Posts Tagged ‘ Investing ’
There’s a short phrase buried deep within the U.S. Constitution, at Article I, Section 8, Clause 13. It’s short. In fact, it’s only six words. But it practically guarantees us the chance to profit as investors.
The Constitution doesn’t spell out many things in black and white. Heck, people litigate constitutional ...read more
A 100% Gains Guarantee?
Mar 7th, 2013 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Trend Playbook, Trends
There are no guarantees in the stock market.
No matter how good certain data look, you can’t bank on the past to predict how prices will react with perfect certainty.
But what if I told you there was a 100% chance the market would finish out 2013 in positive territory? I hope ...read more
Be a Good Loser
Mar 5th, 2013 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Trend Playbook, Trends
I’m a big fat loser -- and I hope you’re one too…
There’s nothing more important to investing success than being a good loser. Nothing.
It’s natural to be focused on winning investments, but it’s the sign of a novice. The fact is that winning is easy -- it’s losing, and losing ...read more
How to Play Tech’s Retail Dilemma
Mar 4th, 2013 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education, Markets
“I give them two years before they’re turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake...”
That’s a quote from a pessimistic analyst in a Bloomberg Op-Ed dated May 20, 2001 — just one day after Apple opened its first retail locations.
The arguments against brick-and-mortar retail are sound, for ...read more
Are Newsletters Flashing Warning Signs?
Feb 28th, 2013 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Trends
The stock market is like a crowded canoe. If enough people in the boat lean far enough over the same side, you’ll see a swift reaction.
That’s why sentiment surveys are so useful. If you can gauge exactly when opinions begin to shift toward extreme levels, you can plan to play ...read more
How to Embrace New Highs
Feb 7th, 2013 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Trend Playbook, Trends
Market news has moved from the business section to the front page.
In most circumstances, this would be a bearish development -- the sign of potential market top. But following a lost decade of crisis and fear, newfound confidence in stocks is a sneak peek at what’s to come.
For now, we ...read more
New Technology May Bring Moore’s Law to Electrical Storage
Jan 29th, 2013 | By Ray Blanco | Category: Featured, High Growth, Technology, Trends
We’ve learned to take the continued improvement in semiconductor manufacturing for granted. Computers, once only affordable to governments and large institutions, have invaded our homes, and now our pockets. Most of us walk around with processing power in the palms of our hands that qualified for supercomputer status just 30 ...read more
Live Long and Prosper — Nutraceutically
Nov 28th, 2012 | By Patrick Cox | Category: Featured, High Growth, Technology, Trends
More and more frequently, I’m finding “too good to be true” technologies that are, in fact, very true. It is, I think, the hallmark of our era. Things we thought were impossible are coming to pass on a regular basis.
To prosper, we’ll all have to re-examine practically everything we thought ...read more
Your Hidden Leg-up on Wall Street
Nov 16th, 2012 | By Greg Kadajski | Category: Featured, Trend Playbook, Trends
It’s all too easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of peak pessimism surrounding the stock market these days. Every day, the broad market sinks a little lower and a new reason to avoid stocks begins to circulate on Twitter and the financial blogs.
So it’s no surprise that investors ...read more
“Channel Investing”: The Only Way To Beat The Efficient Market Hypothesis
Oct 31st, 2012 | By Patrick Cox | Category: Featured, Growth Stocks, Technology, Trends
There is a way to beat the market. To understand how it is possible, we must first understand why it is so difficult and why the vast majority of traders never accomplish it.
In a nutshell, the barrier to truly spectacular gains is “efficient markets.” As you may know, the efficient-market ...read more

