Posts Tagged ‘ Penny stocks ’

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


How to Time the Market with Momentum

May 17th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
Momentum stocks can be a canary in the market’s coal mine. If you were paying attention to the big momentum plays this quarter, you could have pinpointed when the market was ready to turn lower. Now, with short-term losses mounting, you might have the chance to spot the first buying opportunity by ...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


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


Temporary Weakness Sets up Future Returns

Apr 27th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technology
You can no longer ignore the accelerating growth in the mobile market... If you have been following me here in the Sleuth for awhile you already know that I think one of the best ways to profit from this growth is through small semiconductor companies. But if you have been following ...read more


3 More Rules That Guarantee Gains

Apr 23rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
Last week, we took a look at three simple rules that could help shovel bigger gains into your portfolio on every single trade you make. Today, I’d like to show you three more critical trading rules. Each one can give you bigger gains on every trade you make. Put all ...read more


Tips That Guarantee Bigger Gains

Apr 16th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
To some degree, trading is about breaking the conventional rules. Forget buy and hold. Trading is all about quick, repeatable profits. Forget balance sheets or income statements. Trading focuses on technical analysis instead. But just because the old rules no longer apply doesn’t mean that no rules apply to successful trading. In ...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


Why You Should Bet Big On Guns

Mar 22nd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
It’s not all that often that I carry a gun into a strip mall. Then again, this isn’t your ordinary suburban strip mall… That’s because sitting next to Walgreens, in the same storefront that you’d expect to find a Hallmark or AT&T store, is a shooting range. No, the display cases ...read more


Kill Your iPhone – and Win With Stocks

Mar 15th, 2012 | By | 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