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The Most Common Mistakes Investors Make
Experience, it is often said, is the best teacher. Perhaps that’s because it can be such a painful lesson to ...
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These Assets Could Be Big Winners, But They Aren’t Right for Many of Us
Investors are flooded with information at the end of the year. There are many articles that review the year in ...
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Here’s Why 2019 Could Be a Bad Year for Stocks
In the long run, stock prices are driven by earnings. That’s why investors should be concerned about 2019. According to ...
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Esoteric Markets Could Sink Global Markets in 2019
The prose is rather dry, as you would expect a detailed report written by economists to be. The headline actually ...
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This Chart Could Show the Biggest Risk of 2019
As is often the case, investors and analysts are studying the stock market in search of clues about the future ...
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Computers Might Be Making This Decline Worse, or Better
There has been a relentless shift on Wall Street ever since the first traders gathered under the buttonwood tree that ...
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Can the Fed Save the Stock Market?
The Federal Reserve, according to many analysts, was responsible for the great bull market in stocks that began in 2009 ...
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Bears Feed Off the Economy
As major stock market indexes fall to levels associated with bear markets, investors are considering an important question which is ...
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2019’s Best Bet In Stocks
The end of the year is often a time for reflection. It is a time to look ahead. Both of ...
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Experts Tell Barron’s to Expect a Rally Next Year
It’s as much an annual tradition on Wall Street as the mistletoe in many homes on Main Street. Every year, ...
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Insiders and Institutions Love These Cheap Stocks
We can think of stock market investors in terms of groups. Some groups in that structure know more than others ...
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Four Warren Buffett Stocks Trading Under $3
Let’s face it. We all want to invest like Warren Buffett. Buffett is a great investor who now benefits from ...
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This Could Be the First Signal of a Market Bottom
For now, it seems safe to say that the stock market is in a down trend. But the beginning of ...
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Surprise: This Could Be Your Best Retirement Investment
Many of the things we think we know about investing are wrong. But we do know one thing with near ...
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How to Think Like Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is an investing icon and there is a good reason for that. He has been amazingly successful and ...
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Do-Good Investors Looking to Pot Stocks
Some investors are not worried about maximizing profits. Instead they seek to maximize gains consistent with their values. This investment ...
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This Hedge Fund Legend Says Expect a Big Decline. Should You Listen?
High profile investors often make market forecasts in the age of CNBC. To some degree, CNBC creates this environment. The ...
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This Could Be the Season for Video Games
While they were once popular just among teens, video games are increasingly popular among all age groups and demographics. It ...
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Here’s Why Analysts Are Watching for the Next Sears
The story of Sears is one of change. At first, Sears led the change. But, in the end Sears was ...
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An Often Overlooked Problem With Buy and Hold
Buy and hold is a popular investment strategy. While that term, buy and hold, is widely used, it might mean ...
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These Crises Could Drive a Deep Bear Market
Investors are wondering whether or not stocks will continue moving lower. Many are seriously considering the possibility. But others are ...
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Looking Beyond Gold
Gold prices have been rallying. They are now at their highest level since July. And, this could be the beginning ...
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Alternative Data: The Next Big Thing
Alternative data has recently become the “next big thing” for investors who are searching for edges and the data is ...
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What Individual Investors Can Learn From GE’s Pension Plan
General Electric (NYSE: GE) has been in the news quite a bit recently. Analysts have been cutting price targets, some ...
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Value in a Bear Market
We may very well be in the early days of a bear market. No one knows for sure until the ...
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This Year Is Different: It’s Worse Than Many Investors Realize
Many investors believe diversification can help them reduce risks. This phrase, “reduce risks,” does have many possible meanings. But, for ...
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Retail Isn’t Dead, and Here’s a Trade for the Sector
It’s an old story by now. Retail is dead, and, at least to some degree it is because shoppers are ...
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Buffett’s Putting His Money Into This Sector
Warren Buffett isn’t always right. But he is right quite often. That’s why it can be profitable for individual investors ...
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Goldman Sachs Says It’s Time to Worry
Many investors worry all the time. Many analysts urge investors to worry all the time. It feels as if some ...
