Investing Strategies

Maximize Your Options Gains with These Six Trading Secrets

Oct 14th, 2009 | By Steve Sarnoff | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
At first glance, it may seem like speculating with options is a risky business. After all, price swings of 30% in an hour are far from comfortable for most investors. But with risk comes reward — and when you can manage that risk successfully, the rewards far outweigh the risks ...read more


The Three Questions You MUST Ask Before Trading Options

Oct 13th, 2009 | By Steve Sarnoff | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
It’s funny how quickly attitudes can change. Just a few years ago, most casual investors wouldn’t touch stock options with a 10-foot pole. Now the airwaves and Internet are clogged with offers to teach the secrets of “options investing.” That kind of talk is just plain dangerous. Despite my success with options, ...read more


The Cold Hard Truth About Economic Recovery

Oct 8th, 2009 | By Dan Amoss | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
The pundits on CNBC and the nightly news are dead wrong about the economic recovery. And as Wall Street’s pros praise the economic strides they’re seeing, the market’s real fundamentals keep getting worse, while more and more regular investors are falling into the trap. Here’s why the only way to make ...read more


Dubai’s Infrastructure Opportunity

Oct 6th, 2009 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
As I write, the sun is just peeking over the horizon. It is dawn in Dubai. Out my hotel window, I can see two buildings with cranes over them and in the distance another building in scaffolding. For a city that was once booming and turned bust -- as with ...read more


Why the Latest Trend in IPOs Is Great for Penny Stock Investors

Oct 2nd, 2009 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks
This quarter, we’re all but guaranteed to witness more companies go public than we’ve seen in the last three quarters combined. That’s a prediction that isn’t just significant for investors who want to buy shares of the latest IPOs – this latest trend in the public offering world could mean ...read more


Are the Bears Turning Bullish?

Sep 30th, 2009 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Some of Wall Street’s most prominent bears are turning bullish right now. But that doesn’t mean that your small-cap portfolio is safe. Here’s why these brilliant minds think that we’re back on the path to recovery -- and why they’re wrong. I was in Manhattan last week attending Grant’s Fall Investment ...read more


Your Guaranteed Triple with the Stock Market “Trump Card”

Sep 29th, 2009 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
The market’s rally so far this year has given way to a flood of profits for investors. Since early March, the Dow is up more than 49%. But starting today, you can begin cashing in even larger gains using the stock market “Trump Card,” which can guarantee you at least ...read more


How to Know When It’s Time to Sell

Sep 24th, 2009 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
All too often investors only concern themselves with when to buy a stock, even when poor selling strategy can easily be an investor’s quickest path to losses. But it doesn’t have to be that way… Good selling execution can mean enormous gains for your portfolio, but only if you know ...read more


Three Must-Know Rules to Profit from Options

Sep 17th, 2009 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Whether you’re a novice options investor or you’ve been trading options for years, three simple rules could mean the difference between serious gains and major losses. Here’s everything you need to know to go from optionless to an options whiz… Every day, scores of novice options investors get burned. It’s not ...read more


These Utility ETFs Are Set to Soar

Sep 11th, 2009 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Energy, Featured, International, Investing Strategies
In the last six months the S&P 500 has been on a tear, rocketing 42%. But while the masses celebrate their investment gains, that overreaching rebound has smart investors pretty nervous. That’s why it’s time to turn to a recession resistant industry that’s set to soar right now – today, ...read more