I probably don’t have to tell you that stocks are up in 2013. Since the first trading day in January, the S&P 500 index has climbed 6.7%. That’s huge performance for a month and a half of trading. To put things in perspective, if stocks kept up… Read More

  Buying stocks is easy. You hear about a new product, or you find an amazing value play, and you hit the “buy” button. It’s the part that comes after that’s hard. When things go your way, when should you sell? And when they don’t — what do you do… Read More

  Buying stocks is easy. You hear about a new product, or you find an amazing value play, and you hit the “buy” button. It’s the part that comes after that’s hard. When things go your way, when should you sell? And when they don’t — what do you do… Read More

If you’re like most investors, you’ve probably experienced the anxiety of buying a stock and holding on as it drops lower and lower. “How low can it go?” is a question that every investor has asked himself at one point in time. Today, I’ll… Read More

When you’re ready to buy a stock for purely fundamental reasons, you need to pay the best possible price for your investment.   Technical analysis is a tool that can help you do just that. Today, we’ll put it to work to… Read More

Last week, we took a look at three simple rules that could help shovel bigger gains into your portfolio on every single trade you make. Today, I’d like to show you three more critical trading rules. Each one can give you bigger gains on every trade you… Read More

To some degree, trading is about breaking the conventional rules. Forget buy and hold. Trading is all about quick, repeatable profits. Forget balance sheets or income statements. Trading focuses on technical analysis instead. Read More

Let me share a couple of headlines with you from the financial media this morning: Earnings Season May Challenge U.S. Stocks …Survey Indicates Stock Market Rally About to… Read More

Root canal. Tax audit. Coma. For most people, they’re just a few things that sound more exciting than studying the treasury market…   I’ll admit, treasuries… Read More

“…The S&P 500 twice closed above 1,370, a closely watched technical resistance level,” says an article published yesterday on CNBC.com. Wait, what the heck does that mean? Resistance is one of those words that gets thrown around… Read More

It’s earnings season, that magical time each quarter when companies report their numbers to Wall Street. There’s good reason why investors pay so much attention to corporate… Read More