Investing Strategies

The Fastest Growing Economy on the Planet

Apr 5th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
“Anyone who thinks that GDP is growing at under 50% a year clearly doesn’t understand economics,” one of my contacts there wrote to me recently. “If you spend $10 billion in capex in an $8 billion economy, the economy grows a whole lot.” Is that possible? An economy growing 50% a ...read more


Apple is Doomed: What Analysts Aren’t Telling You

Apr 4th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Before you buy one share of Apple, I have two words for you: plastic shoes. Crocs — the company behind those ugly, squishy sandals — was having a banner year in 2007. The stock was booming. At one point, sales projections forecast that every man, woman and child in the country ...read more


The Science Behind the “Fountain of Youth”

Apr 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
This past weekend I attended this year’s meeting of the Personalized Life Extension Conference. I stayed near San Francisco Intl., and just down the street from the conference location. San Francisco has some beautiful sights to see... Many of us leave our metaphorical hearts in San Francisco, but this conference is ...read more


What the Mega Millions Means for Stocks

Apr 2nd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
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


Groundbreaking Weight Loss Research Shows Extraordinary Results

Mar 30th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
There is revolutionary work going on right now at a major university hospital in Texas... This current work seems to have come up with a treatment that makes patients lose weight. How does it work? It goes right after fat cells themselves... The super-simple way to explain it is that this treatment cuts ...read more


Three Ways to Score Big Using Sentiment Analysis

Mar 29th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Earlier this week I showed you how I use sentiment analysis to track the emotion of the market each week. Today I want to share with you the three strategies I use when choosing my currency plays every Monday morning for my premium readers. All three of these strategies revolve around the ...read more


How One Trading Habit Can Revolutionize Your Returns

Mar 28th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
In early 1988, a young worker at an Alcoa plant in Arizona noticed a problem. A large piece of equipment began to malfunction. Not one to waste any time, the worker jumped a safety barrier and removed a piece of scrap metal jammed inside the machine. As the worker dislodged the ...read more


This Powerful Tool Trumps Traditional Analysis

Mar 27th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
If you’ve been trading awhile, you probably know there are two main forms of investment analysis — fundamental and technical. Fundamental analysis digs into a company’s balance sheet, looking for clues to how much a stock is worth... and how much it could be worth. What comes out is an alphabet soup ...read more


What Wall Street’s Biggest Blunder Tells Us About the Market

Mar 26th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
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


How to Beat the Stock Market Casino

Mar 23rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
For a lot of people, the stock market looks like one big casino. And, to some extent, the casino analogy works. There are parts of the market that are consistent losers for investors... The initial public offering market is one of those. It’s true that some IPOs are big winners. Anyone who ...read more