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A Short Term Buy: Tiffany & Co.
As the holiday shopping season closely approaches with the economy near or actually beneath its natural rate of unemployment, luxury companies such as the jeweler Tiffany & Co (TIF) start to seem conspicuously enticing. With a strong forecast in terms of holiday sales and a pretty solid economic foundation, you may be surprised to see the best present Santa can give next month: money.As I mentioned, the unemployment rate, currently at 4.Read more…Why Buy-and-Hold is a Good Investment Strategy
Investment analysts say that buy-and-hold is the best investment strategy for the average consumer. But do you really understand why?After all, the idea of a fast dollar on a stock is appealing.Read more…Investing in the Stock Market Online
The Internet is a very useful tool for the wise investor.Online trading is a popular activity today. But you should remember that you are still dealing with the same situations you would be if working with a broker.Read more…Navigating Thru a Trading Fiasco
Two weeks ago the Canadian government announced that it was imposing a new tax on income trusts. This announcement shocked the market and sent the Toronto Stock Exchange S&P/TSX composite index spiraling down 2.4% for the day.Read more…The Difference Between Full Service and Discount
When it comes to choosing a brokerage, you will have to decide between full service or discount.The difference is basically in the amount of money you pay and the amount of help you receive in making decisions. A full-service brokerage firm will offer you every imaginable financial service.Read more…Stock Selection - Helpful Hints
The correct way to pick stocks will vary from person to person depending on who you ask. It seems everyone has perfected some strategy to pick the best stocks. Yet statistics show that most people are very bad at picking stocks with stock market averages earnings a much better return than the vast majority of stock pickers.Read more…The Basics Of Mutual Fund Classes
In order to get the most out of your returns, without paying a high fee, you need to be aware of the different classes of mutual fund stocks and their advantages and disadvantages. Mutual fund companies often charge a higher fee when you opt to invest in ‘high risk high return’ stocks. However, paying higher fees does not necessarily ensure high returns because stock prices fluctuate on a daily basis.Read more…A Short Term Buy: Air T Incorporated
As the holiday season approaches with the price of crude oil remaining relatively low juxtaposed to prices reported last year, such may be a good opportunity to purchase shares of transportation companies in attempt to gain some extra profit from the unexpected support of this dependent commodity. While I am typically not in favor of purchasing any shares in industries where too much is holding on dependent factors, in the case for Air T Incorporated (AIRT), I believe there is a chance to accumulate a nice sum of capital gains come spring time.As I mention this small cap stock, you may be wondering why I am not picking a well known company situated in the same sector, air and freight services, such as FedEx or UPS.Read more…Considering a Financial Advisor for Your Investments
When it comes to investing money in the stock market, most people assume that they must have a professional handle it for them. This works for many people, while others are able to do a perfect job on their own.But you have to realize that a financial advisor is there to help you manage your investments.Read more…Stock Market Movements - Short Term vs. Long Term
The movements of the stock market can be very dynamic and swift or very steady and methodical. This often depends on the time frame you are referencing. The shorter the time reference, the more choppy and irrational stock movements appear.Read more…Trading Small Stocks - Things to Consider
Historically smaller stocks outperform larger stocks. However, at the same time many more smaller stocks have fallen by the wayside than the larger more established stocks. As a reference point, a small stock is considered any stock with a market cap under 1 billion while a larger stock is a stock with a market cap over 5 billion.Read more…An Amazing Investment Opportunity North of the Border?
As my articles typically contain equities that both manufacture and obtain most of their earnings in the United States, by some careful examination, I have found an amazing investing opportunity north of the border that is too lucrative to pass up. By purchasing shares of this company, not only will you, as an investor, expect to receive long term growth appreciation to your capital, but solid short term returns as well.To continue the suspense a little longer, it is clear that investment banks typically perform at amazing levels relative to any other sector for reasons obvious to many.Read more…Market Instability
What is it that causes a major or even a minor crash in the stock market? Or even anything else? Daily there are events that move the market slightly either up or down.Read more…Contrarian Trading Works
Let’s say you want to buy some General Motors stock because you think it is going to go up. Your friend says don’t buy it because he thinks it is going to go down. Thinking about the same subject is contrary, but both can be wrong.Read more…Will The Wii and PS3 Make a Buy for GameStop?
