Investing

There are four things you can depend on for being the strongest drivers of stock price, and to a greater extent, the price or value of anything. Pay attention to these four things and you’ll have a better feel for future stock price direction, whether it be up or down.

Companies which spent years developing their brands can see their business disappear almost overnight. It’s like a black swan event except with industries not the economy. If you’re an investor, it might not be enough to just look at the competition. You need to look at how technology can destroy a business.

What evidence is there that the typical investor would be better suited sticking to a defined investment plan as opposed to employing a performance chasing type strategy?

Fibonacci retracements are technical indicators that can help predict when, and to what extent, both pullbacks and rallies could occur.

Let’s look at how to screen for stocks that could form your base list of stocks to review in detail. Here is the process I use to find winning stocks.

One grossly over-looked factor in investing is Return on Invested Capital, or ROIC for short...Many stock traders have no idea what it is. It is doubtful your (or your parent's) money manager knows what it is or uses it. It's time to change that. In this article, we will dive more into return on invested capital, examine what it is, how you calculate it, and why it is so important.

In this post, we’re going to focus on the technical indicators that are most commonly used for trend following.

A prudent investor is able to spot when an asset becomes a high risk and then has the sense to move his or her funds into one that is a lower risk but, unfortunately, complacency has turned investors brains into mush. Real estate & stock asset values are near their top while the silver price is closer to its bottom. Thus, assets that are near a top are HIGH RISK, and those near a bottom are LOW RISK. It’s really that simple.

Buying and selling based on a moving average of monthly closes can be an effective strategy for managing the risk of severe loss from major bear markets. In essence, •when the monthly close of the index is above the moving average value, you hold the index, •when the index closes below, you move to cash. A chart of the S&P 500 monthly closes since 1995 shows that a 10- or 12-month simple moving average (SMA) strategy would have ensured participation in most of the upside price movement while dramatically reducing losses.

What makes 2018 remarkably different from the recent past is rising stock market volatility. Since the start of the year, the CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX) has shot higher by around 100%. By comparison, the VIX was -42.5% for the three-year period from January 2015 to December 2017. While rising volatility might put certain people on edge, but it’s not necessarily bad. Here are 3 strategies for managing market volatility.