With the economy on the rise and people starting to get back on their feet, it is no surprise the stock market has seen a huge influx of new traders into the game – not coincidently that also means I got a lot of questions from new traders wanting to know what is the best [...]
TheStreet.com recently put out an interesting interview with Joe Terranova, author of Buy High Sell Higher. If the name sounds familiar, you have probably caught him on CNBC’s Fast Money. While the interview does not share any ground breaking trading tips and ideas, it is definitely a good refresher course on the skills and practices [...]
Diversification often plays a key role in sustaining a long-term profitable portfolio. While there is always the route of buying a basket of various stocks, most people do not have the time nor want to spend time researching. So they turn to mutual funds, but fees can be costly and terms can be for longer [...]
The basis of the January effect is that investors sell losing stocks prior to year end to capture those capital losses on their tax returns. This inevitably results in bad performing stocks for the year to head even lower. Second, many Wall Streeters get their big bonuses in January and start buying up all those [...]
There is no denying the educational impact social media has on stock trading. Websites like Stocktwits have basically changed the landscape for how traders share ideas… but is social media starting to have an impact on the actual direction of the market? Now implying that a single tweet could intensify enough trading action to actually [...]
Stock trading is a funny practice. Every trader is usually a tweak away from making or losing a lot of money, but these tweaks are generally hard to find or ignored by many traders. Below are a couple reasons for why you ARE NOT making money in the stock market right now. 1. You don’t [...]
The following is a guest post by a fellow reader of The Wild Investor. While certainly not the most risk adverse strategy, this article takes a look at utilizing the stock market to payoff debt. After the credit downgrade by the Standard & Poor’s, an increasingly large number of people are worrying about the impact [...]