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This Could Be Your Valuable Bear Market Strategy
Some major Wall Street firms warn we are in a bear market. Morgan Stanley thinks the bull market is already ...
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These Four Large Cap Stocks Are Bargains Now
Market sell offs do have a silver lining. As prices fall, valuations tend to decline in the market. As prices ...
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This Leading indicator Just Screamed a Warning
Analysts tend to divide indicators into various categories. For stock market analysts reviewing economic indicators, categories often include a description ...
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The Truth About Pensions
Millennials, and in fact almost everyone, seems to long for the good old days. Those were the days when employers ...
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Big Banks and Big Investors Warn the Bear Market Could Get Worse
Investing is challenging for a number of reasons. One reason is that it takes unique insights to succeed. Another reason ...
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Why It Can Pay to Follow the CEO
Many investors look at news events that seem unique and simply turn their attention to the next story. But, the ...
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The Next Big Thing In Investing
Many investors spend time looking for the next big thing. The next Apple, or the next marijuana sector. They often ...
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Secrets of Institutional Investors: Factors
Many ideas in the investment community start in the academic institutions where researchers attempt to unlock the mysteries of the ...
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What Investors Need to Know About Oil’s Bear Market
Oil is in a bear market. That’s using the official definition of a bear market which requires a price drop ...
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This Sector Could Be a Big Winner
The midterm election is now in the history books and the hard work of governing is about to begin. For ...
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Could This Be the Time to Consider Bitcoin?
For the past few weeks, many traders have been focused on the stock market. They are concerned about the recent ...
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China’s Secret Could Make the Next Recession Deeper Than Expected
Debt makes recessions worse and recoveries more difficult. This was one of the conclusions emphasized in “This Time Is Different: ...
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Buybacks Are Now Important to the Bull Market
In the recent market sell off, some analysts wondered if the lack of corporate buybacks was a problem for the ...
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Investing Secrets of Bernard Baruch
Among the long forgotten Wall Street legends is Bernard Baruch. His biography seems short, according to Wikipedia: “Baruch became a ...
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Warren Buffett Is As Good at Selling As He Is at Buying
Warren Buffett is famous for being a buy and hold investor. Buffett famously says that his favorite holding period is ...
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Here’s Why Missing the Ten Best Days Could Be Good For Investors
It’s a chart that financial planners like to pull out when the stock market sells off. Recently, the story was ...
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Prohibition Is Over: How Marijuana Differs from Alcohol
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages ...
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This Looks Like the “Near Bear” Market of 2011
Officially, there hasn’t been a bear market since 2009. The S&P 500 bottomed in March of that year after falling ...
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The Best Trades for November
Stocks fell sharply in October but that doesn’t mean they won’t rally in November. That’s the challenge investors now face ...
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The S&P 500 Gave An Important Sell Signal
With the recent sell off, many analysts have noted that the S&P 500 dropped below its 200 day moving average ...
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Five S&P 500 Stocks With the Most Downside Risk
The stock market is in the midst of a pull back. Formal definitions of bear market markets require waiting for ...
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A New Worry for Stock Market investors: Home Prices
Traders like to say things aren’t a problem until they are. In other words, higher interest rates aren’t a problem ...
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This Group of Stocks Could Help Income Investors Ride Out a Bear Market
As stocks sold off, almost all stocks declined. That is truly the way prices move in a sell off and ...
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Khashoggi’s Impact on Investments
One of the tragic stories in the news the past few weeks has been about the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi ...
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Another Reason to Prepare for the Bear Market
Stocks in the U. S. have been volatile lately and volatility implies an unusually large amount of downside risk. That ...
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What the Fed Could Mean For Your Portfolio
When minutes from the September meeting of the Federal Reserve were released this week, traders received confirmation that the Fed ...
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This Is Why Headlines Can Be Hazardous to Your Wealth
Investors have a simple goal. They want to make money. They can do this by finding stocks that go up ...
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Here’s How to Invest in Stocks as Interest Rates Rise
Interest rates can cause stock market crashes and they can also contribute to extended bear markets in stocks. The problem ...
