New Study Explores 'Good Trading Brain / Bad Trading Brain' by PhilStockWorld Original Cal Tech & Virginia Tech 40 page study is here. It's long been known that the typical human brain did not evolve perfectly for success in stock trading and investing. There are probably many reasons, and many mechanisms contributing to this observation. Using fMRI imaging, researchers at...
5 High Yielding Stocks That Are George Soros Favorites George Soros' top dividend picks by Meena Krishnamsetty and Javier Hasse and by insidermonkey.com George Soros is one of the best-known investors in the world. His fund holds an equity portfolio worth more than $10 billion. Among the fund's holdings, many pay dividends of more than 1% of their current trading...
11 Useful Guidelines For Technical Analysis Charting 11 Rules for Anyone Who Uses Charts by Michael Kahn As I often say about my wine savvy, I know just enough to be dangerous. For many traders, the same holds true with regard to charting and technical analysis. They know enough to use an RSI (relative strength index) to gauge momentum but really...
Mid-Year Performance Analysis Of The Broad Market & Key ETF Sectors by BespokeInvest Historical 1st Half vs. 2nd Half Performance We’ve reached the mid-point of 2014. One of the simplest data points is the market’s performance in the first and second half of the year. Below is a table highlighting the S&P 500’s (SPX) (SPY) first vs. second half performance...
The Case For Gold by Jared Dillian I have owned SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) since 2005. No regrets. In 2011, I was really right. The Federal Reserve was starting its third round of quantitative easing — QE3, which seemed to be turning into QEInfinity — and there was no end in sight to the money-printing. Everybody was scared to death...
How To Remove Your Emotions From Your Trading by Bruce Bower Investors and traders around the world are always wondering "How do I remove the emotions from trading?" We've all experienced the downside of emotions -panicking and closing out a trade at the worst possible moment; being too greedy and taking on an excessive amount of risk; or just watching...
Financial Sector Divergence Is Not A Major Concern … Yet There’s a big plus for speculators in this market by Kevin Marder For equities, the song remains the same. Shares stay within the confines of an uptrend characterized by extremely low intraday volatility and quiet volume. Over the last 46 trading days, the S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) has been confined...
3 Single Country ETFs With Big Long-Term Potential Upside Invest in Countries Starting Bull Markets by Chris Vermeulen Research proves that undervalued equity markets achieve higher future returns over longer term investment horizons. Studies show that investing in markets which have just been through a bear market, and their valuations are low, is one of the best ways to grow...
The Next Big Move In Crude Oil WTI Crude Oil on the Move, $112 Next Stop by Chris Vermeulen The energy sector has surged during the last two months, which can be seen by looking at the (XLE) Energy Select Sector Fund . If crude oil continues to climb to the $112 level, XLE will likely continue to rally for...
Rising Inflation Could Derail The Economy & The Market Countdown to Another Market Peak Has Begun by Chris Puplava Perhaps one of the most influential books I’ve read over the last several years is “The Era of Uncertainty”, which was co-authored by Francois Trahan and voted as the #1 Portfolio Strategist in 2013 by Institutional Investor. In the book, Francois...
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