Cash
How many people went to a cash position this week? There is no question that this market has scared the bajebers out of many investors, me included. Fortunately, I started going to cash some time ago, but I did give back a substantial amount of my profit.Your broker never wants... Read More
Historical Briefing: Stocks, Finance and Money
The World Bank claims that some two billion of the world's citizens live on $1 per day or less! That fact absolutely shocked me. With this statistic in mind it becomes important to focus on all of the things that have served as money over the history of civilization. Aztecs... Read More
Emotional Maturity
If you are going to be a winner in the stock market you must have emotional maturity. I did not say you had to be smart or know how to pick stocks and mutual funds.Once someone buys a stock or mutual fund he immediately seems to have a love affair... 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
Advantages and Disadvantages of Mutual Funds
Outlined below are some of the advantages and disadvantages of mutual funds. Every investment has advantages and disadvantages. But it's important to remember that features that matter to one investor may not be important to you. Whether any particular feature is an advantage for you will depend on your unique... Read More
It Cant Be Done
Wouldn't it be nice if you were only in the stock market when it was going up and have everything transferred to cash while it is going down? It is called 'market timing' and your broker or financial planner will tell you "it can't be done". What that person just... Read More
What the Hell is a Stock option?
A 'stock option' is a contract between two parties giving the buyer (also known as the 'taker') the right, but not the obligation, to either buy or sell a specific quantity of shares at a pre-agreed price (known as the 'strike price' or 'exercise price') by a certain future 'expiry'... Read More
Mid-Cap Stocks: Asset Class with an Identity Crisis
Much like the middle child, mid-cap stocks have long struggled to find their identity. Carved out from the upper echelons of the small caps and the lower end of the large caps, the mid-cap sector has a rough definition of stock with a market capitalization of greater than $2 billion,... Read More
Fools Gold
The stock market has been in an up trend for more than a year. Almost everyone is feeling good and many believe we are back in the old bull market with the previous high of the Dow Jones Industrial Average just about to be broken.This could be the case, but... 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
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Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses
A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys... Read More
Understanding the Bulls and the Bears
If you've ever flipped on the television to CNN Financial... Read More
Risk Control
Everything you invest in has risk so you want to... Read More
Nest Eggs and Omelets
Do you have a nest egg? You know, a place... Read More
Psychology ? How to Reduce Negative Thoughts Relating to Trading?
The thinking process of the brain relating to the... Read More
Forces that Move Stock Prices
Among the largest forces that affect stock prices are inflation,... Read More
9 Deadly Trading Mistakes!
The following are a list of nine things you want... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?
If you are fed up with early redemption charges and... Read More
Stock Insurance
You have a lock on your house. You have a... Read More
Inverted Interest Rates
Inverted interest rates? What's that? Who cares? Even if you... Read More
Stock Chart Reading
As an investor you will want to check out any... Read More
Selection Vs Direction
As I have said many times before in this column... Read More
Making Outsized Returns in the Stock Market - Using the Dow Theory
The Dow TheoryCharles H. Dow... Read More
The Inside Scoop on Mutual Fund Rip Offs
The bear market that showed up at the end of... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds: Boost Your Portfolios Returns
Investors who exclusively use broadly diversified, no load mutual funds... Read More
Protect Your 401K
Checked your 401K lately? Going back to about a year... Read More
How To Pick A Mutual Fund
Mutual funds by definition are a mixed bag of stocks,... Read More
Investment Clubs
Because you don't feel too sure about which stock or... Read More
How to Evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds
If you have been dealing with mutual funds for any... Read More
Prosperity
It has fallen upon the consumer to make our economy... Read More
Price to Earnings Ratio - P/E
After finding the price of a particular stock, usually the... Read More
Its Better
Question: How does it get better when it gets worse?Last... Read More
Time Out
Are you paying any attention to your retirement savings? Do... Read More
Trading Tips No 8: Picking the Best Stock Market Price
Carefully thinking through your goal as a trader is of... Read More
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a... Read More
Hedge Funds: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Alfred Winslow Jones started hedge funds in 1949. He was... Read More
Invest, Be Wrong, and Make Money in the Stock Market
I have been trading for several decades and was an... 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
Size Counts!
What the heck am I talking about?It is often said... Read More
Market Timing
Every broker and financial planner will tell you that you... Read More
Price Targets
Every day in any financial publication you will find the... Read More
Hold Em and Fold Em
When most analysts, financial planners, fund specialists and investors try... Read More
Overvalued & Underbought
With all the bad news that has been dumped upon... Read More
Stock Market Investing: Knowing When (and when not) to Sell
One of the greatest challenges of investing in stocks is... Read More
Can?t Stand The Heat
It seems that every day I turn on the TV... Read More
It Cant Be Done
Wouldn't it be nice if you were only in the... Read More
Complacency
During the month of January the Dow Jones Industrial Average,... Read More
Understanding Stock Market Indexes
A stock market index is a statistical measure of changes... Read More
Is Active Trading The Answer?
One of the main reasons many of us get into... Read More
The Problem With Hedge Funds
Are hedge funds a suitable investment for you? Hedge funds... Read More
Money, Insanity and Wall Street
Money: the most charged word in the planet. It means... Read More
The Club
Yesterday I received my monthly issue of MONEY magazine. This... Read More
One Way Street
Ever turn down a street, get half way and suddenly... Read More
Paddle Your Canoe
At some time in your life you have been on... Read More
DIY Portfolio Management
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are growing. Investors are choosing low... Read More
Basics of Stock Market
Financial markets provide their participants with the most favorable conditions... Read More
Valuation
Every day I hear from the "experts" on CNBC-TV and... Read More
How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing
What are you thinking when it comes to your no... Read More
Long-Term Investment In Todays Market?
The stock market is very unstable at this time going... Read More
Trading vs Investing
I often hear from people, "I don't trade. I invest.... Read More
Evaluation II
As I said in Part I everyone in the insane... Read More
Investing in Dividend Paying Stocks
I was recently interviewed for a press release through a... Read More
What Does it Take to be a Stock Trader?
It takes a total mental commitment to the task. It... Read More
Smart Day Trading Strategies to Help You Make Money in the Stock Market
Stock trading can be a very profitable activity. You can... Read More
How To Buy And Hold
One of the most believed bits of conventional wisdom from... Read More
Emotional Involvement
I'll bet with almost anyone that has stocks or mutual... Read More
How To Be A Winner
Everyone who invests in the stock market wants to be... Read More
Its Snowing
The Winter Games for the Olympics are coming up soon... Read More
The Secret Method to Selecting a Winning Trading System
Every successful trader has a winning system. There are of... Read More
Complacency Indicator
If you haven't heard of the technical indicator with the... Read More
Investing in the Stock Market
From the book 'The Stockopoly Plan' by the author Charles... Read More
Stuff
I continually hear from economists, talking heads, other market letter... Read More
Market Psychology
Today we are inundated with tons of information about the... Read More
How to Pick Winning Stocks
There is nothing more exciting than finding an undervalued stock... Read More
Commoditizing the world
Let's discuss commodities; with the latest Enron situation, it is... Read More
Forecasting the Stock Market
Every day I see in the financial section of newspapers... Read More
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