Most investors have been trained to think that earning 6% or 8% a year on their trades is admirable. And the old saying is true: No one ever went broke taking a profit. But that doesn’t mean they got rich that way.  You can bet Wall Street traders don’t settle… Read More

My years in the military have allowed me to see the world in a totally different way. While deployed overseas I tracked IED locations, went on convoy missions and gathered intelligence from local villages. I learned the importance of analyzing data to forecast what was likely to happen, and I… Read More

This may sound obvious (or not), but my Maximum Profit system profits from what’s working in the market at any given time — stocks that are already winning. After all, who would you rather pick in a straight-up contest, the hot team with the 10-game winning streak… Read More

This may sound obvious (or not), but my Maximum Profit system profits from what’s working in the market at any given time — stocks that are already winning. After all, who would you rather pick in a straight-up contest, the hot team with the 10-game winning streak… Read More

It’s one of the easiest and safest ways to generate 20%-plus returns on a regular basis. Once you’ve mastered the technique, I wouldn’t be surprised if you stopped trading stocks or only buying and holding investments altogether. That’s how powerful this strategy is: It can drastically improve the way you… Read More

You may have noticed that Wall Street analysts tend to be bullish, with very few sell ratings ever bubbling to the surface.  There are a few reasons for the bullish bias. The culture of Wall Street is generally bullish, almost as a rule. Nearly everyone working there is involved in… Read More

When looking for the best strategies in the current market, it helps to look back and examine how market action played out in the past.  For instance, let’s travel back in time to 1982, when the dividend yield on the S&P 500 was about 5.4% and the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio… Read More

My favorite scene in Martin Scorsese’s hit movie “Casino” is when Nicky (Joe Pesci) expounds on Ace’s (Robert De Niro) uncanny knack for picking winners.  Ace’s secret to picking the winning team was finding out all the “inside stuff that nobody else knew,” like whether the quarterback was doing drugs,… Read More

The president is surrounded by a host of unsavory characters, and concerns that businesses are using the office for personal profits are beginning to brew. There’s been talk of impeachment, largely along party lines, with the opposition growing increasingly vocal. And while the large, public protests are mostly peaceful, the… Read More

The president is surrounded by a host of unsavory characters, and concerns that businesses are using the office for personal profits are beginning to brew. There’s been talk of impeachment, largely along party lines, with the opposition growing increasingly vocal. And while the large, public protests are mostly peaceful, the… Read More

Dramatic headlines, mostly related to our new president, have driven the market’s erratic undulations since Election Day. From my perspective, many investors are reading the headlines and reacting immediately to hyperbole without understanding the details. Making matters worse is social media’s amplification of this hyperbole into viral movements that further… Read More

Dramatic headlines, mostly related to our new president, have driven the market’s erratic undulations since Election Day. From my perspective, many investors are reading the headlines and reacting immediately to hyperbole without understanding the details. Making matters worse is social media’s amplification of this hyperbole into viral movements that further… Read More

An old trader once told me, “Trading is the hardest easy money you’ll ever make.” In theory, trading is easy enough — all you have to do is buy low and sell high, right? After all, there are thousands of books claiming to have all the information we’ll ever need. Read More

An old trader once told me, “Trading is the hardest easy money you’ll ever make.” In theory, trading is easy enough — all you have to do is buy low and sell high, right? After all, there are thousands of books claiming to have all the information we’ll ever need. Read More