Category: Learning to Invest
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Time to Fine Tune Your Investment Portfolio / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Nilus_Mattive
In my last couple of columns, I told you about two different portfolios that I’ve been running, both of which contain dividend stocks and have been performing very strongly.
That prompted some of you to write in asking what differentiates these two portfolios. It’s a great question and it raises the bigger issue of how you can tweak your own portfolio to better suit your goals and individual tolerance for risk.
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Sunday, November 07, 2010
Understanding Contrarian Stock Market Analysis / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Jeff_Neal
Traders have employed contrarian type analysis methods for years in an effort to garner market profits. Over the years the indicators that can be employed by the contrarian have grown but the major theme has remained the same and that is focus on what the majority is doing right now as well as what particular directional bias they currently possess. Contrarian analysis seeks out potential buying and selling strength by measuring investor expectations.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
How to Protect Your Portfolio with Stock Options Insurance Policy / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:If you don't deal a lot with stock options in your investments, you probably don't realize just how versatile options actually are.
In fact, stock options can be used:
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Investor Portfolio Diversification is Essential, Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Dudley_Baker
The natural resource sector has been performing extremely well of late and we are of the opinion that we are still in the early stages of an explosion in share prices. Gains of 100's of percent will be common but not without some risk.
Each investor must decide their own level of comfort and risk tolerance as measured again the potential gains to be made in the coming months.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
How to Invest for Just Half the Year And Beat The Stock Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: It's crazy, but true…
You can invest for just half the year and take the other half off… and beat the market.
It sounds crazy, but it's worked extremely well over the last 60 years.
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Flash Stock Market Crash, the Dark Side of Stop Loss Orders / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
We are proponents of persistent percentage trailing stop loss orders to protect against significantly declining markets. If more investors used stop loss orders, fewer investors would have been devastated by the the 2008 stock market crash. Just like seat belts and airbags that save lives in auto crashes, stop loss orders save portfolios in market crashes. However, in a small minority of cases, seat belts or airbags are a partial cause of injury in an auto crash. Similarly, in a small minority of cases, stop loss orders are a partial cause of investment losses.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Three Elements of Investment Success / / Learning to Invest
By: Christopher_Quigley
1. Compounding
Success in a career in investing requires knowledge, patience, focus and discipline. It is not a path to “getting rich quick”. When you see such “quicky” schemes advertised for any investment “product” you should run a mile. “Quick rich” schemes aside, disciplined investing can offer excellent returns when married to the “magic” of compounding.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Defensive Investing: Use Dollar-Cost Averaging to Reduce Volatility Risks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes: Dollar-cost averaging has long been a strategic staple among mutual fund buyers. Longer-term investors use it to smooth out the effects of short-term price fluctuations, but the tactic seldom has been practical for purchasers of individual stocks - that is until now.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
How to 'Stress Test' Your Investment Portfolio / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes: Back when I was a portfolio manager, I was always looking at ways to "stress test" my portfolio. In other words, I was on the constant lookout for ways to hedge my holdings, guard against risk, and to anticipate anything the market could throw at the stocks, bonds, options and other investments contained in my portfolio.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Cruise Control Hedging: The Basics of Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Most people enter the investment arena thinking that "Risk" is a board game they played in college. Today, I would guess that the majority of investors have never owned an individual share of common stock or a Municipal Bond.
The popularity of investment products has heightened the risk for all investors and has indirectly led to many of the policy errors that threaten both capitalism and the economic fabric of America. Market prices are increasingly and inappropriately influenced by decision-making based only on the derivatives that contain them.
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Ten Risk Minimization Strategies / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
In the recent financial crisis, a very small percentage of (I bought my house to live in) homeowners stopped paying on their mortgages. Still, the hysteria over the bursting housing bubble (i.e., lower market values) led to financial institution road-kill because of ridiculous accounting rules.
When the dot-come bubble destroyed "new economy" gladiators in a gory spectacle destined to repeat itself over time, what investment portfolios cheered unscathed from the coliseum bleachers?
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
The Number One Reason You Should Learn How to Short Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Justice_Litle
There are many good reasons to learn how to go short. One of the best ones is maintaining objectivity.
The vast majority of investors will never short a stock (or an index, a commodity or a currency for that matter). A modest contingent will experiment with options and inverse ETFs. But very few will ever take the time and effort to truly explore the “dark side” of financial markets.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Investment Grading Equity Analysts: Failed & Over Bullish for 25 Years / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Dian_L_Chu
Investment analysts' upgrades/downgrades have historically served as benchmarks for the markets, and could mean life or death to stock prices. However, the story of a 15% price swing in ATP Oil and Gas's (ATPG) stocks due to a $450-million math error by a JP Morgan (JPM) analyst probably has prompted some to question the value and validity of analysts' forecasts.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Seven Golden Investor Rules To Keep You Safe in Today’s ‘New Normal’ Stock Markets / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
Pundits are talking about the "New Normal," a not-so-subtle hint at the sub-par growth that's expected from the U.S. economy.
Those pundits have picked the right book. But as far as investors are concerned they're reading from the wrong chapter. The "New Normal" isn't just about the economy. It's an epic story about not-so-great expectations - for the financial markets.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Habits for Confident Investors / / Learning to Invest
By: Frank_Holmes
A New York Times columnist is calling for another depression, volume is rising on the “double-dip” recession debate, and a well-known technical analyst is predicting that a 90 percent plunge is coming for the Dow Jones average.
Ambitious doom-and-gloomers are racing to the bottom to conjure up the most apocalyptic market scenarios – it’s small wonder why many investors are curled up in the fetal position.
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Eight Ways to Tell If You Should Hold or Fold Your Mutual Fund Investment / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes: With the whipsaw patterns U.S. stocks have experienced in recent weeks - both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor's 500 Index are down 12% from their highs for the year - even the most ardent buy-and-hold investors are studying their portfolios, searching for holdings to cull.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Stock Market Investors Don't Go with the Flow / / Learning to Invest
By: Douglas_French
Anyone who follows financial markets has to wonder at times, "What are people thinking? How did they come to make those decisions?"
It's hard to imagine that John Muth and Robert Lucas came up with what's known as the "rational-expectations theory," wherein, as explained in Wikipedia,
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Stocks Sell Now, Buy Later the ABCs of Short Selling / Stock-Markets / Learning to Invest
By: Casey_Research
By Jake Weber, Editor, The Casey Report writes:
The catch phrases “Buy low, sell high” and “The market fluctuates” are probably the two most frequently used clichés of the investment world. The latter statement is hardly astute, and the former far easier said than done. What both of these simplistic ideas overlook is a third concept largely ignored by the investing public, “Sell now, buy later.”
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
How To Buy Stocks In An Extended Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: David_Grandey
What should you do with an extended market or shall we say a market that doesn't pullback? When you look at the indexes, that's what we have right now.
But first let's talk corrections and consolidations -- specifically of issues that are in clearly defined uptrends. We define clearly defined uptrends a stocks that make higher highs and trade above the 50-day moving average.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
How to Set Stop Loss Levels / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
We increasingly receive questions about how to set stop loss levels. Let’s look at one objective, data driven way to do that.
You may be a better way, and that’s good thing, but if you don’t have a way, and you need a way, this discussion may be a helpful starting place to design your own stop loss setting method.
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