How this was created With US stock markets at all time highs, traders and investors are becoming nervous about the steepening valuation of US equities. Everybody is talking about volatility and volume right now and both of these conditions suggest that a significant market correction could be near. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) has long […]
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Time To Buy 3D Systems?
Last November, at a price of $80 a share, I wrote an article for Seeking Alpha saying 3D Systems (DDD) had entered an extremely overbought state which could only end in a significant share price correction. Although the share price proceeded to fall around 13% after I made the claim, 3D Systems ended up going […]
How to play China like Jim Rogers
If you want to be successful at investing or trading you need to find your own way. I don’t see much point subscribing to any of these stock picking services or ‘Guru’ picks. (Unless of course they are used to educate yourself as to how to find good trades.) That being said, one of my […]
Stock market warning as volatility drops to historical lows
US stock markets fell yesterday indicating a new stock market warning with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping -0.25% while the Nasdaq sank -0.28% and the S&P 500 fell -0.11%. The fall comes after four days of rallies took global markets to a record value of $63.8 trillion and saw the S&P 500 hit another […]
14 tips for share trading online and making it big
I have been trading stocks and shares for at least 6 years now so these tips for share trading come from direct experience in the markets. For me, stocks are the best instruments to trade. There are so many of them that there is always an opportunity to be found. 14 tips for share trading […]
Is Apple stock still a good buy?
US stock markets reversed losses on Monday after ISM non-manufacturing numbers came out and Billionaire investor Warren Buffett spoke enthusiastically about the state of American business. A contraction in Chinese manufacturing, and continuing violence in Ukraine, caused markets to open lower but stock markets were not in the red for too long and managed to […]
Best Stock Picks This Week
Compared to recent weeks, financial markets should be relatively quiet, as we have President’s Day on Monday before a fairly light economic calendar. We will see FOMC and BOE meeting minutes and there will be some CPI data for traders to extrapolate but on the whole it’s a quiet week. With that in mind, my […]
How to buy penny stocks like Tim Grittani (and lose your shirt)
Penny stocks. We have all heard of them. But very few of us know exactly what they are or where to buy them. The very thought of them conjures up different images for different people. For some its huge wealth and for others its huge risk. For me, its huge spreads. i.e. the costs of […]
29 Rules for Trend Following Stocks
Trend following is an investment strategy based on the technical analysis of market prices, rather than on the fundamental strengths of the companies. Wikipedia My own view is that trend following is not necessarily based on technical analysis, which can sometimes have a bad name. I believe trend following is more about the philosophy that […]
Four and Twenty Rules For Buying and Selling Shares Review
I Just finished reading Four and Twenty Rules For Buying and Selling Shares by Nigel McCarter, a New Zealand investor who has managed to capture returns of over 20% a year since 1997 using a strategy based on rules for selecting and selling shares on the Australian and New Zealand share market. At just over […]
