices

Among the largest forces that affect stock prices are inflation,... Read More

Play another Day

Money management starts with protecting your capital, realizing profits and... Read More

It Cant Be Done

Wouldn't it be nice if you were only in the... Read More

Eternal Sunshine

There is a current movie entitled "Eternal Sunshine of the... Read More

The Information Age

It is wonderful to be alive in the information age.... Read More

Choosing A Fund

For years I have been saying you must have a... Read More

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

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

The Elephant

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

You Wont Like This

Why? Because I am going to shatter your conventional wisdom... Read More

Money, Insanity and Wall Street

Money: the most charged word in the planet. It means... Read More

Take The Time

You must take the time once a month to review... Read More

Investing in Dividend Paying Stocks

I was recently interviewed for a press release through a... 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

How to Short Stocks? How to Make Money when Your Stocks Go Down by Shorting

The stock market can present you with a lot of... Read More