Stock Market Today

The road to successful investing  is paved differently for each investor. One investor’s road to success may be the high road while another’s may be the low road. But common to both investors is basic principles that are true to form no matter which road an investor finds himself taking. Below is a listing of [...]

As most of my clients know, I am a believer in “making the trend our friend”. I do my best to use long-term trends to help us better our performance and beat the indexes. There are many trends going on simultaneously, such as stock market trending (Dow, Nasdaq, S&P), interest rate trending (long-term rates and [...]

Compounding  to Wealth Most wealth is built steadily over long periods of time. There are exceptions such as some of the dot com wealth that was built in the second half of the 1990′s. (At least for those that were smart enough to protect their assets from the downturn.) That was a unique period in [...]

There are many forms of risk management such as overall diversification  with the use of various asset classes, the ratio of equities  to fixed income, and the use of long-term trending to periodically change the asset allocation. Since I prefer to use mutual funds rather than individual stocks, diversification is easy to accomplish. As a [...]

Day traders are individuals who are trying to make a career out of buying and selling  stocks very quickly, often making dozens of trades in a single day and generally closing  all positions  at the end of each day. Day trading can be costly given the impact of commissions and the bid/ask spread. Day traders [...]