Your Trading Objective: Why is that so Important?
You've decided to try your luck at trading stocks or commodities, but so called experts tell you that you need to determine your trading objective. What exactly does that mean and why is it so important? Well, it's really a question of your trading philosophy. A trading objective basically identifies... Read More
Kick The Tires
Before you buy another car you walk around the lot, kick the tires, slam the doors and look at the mileage indicator. That's an odometer. I know. That is about all the "research" you can do other than what the car salesman tells you and I hope you know better... 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
Understanding Stock Market Indexes
A stock market index is a statistical measure of changes in the securities markets. An index represents a portfolio of securities traded on the market that is considered to be reasonably representative of the market as a whole. Each index has its own method of calculation. It is generally expressed... Read More
Cash Is A Position
I go to the Money Show every year to visit with friends who have booths and are speakers. Then when folks are filing out of lectures I listen to their comments on what I know the speaker has been saying.The Money Show is for investors from all walks of life;... Read More
Boiler Room 7/17/00
On Friday or Saturday evening my wife gets a movie from Block Buster and after dinner we sit, hold hands and watch. This week she brought back one that I think every investor or anyone contemplating investing in the market should see. It is called "Boiler Room".How many times have... Read More
A Stock Market Investment Strategy
I feel that an investment strategy in the stock market can instill in the individual investor not only an assured confidence in all future stock market investments, but also an almost Zen-like sense of peace and well being. A stock market investment strategy spelled out, proven, and instilling within the... Read More
3 Components Needed for Beating the Market
Time to look back2004 is over, now we are in 2005. This is time to seriously look at performance of your personal investment, such as mutual fund, or individual stocks holdings, etc. Does your fund beat index last year? Does it beat index over past many years? How are you... Read More
Stock and Fund Dividends
When is a dividend not a dividend?The latest thing "conservative" brokers are preaching these days is to buy stocks that pay dividends. Everyone likes dividends. I know I do, but when Wall Street tells me something I am automatically suspicious because they lie to me every day. Is this a... Read More
Investing Basics - Stocks, Mutual Funds, Real Estate & Online Investing
Have you ever thought of investing? Do you have a family that you would like take care of? Does the idea of making money with stocks, bonds, mutual funds and real estate interest you?Investing is essential to making money. Whether it be stock investing, investing online, real estate investing, finance... Read More
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Starbucks Stock is Up
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Look Out The Window
Quick, look out the window. It's raining. No, the sun's... Read More
A Stock Market Investment Strategy
I feel that an investment strategy in the stock market... Read More
Option Spread Trading
Spread trading is a technique that can be used to... Read More
The Secret Art of Backtesting
If you have not back tested your trading system, you... Read More
How To Be A Winner
Everyone who invests in the stock market wants to be... Read More
Stock Analysis
I receive emails from Morningstar. This company provides statistics and... Read More
Your Trading Objective: Why is that so Important?
You've decided to try your luck at trading stocks or... Read More
What To Buy?
Now that you have some money burning a hole in... Read More
What Are You Waiting For?
Do you own any mutual funds? In an IRA or... Read More
Discover the Biggest Trading & Investing Online Mistake
Any online investor / trader seeks an excellent off or... Read More
How Commodity Trading Differs from Stock Trading
There are major differences between trading stocks and trading futures.... Read More
Stock Market Insanity
Let's first define insanity. It is doing the same thing... Read More
Investment Research - The Dalbar Study
Very few people, even professionals, have heard of the Dalbar... Read More
Why the Majority Fail at Stock Investing
The gleam and bright lights of Wall Street lure in... Read More
The Right Mutual Funds For Baby Boomers
If you are a baby boomer, time is not on... Read More
Market Experience of a Naïve Stock Operator
Sometime in the third quarter of 1997, someone told me... Read More
Prospering with Mutual Funds: How Anyone can ?Afford? an Investment Advisor
Recently I was invited to appear on a live CNNfn... Read More
Dispelling Illusions of the Stock Market
How can you dispel an illusion unless you look directly... Read More
Mid-Cap Stocks: Asset Class with an Identity Crisis
Much like the middle child, mid-cap stocks have long struggled... Read More
Zero Sum Game
Most people think the stock market is a zero sum... Read More
Stock Market Diversification
In one of my previous articles (Investing in the stock... Read More
The Top 10 Reasons to Invest in Mutual Funds
Everyone who follows the financial news has heard of mutual... Read More
I Love To Lose Money
Well, not really. What I mean is I don't mind... Read More
Analyst Reports
When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund... Read More
Why This Bear?
People are constantly asking me why is the stock market... Read More
Lifestyle Funds Provide Greater Security?
With the stock market stubbornly refusing to settle down and... Read More
The Stock Market Investor?s Worst Enemy
Every stock market investor faces one primal enemy. An enemy... Read More
Hedge Funds
You read and hear a lot about hedge funds. Unfortunately,... Read More
Evaluation II
As I said in Part I everyone in the insane... Read More
The Cub; II
We keep hearing about this bear market and that the... Read More
Exchange Traded Funds Primer
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a group of passive index... Read More
Frog In The Pot
You remember the story about the frog that was put... Read More
Different Ways of Buying Stocks
Let's say you are interested in this one company. You... Read More
9 Deadly Trading Mistakes!
The following are a list of nine things you want... Read More
Stock Market Course .... Day Trader Online Seminar ... Can You Generate Profits Trading from Home?
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Hedge Fund Advertising
Have you seen all those big full page ads for... Read More
Traders, Defend Against the Dreaded Death Spiral.
It has often been said that there is only two... Read More
The Problem With Hedge Funds
Are hedge funds a suitable investment for you? Hedge funds... Read More
Who Knows?
The Shadow knows. Remember him? It seems a shadow has... Read More
Stock Market Investments
If there is one term over-used when talking about making... Read More
A Personal Stock Market Investment Philosophy
∙ Make every investment in the stock market a long-term... Read More
Wal-Mart: Discount Store, Discounted Stock?
As GuruFocus updates the stock buys and sells of gurus,... Read More
Does Japan Matter?
For the last 12 years we have seen the Japanese... Read More
The Secret Art of Backtesting
If you have not back tested your trading system, you... Read More
Discipline
One of the great "secrets" of successful people is discipline... Read More
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What Are You Waiting For?
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How To Make, And Keep, Money Trading Stocks
If you are serious about making and keeping money by... Read More
Stock Trading Success
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Intervention
Intervention. Now don't let that big word scare you. The... 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
The Stock Market - How Just One Question Will Tell You All You Need To Know About Your Stock Broker
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Investment Lawyers and Trash Stocks
The trash business in its efforts to cook their books... Read More
Municipal Bonds
Because there are so many stocks that are NOT paying... Read More
Investment Discipline
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My Neighbor Got A New Car
I don't know what kind it is, but I saw... Read More
Oil Stocks CHK WLL - What Is Their Worth?
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An Old Proverb for Investing
"If you don't know where you are going, any road... Read More
How To Buy And Hold
One of the most believed bits of conventional wisdom from... Read More
Forces that Move Stock Prices
Among the largest forces that affect stock prices are inflation,... Read More
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a... Read More
The Secret Method to Selecting a Winning Trading System
Every successful trader has a winning system. There are of... 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
Series 7 Exam
What is the Series 7 Exam? If you... Read More
Market Psychology
Today we are inundated with tons of information about the... Read More
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