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Back From The Brink?

Oct 12th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
One trading week and more than 6% in gains — that’s all it takes to get investors excited about the markets again after two nonstop months of stocks giving back all the ground gained in 2011 and more. The rally began more than a week ago as stocks surged from the ...read more


Ready Your Bear Market Strategies

Oct 5th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
The stock market is heading lower. There will be a little pain we will have to endure — but it will be expected. Keep in mind there are investors out there who are clinging to hope. Day after day of red numbers in their brokerage accounts has paralyzed them. They want ...read more


Don’t Trust This Market’s False Starts

Sep 28th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
When the trajectory of stocks is uncertain, it’s always a relief to see the markets have a big day. That’s exactly what we thought we were getting when the U.S. markets opened Tuesday — it was rally time. But by the closing bell, the S&P 500 had posted gains just ...read more


Does Small-cap Performance Predict Another Correction?

Sep 21st, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
After Monday’s disappointing open, the indexes slowly climbed back out of trouble to close with a respectable loss. Stocks also sought new ground Tuesday — yet they had trouble holding onto gains from earlier in the day. Still, two days of down action after an entire week of positive price ...read more


A Daytrader’s Market?

Sep 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
Earlier this week, stocks came perilously close to a freefall. But instead of breaking down Monday morning, small-cap stocks — along with the market at-large — showed signs of life when it counted: The jury’s still out as to how this will eventually play out. But for now, stocks have avoided ...read more


3 Immutable Rules for Buying Rebounding Small Caps

Aug 31st, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
Only a couple of weeks removed from the double-dip sirens sounding around every corner of the financial world, investors have cast aside gloomy predictions in favor of blind bullishness. Traders eagerly chased the market up to dizzying heights to start the week, capping off a massive rally that began early ...read more


2 Signals That Higher Prices Are Coming?

Aug 24th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
Investors bought equities with both hands Tuesday, powering the major indexes to significant gains. The Dow spiked more than 300 points to finish the day well above 11,100. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq posted gains of 3.4% and 4.3%, respectively. While these one-day gains are impressive, crucial information regarding the ...read more


Double Your Trading Dollars During a Crash

Aug 10th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
A market crash inevitably brings out the worst in everyone. It even encourages two distinctly poor decisions that can rob investors and traders alike of their money and sanity: doing too much and doing nothing at all. I often write about overtrading and the negative affects the practice can have on ...read more


Preparing For A Correction

Aug 3rd, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
With a pending solution to the debt ceiling debacle on the table, investors awoke to find upbeat news and futures pointing to a nice gap to the upside Monday morning. How quickly the atmosphere can change... It would be easy to look back at Monday and proclaim that the market's troubles are ...read more


Are Small Stocks Flashing Warning Signs?

Jul 27th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
After mounting a furious comeback in June, the Russell 2000 is once again beginning to lag the major exchanges. The closely-watched small-cap index dropped nearly one percent yesterday, while the Nasdaq almost broke even on the day. A quick glance at a chart shows the Russell rallying alongside the major indexes ...read more