Posts Tagged ‘ Investing Strategies ’
If you’re a long-term investor, you need to adapt your strategy to the market’s unforgiving conditions.
If you don’t, you will probably lose money this summer. It’s as simple as that...
After a furious four-month rally, traders are selling stocks again. It’s a buy-and-hold investor’s worst nightmare. No sooner do stocks begin ...read more
Liquidity, Crack and the Quest for Better Returns
May 15th, 2012 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
“Liquidity is like crack: The more you rely on it, the greater is the craving.”
— Louis Lowenstein, Sense & Nonsense in Corporate Finance
Liquidity is one of the most overhyped of modern financial ideas. In the context of the stock market, all liquidity means is that you can buy and sell ...read more
Hidden Public Offerings
Apr 26th, 2012 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
We all know Wall Street is playing with a rigged deck. And you can’t find a more crooked game than with IPOs. Yes, Wall Street — and the financial media — loves the idea of taking hard-earned money and using it to gamble in the hope you’ll end up owning ...read more
3 “Turning Point” Trading Tips
Apr 25th, 2012 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
Your money is in danger when the market’s trend is in flux. Whether you are long or short, you could suffer significant losses as bulls and bears fight for control.
This market is a minefield. You must prepare to deal with unpredictable prices, panic, and disorder. Ever since stocks began to ...read more
The Skyscraper Index
Apr 12th, 2012 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
A skyscraper is a thing made from a sunny outlook. A skyscraper of record-breaking height is a thing made often from a mix of cheap money, debt and a fat scoop of hubris on top.
Somewhere a real estate man with dirt under his shoes and drywall dust on his shoulder ...read more
Why Treasuries Point to Gains in the Stock Market
Mar 19th, 2012 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
Root canal. Tax audit. Coma. For most people, they’re just a few things that sound more exciting than studying the treasury market...
I’ll admit, treasuries aren’t the most exciting investment out there. That’s why they’re typically relegated to people like me — professional investing nerds — most retail investors don’t go ...read more
Kill Your iPhone – and Win With Stocks
Mar 15th, 2012 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
In the early 1950s, a young man from Hungary finally got his big break.
Along with his half-sister, he performed in a dance number with Bob Hope and Judy Garland. That appearance helped ignite what would become a very successful career in show business. By 1956, the duo became one of ...read more
Profiting From a Market Meltdown
Feb 21st, 2012 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
With everything looking hunky-dory for Mr. Market right now, it’s time to batten down the hatches and prepare for a stock apocalypse.
Today, I want to show you three indicators you can use to spot the “end of the financial world” — and how you can position yourself to profit from ...read more
Preview Stock Prices Using Futures
Nov 14th, 2011 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
“Futures.” The very word has been known to make stock investors shudder.
That’s an understandable reaction. Futures are volatile, and they’re fraught with hypothetically unlimited risk. Futures have been known to wipe out multi-millionaire professional traders... so, it’s no surprise amateur investors prefer to keep their distance from them. But they’re ...read more
The Beginning of the End for Netflix?
Jul 13th, 2011 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) has been a reliable market leader for several years. It has shown investors returns of nearly 700% since early 2009.
But an announced price raise in the company's cheapest content streaming and disc-by-mail package has attracted harsh criticism from users across the internet. Many customers are even threatening ...read more
