Apprenticed Investor: Seven Steps for Handling Stock Tips
Its finally here! After a quarter’s hiatus, the Apprenticed Investor makes its long awaited return. Today’s column...
State of the World We Live In
Yet another take on the difference between the Wall of Worry and the What Me Worry crowds: via Mutts
Scaling versus Averaging
I make it a habit to read people who’s market styles and/or perspectives are different than my own. One of my favorites in this...
Why Buy-And-Hold Strategy Doesn’t Work for So Many Investors
Interesting IBD lecture on why Buy & Hold can be so costly, and how to use charts to avoid disaster stocks: -You buy a stock. Soon,...
Complacency anyone? (Wall of Worry vs. What, Me Worry?)
We have discussed the general complacency of traders as evidenced by the market climbing higher despite a universe of potentially ugly...
Short? Or Short Shorts?
Since we have been on a bit of a anecdotal evidence of speculation kick lately, here’s one last item of interest: The Hemline...
Margin Loans Make a Comeback
Our parade of anecdotal evidence continues. Next up a WSJ article on Margin Loans. "As borrowing costs increasingly pinch consumers,...
More signs of Speculation
I am working on a column on Stock Tips, and in my research I came across this unbelievable chart. Its from Jason Goepfert of...
Fed Halt Now Baked into the Cake
Yesterday’s moonshot was a marvelous thing to behold. The market took off on soft PPI and housing data, lit the second stage...
First Quarter Gains, We Hardly Knew Ya
How is it possible that many of the year-to-date gains for the major indices – excepting the first weeks’ run up – have been all...