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Insider Buying: The Best Buy Signal You Can Get

Did you miss the perfect insider buying opportunity? You might have.

Over the past two months stocks have climbed almost 40%. After hitting historical lows – and being completely oversold – the markets have been clawing their way back up, week by week.

And even with the ugliness caused by the release of the banking stress tests last week, it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing values plunge. There’s simply too much money sitting on the sidelines, and it’s slowly creeping back in.

Since 1987 the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) has conducted a monthly survey on how we allocate our…

11May2009 | Investment U | 0 comments | Continued

Value Investors – Beware The Value Traps

Value investors, consider this your warning… With thousands of stocks down 50% (or more), investors are salivating over the bargains. But for every true deal, there are at least three “value traps” – stocks destined to languish at depressed levels indefinitely. Or worse, get cheaper still.

Think Kmart here. In late 2001, it became the poster child for value investors. They argued it was dirt cheap based on countless metrics like book value and sales. And it was destined for a historic turnaround.

Sure enough, the stock went from the bargain bin to the trash heap, as the company filed bankruptcy in…

5Dec2008 | Investment U | 0 comments | Continued

Credit Crisis Update: Dow’s Wild Ride Convinces Some We’ve Seen the Bottom

Panicked international investors fled the markets as a steep sell-off circled the globe today (Friday), but a late-afternoon rally helped the U.S. market pare the bulk of declines.

A lot of institutions are deciding to come back into the market,” Michael Nasto, the senior trader at U.S. Global Investors Inc., told Bloomberg News. “We’ve been beaten down so much. Some people feel this is the bottom.”

After plunging below 8,000 earlier in the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reversed course. At the New York close, the blue-chip Dow posted a reduced loss of 128.00 points (-1.49%), to close at 8,451.19. The tech-laden…

13Oct2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued

Profit Opportunity: A diamond in a mud pit

This is a very scary period of time for investors. Just when they think they have the market figured out, it turns out to be a head fake and the market changes track.

If not careful, this market could become more than scary. It could be come downright dangerous. For many investors, it already has. The losses are piling up.

Across the nation, investors are running for cover. Nearly all economic barometers show a recession on the horizon. It is time to head to your storm shelters. When the markets are destined for a major slowdown, you need to take action.

Unfortunately, the…

4Apr2008 | Guest Contributor | Comments Off | Continued
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