The Tycoon Report

Measuring Wealth in More Than Dollars

As an investor or a trader, your quest is simple: to keep your money, and make even more. Our investing goals, however, ...
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Beware of These Trader's Mind Traps

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -- Hamlet "It is difficult to get a man ...
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The Unseen Danger of Too Many Options

This isn't an article about holding too many options contracts in your account, though that can be a real concern, and though ...
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Changing the Way We Think

Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles starting with "Everything's Relative: How Not to Get Suckered ...
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Everything You Think You Know is Wrong

"Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts." -- Nelson Mandela "The free man is ...
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How I Elevated My Options Trading Game

When you're long a stock (i.e., holding the shares in your account), having it go up is the only way you'll make a gain. ...
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Everything's Relative: How Not to Get Suckered Into Anything

"Tom had discovered a great law of human action; namely that, in order to make a man covet a thing, it is only necessary ...
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A Wall Street Saga: A 'Goldman' Oportunity (Part 2)

  "With the right hand out begging for bailout money, the left is hiding it offshore." -- Rep. Lloyd Doggett, ...
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A Wall Street Saga: A 'Goldman' Oportunity (Part 1)

"If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale." -- John Kenneth Galbraith, ...
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Timing the Opportunity that Most Will Miss

Happy Thursday to you all. Just to let you know, next Thursday I’ll be taking my first week off since I started writing ...
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Write Your Own Investment Success Story

It's earnings season (again), as Alcoa (AA) got the party started last night by issuing the inaugural report of the ...
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Taming the Emotional Tiger in Your Trading

"In free markets, sentiment refers to the feelings and emotions of market participants.... Every change in price results ...
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Where to Invest Your Money Right Now

"Shares Slip and Bonds Fall After Fed Statement" "Russia Facing Long Recession, World Bank Says" "Is ...
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Should You Be Buying Banks Right Now?

Progress in the Financial Services Industry Item 1: On June 10, the Treasury Department announced that 10 large banks could ...
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Why We Often Act Against Our Own Best Interests

In 2006, there was not a single trading day when the Dow Jones industrial average rose or fell by 2 percent or more. In ...
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A Master's ETF Recommendations

I just finished reading (take a big breath, it's a long title) Beat the Market - Win with Proven Stock Selection and Market ...
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ETFs in Jeopardy; Industry About to Collapse!

OK, not really. But there are some shakedowns happening in these securities, so today I thought I’d ...
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How Not to Lose Money in the Markets

When I was a new investor, I made some stupid mistakes and, as a result, lost bunches of bananas and crates of coconuts. ...
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'Steel' Yourself Against Becoming Bear Food

Are You an Iron Man or a Woman of Steel? What a difference a couple of weeks makes, huh? When last we visited our sector ...
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Swine Flu Stocks and the Economic Crisis

With as many people searching the Internet for "swine flu stocks" as there are financial gurus trying to identify ...
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2 Sectors Poised to Provide Serious Trading Profits

Two sectors that I've been tracking for a couple of months are the restaurant and steel/iron sectors. Why? They've been ...
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Make Profits 'Emerge' With Global ETFs

Global investing is not just international; focusing on just a few countries outside of the United States does not a global ...
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The Skinny on Trading Global Indices

Today we're not going to talk about the stains that tobacco spit leaves in baseball dugouts. (Great image, huh?) Nor are ...
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There Is No Investing God

"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." -- Doris Lessing

Myths ...
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The Best Internal Market Indicator EVER!

If you’ve frequented The Tycoon Report for any length of time, you’ve heard tell of a market indicator ...
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Point and Figure Primer Part 2

Last week we looked at P&F charts and went over the basics -- how they work and how to read them. Today we're ...
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A Primer on Point and Figure Charting

George writes, "These articles use P&F charts on occasion, and I have no idea how they are generated, what they ...
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Trading for Toddlers

No, this isn't a column about illicit infant trafficking. Nor does it announce a competition (as in "Dialing for Dollars") ...
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Gold and Silver, my Precioussss!

Today I'm going to do something I normally reserve for readers of my blog, current members of the ETF Master Trader ...
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Stop Losing Money in the Markets. Here's How

Novice skydivers who don't jump solo have an instructor with whom they dive, strapped to their backs.  That ...
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Further Confessions of a Sector Hunter

I just got off the phone with Ben Schott, The Tycoon Report's esteemed editor, and I was asking about the new Sector Hunter ...
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Why You Should Tread Carefully This Earnings Season

Last night, Dow Industrials component Alcoa (Symbol: AA) upheld the tradition of kicking off earnings season with the ...
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The Only Thing We Have To Fear

Fear of missing the next winner is a killer. The quote above is from a recent article by one of my all-time favorite financial ...
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Warning: You Have Too Many Stocks in Your Portfolio

According to a study done in the 1990s by a couple of British anthropologists, the size of the human brain is correlated ...
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Corporate Heroes

"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible." -- David ...
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Creating a Watch List Part 2: Choosing an ETF

In my example from last week we did a relative strength analysis and chose a sector to invest in, The Consumer Staples sector. ...
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Creating a Watch List Part 1: Choosing a Sector

So you’ve been receiving The Tycoon Report in your inbox for a while now and you’ve been hearing Chris, Teeka, ...
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Scrooge's Penny-Pinching Tips

In this season of gift-giving and pausing to reflect on the year past, I’m going to take a little break from writing ...
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Sector Timing: When to Pull the Trigger

Note: This is the final installment in a three-part series introducing you to sector investing. In case you missed the other ...
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Mastering Sector Rotation

Last article I introduced you to sectors and how to begin to choose a sector to invest in. Today we will take a more in-depth ...
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Confessions of a Wild Sector Hunter

[Editor’s Note: Congratulations to Bob De Dea, who has just been officially certified by Teeka Tiwari on the ETF Master ...
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