After the recent launch of Options GPS, I've received a lot of questions about BASIC technical analysis.
Right now, there are 1,000 GPS students learning a lot about how to profit when a stock is doing nothing, moving higher, or moving lower (and more).
So, obviously, the next question ...
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Last week, we spoke about what we would do to protect ourselves in this market environment from a potential sell-off.
A 'Dynamic' Downside Approach
We spoke about dynamically hedging our portfolio by purchasing puts in an Exchange-Traded Fund such as the Dow Diamonds (Symbol: DIA), the S&P 500 ...
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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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Tycoon readers, as is now customary on the third Friday ...
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As an investor or a trader, your quest is simple: to keep your money, and make even more.
Our investing goals, however, are as different as each of us -- to take care of our families ... to have a dignified retirement ... to be able to see the world ... to get to a place where we feel we can truly ...
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These days it seems that, wherever you turn, you're hit in the face with another currencies commercial, promising quick riches and leverage ratios of 100-to-1.
You know what, though?
What they are pitching is partially true.
A Case for Currencies
Trading currencies can be enormously profitable. ...
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No matter what your comfort level is, what your investing time horizon is, or whether you are a momentum trader or value investor, it's incredibly important to have some kind of system for choosing trading/investing opportunities.
Not only is it important to have a system, but also to adhere to it ...
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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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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 ...
read more »
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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