Should You Manage Your Own Portfolio?

By David Bogoslaw Focus on Stocks Avi Horowitz, vice-president of volunteer training and support for the Better Investing Volunteer Advisory Board, agrees that the idea of "not being in this alone" has gained traction because of the fear in the marketplace. BetterInvesting and the NAIC have 88 local chapters across the U.S. that help teach members the basic tenets and techniques of investing for $79...

Why Gold? Why Now?

The Case for Investing in Gold Today IF YOU'RE LOOKING to store wealth in something both rare and secure today, you will find nothing to match gold. Gold always tends to reward cautious savers in times of financial stress, because it is both hard to destroy and tightly supplied.In short, it is the very opposite of debt.Gold doesn't corrode or tarnish, and it's relatively useless to industry. That's...

Trading Experts

If you are looking for trading experts, alerts on stocks, commodities or forex then you can check out Jim Robinson. We will add more experts, but we will start with Jim Robinson.We spoke with Jim Robinson about trading Stocks, Commodities and Fo...

EXPERT: We spoke with Jim Robinson about trading Stocks, Commodities and Forex

I was looking around for someone who knows how to trade futures and through one of my contacts I came in contact with Jim Robinson who has been trading for 30 years. He has been writing daily email trading newsletters for over 10 years and has by now thousands of traders receiving and following his newsletters everyday. Free and premium newsletters If you are interested in some excellent free...

Using Stage Analysis to trade the Dow Jones

Stan Weinstein wrote in his book 'Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets' about the four stages that a stock or market could be in.In the picture you can see the four stages, and in the next table you can read more about every stage:Phase Name What do we see Stage 1 Basing MA 30 is turning flat and the market moves sideways. Stage 2 Advancing Trading above MA 30 and...

Picking a top or bottom

Many traders try to predict a top or a bottom, but reality reveals this to be a futile attempt and one which mostly ends with considerable losses. If you try to buy at the bottom, then most often prices will drop yet even further or the stock will trade sideways which automatically means dead money for a long time.If you attempt to predict a top then there is always the possibility that you are wrong...