Your greatest strength is your mind. It allows you to formulate your way of thinking, reasoning, and most importantly, your personality or style. Why bring that up? Because every person has a unique make up that sets us apart from each other. So…
Wasn’t earnings season supposed to re-energize the bull market? After the stock market suffered its first correction in more than two years, strong corporate profits were going to swoop in and save the day, right? That was the argument I…
Today we're going to finish up this ten-part mini investing course. And in a way, we're ending at the beginning. That's because today's rules cover a subject that should be front and center of every investor's strategy. Relative strength studies are…
What happened to the bulls? If you believe the most recent sentiment survey by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII)... ... they’ve made a mad dash for the nearest exit. Last week, pessimism jumped to its highest level in more…
So far in this "Top Ten" series, we've looked at my approach to having an overall philosophy. We also said some powerful things about emotion in trading, and how to keep it out. These next two trading rules will go…
For the last couple of weeks I have been posting some of my favorite trading rules. These are rules that may seem obvious to you. But nonetheless, they are rules that every trader or investor should review from time to…
Whenever you know you have "an edge" at something, you should try your best to make the very most of it. Let me explain... Being dealt pocket aces in No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker doesn’t happen very often. Trust me; I’ve…
Last week I posted the first 2 of my 10 favorite rules. As promised, here are the next two trading rules. Please enjoy Rule 3 & 4, below... Rule #3: Ignore Outside Influences. Outside influences are virtually guaranteed to take…
If I had to choose a single word to sum up the market in 2018... that word would be volatility. We've already seen more than a few market tail spins, followed by nose-bleed retracements. Big institutions are well aware that individual investors…
The end of the first quarter couldn’t have come soon enough. Investors were taken on one heck of a roller coaster ride during the first three months of this year. After all the twists and turns had come and gone, the…