Strategies

Which types of investment behavior are most associated with negative returns and to what degree? This article isolates 2 specific bad behaviors that hurt investor returns most and recommends how such shortcomings can easily be avoided.

The trend is your friend and this article reviews the 7 most popular trend indicators to help you make an extensive and in-depth assessment of whether you should be buying or selling. If ever there was a “cut and save” investment advisory this article is it.

A tightening cycle by the Fed does one thing every time: slow our economy and end up in a stock market crash. History tells us this and if you haven't taken action yet, you may be running out of time. Here's what you can do to protect yourself:

According to RBS, the global financial markets are already showing signs of significant stress and the conditions are similar to those of the months before the Lehman crisis in 2008. Their advice is to ‘Sell everything’ and brace for a ‘cataclysmic year’!

Most every shopper, except most common stock shoppers, are excited and appreciative when they see merchandise they want selling at a bargain price. Why is it that common stock investors seem to hate it when their stocks go on sale?

In this latest global financial crisis there’s no single catalyst. Instead, this time around a whole bunch of seemingly-unrelated things are unraveling all at once.

Below is a list of 10 longer-term investment books that I recommend. They aren't all pure investment books (some of them teach you how markets operate in general, doing so in a clever way) but they will help you understand the markets and investing, and make you a bigger-picture thinker.

When it comes to investing, the first rule thing you need to learn is effective management of your emotions. It is impossible to eliminate the impulse to act when euphoria or panic are in the air yet, while you cannot eliminate the emotion that pushes you to react, you can control your reaction. You can choose to run with the herd or fight panic and stand aside while the herd stampedes... Below are 8 additional rules of investing from a contrarian point of view.

The following major upcoming events will be exciting to watch unfold, one after the other. The steps will each involve a quantum jump in the Gold & Silver prices. The process will take a few years, but might be breath-taking in speed once the process is begun.

Because we know the trend is down, there is no guesswork about trading from the long side in paper gold. There is no need to “predict” the price direction. Just wait for more information that buyers are beginning to increase (which they are not, so far), and then have a strategy for buying in a changing up trend. Presently, there is no evidence of a change to an up trend, so wait for confirmation and keep one’s powder dry.