Overall, the market was due for a pullback. It seemed like every trading day in January, the market was only rising so it is only natural that, eventually, the market was going to fall but it’s just that many didn’t think this type of volatility was going to happen so soon. Here are some things to keep in mind.
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Many of us think Wall Street is using sophisticated tools to make money. It is...but big Wall Street firms also use simple tools to make money. One tool many large firms use is the advance-decline line.
Read More »Should You Sell Your Losing Stocks?
What do you do with your losing stocks? Unfortunately, many of us probably hold onto them, afraid to admit our failure with the hope that one-day they’ll come back. In this article, I’ll try to explain why it might make sense to sell them.
Read More »Use Return on Equity (ROE) To Better Evaluate the Potential Returns Of A Company’s Stock (+2K Views)
The ROE can be useful when deciding which company in an industry is the better investment. Let me explain.
Read More »Candle Charts Anticipate A Bounce Or Break In Price Allowing Us To Take Appropriate Action (+2K Views)
People seem to think that since they hear that so few people are successful in trading, that there must be a complicated process to complete in order to make money. The truth is that the simpler we make trading, the more profitable it seems to be...so this week I decided to discuss a simple technique that is often overlooked when traders are reading charts, specifically candle charts.
Read More »Investing In Equities Carries Substantial Risk: The S&P 500 Roller Coaster Of Returns (2K Views)
Imagine that five years ago you invested $10,000 in the S&P 500. How much would it be worth today, with dividends reinvested but adjusted for inflation?
Read More »Ways to Use Leverage to Maximize Gold Returns (+3K Views)
There are many different investment vehicles one can use to invest in gold but the key aspects that we as investors and traders must always look for are the vehicles' relationship and correlation with gold prices, and how much that correlation is or isn’t leveraged to the gold price.
Read More »Dividends: What They Are, How They Work & What They Can Offer Investors Over Time
Today's infographic dives deep into dividends - what they are, how they work, their interesting history, as well as what they can offer investors over time.
Read More »U.S. National Debt: What’s Driving It & When Does It Reach A Tipping Point? (+2K Views)
The last time the United States had a national debt level this high (106% debt-to-GDP), it was during the immediate aftermath of WWII in the late 1940s so what's driving the national debt so high these days and at what point does the situation reach a tipping point that gets people to act?
Read More »Best Places to Retire in Mexico (+2K Views)
Here are the top 10 places to live and retire in Mexico and the reasons why:
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