Archive for the ‘Trader Lessons’ Category

How Individual Investors Can Manage Their Money Like Professionals

January 4th, 2012 | Filed under: Trader Lessons

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

What Is An ETF?

December 9th, 2011 | Filed under: Trader Lessons

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

How To Take Advantage Of The January Effect

November 14th, 2011 | Filed under: Trader Lessons

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

Social Media’s Impact On The Stock Market

November 6th, 2011 | Filed under: Trader Lessons

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

Why YOU Aren’t Making Money In the Stock Market

October 26th, 2011 | Filed under: Trader Lessons

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

Investing In The Stock Market To Repay Your Debts – Is This A Viable Option?

September 28th, 2011 | Filed under: Trader Lessons

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

How To Play Beaten Stocks

September 8th, 2011 | Filed under: Trader Lessons

With the market being so up and down right now, you will notice a similar pattern among many stocks. These charts essentially look like a stock getting pummeled – occasionally with some gap downs.

The question is how do you play this setup?

While some stocks go down and stay