Getting Rich from Military Technology, Part II

Mar 21st, 2013 | By | Category: Featured, High Growth, Investing Strategies, Investor Education, Technology
The Russian and the Frenchman First, let’s return to Mendeleev and his missing elements. Why were there gaps in his table? Did the Russian scientist make errors in arranging the elements? Or, based on the gaps, were these apparently “missing elements” key to another aspect of chemistry? Mendeleev was perplexed, but he ...read more


Getting Rich from Military Technology, Part I

Mar 20th, 2013 | By | Category: Featured, High Growth, Investing Strategies, Technology
When you listen to military communications, a lot of words are slang, and actually have quite distinct meanings. For example, there was this time, long ago during my Navy days, when my squadron was working up out at NAS Fallon, Nevada. (“Working up” is Navy shorthand for getting everyone qualified ...read more


A Proven Way To Get Rich

Mar 19th, 2013 | By | Category: Featured, High Growth, Investing Strategies, Technology
There’s a short phrase buried deep within the U.S. Constitution, at Article I, Section 8, Clause 13. It’s short. In fact, it’s only six words. But it practically guarantees us the chance to profit as investors. The Constitution doesn’t spell out many things in black and white. Heck, people litigate constitutional ...read more


D-Wave’s Quantum Tech Set to Disrupt Computing

Mar 18th, 2013 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
For decades, digital computing has been on an exponential trend first described in Moore’s law. We’ve been able to pack more electronic components in a given space than ever before, and the trend will continue for many years. New technologies are emerging, however, that could eventually supersede the current computing paradigm ...read more


3 Tricks to Stick to Your Stops

Mar 15th, 2013 | By | Category: Investing Strategies, Trend Playbook
I’ve told you in the past that it can be good to be a loser in the stock market (if you missed it, click here to see why). Today, I want to show you three effective ways to set stop losses on your trades. First, a little more on why being ...read more


Planning Your “New Highs” Trading Strategy

Mar 11th, 2013 | By | Category: Investing Strategies, Trend Playbook
Here’s something you haven’t heard in the last 45 seconds: The Dow hit new highs last week. New all-time highs, at that… There’s been plenty of fanfare surrounding the milestone. That’s understandable. It has been a pitiful 13 years for the stock market. Two major busts -- one dot-com, one financial crisis ...read more


Boycott Bitcoin!

Mar 8th, 2013 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
Well, it’s been something of a sad week for proponents of Bitcoin... Would-be buyers of the fringy cyber experiment have had to watch as the price of their beloved currency shot to within (as of this writing) just over $40 per coin. No buyer wants to see that kind of action...unless ...read more


How to Play Tech’s Retail Dilemma

Mar 4th, 2013 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education, Markets
“I give them two years before they’re turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake...” That’s a quote from a pessimistic analyst in a Bloomberg Op-Ed dated May 20, 2001 — just one day after Apple opened its first retail locations. The arguments against brick-and-mortar retail are sound, for ...read more


Picking the 3 Hottest Sectors for March

Feb 27th, 2013 | By | Category: Investing Strategies, Trend Playbook
Stocks are getting gut-punched this week -- the S&P 500 took its biggest loss of 2013 on Monday, and investors are starting to feel anxious about stocks again for the first time since January. The impending sequester is getting more media buzz than the red carpet at the Oscars, and ...read more


3 Reasons You Can’t Trade the News

Feb 27th, 2013 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Trend Playbook, Trends
“The market anticipates, while the news exaggerates.” -- Bob Farrell You can’t trade the news. Well, you can. But you shouldn’t. In fact, I would go as far as to say there’s no strategy to successfully gauge how a news event or story will play out in the markets. Remember the fiscal cliff ...read more