A big-four public accounting alum, Jonas Elmerraji brings his readers extensive expertise in small-cap stocks and broad market moves. Elmerraji’s interest in the market started with an investing course in elementary school – today he holds a degree in financial economics from UMBC and specializes in blending fundamental and technical analysis. Elmerraji has contributed to Forbes, TheStreet.com, and Investors Business Daily among others. He is managing editor of the Penny Momentum Trader, and a co-editor of Penny Stock Fortunes.
Whenever you’re looking to enter a trade, do yourself a favor and zoom out to a longer timeframe.
Today, I’m going to show you how you can use two separate timeframes to fine-tune your market analysis. Checking out the context of the shorter-term move could save you heartache when the pattern ...read more
Should you “sell in May and go away?” After Friday’s 1.6% drop in the S&P 500, I’ll bet that a whole lot more people are saying yes this weekend...
The idea of selling in May and going away is an old Wall Street adage that’s based on the seasonality of summer ...read more
Puts, calls, strike prices, expiration. If you don’t get options, I don’t blame you. But if you shy away from these instruments out of fear, you’re missing out on a rare chance to increase your trading gains.
Let me show you how...
Yes, option investing can be intimidating. After all, the financial ...read more
Last week, we took a look at three simple rules that could help shovel bigger gains into your portfolio on every single trade you make. Today, I’d like to show you three more critical trading rules. Each one can give you bigger gains on every trade you make. Put all ...read more
To some degree, trading is about breaking the conventional rules.
Forget buy and hold. Trading is all about quick, repeatable profits. Forget balance sheets or income statements. Trading focuses on technical analysis instead. But just because the old rules no longer apply doesn’t mean that no rules apply to successful trading.
In ...read more
Let me share a couple of headlines with you from the financial media this morning:
Earnings Season May Challenge U.S. Stocks
...Survey Indicates Stock Market Rally About to End
Much of US stock rally might be over for 2012
Are we getting a common theme here? Seemingly out of the blue, investors are expecting ...read more
What does last week’s record Mega Millions jackpot have to do with the stock market?
Absolutely nothing.
But you wouldn’t know it to look at the Wall Street Journal on Friday...
After all, the lotto was featured as a major economic story in the WSJ this weekend. All told, I counted seven different ...read more
It’s not all that often that you get a mea culpa from a CEO — let alone one from one from a major financial firm. But that’s exactly what BATS Global Markets CEO Joe Ratterman admitted to the Wall Street Journal yesterday after his new stock failed to make it ...read more
It’s not all that often that I carry a gun into a strip mall. Then again, this isn’t your ordinary suburban strip mall…
That’s because sitting next to Walgreens, in the same storefront that you’d expect to find a Hallmark or AT&T store, is a shooting range. No, the display cases ...read more
Root canal. Tax audit. Coma. For most people, they’re just a few things that sound more exciting than studying the treasury market...
I’ll admit, treasuries aren’t the most exciting investment out there. That’s why they’re typically relegated to people like me — professional investing nerds — most retail investors don’t go ...read more
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