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Marijuana Boom One Way to Trade the Modern Day Gold Rush
The marijuana story is taking the world by storm. Canada has legalized it. U.S. States are pushing for further acceptance. Polls show that Americans highly favor its legalization at 61% Corporate…
Feb 7, 2019
The 5 Best Stocks To Buy Now
Barron’s completed its 2019 Barron’s Roundtable where they asked 10 of Wall Street’s smartest investors for their 48 best investment ideas. We’ve gone through the list and narrowed it down to five…
Feb 7, 2019
Buying is Only Half of Investing
Most investment research is based on one thing, and one thing only: Finding the best opportunities to buy. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a good thing in and of itself. After all, if you don’t…
Feb 6, 2019
The Crown Jewels in the Stock Market Kingdom
Companies come and go. The last component of the original Dow Jones Index, General Electric, got booted last year. But you could have been out of that name for far longer if you had followed a simple…
Jan 30, 2019
The One Surefire Way to Retire Rich
Imagine you had a penny that doubled in value every day for a month. Sure, after a week, you’d only have a paltry sixty-four cents. That’s not even enough to buy something off the dollar menu at your…
Jan 23, 2019
The One Surefire Pattern for Massive Declines
Tech stocks in 2000. Gold in 2011. Cryptocurrencies in 2017. Pot stocks in 2018. They all followed the same pattern. They had massive gains. They started from small rises, but over time, they started…
Jan 16, 2019
This Could Be the Best of the FAANGs
Apple has been in the headlines lately, but close readers of the news may have noticed Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is also capturing attention. One reason is related to the important question of…
Jan 10, 2019
Are Your Charts Hiding Profits From You?
Charts can provide plenty of profitable trading patterns time and again. But they can also be deceiving. That’s because most charts don’t share key data. It can tell you a price point on a given…
Jan 1, 2019
Recognize When to Expect a Flat Trade
Most folks just think of investments as things that go up or down (and even then hopefully just up). But the fact of the matter is, any asset can have a long period of time where it trades in a…
Dec 26, 2018
Nothing Lasts Forever
There’s a great old saying on Wall Street: The trend is your friend. But what happens when the trend ends? After all, nothing lasts forever. That’s when things can become troublesome for investors.…
Dec 19, 2018
Wall Street’s Wisest Saying
There’s a great old saying on Wall Street: The trend is your friend. That’s especially true if you want to trade in the options market, where you have a limited amount of time for a trade to play…
Dec 12, 2018
Scouting Out Your Next Big Trading Win
Trading can be tough for many reasons. But just as a general fighting a war may send on scouts, you too can scout out the options market for the best possible trades. Understanding how a company’s…
Dec 5, 2018
The Charts Show to Trade This Market
Chart patterns show the emotions of traders. Technical analysts combine the price action seen on charts with indicators designed to measure momentum and other characteristics of the market. Combined,…
Nov 22, 2018
Using Options For Modest, but Consistent Gains
Most options investors screw it up. They may just buy a call option and hope a stock will rally further, leading to huge profits. Or they buy a put and hope a company immediately starts filing for…
Nov 20, 2018
How I Pay My Small Bills Each Month With Options
If there’s one thing I love about options trading, it’s the ability to make money just about anytime. One powerful strategy involves making what I call “gas money” trades, where I can make a small…
Nov 14, 2018
Two Strategies to Benefit from a Correcting Market
Want to do better than the market? Buy once it’s hit correction territory. In this video, I’ll show you not just one, but TWO investment plays to benefit from a market that’s now down 10 percent from…
Nov 7, 2018
Double 7s Could Help Short Term Traders Profit
It might be a bear market. But, that does not mean prices will go straight down for the next few months. Even in bear markets, there are times when prices move higher. This is true in even the worst…
Nov 1, 2018
How to Trade Marijuana, Now That It’s Legal
At the minute it became legal, “Cannabis was “flying off the shelves” in retail outlets and online stores across the country as soon as the clock struck midnight Wednesday (October 17). The demand…
Oct 23, 2018
This Clear Cut Signal Could Have Helped You Miss the Market Crash
Technical indicators can be useful. But, many indicators require a subjective evaluation. This makes technical indicators challenging to use. Indicators or trading tools can be broadly classified as…
Oct 16, 2018
How to Know Exactly When the Next Bear Market Starts
Let’s face it. We all want to know when the next bear market will start. Fortunately, there is a way to know. There are actually many tools that will tell us exactly when the bear market starts. Of…
Sep 27, 2018