Investing Strategies

Use These 2 Charts to Play the Market Drop

May 21st, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
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


How to Time the Market with Momentum

May 17th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
Momentum stocks can be a canary in the market’s coal mine. If you were paying attention to the big momentum plays this quarter, you could have pinpointed when the market was ready to turn lower. Now, with short-term losses mounting, you might have the chance to spot the first buying opportunity by ...read more


3 Ways to Survive a Volatile Market

May 16th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
If you’re a long-term investor, you need to adapt your strategy to the market’s unforgiving conditions. If you don’t, you will probably lose money this summer. It’s as simple as that... After a furious four-month rally, traders are selling stocks again. It’s a buy-and-hold investor’s worst nightmare. No sooner do stocks begin ...read more


Liquidity, Crack and the Quest for Better Returns

May 15th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
“Liquidity is like crack: The more you rely on it, the greater is the craving.” — Louis Lowenstein, Sense & Nonsense in Corporate Finance Liquidity is one of the most overhyped of modern financial ideas. In the context of the stock market, all liquidity means is that you can buy and sell ...read more


Monday Mailbag: When to Buy Stocks

May 14th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
If you buy stocks at the wrong time, you’re going to lose money. It doesn’t matter if you’re a long-term value investor or a short-term trader. When you’re dealing in stocks, timing isn’t everything — it’s the only thing. As I was sorting through the mailbag this weekend, I found that many ...read more


A Crack at One of the Fastest-Growing Sectors in the Market

May 11th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Income investing to many people means picking up a few “go-to” industries. Utilities, energy producers and health care stocks are all obvious plays for anyone looking to lock in larger income. Unfortunately, it just isn’t that easy. My portfolio has plenty of the first two categories. We have a handful of ...read more


How Market Headlines Can Quickly Pay You Triple-Digit Gains

May 10th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
For decades, big-time traders and institutions enjoyed unique access to a market that was off limits to everyday Americans like you and me. Even European investors could play this market racking up big gains while their American counterparts were stuck on the sidelines. But that all changed in 2007, when a ...read more


How to Avoid 3 Critical Investing Traps

May 9th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
In order to succeed in the markets, you have to recognize when you have been trapped in an investment. Then you have to find the strength to sell and move on... It takes guts to admit you are wrong. As a trader or investor, you will take losses. If you understand ...read more


Nothing Touches This Market…

May 8th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Last summer, I wrote about a new generation of display technology called OLED. OLED display screens — short for organic light-emitting diodes — offer far greater energy efficiency, along with brilliant colors and durability. I’ve seen video clips of mobile OLED screens being smashed with hammers and not looking the worse for ...read more


Selling in May and Going Away

May 7th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
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