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Elon Musk Might Be Wrong About Short Sellers
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is unhappy with short sellers. At least some of his actions seem to be aimed at ...
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This Is the News That Could Doom the Stock Market and the Economy
The Wall Street Journal headline was scary enough even before investors thought about what it could mean. Mortgage Rates Fast ...
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Trading the Best Few Months for Retailers
This is the time of year when retailers tend to deliver strong results. And, this year, retailers are in the ...
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Here’s What the Smart Money in Commodities Is Doing
Commodities markets tend to be different than the stock market. Some of the participants in the commodities markets are seeking ...
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Italy Could Be the Next Crisis to Watch
CNBC personality is fond of saying that there’s always a bull market somewhere. He certainly seems to be correct. There ...
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Why the Next Recession Won’t Start Too Soon
A recession is near. At least that’s the conclusion of many economists who are analyzing the length of the current ...
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Interest Rates Could Become a Problem
Interest rates have been on the up swing for some time. The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates since ...
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Individuals Can Benefit from Quant Investing
Among the biggest ideas in investing right now is the concept of quantitative investing. It’s not really a new investing ...
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The Fourth Quarter Could Be the Best of the Year
If you ask children about their favorite times of the year, their answers will generally be either their birthday, the ...
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Financial Stress Could Deliver Investor Profits
Many families face financial stress. According to USA Today, The majority of Americans are not setting aside enough money in ...
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Investors Need to Listen to This Nobel Prize Winner
Economists often focus on theory. A popular economic theory is the efficient market hypothesis (EMH). The Nobel Prize winning economist ...
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The Truth Is Millennials Are Bullish for Markets
Imagine its 1984. The youngest baby boomers were turning 20 and the economy was about to be changed. To define ...
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Home Prices Are a Concern, Again
Many investors remember the last financial crisis. It devastated stock prices and the economy. Banks suffered, as did consumers. And ...
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Inflation Fears Could Be Justified
One concern cited by analysts is the fact that U.S. consumer spending is increasing solidly, indicating strong economic growth early ...
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Oil Prices Like This Triggered Recessions in the Past
This is an important time for the oil market. And, that means the economy faces a potential tipping point. In ...
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New Highs Lead to…
Investors seem to become concerned when stock market indexes reach new highs. There is, of course, good reason for that ...
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The Most Important Factor in Portfolio Returns
Many investors dedicate hours to finding just the right stock to buy. They want the next Apple, or the next ...
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Are Options Right for You?
Many investors use options strategies while other investors avoid options because they believe options carry high risks. The truth is ...
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Cash Points to Value in These Stocks
Value investors often look at earnings. Stocks with low price to earnings (P/E) ratios can be favorites of value investors ...
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Breadth Warning of a Possible Market Selloff
Traders are often forced to deal with conflicting information. They may look at different indicators, for example, and some of ...
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The Conservative Formula That Beats the Market
Investors are often told that risk and reward are inseparable, and it is impossible to have one without the other ...
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Hindenburg Omen: Great Marketing or Important Signal?
Wall Street is a unique place. It is an actual place where many people work in the financial sector. It ...
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Here’s Why Gold Could Be Worth a Look
Gold is an investment in the eyes of some investors. It is a hedge against catastrophe in the eyes of ...
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This Is What the Emerging Markets Bear Market Really Means
Emerging markets, as a group, are now more than 20% below their recent peak. A decline of 20% is the ...
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Trade A Sector Rotation Strategy
Traders know that stocks move up and down. The same is true for the market in general and for sectors ...
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Maybe There Is a Free Lunch for Investors After All
Economists often say "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" although sometimes they will use better grammar and ...
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These Stocks Could Shine in a Bear Market
The S&P 500 fell slightly more than 20% from its all-time, intraday high to its recent low. The Dow Jones ...
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News Traders Can Use
Big corporate tax cut creating winners and losers as lawmakers try for reform House Republicans are trying to come together ...
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News That Traders Can Use
Toshiba Considering Options for Selling Its Chip Unit Toshiba Corp. investors approved the sale of its memory chip unit and ...
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