Posts Tagged ‘ short selling ’

Momentum Meltdown: The Best Trade of 2011

Dec 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
I don’t have to tell you that it has been a very difficult year for investors. But there has been a small yet significant group of stocks that have delivered spectacular returns. If you spotted these setups early on, you had the chance to book considerable gains — even as ...read more

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How You Can Profit as Stock Prices Fall

Apr 8th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Shorting the market has always been a controversial strategy… but in many ways short sellers actually help the market. Viewed as a counterweight to the bullishness of Wall Street, short selling can be essential to price discovery. In any market climate, short selling can be a great way to hedge losses ...read more

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The Cold Hard Truth About Economic Recovery

Oct 8th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
The pundits on CNBC and the nightly news are dead wrong about the economic recovery. And as Wall Street’s pros praise the economic strides they’re seeing, the market’s real fundamentals keep getting worse, while more and more regular investors are falling into the trap. Here’s why the only way to make ...read more

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Three Ways to Short Stocks

May 11th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Technical Analysis
On Wednesday, leading stocks started to sell off, but you wouldn't know it from the action in the indexes. The selling continued Thursday, and it hit the indexes as well. And then on Friday, the indexes were up (led by financial and energy stocks) while leading stocks were down again. ...read more

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The Short-Selling Ban

Sep 22nd, 2008 | By | Category: Macroeconomics
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes her laws.” — Mayer Amschel Rothschild Let’s observe a moment of silence to mourn the slow demise of capitalism in the U.S. Our government is now overtly manipulating the stock market. We have “crossed the Rubicon.” We can no longer ...read more

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