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 tremendous we...
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What You Need To Know About Bear Markets
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 & Poor's...
MoreThe Best Way To Build A Winning Portfolio
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 amounts of...
More5 Rules For Option Selling Success
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 proactive ...
MoreThe Worlds Most Successful Trading Strategies
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. ...
More5 Steps For Your Next Ten Bagger
We are on the cusp of a major change in the economy. After six years of accommodative Fed policy and ultra-low interest rates, it appears that the Fed will soon start to increase rates. This fact has placed tremendous fear in the stock market. The fear has resulted in extreme volatility and all kinds of bearish proclamations from the financial media. Average investors are panicking and racing to protect their long-term gains from a potential market meltdown. However, at the same time, professional investors are using the current volatility to snap up stocks at a discount. These a...
MoreGet Paid To Buy Stocks At A Deep Discount
How would you like to guarantee that you will purchase stock at whatever discount you want, or get paid for making the attempt? Sound like a cannot lose situation? It certainly does! When I was first exposed to this idea, it seemed too good to be true. A nearly magical technique for finally being able to name your price for nearly any stock or get paid for doing so. While nothing in the stock market is a cannot lose situation, this tactic comes close and is used primarily by professional traders seeking to obtain shares at a steep discount while earning a handsome income for taking ...
MoreJesse Livermore’s Stock Trading Secret
Jesse Livermore is believed by many to have been the greatest stock market speculator who has ever lived. He earned several fortunes over his lifetime. While his life ended tragically due to personal demons, Jessie left behind a legacy of investing lessons that remain applicable for every investor. I have always been fascinated by Jesse Livermore and his investing techniques. This interest has led me to discover what I consider the number one secret to his success. It’s not something that is difficult to understand or implement. In fact, it is something so simple that you will ki...
MoreTrade Like A Hedge Fund With This Simple Tactic
Hedge funds are the new money masters of the 21st century. Their size and influence can easily move single stock prices and even entire markets. Many traders are mystified at how hedge funds trade. While hedge funds use 100’s of different strategies, many of these are out of reach of the average investor due to complexity, cost, and size requirements. However, there is one very effective trading tactic that is profitably used by hedge funds that can be easily applied by average investors. While this tactic is very popular among professional traders, most investors either don’t know ab...
MoreWhen Should You Buy Utility Stocks?
Buying weakness and selling strength is the hallmark of the professional investor. Successful investors follow this mantra religiously, while their less successful brethren rarely ever buy weakness and sell strength in the stock market. In fact, consistently struggling investors often do the opposite of the rules followed habitually by winning investors. The reason for this fact is simple. It is because it is difficult to buy weak stocks. It is much easier to buy stocks that are “hot” at the moment and moving higher. This is despite research and real life evidence making it very c...
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