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.

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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!
Original Article
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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
Click Here for Article
Enjoy!

2009 Outlook by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

14th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Great newsletter from Van at www.iitm.com (sign up for his Tharp’s Thoughts Weekly Newsletter for FREE)
Excerpt : ”Lets look at what the media is saying about the market. Barrons had its annual forecast for 2009 and 10 out of 10 experts predicted that the US stock market would rise between 10 and 20% in 2009. [...]

A special video message from Peter Schiff

8th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

His website has a lot of good free information. Browse around.
http://www.europac.net/videomessage.asp
As an added note, I found this article he wrote concerning Madoffvs the structure of the US government to be quite disturbing.
http://www.europac.net/externalframeset.asp?from=home&id=14928

A summary of predictions: Harry S. Dent Jr’s, Great Depression Ahead!

8th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Now that Harry S. Dent’s book “The great Depression Ahead” is available… we suggest you read it. We will be doing more extensive coverage in the future, but for now here is a summary of some of his predictions. We also posted 2 short videos at
http://stockcapitalist.com/?p=1026
PREDICTION SUMMARY
The economy appears to recover from the subprime [...]

Outlook for 2009 – Investment and Economic

8th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

“One thing appears clear: 2009 is likely to be another wild year in the markets. So, what is an investor to do? Remain in cash and earn little or no

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return, or jump back into equities and risk losing even more money if the market retests the November lows as some analysts expect? I [...]

Not the end of an era yet!

7th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Excellent article by Teeka at The Tycoon Report.
This piece stands out to me…
Excerpt: “Some clear winners from all of this government largess will be the green technology sector, infrastructure, heavy equipment and education companies. That leads us to the question of who is going to pay for all of this lavish spending?
The rest of the [...]

SEC was warned about Madoff… years ago

7th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Wow! The official document.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9189285/Markopolos-Madoff-Complaint
(here is an article on the whole story) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5466963.ece

Which Guaranteed Investments should I Choose?

7th January 2009 by Simon Comments Off

Here is a great article on safe and/or guaranteed investments. When it comes to mutual fund families, my preference for the conservative part of my portfolio is money market funds.
A mentor of mine told me that in a market like this, trade with 20% playing both sides of the market, and the other 80% keep [...]

Winners and Losers of the Email Stock Teasers we get!

29th December 2008 by Simon Comments Off

… mostly losers.
Stock gumshoe has spent a tonne of time tracking all of these stock market investment teasers, and displays their performance. I am just as

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unimpressed by 2007 as I was with 2008.
Check it out… and don’t forget to sign up for their FREE newsletter.
http://www.stockgumshoe.com/2008/12/the-year-in-teasers.html
Spreadsheets of results can be found here:
http://www.stockgumshoe.com/tracking

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Know it, Breath it, Live it…

29th December 2008 by Simon Comments Off

Here is the latest www.stockscores.com newsletter (sign up their to recieve it FREE) entitled:
10 New Year’s Resolutions for Every Stock Trader
Stockscores.com Perspectives for the week ending December 28, 2008
I can’t stress enough how important all these points are. A couple of excerpts that stand out to me:
I Will Remember that Public Information is Useless Information
If [...]

URGENT…. YOU NEED TO WATCH THESE VIDEOS!!

18th December 2008 by Simon Comments Off

For the first time i am giving you a link to another article in this website. I am doing that so it doesn’t get lost in the shuffle.
click the link, scroll down to the bottom and watch Harry Dent’s 2 youtube videos. Then read the article.

THIS IS URGENT INFORMATION
http://stockcapitalist.com/?p=1026

Semi-Annual U.S. Economic Outlook: Collapsing On Schedule

16th December 2008 by Simon Comments Off

Here is an article at John Mauldin’s Outside the box newsletter. (sign up for FREE at www.investorsinsight.com)
“This week I am really delighted to be able to give you a condensed version of Gary Shilling’s latest INSIGHT newsletter for your Outside the Box. Each month I really look forward to getting Gary’s latest thoughts on the [...]

All the Elements of the Trade

15th December 2008 by Simon 1 Comment

very interesting excerpt from stockscores perspectives. so true.
(sign up for the newsletter for FREE at www.stockscores.com)
enjoy!
Have you ever thought about breaking your trading decision down the way a doctor looks at a problem? Imagine if a doctor made decisions on your health using the same process as you use to make trading decision. I am [...]