Great Investing and Trading Requires This ‘Weird’ Combination

Market action, like we have on Thursday, brings to mind something that Warren Buffett’s business partner, Charlie Munger, said: Good investing requires a weird combination of patience and aggres...

How to Build Great Wealth With the Power of Compounding

The time to start using the power of compounding is today. Forget your past performance and work on keeping losses limited as you build your portfolio and produce returns. Albert Einstein is credited ...

Here’s How to Buy Stocks in a Bear Market

Everyone knows that the way to make money in the stock market is to buy low and sell high. It isn’t complicated logic, but the biggest losses that most investors suffer are when they ‘buy ...

The Secret Power of Great Traders

Traders engage in a lifelong quest for the secret to stock market success. They do a tremendous amount of work studying fundamentals and charts. They consider macroeconomics and a host of other issues...

Here’s How to Be a Better Trader in 2023

If trading the stock market was simple and easy, it wouldn’t be possible to build great wealth by pursuing it. Only a small number of individuals are willing to make the necessary effort over a ...

The Best Performing Stock in 2023 Will Be…

If you want to produce superior returns in 2023, then your primary focus should be on strategy rather than trying to find a great stock pick. The best-performing stock in 2023 will be the stock you tr...

As Buying Picks Up, I’m Snapping Up These 5 Stocks

The Nasdaq 100 (QQQ)  has dropped almost exactly 10% in one week, but is finally seeing a little bounce action Tuesday — and I’m also snapping up some stocks. Remember, just one week ago, ...

Two Valuable Investing Lessons From Two Legendary Billionaires

The list of billionaires in the world is comprised largely of entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, and Bill Gates,who have built their fortunes largely through the development o...

The Market Wants to Celebrate Slowing CPI, But the Fed Could Spoil the Party

Stocks continue to move higher as market players await the CPI report at 8.30 am ET. The S&P 500 jumped 1.4% on Monday and held above key support of over 3900. Last month the S&P 500 rose arou...

Here’s How to Take Your Stock Chart Reading to the Next Level

Chart reading is widely regarded as little more than pattern recognition. Traders look for bullish or bearish patterns, take a position, and then hope that the pattern plays out as it is supposed to. ...

You Found a Great Stock, Now Plan Your Trade

Finding an outstanding stock to buy makes trading and investing much easier, but it is just the first step. Ultimately, your level of success will be determined by how effective you are at trading it....

7 Tips for Finding Your Next Great Stock Pick

Hunting for your next great stock pick is one of the most rewarding and entertaining aspects of trading and investing. It is very satisfying to discover what looks like a great opportunity and watch a...

Market Does a Head Fake and the Fed Can’t Be Happy About It

After poor earnings reports from Amazon (AMZN) , Microsoft (MSFT) , Meta (META) , and Alphabet (GOOGL) , the logical move was for the market to the sell off. Even the mighty Apple (AAPL) talked about ...

Trend-Following in Bear and Bull Markets: There’s a Big Difference

One of the most effective trading strategies in a bull market is trend-following. Trend-following is a method used to catch sustained movement in a stock. It is focused on catching the “meat of ...

How to Manage Risk While Building Long-Term Positions in a Bear Market

When the market is ugly, there is always one phenomenon that occurs – investors rushing to buy long-term investments because they believe that they are now great values. It doesn’t much ma...

This Bear Market Advice Can Be Very Effective If You Do It In the Right Way

Folks that watch the market very closely have a bias toward action. They become bored and restless and want to do something even when conditions are not favorable. This inclination leads to the most c...

Has the Market Hit Bottom? Wrong Question

In a bear market, there is always an intense focus on one issue — namely, has the market hit bottom? There has been endless debate about that issue lately, and there are compelling arguments for...

Predicting Market Moves Is Worthless Without These Two Other Skills

Predictions about the stock market are easy. There are thousands of them made on a daily basis. Sometimes they are right, and quite often, they are wrong. Since financial media try to communicate inte...

Buying Will Get You Nowhere If You Don’t Know How to Sell

When we talk about stocks, we usually focus on selecting and buying them. The hunt for new ideas is one of the most enjoyable aspects of investing, and investors often become emotionally attached to s...

Forget ‘Buy Low and Sell High,’ and More Wisdom from William J. O’Neil

William J. O’Neil is well-known as the founder of Investors Business Daily and the author of the book called, “How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad.” T...

Cathie Wood Leads the Market in Schadenfreude – And It’s Not Hard to See Why

The ARK Invest ETFs, which are operated by Cathie Wood, are leading the market in schadenfreude. Schadenfreude is the German word for taking pleasure in the misfortune of others. In this miserable mar...

Here’s the Best Advice I Can Give for This Miserable Market

After a very brief respite on Monday, steady selling kicked in again on Tuesday. There was no interest in dip-buying, and the action became worse as the day progressed. At the closing bell, breadth wa...

The Market Is Far Worse Than It Looks

One of the most annoying things about the current market action is that despite the very poor action in a great many stocks, the major indexes are still not in technical bear markets. It isn’t c...

Traders Can Clench the Power of Compounding Returns. Here’s How

One of the primary arguments for long-term buy-and-hold investing is that it allows you to compound your returns. Compounding has been called the most powerful force in the world. Supposedly Albert Ei...

I’ve Got the Secret to Successful Day Trading

There are many ways to approach the market, but the one style that probably receives the least respect is day trading. It is viewed as primarily the domain of unsophisticated, small investors who are ...

The Art of Short-Selling – RealMoney

Over the past couple of weeks, short-sellers have been crushed by a fast and furious market rally. As I’ve noted quite often, the biggest bounces always occur in the worst markets. That is one o...

Calling the Current State of the Market a ‘Correction’ Is a Joke

The traditional media is taking note today that the S&P 500 is now in ‘correction’ territory which is defined as a drop of 10% from highs but less than 20%. At 20%, the correction beco...

Great Traders Are Born in Bear Markets: Here Are 5 Keys to Follow

There is an old market saying that everyone is a genius in a bull market. When the market is in a strong uptrend, then throwing money at random stocks can be a very effective strategy. It doesn’...