Sep 5, 2012 | Trading Strategies and Styles
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE Inflation is one of the vicious enemies of the marketplace, eroding purchasing power, business profits and the value of investments. Inflation is insidious. When it spirals out of control, it can have a political as well as economic impact. In...
Aug 10, 2012 | Trading Strategies and Styles
LEVEL: BEGINNER You have an idea or investment thesis and want to capitalize on it for your financial gain; this is the universal point of trading. The idea may be about corporate earnings, interest rate policy, supply and demand of oil or a host of other things....
Aug 10, 2012 | Trading Strategies and Styles
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE In 2012, dividend stocks grew in popularity as investors craved yield. Finding a reliable return on investment is difficult in bad economic times, which is why dividend stocks tend to get more attention than stocks that don’t pay dividends....
Jul 9, 2012 | Trading Strategies and Styles
Short Selling Short selling is defined as borrowing a stock, selling the stock short, and repurchasing the stock once the market falls to a lower level in an effort to profit from the decline of the stock. Investors can include short sales into portfolio strategies...
Jul 9, 2012 | Trading Strategies and Styles
You’ve taken the time to develop a trading plan and now you want to figure out your investing style. Where do you begin? Determining your investing style will largely dictate how you view opportunities, read performance measures, and interpret the technical charts of...
Jul 9, 2012 | Trading Strategies and Styles
By definition, fund managers are active investors who are paid to pick winners and losers. This contrasts with how the vast majority of amateur, non-professional investors make investment decisions. For them, there isn’t enough time to fully research each investment...
