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
Precision Money Management
This article describes the model of a natural relationship between trading system performance, trade position size, stop loss settings and profit goals. The model consists of algebraic equations that specify the trade size and stop loss settings needed to meet profit goals over a specified time period for any consistently... Read More
Alfred E. Newman
What! Me worry?Many of you remember the cover of MAD magazine. It was one of my favorites. Alfred's only worry was about his front tooth. You and I have other problems.The one big problem we all have is enough income to support our life style. Those who are approaching retirement... Read More
Low Expense Ratio
One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds is to tell how low their expense ratio is and that you will make a great deal more money if you buy and hold with them. Partly true, but that is not the whole story.What is the expense ratio? 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 make big amounts of cash in a short period of time. The problem is, that if you don't know what stocks to look for and how to approach them and leave everyting to chance, you could end up wasting money... Read More
How Eating Bitumen Made Me a Better Trader
Trading is a fascinating activity.There are so many layers to it. And so many paths that you can go down.Soon after we first got interested in the stock market I became captivated by technical analysis. I finally felt that I was in control. It gave me great confidence to have... Read More
Living Trust Investing: Income Considerations when the Grantor Dies
A common problem I often see when working with living trust beneficiaries and trustees is the lack of attention in rethinking income strategies in the event of the grantor's death.When the grantor of a living trust dies, the trustee (especially a family member or close friend) sometimes feels reluctant to... Read More
Hedge Funds
You read and hear a lot about hedge funds. Unfortunately, most of what you hear is negative because it comes from the major media that has an interest in reporting negatives about them because the major media is supported by so-called standard mutual funds and brokerage companies that spend big... Read More
How (NOT) to Buy Mutual Funds
When it comes to mutual funds, there is a lot more to success than just finding a good one. Sad investment stories like the following are all too common. I hope my sharing it with you will help you avoid making the same devastating financial mistake one of my former... Read More
Financial Crime
Congress recently passed another new law that is supposed to outlaw financial crime. Corporate officers will be sent to jail for "cooking the books" as it is called. Among other things it is taking the stockholders money and paying themselves huge bonuses for nonperformance. These guys are even worse than... Read More
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Rebalance And Diversify
The stock market has not been very kind to your... Read More
Trading vs Investing
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How to Read an Annual Report
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Market Success
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Advisory Service for You?
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3 Components Needed for Beating the Market
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The thinking process of the brain relating to the... Read More
Stock Market Diversification
In one of my previous articles (Investing in the stock... 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
Why Technical Indicators
The fight continues to rage among traders who use technical... Read More
Patterns
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Stock Trading Secrets?
How often have you come across an advertisement or e-mail... Read More
Performance Funds
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One Way Street
Ever turn down a street, get half way and suddenly... Read More
Stealth Bull
If you have been watching the stock market at all... Read More
Choosing a Stock Broker
If you were to find that you had some severe... Read More
Investment Lawyers and Trash Stocks
The trash business in its efforts to cook their books... Read More
Trading Systems
To become a successful trader you must have some kind... Read More
Market Timing?
The recent criminal fiasco in the mutual fund industry is... Read More
Are You A Stockaholic?
Today's society gives special recognition to alcoholics, sexaholics, binge-aholics, shopaholics,... Read More
Finding A Good Stock
One of the things people are always asking me is... Read More
Cash Is A Position
I go to the Money Show every year to visit... Read More
Two for the Money
Look back over the years and try to remember how... Read More
Stock Market Investing Odds
The greatest stock market myth is the idea that investing... Read More
Where Is The Beef?
Where is the beef? Or maybe it should be where... Read More
Evaluation II
As I said in Part I everyone in the insane... Read More
Its A Duck
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... Read More
How Much Information Do You Need?
You have decided to buy some stock or mutual funds,... Read More
Hot Stock Investing ... How to Pick Hot Stocks with Momentum Stock Trading
Profitable day traders recognize that momentum trading is among the... Read More
Where Is The Rabbit?
We need a rabbit!This was a pretty horrible week for... Read More
How To Pick A Mutual Fund
Mutual funds by definition are a mixed bag of stocks,... Read More
The Skinny on Mutual Fund Investing
Mutual fund investing is a lot like Thai cooking. Everyone... Read More
Humpty Dumpty the Stock Market Falls Down
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and all the King's... Read More
Buy and Hold Investment Strategy
"Buy and hold" is one of the most heralded investment... Read More
Why Technical Indicators
The fight continues to rage among traders who use technical... Read More
Discover the Biggest Trading & Investing Online Mistake
Any online investor / trader seeks an excellent off or... Read More
The Great Stock Market Secret
When the stock market is going up and all your... Read More
Dont Buy Stocks based on P/E Ratio alone
I use the P/E ratio as a secondary indicator for... Read More
The Secret Method to Selecting a Winning Trading System
Every successful trader has a winning system. There are of... Read More
The Shadow
The Shadow knows. There used to be a radio program... Read More
Trading Tips No 6: The High Cost of Low Cost Stock Market Information
It has been said that low cost or even free... Read More
Starbucks Stock is Up
Starbucks earnings are up again and so is their stock... Read More
Who Knows?
The Shadow knows. Remember him? It seems a shadow has... Read More
Is Active Trading The Answer?
One of the main reasons many of us get into... Read More
Commoditizing the world
Let's discuss commodities; with the latest Enron situation, it is... Read More
One Way Street
Ever turn down a street, get half way and suddenly... Read More
Selection Vs Direction
As I have said many times before in this column... Read More
Mindset
In 1960 an engineer working for a watch company in... Read More
Some Good News for A Change
Before we get into all the good news out there,... Read More
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Emotional Involvement
I'll bet with almost anyone that has stocks or mutual... Read More
Price to Earnings Ratio - P/E
After finding the price of a particular stock, usually the... Read More
Where Is The Rabbit?
We need a rabbit!This was a pretty horrible week for... Read More
My Stock - Right or Wrong
We all know the expression, "My country, right or wrong",... Read More
Bottoms Ups
If you have talked to a stock broker or financial... Read More
Chart Reading
As an investor you will want to check out any... Read More
Is Your Garage Full Of Junk?
I have a 2-car garage. There are nice shelves on... Read More
Why Stock Is More Risky Than Options!
You probably have been told that options are risky. Even... Read More
Trend Trading - Trading Stocks Using Technical Analysis and Swing Trading Strategies
Peter is a professional trader, Paul is not. Peter has... Read More
Market Timing?
The recent criminal fiasco in the mutual fund industry is... Read More
Play another Day
Money management starts with protecting your capital, realizing profits and... Read More
I Love You, Warren Buffet
Sometime around 1980, can't remember exactly, there was a flight... Read More
Momentum
One of the basic laws of physics states that a... Read More
Buying Mutual Funds
It looks like the market is ready to start up... Read More
You Don?t HAVE To Be Trading
As a novice trader, you'll often feel the need to... Read More
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