What Your Brokerage Firm “Forgot” to Say
Nov 07, 2017 | Investing Strategies
Many retirees have a vague sense they could achieve significantly better returns managing their investments themselves. Yet, they hesitate. Often, that’s because managing a portfolio sounds complicated. And of course, the big brokerage firms want us to feel overwhelmed. They’re quick to show us studies that “prove” how individual investors can’t outperform the markets. Today, I’d like to tell you…
From Oil to Oil Stocks
Nov 03, 2017 | Investing Strategies
We’ve been bullish on oil for more than a year. As recently as late July, we summed up our bullish thesis, here. Our patient bullish position in oil is really starting to pay off… and now that rising tide is lifting the energy stocks along with it. First let’s take a look at the latest signals on oil. Oil traded…
How to Avoid Getting Spooked by Stocks
Oct 31, 2017 | Investing Strategies
It’s Halloween… and we’ve found a powerful way for you avoid the scariest stocks in the market. Last week, we showed you how TradeStops could have helped you avoid the 1987 Black Monday market meltdown. This got us thinking how TradeStops could help an investor avoid the sharp moves lower that can occur with individual stocks. To investigate this question,…
The Most Remarkable Trade of the Year
Oct 27, 2017 | Investing Strategies
It’s that time of year again… time for the most remarkable trade of the year. Here are the rules of this simple trade: Buy the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) at or near the closing price on October 26th. Use a 9% trailing stop on the closing price. If the DJIA closes below its 9% trailing stop then sell it…
TradeStops and Black Monday
Oct 24, 2017 | Investing Strategies
Last week was the 30th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. The market dropped 22% in one day. That got us thinking… how could TradeStops have helped? This was the top-trending topic on Google. We saw headlines such as: Could the 1987 Stock Market Crash Happen Again? Lessons on the Anniversary of the 1987 Stock Market Crash 30 Years…
Emerging All-Time Highs
Oct 20, 2017 | Investing Strategies
We’ve been bullish on emerging markets literally all year long … and it hasn’t been an easy call. Now that EEM – the iShares Emerging Markets Index – is breaking through to new all-time highs, what’s next? First, let’s revisit our emerging markets bullish thesis as we’ve published it over the course of this year. Last year, in December, we…
Take it from Two Nobel Prize Winners
Oct 17, 2017 | Investing Strategies
The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded last week to the behavioral economist Richard Thaler. Thaler was mentored by another Nobel Prize winning economist, Daniel Kahneman. What can you learn about investing from these two Nobel Prize winning economists? A lot! Before we talk about Thaler’s work, we’ll start with Kahneman. Daniel Kahneman and his late colleague, Amos Tversky, are…
Biotech Goes 11 and 0
Oct 13, 2017 | Investing Strategies
This past April we told you about a simple trade in biotech that made good money every year for the past 10 years. The trade is now over, and it was another winning year. Is it time to sell biotech now? The trade that we identified is the S&P Biotech ETF, XBI. XBI holds more than 100 biotech stocks. This…
Buffett Goes Gray
Oct 10, 2017 | Investing Strategies
The last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at how billionaire investors like David Einhorn have done when investing in IPOs. We found that investing in IPOs has not paid off in general for the world’s most famous investors… with the exception of at least one famous investor – Warren Buffett. Today we’ll take a look at how Warren Buffett…
Adding Rocket Fuel to Gold
Oct 06, 2017 | Investing Strategies
Gold continues to very slowly work its way higher. It’s up 20% in the past 20 months. Junior gold miners, on the other hand, are already up nearly 80%. Sometimes it’s worth the extra risk for the extra reward. This is likely one of those times. We’ve been bullish on gold for a long time. We outlined our reasons for…
