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How to Play the Scramble for Rare Earths

Nov 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Rare earths have gotten a lot of attention lately. Deservedly so, as you’ll see. This creates some opportunity for nimble speculators. Let’s take a look… Last month, China cut its shipments of rare earth exports to Japan. China and Japan have a maritime spat going on and this ban is probably ...read more

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Stay Away from This Small-Cap Legal Stock

Apr 28th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks
Sometimes penny stock investing isn’t a question of which stock to pick – it’s a matter of which stocks you should avoid. The recent run-up in stock prices across the board has given even the most unappealing stocks the appearance of upward momentum, and an uptick in ...read more

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Rise in Penny Stock Volume Spells Opportunity

Jan 9th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks
January is here. We’ve already seen the largest first-week rally since 2003, and then the inevitable collapse with the release of tough economic numbers. In one week, the Dow has picked up and lost 300 points as if it was a New Year’s resolution diet. But the most important piece of ...read more

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The Two Money Makers in the Market

Sep 3rd, 2008 | By | Category: Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
On Nov. 19, 1984, you could have picked up shares of the emerging biotechnology firm Amgen, Inc. (AMGN: NASDAQ) for $3.63. Those shares rose steadily for the next 20 years and were worth more than $85 as recent as 2005. Taking into account Amgen’s five splits over the past 23 years, ...read more

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Using the Bear Market Paddle Strategy

Jan 23rd, 2008 | By | Category: Investing Strategies
We all saw it. We all know what happened… World markets collapsed everywhere over the weekend. Tokyo’s major index, the Nikkei 225, fell 9%; the FTSE 100, London’s rule of thumb, fell 9.5%; and the Hang Seng Index, Hong Kong’s benchmark, sank 10%. The list goes on and on… And when we look ...read more

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Small-Cap Dynamics

Jan 16th, 2008 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Classic Small-Cap Types Small stock investments typically take one of three shapes. A rising star is a growth stock that evolves from a microcap to a megacap status, seemingly overnight. Another type of small stock is the fallen angel. Like Icarus, who, in Greek mythology, soared too close to the sun ...read more

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Volatile Small-Cap Stocks

Mar 5th, 2007 | By | Category: Investing Strategies
It was Shanghai that started it all-dragging down the Asian markets with what would become a 9% drop. After Tuesday, it seemed like every market across the world was struggling to reclaim some of the gains it had lost. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rebounded 95 points Friday. However, The Standard ...read more

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Small-Cap vs. Large-Cap Returns in 2007

Jan 19th, 2007 | By | Category: Investing Strategies
Your typical red Hong Kong taxi took Ted and me back to our flat in midlevels late one Thursday night. We had spent the night barhopping from Lawn Qua Fong down the hill with the post 2:00am crowd to find ourselves among the shady streets of Wan Chai. Our routine was ...read more

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Small-Cap Stocks Rights

Jan 11th, 2007 | By | Category: Investing Strategies
Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style. - Warren Buffett I understand what Warren means. If you are a long-term, buy-and-hold investor, the odds are you will do well in the market. And I can show you a mountain of data that would say that if you are ...read more

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Small Cap Revenge and One Spicy Stock That Could Fly

Mar 27th, 2006 | By | Category: Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
As I was scouring the headlines the past couple of weeks, I came across plenty of articles predicting a small-cap doomsday. This is nothing new -- plenty of analysts, columnists, and talking heads try to beat down the idea of small caps every week. They all say the same thing: ...read more

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