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If there's one thing I love about options trading, it's the ability to make money just about anytime. One powerful strategy involves making what I call "gas money" trades, where I can make a small amount of money, but safely and often thanks to the options market. In this video, I'll share with you how that's done and walk you through two examples ...
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Want to do better than the market? Buy once it’s hit correction territory. In this video, I’ll show you not just one, but TWO investment plays to benefit from a market that’s now down 10 percent from recent highs ...
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It might be a bear market. But, that does not mean prices will go straight down for the next few months. Even in bear markets, there are times when prices move higher. This is true in even the worst bear market. The chart below shows what might be the worst bear market in U. S. history. It’s the Dow Jones Industrials Average from 1929 to 1932. The index fell about 90% over that time. At the bottom of the chart is a ...
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At the minute it became legal, “Cannabis was “flying off the shelves” in retail outlets and online stores across the country as soon as the clock struck midnight Wednesday (October 17). The demand was so high that pot stores reported running low or completely out of cannabis on the first day,” according to the Canadian news site GlobalNews.ca. Sales were strong but costs varied widely. And, price is important because “Four out of 10 Canadians say the price will determine whether ...
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Technical indicators can be useful. But, many indicators require a subjective evaluation. This makes technical indicators challenging to use. Indicators or trading tools can be broadly classified as subjective or objective. A subjective tool is one that requires some degree of interpretation. For example, when looking at divergences, a popular tool for analyzing indicators, subjective judgments must be made. Objective indicators offer clear signals defined by rules that are known in advance. Moving averages are popular objective indicators. A less well known ...
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Let’s face it. We all want to know when the next bear market will start. Fortunately, there is a way to know. There are actually many tools that will tell us exactly when the bear market starts. Of course, they all signal after the market turns. Even though signals from some tools will come after the down turn is underway, these signals could still provide a profitable warning. And, it could be that early signals are dangerous to your wealth. Early Can ...
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It’s a familiar story. A hurricane makes landfall and devastates a large area of land. There is a sad story from a human perspective. This year, the story is centered in North Carolina. Factset summarized the financial impact in a headline that read, “Insurance Industry and Financials Sector Earnings at Risk Again Due to Hurricane Florence.” The analyst noted, “Hurricane Florence is expected to cause significant property damage and business losses across the southeast coast of the U.S. over the next ...
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It’s been ten years since Lehman Brothers collapsed, plunging the global financial system into chaos. Regulators and legislators have taken steps to ensure that crisis won’t happen again. But, like the general who is always fighting the last war, legislation and regulation can’t address the next crisis. That leaves investors and financial analysts always on the lookout for the next crisis. They have had several scares over the years with nearly endless crises in the euro zone and deep market plunges ...
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