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Mar 2nd, 2011 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
I’m sure the past week might be likened to a roller coaster — except for one major difference. When riding a roller coaster, you’re afforded the gift of foresight. If you’re brave enough to open your eyes during the descent, you have a clear view of where the track bottoms ...
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Tags: Investing, stocks, trading
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Feb 16th, 2011 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
The major averages have signaled that the bull market remains in full swing. Every recent scare has amounted to nothing more than a minor correction, and even the technically overheated market of late January was able to right itself and gain strength.
However, scattered among the rising share prices have been ...
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Tags: Investing, stocks
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Feb 2nd, 2011 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
During a roaring bull market, you can sometimes get away with buying less-than-ideal set-ups. The rising tide will usually bail you out of any imperfect trades. Yet so far in 2011, the choppy market isn’t handing out free money. You simply cannot afford to be sloppy in your trading.
Over the ...
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Tags: Investing Strategies, Pullback, stocks
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Dec 22nd, 2010 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Successful traders are fast, thorough planners. As soon as a stock on any given watch list triggers, a trader must spring into action, deciding on an optimal entry point and how much of the stock to buy.
However, the best traders are answering another important question about every one of their ...
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Nov 29th, 2010 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Markets make opinions, the old saying goes. So it is hard to maintain old views on Africa as a place to avoid in the face of so much evidence to the contrary. A few snapshot images from the past few weeks should help you think differently about the continent.
There has ...
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Tags: Investing, stocks
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Apr 14th, 2010 |
By Alan Knuckman |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Stock market gains continued for the sixth consecutive week as the Dow lingers around the 11,000 level and a full recovery from the July 2008 lows that began the decline…
I had to pause as I typed that last word.
Even as a 20-year market veteran, the old ...
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Tags: irrational market, stocks
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Dec 22nd, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
While investors take a break from the market – busying themselves with holiday plans and vacation days instead – the equity bubble is getting closer and closer to popping once again. And right now, one recession-prone industry stands to fall the furthest. Here’s a look at why trucking stocks are ...
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Tags: stocks, trucking
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Feb 27th, 2009 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Most investors like to put their money in something that has done well. Most don't put their money in something that has done poorly. The last 10 years gives us a stark portrait of what's done well and what hasn't. And we're starting to see a major psychological shift in ...
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Tags: Bonds, John Templeton, stocks, Warren Buffett
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Feb 13th, 2009 |
By Greg Guenthner |
Category: Featured, Macroeconomics, Penny stocks
In today’s market, there’s plenty of pain to go around. In fact, a much-maligned retail tactic is making a comeback: layaway.
We all thought the age of easy credit killed layaway for good late last century. There simply wasn’t the need to put a new television on layaway for $15 a ...
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Tags: economy, retail, stocks
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Jan 30th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Commodities, Featured
This bear market has pushed the price of many good stocks to bargain-basement levels. In my view, the stock prices of many oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) companies are irrationally low. Many are valued like they are depleting assets (like energy trusts or master limited partnerships), when, ...
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Tags: E&P, Natural Gas, stocks
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