In the world of trading there many different instruments to choose to trade. I’m going to talk about why I prefer index futures to most any other vehicle, especially stocks. I am a part time trader in my 40s, I also go to college part time and program software the rest of the time from [...]
There is a ton of investors out there who have traditionally invested their hard earned money into the stock market and mutual funds who ask this question. The news media for years now have bad mouthed commodities into the ground calling gold a “barbeous relic” that has only lost value since January 1980 when the [...]
In the long run the economic performance of most countries is showing an upward trend. But, although this is true, the global economy and that of individual countries is always subjected to ups and downs. Many sectors are especially exposed to these up and down swings. Building and construction companies, automobile companies or steel manufacturers [...]
The world’s top 100 mining stocks – a hugely mixed bag Some pointers from stock price movements noted in the world’s 100 most valuable mining stocks. Since around mid-May 2008, the world’s top 100 mining stocks, measured by value, have lost two-thirds of their market value, measured on a weighted basis. This is equal to [...]
As someone who spent a lot of time as a Financial Planner after the Tech Bubble in the late 90’s, it is not easy to say you have to love Tech stocks. Why? Because, the Tech market of the late 90’s became the poster child of what not to do when investing. It became a cliché [...]
18 High-Dividend Canadian Stocks The 2008 financial crisis uncannily echoes what happened in Japan more than a decade ago. In the 1990s, the Japanese banking systems had become overloaded with bad loans after a property bubble collapse, according to Gillian Tett, author of Fool’s Gold. The investor psychology seemed dangerously similar too. If this is [...]
Despite the state of today’s economy and the potential to relax the rules on the New York Stock Exchange, very few penny stocks are actually traded there. Penny stock is stock from new companies with very few assets or from companies that are facing bankruptcy. Penny Stocks NYSE is virtually a misnomer. Investing in penny [...]
When you ask most investors for their preferred stocks, you’ll seldom hear them share a blue chip name like Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods or Wal-Mart. Instead they will tell you about some amazing growth stock that will be the next Google, Microsoft or Apple. These investors believe that by simply buying growth stocks with [...]
Alternative energy stock portfolios are a great part of a modern investor’s financial plan, due to the fac that there is so much upward potential. These make excellent long term growth investment vehicles, and the money put into them by you, the investor, serves to further the cause of implementing the alternative energy power sources [...]
There is nothing better than an undervalued penny stock. You can absolutely grow your income and improve gains when you purchase them. BUT, you must be able to verify which penny stocks are accurately undervalued and which are better left alone. If a stock is selling for $50, but can be determined to be worth [...]