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Teeka Tiwari's Best Articles of 2006

Friday, December 29, 2006 | Teeka Tiwari

Happy Holidays!  The editorial boys and girls at Tycoon asked me to round up my top five  articles for 2006.  We covered a lot of ground this year, and it wasn’t an easy task.  Below are my five 'must reads' that will absolutely make you a better investor.

The first article, “Why Pessimism Never Pays”, is one I really enjoyed writing.  This article will teach you some very valuable lessons that took me many years and many more dollars to learn.  I discuss the importance of maintaining a BALANCED view of the stock market (and the math to back up such a perspective!) and the utter importance of keeping a trader's diary.

In article #2, “Let The Game Come To You”, I share with you not just a slogan but my own personal Bushido.  This article was millions of dollars in the making.  The premise is simple enough - only trade when the facts tell you to trade - but to actually learn this and put it into practice took me years.  Hopefully, this article will save you from having to repeat my earlier mistakes.

I wrote article #3, “Managing Risk”, specifically for traders looking for a way to both manage their risk and pyramid their profits.  It is not intended for casual or conservative investors.  What I like most about the strategy outlined in this article is that in a strong trending stock, it can allow you to use leverage in a very controlled way to dramatically increase your returns.  The wealthiest men and women in America have long learned how to make leverage work for them. In this article, I explain how to make leverage work for you in your wealth-building efforts in the stock market.

For those of you who are “passive” risk adverse equity investors, article #4, “A Little Secret Worth $2.6 million”, is MUST READING.  It’s no exaggeration that reading this article has the potential to save you millions of dollars.  The richest people I know all live by the rule, “A dollar saved, is a dollar earned.”  Find out how you could be cheating yourself out of an even better retirement.

I wrote the final article, “Will China Eat Us All”, very recently, and many of you have probably read it already, but if I didn’t include it in my top five, I would be remiss.  In this piece, I attempt to provide some balanced perspective on China.  I also stress the importance of rational analysis that is free of ideological bias.  When you develop this skill, your ability to make money in the market will seriously accelerate.

China is going to be a key shaper of our global future.  Understanding the Chinese and gaining perspective on how to make money from the booms and busts that will be occurring both in and because of China will be critical to your long-term investment success.


Why Pessimism Never Pays When Trading Stocks

Unlike in other areas such as politics and religion, dogmatic opinions about the stock market rarely result in success.  As professional investors, we cannot afford the luxury of a fixed point of view.  In the same vein, we must avoid extremist viewpoints, whether too bullish or bearish. The greatest investors are usually great realists.  They have the ability to strip away emotion, dogma, and their own personal prejudice when evaluating global events and their impact on financial markets  Read More »



Let The Game Come to You

He steadies his sights, he feels the bead of perspiration slowly trickle down his spine, his breath quickens, and he can feel the adrenaline coursing through his system.  In hunting circles, this is known as the onset of “Buck Fever”. Read More »


Managing Risk

I’ve had a lot of new readers of the Tycoon Report contact me  wanting to know how much they should be putting into a trade.  This is a great question.  I wrote an article several months ago about this exact topic, and I wanted to share it with you newcomers to the Tycoon Report. Read More »


A Little Secret Worth $2.6 Million ...
 
There's a dirty little secret that the Wall Street firms hope you won't find out.
Let me back up for a second.  The real goal of Wall Street firms is not to make you money, and it's not to lose you money, either (they just can't help doing that.) Read More »


Will China Eat us All?   

The idea that China harbors secret imperialistic ambitions is a difficult one to reconcile with the facts of history.  After all, if you look back over the last 100 years, can you tell me how many countries China has invaded and occupied?  To my knowledge, only one comes to mind, Tibet. How many countries have England, France and America invaded and occupied over the last 100 years?  How about over the last 30 years?  The notion of a nascent Chinese war machine preparing  Read More »


“Let the Game Come to You.”

Teeka Tiwari
Chief Investment Officer
Point & Profit