It's an unusually chilly morning in Delray Beach, and the wind is sweeping in off the blue-green Atlantic waters with wild abandon.
I am rushing to leave my hotel room, and grab some breakfast before heading over to the Tycoon Publishing office when, almost as an afterthought, I snatch the complimentary ...
read more »
Editor's Note: The following article from 2007 is being re-published as a critical reminder for seasoned Tycoons and as an important foundation for new readers. Enjoy!
I’m often amazed by the sheer quantity of investment ideas I hear on a daily basis. Regardless of the ...
read more »
Are credit default swaps the Devil -- as Greece’s prime minister Papandreou would have the world believe -- or are they legitimate investment tools?
This question is being hotly debated at the very highest levels of European power.
Papandreou is crying to anyone who will listen that Greece’s ...
read more »
She keeps making one advance after another, and she's got legs that are sexy. She's the S&P 500!
When I say "legs" I'm talking about a possible confirmed intermediate up trend line that we may (or may not) have in place right now. While demand has certainly taken ...
read more »
Two weeks ago, I started to discuss where investors got their information from.
The reason I started this series of articles was to help the individual investor better understand where information they use comes from, and to show how that information cannot always to be taken at face value. If you ...
read more »
Before jumping into today's article, I just want to send a big "Thank You" out to everyone who's been sending me such kind notes about my Master Real Estate Investor course.
It's high time, I know, and those of you who've been begging for a real estate investing course have been waiting a ...
read more »
Right off the bat, I want to say this isn't about "that dirty rotten stinkin' bad old broker."
If you are a broker or a money manager, please know, I'm just going to slowly make our readers understand the things that motivate your actions -- other than just making the client money.
One of ...
read more »
Chris Dodd (D–Conn.) and company are busy laboring away, attempting to come up with a financial-reform act.
As I've said before, if it doesn't split commercial and investment banking entities, then it's useless in my book.
The big selling point being bandied about is that it will prevent banking ...
read more »
My mom and my old English teachers are going to kill me for this next sentence, but ...
If all else fails ... if there is a disaster waiting in the winds (I mean hypothetically, of course!) ... if China starts selling U.S. Treasuries (ah-hem) ... if the EuroZone is on the brink of economic disaster ...
read more »
There is no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the actions of owners and executives of publicly traded companies. That's why insider buying and selling is a critical piece of data for investors, both institutional and individual.
As part of our continuing efforts here at The ...
read more »
How many times have you looked at your investing or trading account and seen some pretty respectable gains?
And then, when you came back (for example, anytime during 2008), did you find that some (or all) of your "paper" profits went up in smoke?
For most investors, initiating a position ...
read more »
Tycoon readers,
Join me in a cooperative venture today.
I am going to propose four solutions, any and all of which I believe would go a long way toward improving the current housing crisis.
Then, I am going to give all of you a say on my proposals as well as challenge you to provide ...
read more »
Earnings misfires. Modern-day Greek tragedies. Tightened rules on short-selling. Stocks sinking around health care talks and then soaring when Ben Bernanke appears before Congress.
And that's only what's happened in the markets so far this week. No wonder stock investors are pulling their money out ...
read more »
After squandering most of his political capital on a ramrodded, pork-laden, backroom-negotiated health care plan, the Obama administration is finally realizing that maintaining power in the White House is all about fixing the economy.
For such a smart guy, it's taken him a long time to get here!
The ...
read more »
The U.S. equities markets have already recovered 50% of the value lost in the recent correction, and there are several ways to interpret the market's actions of late.
The old Wall Street saying comes to mind: "Put 20 analysts in a room, and you'll get 30 opinions."
Many ...
read more »
Why not?
The Tycoon Report is free, and when you sign up today you'll get ...
