Investing

Many financial advisors continue to recommend old solutions like the “60/40” portfolio. It had several good decades but that doesn’t guarantee them several more, though. I believe times have changed.

It's hard to know what to buy or sell let alone just when to prudently do so. Thank goodness there are indicators available that provide information of stock and index movement of a more immediate nature to help you make such important decisions. This article describes the 6 most popular Momentum Indicators.

A short time ago I started looking at the question: "Is gold an effective hedge against a financial crisis?" Having studied the question in more detail, I find the answer is no, gold is not an effective hedge against a financial crisis. Here's why.

Recently I discovered a website which tracks pundits in finance (and politics and sports). Check it out to see how many of the calls and predictions of your favorite prognosticators have turned out to be true. You’ll be surprised and, no doubt, disappointed!

There are many indicators available that provide information on stock and index movement to help you time the market and make money. Market strength and volatility are two such categories of indicators and a description of six of them are described in this "cut and save" article. Read on!

This article ranks a group of stocks that have increased their dividend payouts for at least 25 consecutive years (called Dividend Aristocrats) based on David Van Knapp's quality scoring system and my modifications.

The 7 immutable (i.e. not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature) laws of investing and how they apply to gold/silver and debt-ridden fiat currencies are:

In this article, I rank an elite group of stocks that have increased their dividend payouts for at least 50 consecutive years (called Dividend Kings) based on David Van Knapp's quality scoring system and my modifications.

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.

As can be seen from the above analysis the DJIA moves opposite to the direction of the GOR so it is imperative to watch the GOR as it provides a very reliable indicator of the direction the DJIA is about to embark on.