As both Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s Wii will be released this month (November 2006), you might be interested in purchasing shares of this relatively new company, GameStop (GME) on the basis of increasing sales and revenue from selling these systems. While such a deduction may make sense for a fruitful appetite of purchasing shares, there may be some limitations to the success you may enjoy.As GameStop will be releasing earnings in about two weeks, there is much questioning in terms of how earnings will perform with these new systems coming out in a relatively short time.Read more…ETFs - Better Than Mutual Funds
Let’s be sure you know what an ETF is. It is an Exchange Traded Fund. They have not been around very long, but are catching on.Read more…New High in DOW is Meaningless
There was dancing in the streets, well, at least on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week when the Dow Jones Industrial Index closed at an all time high. The many cheerleaders on CNBC-TV were ecstatic screaming, “I told you so”. But what did it really tell us.Read more…Truth About Fund of Funds
First let’s understand what a fund of funds is as I seriously doubt your broker has ever told you about them. Why? Because it will take away from his commissions.Read more…PE Ratio - The Most Used Ratio for Stock Valuation
One of the most common stock valuation methods is the Price Earnings Ratio or often referred to as PE ratio. The definition of the PE ratio is quite simple just as the name indicates: Take the current stock price and divide it over the earnings per stock.So, as an example suppose stock A is currently at 15$ and its earnings mount up to 0.Read more…50 Day SMA: A Simple Method for Monitoring the Trend
The price chart offers us the gift of hindsight; we can all see where the price has been so we can all see overall trend. However this gift of hindsight can be a misleading one. It is all too easy to recognise what you would have done now that you have seen where the price has ended up.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Stocks Mutual Funds category
- Using Technical Analysis To Manage Risk And Maintain Top Quartile Performance - By: Dwayne Strocen
To manage an effective risk management solution requires more than the calculation of VaR. Ultimately a successful risk management program requires the execution of an effective hedge. Technical analysis is a vital element of this strategy. - To Sell a Stock or Hold--When Is it Time? - By: Dr. Winton Felt
Should you use the strategy of the long-term buy-and-hold investor or the short-term sell tactics of the trader in order to lock in small gains? Let us look at a few alternatives and possibly a strategy. - The Probability of a Stop Loss Being Triggered - By: Dr. Winton Felt
Sometimes there are no obvious regions of price support that can be used as a reference for placing a stop loss. However, by using a volatility-based stop loss, you can set your stop so that it is statistically improbable that it will be triggered by a stock's normal fluctuation within a given holding period. This can give a stock enough "wiggle room" to continue its climb without a high risk of a premature sale because of a non-significant lurch of the stock. - Trading Veteran Reveals Must Have Hints and Tips on Trading that Every Trader Should Know - By: Philip Birchley
Your trading system is a set of rules that you have built up that should be met before you enter a trade. The more ways that a trade is confirmed- the better and the more money you're likely to make.You might wait for a certain pattern to emerge on the charts that indicates that you should trade- so you might find a buy signal for example. - Should You Step into Foot Locker? - By: Dennis Biray
With the NBA and other sport seasons flaring up this autumn, you may be wondering if now is the perfect opportunity to purchase shares of Foot Locker (FL), especially since they will be releasing earnings shortly (November 19, 2006). While such may be said as a good deduction, there are other, more profound reasons and answers to this question which, may, unfortunately, delay or even abort your decision to carry on your purchasing intentions. While all the economic and fundamental analysis may signal a strong run for this company, the technical analysis side of these indicators weighs much more heavily in a stock like Foot Locker. - 7 Stock Market Tips You Can't Live Without - By: Joseph Harris
Every day there are a dozen new HOT stock market tips that guarantee your financial success. Every day there are hundreds if not thousands of people that jump on the bandwagon, and every day, each of those people are disappointed.When it comes to popular stock market tips, there is no golden ticket to striking it rich. - The Basics of Investing in Stocks and Shares - By: Joseph Kenny
Stocks can be considered a tool for building wealth, as they are a part of almost every investment portfolio. They represent the ownership of a company and are bought in the form of shares. Shares refer to the stock of a particular company. - The Beauty of Stocks - By: Y. Ng
Stock markets are wonderful. Stocks markets are nightmares. Should we love them or hate them? - Ideas on Telecommunications Stocks - Still a Good Investment? - By: Y. Ng
Having been a finance person in the telecommunications industry for seven years, I would like to share my thoughts on this very dynamic industry. Are they a good buy now? If not, when, if at all? - Stock Investing: Why the Individual Often Has an Advantage Over the "Pros" - By: David Van Knapp
Famed investor Peter Lynch said, “...the amateur investor has numerous built-in advantages that, if exploited, should result in his or her outperforming the experts, and also the market in general.”Many people believe that an individual cannot beat the market.