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The current market conditions have set some stocks up to be the perfect short sell candidates. When overall market weakness is combined with already suffering stocks, it’s the ideal time to short. We have identified 3 struggling stocks that have set up to be textbook perfect shorts within the present market weakness. First, let’s take a look at how to profit from the overall market weakness. Buying weakness and selling strength is the mantra of professional traders. In fact, we have written about this fact many times over the years. Following this mantra has created tremend...
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What You Need To Know About Bear Markets
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Talk about a rough start to the 2016 stock market investing year! Investors are afraid that a bear market is upon us. Truth is that there is no reason to be afraid, even if a bear market appears. This article will explain exactly what a bear market is and what you need to know not only to survive but to profit from it. First, let’s take a look at what has happened so far this year for perspective. The stock market ended the first 2 and a half trading weeks of 2016 with a steep sell-off. All three major stock indexes - the Dow, the Nasdaq composite and the Standard & ...
MoreSecrets of the World’s Top Investors
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Success in the financial markets is shaped like a pyramid. At the base is the wide majority of losing investors. As you move higher on the pyramid, success increases but the numbers of investors drop lower. After the losing investors, you have the players who don’t really lose much but don’t make much either. These “break even” investors are loved by brokerage firms since they keep plunging into investments, paying commissions and fees, creating a consistent income stream for the broker. You see, the losers will eventually quite the investment game while the break-even investors j...
MoreThe Best Way To Build A Winning Portfolio
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Wow, what an opening week for the stock market. Shares have suffered their worst opening week in many years. The first week of 2016 has resulted in many stock market investors questioning their methods and tactics as the overall market has been smacked down due to a variety of international pressures. First there is the trouble in China with the Central Bank making bold moves to help support the economy. Next, the always volatile North Korean government has returned to its old tricks of making threats. The stock market hates uncertainty and the current conditions possess huge amou...
MoreLeveraged ETFs: What You Need To Know
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A quiet revolution has taken place in financial markets over the last 25 years. The funny thing is that many investors don’t even realize that this revolution has taken place. That’s the interesting fact about some revolutions, when you are living through the revolution it can be difficult to realize what is happening. The revolution I am talking about is the rise of Exchange Traded Fund or ETF’s. Today ETF’s account for nearly 1/3 of all stock exchange volume with over a billion shares per day traded in 2014. ETF’s allow everyday investors to access global markets in their reg...
More5 Rules For Option Selling Success
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Investors are scrambling to find income in today’s ultra-low yielding environment. The low interest rates as well as fewer and fewer solid stocks paying consistently high dividends have forced the savviest investors into more esoteric ways to earn income from their portfolios. Add in the fact that it appears that the stock market has reached a short term high, at the very least, and it paints a difficult picture for traditional income seeking investors. One of the most popular ways to ramp up income from the market is selling options. Also known as writing options, this is a proa...
MoreThis Momentum Stock Is Back
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Buying momentum is a time-honored way to make a fortune in the stock market. The trick is to make sure that the momentum has solid underlying support now and into the future. One stock that is quite the momentum stock both on the upside and downside isApple (Nasdaq:AAPL). No matter how the stock reacts to the soon to be released earnings, a compelling long-term bullish case can be made for the company. Here’s a closer look: I hated Apple and its products prior to 2007. Everything changed after I tried the first iteration of the iPhone. I could not believe the incredibly i...
MoreThe Worlds Most Successful Trading Strategies
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These are some investing / Successful trading strategies that has been proven to be the most successful ever implemented in the financial markets. This single concept has made more million and billionaires in the market than any other single strategy. Most all of the largest traders, hedge funds and institutional money managers on earth implement this tactic to dominate the investing landscape.It’s nothing new or even high tech. In fact, it’s super simple and easy to understand. The strategy has been used for decades to extract trillions of dollars from the financial markets.
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MoreHow To Juice Your Returns
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There are three words to describe the goal of every long-term stock investor. Those three words are income, income, income. Income in the form of dividends is often what differentiates a winning long-term stock investor from just an average buy and hold stock market player. You see, dividends are the difference between outsized returns and just average returns for the well diversified stock market portfolio. However, in today’s world, finding high-yielding consistent stocks can be very difficult. Often high dividends go hand in hand with higher risk or even plunging share pric...
More3 Sleeping Giants Ripe For Investment
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The current volatility has many stock market investors wondering if the six-year-old bull market is finally over in the United States. Unprecedented central bank easing has jump-started the economy to such a strong degree that the Fed will be increasing interest rates in the very near future. Historically, periods of climbing interest rates have had a negative effect on stock prices. Combine this fact with mixed economic and corporate numbers and the end of the bullish run becomes a very real possibility. Technical analysts are pointing to the historical evidence that increasin...
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