For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the owners and executives of those companies themselves, along with major institutional shareholders.
That's why insider buying and selling is a critical piece of ...
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Editor's Note: TycoonU has recently appointed Ron Ianieri, a former floor trader and specialist on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and founder of ION Options, as its Dean of Options Education. Ron is presently teaching the inaugural session of "Options GPS," the first of many projects to come ...
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The late Leo Durocher (1905-'91), a Hall of Fame baseball player and manager, was often credited with a famous remark that "Nice guys finish last."
This originated with a 1946 interview in which he commented that ball players who were nice to their teammates and got along well together, ...
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Last night, Dow Industrials component Alcoa (Symbol: AA) upheld the tradition of kicking off earnings season with the first report of the quarter, surprising analysts with a 4-cents-per-share gain (vs. a projected 9-cent loss).
While analysts scramble to make heads or tails of the announcement ...
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A recent article in The Wall Street Journal sang the praises of "managed" Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs).
Don't be fooled by these "new" financial products. They are just old-fashioned mutual funds disguised as ETFs.
You see, the mutual fund boys have been hemorrhaging cash, as ...
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Yesterday was a huge day, technically.
Why?
Thursday's and Friday's action brought the market back down to its major uptrend line (for the first time since mid-July). Pullbacks to the uptrend line (green line) are healthy and are just an expected part of an advance.
The trendline tends ...
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For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the owners and executives of those companies themselves, along with major institutional shareholders.
That's why insider buying and selling is a critical piece of ...
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They say history repeats itself. Maybe so ... but not this time in the stock market!
Today’s stock market is at an inflection point, the likes of which has never been seen. Never before has the market come to such a well-defined line in the sand.
Up or down? Up or down? That question is as ...
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The Associated Press carried a story last week that the Social Security system is now being heavily strained by Baby Boomers in their early 60s, who have been laid off from their jobs within the past year.
This new pressure on the system will force Social Security to pay out more in benefits ...
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -- Hamlet
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
"The idea that private industry can always do something better than the ...
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"Why didn't my option make me money
when the stock did exactly what I thought it would?"
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard this particular question throughout the past 20-plus years that I've been using options, I probably could bail out the banks myself!
(With the FDIC estimating ...
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The last few months have been spectacular for global equities. Many investors, large and small alike, are sitting on enormous profits but are unsure when to cash in those chips.
If you're like others who don't want to give back your hard-earned returns, you are no doubt wondering how to cash out without ...
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Happy Tuesday, Tycoons!
First, I want to congratulate everyone who made it into Options GPS school. I look forward to seeing you "in class" as you embark on your options-education journey.
The hallways are filled, and school is now in session!
Here in The Tycoon Report, we've been ...
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For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the owners and executives of those companies themselves, along with major institutional shareholders.
That's why insider buying and selling is a critical piece of ...
read more »
Options are the greatest way possible to invest in the stock market.
There are a number of reasons why. My favorite happens to be the fact that you can dramatically decrease risk without decreasing potential reward.
My second-favorite is that, no matter what the market is doing, you can insulate ...
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