Investing Strategies
Wall Street’s most powerful number is also one of its most understood. But in the next ten minutes, I’m going to show you everything you need to know to efficiently analyze this important metric – and potentially profit as a result.
You've probably heard a lot of people talk about the ...read more
A New Age of Corporate Takeovers Could Soon Emerge
Sep 3rd, 2009 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Inflation can do tricky things to markets. It creates distortions. In those distortions, an intrepid investor can find some big moneymaking ideas. I think we've got one opening up in oil and gas, and it is not without precedent in financial markets. In fact, it's starting to look a little ...read more
The Ugly Truth About Bank Stocks
Aug 31st, 2009 | By Dan Amoss | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Don't let this stock market rally fool you -- all isn’t well on Wall Street.
And that financial malady is now traveling to Main Street as banks – including the latest FDIC rescue operation here in Baltimore on Friday – crumble all around us. Here’s what you need to know to ...read more
Make Profitable Investments by Understanding “Broker Basics”
Aug 27th, 2009 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks
Which broker should I choose? How do I buy shares of penny stocks? Can I invest in companies that trade overseas?
Without a doubt, the most common reader questions we get here at the Penny Sleuth are about brokers. That’s really no surprise – for a new investor the broker business ...read more
3 Secrets to Profitable Small-Cap Order Execution
Aug 19th, 2009 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks
You could be losing serious money every time you buy or sell a stock. Over time, that could add up to thousands upon thousands of dollars of losses and missed profits. You’re not alone – millions of investors fall into the same investing trap every year. But armed with these ...read more
How You Can Own a Quarter of the Internet… And Why You Don’t Want to
Aug 18th, 2009 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Sometime over the next 16 months, one-quarter of the Internet will go on sale. But you shouldn’t be suckered into this deal…
Before we get into the ins and outs of this sale, we need to clarify what it means to actually buy one-fourth of the Internet. Of course, you can’t ...read more
A Rare “Second Chance” at Making a Fortune
Aug 13th, 2009 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Technology
Today you have a rare “second chance” at making a fortune.
Let me explain…
From 1990 to 2004 the number of internet users in the US absolutely exploded — going from less than 1% of the population back in 1990 all the way up to over 65% in 2004.
Check out the US’s ...read more
How to Play the Canadian Banking Crisis for a Quick Double
Aug 12th, 2009 | By Dan Amoss | Category: Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Options
Everyone thinks they’re safe from the current financial crisis.
No one thinks they’re doomed.
I’m talking about the Canadians, of course.
See, lately, I've read a lot about the superiority of the Canadian banking system. And naturally, my contrarian instincts prompted a search for a way for you to make money as the ...read more
Is High-Frequency Trading Pillaging Your Portfolio?
Aug 11th, 2009 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
There’s an underground investment world lurking in the bowels of Wall Street’s biggest firms. It’s a world that the vast majority of investors have never heard of -- and its participants could be pillaging your investment profits on a daily basis.
That said, there’s a way out for smart investors… I’ll ...read more
Don’t Bet on Canada’s Banks
Aug 10th, 2009 | By Dan Amoss | Category: Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Options
In the last 18 months, Strategic Short Report readers had the chance to make 432% when Lehman failed, 162% when Allied Capital came clean, and 220% on PNC Financial… This month my subscribers are poised to make money on the next bank drop.
And I’m going to give you a chance ...read more
