A lot of people who study stock market investing eventually think the market is rigged. I’m no different. I think that for anybody who has invested in a stock only to watch it immediately go down, or for anyone who has retired at the same time all of their company stock tanked and for anyone [...]
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Over the past year, I’ve encouraged anyone new to use a stock market simulator. For the most part, I use the Investopedia Stock Simulator. It’s fairly easy to use and I like the interface better than some others that I have used. One of the great features of the investopedia.com is the there are a [...]
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Here’s my near daily stock market investing today recap. In case you missed an earlier article I wrote called IBD market direction checklist, one of the first things I do is check the market indexes to see how it affected the overall market trend. Today’s action provided a couple of learning points about distribution days. [...]
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I thought I would take a little respite in this article from talking about stock market investing to talk about the major news of the day which is the sweeping Wall Street reform bill that Obama signed into law today. I also thought I would offer up some suggestions for reform that I have noticed [...]
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Today’s stock market investing recap brings good news to us today as all the market indexes closed higher on higher volume. Volume is still below the average but I think this is still good news. Apple’s earnings beat estimates and provided some good news for the market. Remember as part of your stock market investing [...]
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As part of my stock market investing strategy, I try and keep up to date on books available. One book I saw at the bookstore was called The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing by Jason Kelly. To be honest with you, I saw this book many, many times and always passed on it. [...]
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OK everybody. Today, I wanted to talk about my new Thirty Day Stock Market Investing Challenge. Each day, I take a look at investing in the stock market, the first question I ask myself is which stock do I pick? There are so many to choose from, it’s a difficult task. You can narrow down [...]
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Hey everyone. Today’s the first of what I hope to be several stock market investing today wrap up reports. Each night after the market closes, I’m going to read the Investor’s Business Daily to develop my stock market ideas and start using the simulator over at the Virtual Stock Exchange to illustrate what I am [...]
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OK. So, I’ve taken a little time off from developing my stock market investing system and thought that I would get back to that now. In a previous post called Developing My Stock Market Investing System Part One, I talked a little about market direction and here I thought that I would expand on that. [...]
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In a post called Who Dat?!, the Rajin’ Cajun talked about how it’s hard to focus on stock market investing with his Saints in the NFC Championship game. I’m having the same problem over here on my site because I am a Colts fan over in the AFC. Being from Indiana, I’m a Drew Brees [...]
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I started this site because I was interested in investing. Back in 1985, I started working for a bank and that’s when I got interested in trying to make money in the stock market. Because I have a long history in the financial services field, a lot of the concepts about stocks, bonds, mutual funds [...]
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After the stock market decline of 2008, a lot of people are wondering what are people doing with their money. For the most part, I believe that most investors stayed put and rode their mutual fund values down and then held onto them. If they did that, they were rewarded by strong returns in 2009. [...]
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I wanted to spend a little time here today talking about my stock market investing system. As some of you may know, I’ve been working to structure my investment philosophy around the CANSLIM investment strategy created by William O’Neil of Investor’s Business Daily. I’ve read his book How To Make Money In Stocks many, many [...]
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Nobody ever got rich by being lazy. Or did they? There are many approaches to stock market investing today, and all of them have their pros and cons. Some offer the promise of great returns, but also carry great risk. Others require hours and hours of painstaking research to offer even mediocre returns. Worse still, many people [...]
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Let’s get right into it here and talk about stock market investing. This has been an eventful time for most of us who, while used to market corrections, did not expect such a huge drop in the values of just about every type of investment you can make. If you lost almost half of your [...]
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Beginner stock market investing is where you’ll want to focus on how to get started investing in the stock market. Since you are new, it’s often recommended that you “paper trade” to get the hang of how the market goes up and down. This means that you would pick a stock and record in a [...]
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Stock market investing for dummies is an appropriate phrase these days since most of us seem to be dummies after having lost 40% (or more) of our fund values. It has me and many of my friends questioning the logic of buy and hold strategies of the past because it seems pretty stupid to watch [...]
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In this first post, we discuss stock market investing, getting started and doing an online case study that you can follow along.
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