Posts Tagged ‘ Investing ’

Reader Mailbag: Buy or Sell?

May 23rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
If you add basic charting techniques to your fundamental toolbox, you will instantly improve your investing returns. Finding support and resistance on a stock chart takes just a couple of minutes. You can make the annotations on your computer, or you can print out the charts and mark them with a ...read more


Monday Mailbag: When to Buy Stocks

May 14th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
If you buy stocks at the wrong time, you’re going to lose money. It doesn’t matter if you’re a long-term value investor or a short-term trader. When you’re dealing in stocks, timing isn’t everything — it’s the only thing. As I was sorting through the mailbag this weekend, I found that many ...read more


A Crack at One of the Fastest-Growing Sectors in the Market

May 11th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Income investing to many people means picking up a few “go-to” industries. Utilities, energy producers and health care stocks are all obvious plays for anyone looking to lock in larger income. Unfortunately, it just isn’t that easy. My portfolio has plenty of the first two categories. We have a handful of ...read more


Nothing Touches This Market…

May 8th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Last summer, I wrote about a new generation of display technology called OLED. OLED display screens — short for organic light-emitting diodes — offer far greater energy efficiency, along with brilliant colors and durability. I’ve seen video clips of mobile OLED screens being smashed with hammers and not looking the worse for ...read more


Winning with Stocks Begins Here

May 2nd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
On an otherwise beautiful autumn day in 2008, a novice investor named Chris watched one of his very first stock purchases lose nearly a quarter of its value in just one day. A financial crisis brewed on Wall Street. No investment was safe from the carnage. Chris — who happens to ...read more


The Only Way to Close the Small-Business Gap

May 1st, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Investor Education
If Mark Zuckerberg had come up to you asking for some seed money for his startup website in 2005 in exchange for a 10% stake in it, would you have taken the deal? Remember, this is before the company that will soon have the largest Internet IPO in history dropped the ...read more


Hidden Public Offerings

Apr 26th, 2012 | By | 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


Three Ideas You Don’t Want to Own Right Now

Apr 24th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Jim Chanos is a man who sells his stocks first and then buys them later — hopefully, in his case, at much lower prices. He profits when stocks go down. Chanos is perhaps most famous as the man who sniffed out the fraud that was Enron. In Wall Street parlance, ...read more


An Electrifying Biotechnology – A Shot at Shocking Profits

Apr 20th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
Fascination with the effects of electricity on the body goes back — way back. In the 1770s Italian physician and physicist Luigi Galvani shocked the world with the discovery that a spark could cause a dead frog’s legs to twitch. In 1802, German chemist Johann Wilhelm Ritter furthered Galvani’s research into electrophysiology. ...read more


The Only Long-Term Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need

Apr 18th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
“I just want to figure out how to buy low and sell high!” I wasn’t eavesdropping — I was simply finishing my meal at a local restaurant. Just as I was about to pay the bill, I overheard the conversation at an adjacent table turn to stocks. At first, I didn’t give ...read more