Tips & Strategies
Five Tips for Trading ETFs
Every week I tell you about exchange traded funds (ETFs) that you can use for various investment purposes. You could be wondering, though, what’s the best way to buy them. So in today’s column I’ll give you some practical information that will help you implement whatever ETF investment strategy you might want to pursue.
Professional investors make a distinction between portfolio management and trade execution. You might not be a professional, but you can still use the same thought process …
Portfolio management is when you make the decision to buy or sell a particular security. Normally there will be limits on the…
6Nov2009 | Money and Markets | 0 comments | ContinuedHow To Invest in Oil & Gas Stocks – Part II
Keith Schaefer
Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin
What are the questions that educated investors ask in oil and gas?
Last month I gave investors 10 questions they should be asking management teams, or searching for on the company website, in a recent article. They were basic questions, and you can read them here. After those first 10 are answered, you know how much production a company has, how fast they’re growing, how much cash or debt they have etc.
But if you’re still not sure if you want to invest in the company after all that, or just want to know more…what are the…
5Nov2009 | Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin | 1 comment | ContinuedMake 20 Times Your Money in this Hated Industry
The simplest way to make a genuine fortune – we’re talking 20 to 50 times your money here – is to buy assets no one wants and wait for them to be wanted again.
In fact, we met someone who did it firsthand a few months ago. Over breakfast with Bob Quartermain, the president of Silver Standard Resources (NASDAQ:SSRI), your editor got the first-hand account of the company’s development.
Quartermain, a geologist by training, started at Silver Standard in 1985 when the precious metal bubble had just imploded. He had one goal: acquire silver assets. Silver projects were cheap and plentiful…
4Nov2009 | Q1 Publishing | 0 comments | ContinuedTwo More of My Favorite Technical Indicators
Two weeks ago, I told you why a quick look at Colgate’s chart led me to believe that its run was going to continue through the early fall. And I also said that I had a few reasons to be wary of the stock’s ability to continue rising going forward.
If you’re a Dividend Superstars subscriber, you should have closed out that position based on my recommendation in the issue that just went to press. I’m tracking a gain of 32.7 percent. Great!
Now today I want to talk about a couple of the other things I look at on charts … and…
27Oct2009 | Money and Markets | 0 comments | ContinuedTwo Barriers on the Road to Wealth
Have you ever been driving on the road when traffic suddenly comes to a halt? You sit there wondering what the heck is going on up ahead for ten or fifteen minutes. Then, suddenly, things start moving again and you realize that the hold-up was caused by merging traffic and a couple of yahoos who decided to wait until the last possible second to move over into the proper lane.
Why do people consistently do things like this? Why do they wait until the last possible moment to move over, even when there were ten signs warning them to do…
7Oct2009 | Money and Markets | 0 comments | ContinuedBeware Of The Analyst, Economist, And The Upgrades
The year was 2007 and the markets were in rally mode. Every economist with the exception of a handful didn’t see any problems on the horizon. This was after a sharp downturn in late February 2007 when the market dropped 500 points in a single day. Yes, this was when 500 point declines was not common place. Even after such a sharp drop every economist that I heard was still saying it was a blip on the screen and everything is fine. Sub prime was fine and under control and another rally followed. Then in July of 2007 the markets…
5Oct2009 | InTheMoneyStocks.com | 0 comments | Continued5 Simple Things All Wealthy Traders Do To Gain An Edge
Over the past year I’ve spoken to hundreds of traders, many of which were recorded and posted at TraderInterviews.com. If you had asked me a few years ago how the best traders approached the markets, I would have said that they all had similar strategies. But after talking with traders of every market imaginable, I’ve found they all have very different methods.
However, while they each may use wildly different techniques (I spoke with one very wealthy trader who confirmed his chart patterns by looking at planetary movement and moon phases), all of them follow five rules without exception. Some of…
18Sep2009 | INO | 0 comments | ContinuedTreat Any Stock Market Weakness as a Buying Opportunity
The seasonal market statistics are clear: September has historically been the worst month for stocks of the year. Plus it’s followed by October, the month of the most spectacular stock market crashes in history.
This is why many bears — who have actually gotten more visible again during the past few weeks — say it’s time to get out of the market now.
These seasonal stock market statistics are certainly true. And after the strong gains since the July interim low, the market is due for a correction.
So the market may pull back a bit in the short term. But…
2Sep2009 | Money and Markets | 1 comment | ContinuedImportant Follow-Up on Dollar-Cost Averaging
Three weeks ago, I showed you why dollar-cost averaging would have worked very well since the first time I mentioned the strategy here in Money and Markets during the summer of 2008.
I got a lot of positive feedback on the story … including much amazement that this simple approach could have produced such a powerful result during such a tumultuous time for the stock market.
Of course, a few people also chimed in with questions and concerns. Some wondered whether I just chose favorable dates for my case study. More importantly, a couple of the comments suggest to me that my…
1Sep2009 | Money and Markets | 1 comment | ContinuedBuy “Low-Density” … How to Take the Guesswork Out of Valuing Stocks
I don’t care what investing legend you idolize and try to emulate – Buffett, Graham, Rogers, Lynch – they all share a common recommendation.
Always buy undervalued stocks and sell them when they’re overvalued. Or more commonly: “Buy low, sell high.” Of course, if you’ve invested for more than a week, you know this is easier said than done.
Undervalued (cheap) and overvalued (expensive) are such subjective measures when it comes to investing. Most times we end up guessing and most times we end up overpaying.
But today, let me show you one amazingly simple way to always buy stocks that are truly…
27Aug2009 | Investment U | 0 comments | Continued
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