Stock Capitalist

Les and Simon are a couple of “Stock Capitalists” that scour thru literally hundreds of stock market related sites, newsletters, e-mails, blogs, etc… and “siphon” out great ideas, quotes, recommendations, and stock market related information. They have been trading the stock market for more than 20 years and offer some of their insight and best articles of interest.

Posts Tagged ‘international investing’

You need to have bearish positions in this market

3rd March 2009 by Simon Comments Off

I have been posting articles at stockcapitalist on the need for bearish exposure to the market for a year or so, and it has proven to pay off big time. Here is another great article by Chris Rowe from The Tycoon Report explaining how to do that using ETF’s.
“Don’t be afraid to take bearish positions [...]

The Disciplined Investor

3rd March 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Strategy Labis MSN Money’s stock-picking challenge. Six top traders ran mock $100,000 portfolios for six months and documented every move they made.
One Investor Andrew Horowitz ends with a 13.4% gain over little more than six months while the market — as judged by the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index ($INX) — declined 34.5%. That’s a [...]

5 non-stock investments for this market

2nd March 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Here is a very interesting article by Catherine Holahan on MSN money central. One of the investments they talk about are hi yield corporate bonds, and I know that right now there are some Canadian bank bonds available yielding between 6 and 8%.
Interesting thing about the Canadian banks, is even though they have sufferred share [...]

The real ’secret’ crisis that is coming

2nd March 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Very interesting article from Adam Lass at the taipan publishing group.
Original Article
Enjoy!

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The P/E of the market is still too high… It may trade LOWER YET

3rd February 2009 by Simon Comments Off

A VERY IMPORTANT article by Chris at The Tycoon Report. Read this and take appropriate action. If he’s right, you can be defensive by playing BOTH sides of the market with strategic option strategies.
Excerpt:
The market will most likely break new lows and scare the daylights out of most of us once again. Today I’ll give [...]

How to understand market cycles with “The Market Quadrant”

30th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Here is a very interesting article written by Justice Litle, Editorial Director ofTaipan Publishing Group that explains the relationship between “credit flow” and “risk appetite” as it applies to “Booms and Busts” like I have never seen before!
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Is Crude Oil Set To Rise?

30th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Here is an iteresting article from our friends at www.investmentu.com(don’t forget to sign up for the FREE newsletter)
Excerpt:
“…the same manager that runs the USO fund runs another exchange traded security thats custom designed to benefit from situations like the crude oil contango. Its called the United States 12 Month Oil Fund (NYSE: USL). It uses [...]

How a pro trader cut’s his losses!

27th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

One of the most important articles you will ever read as a trader. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way, but maybe you will be smarter than me… read the article and take the lesson… without having to learn… THE HARD WAY!! lol
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Enjoy!

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Can you trust a ‘teaser’?

27th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Probably obvious… but still a good article from Travis at www.stockgumshoe.com
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Enjoy!

Technorati Tags: international investing, Investing, investment, market, Markets, Stock Education, stock market, stock market teasers, stock market training, Stock Picks, stockgumshoe, stockmarket, Trading

The Con’s of a Buy-and-Hold Investment Strategy

27th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

A great article from Gary D. halbert on some of the downfalls to a buy and hold strategy!
“In light of a second bear market within eight years that has (again!) decimated the retirement savings of the Baby Boom generation, it’s not much of a stretch to think the investment strategy that allowed the whims of [...]

How to avoid a Ponzi Scheme

27th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Great article by Gary D. Halbert
“What follows is a brief review of our due diligence process when we consider a money manager…”
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Enjoy!

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The Importance of Price when Trading Stocks

25th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Here is a very interesting article from Tyler at www.stockscores.com about the importance of stock prices, v.s. just using technical indicators. It also includes a couple of pics, one of which (Silver Wheaton) that i have some call options on right now.
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Enjoy!

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Jeff’s weekly watchlist for Jan 20 / 09

21st January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

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YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE BEARISH EXPOSURE HERE

21st January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

This is an article from a trader i greatly admire, Chris from ‘the tycoon report’. He provides a very important technical analysis overview for today’s market you must read.
A couple excerpts stand out:
“I’m hoping that, by the time you read this, the market is rallying in celebration of the inauguration because that will give you [...]

Jeff’s weekly watchlist from Jan 12 / 09

14th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Here is www.optionaddict.net update from monday.
“Since Friday’s session ended on a dour note and we are seeing continuation overnight in the index futures, look for the market to open up lower near trend support in the S&P illustrated…”
Note: Today however it did break support.
Watchlist

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