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Tools of the 'Trade' – How I Invest (2015 Edition) – Stock Trading To Go

The new year has arrived and with it comes another edition of Tools of the Trade. This is the fifth edition (see 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011).2014 was a great year for StockTradingToGo and our parent company Reink Media which owns and operates multiple financial sites: StockBrokers.com, StockTradingToGo.com, InvestingTeacher.com, and most recently Ticker.tv which is a free broadcasting network for traders and investors.As far […]

New ETFs Could Benefit From Favorable Biotech Seasonality

In recent years, there have been many bad times in which to be long biotechnology stocks and exchange traded funds, but with some marquee industry conferences imminent, the biotech industry is in the midst of one of its most potent seasonal periods.December is the second-best month of the year for the broader biotech sector after July, but due to the […]

Quantifying Risk

So, the Dow was up 7.5% in 2014 — is that good?From a historical viewpoint, that is almost average. What is unusual is that this is the sixth straight year of a bull market, which tells us more about the severity of the Great Recession than it does about the Dow.From a technical viewpoint, analysts wonder if the Dow was […]

Are There Any Winners Left In The Biotech Space?

View gallery.It’s been a rough couple of days for biotech stocks.To start, Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) has dropped from a high of almost $110 per share on Friday to a low of $86 on Tuesday.Many other big-name biotechs, such as Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN), Biogen Idec Inc (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE: VRX) have fallen with […]

President Obama Made One Of History's Greatest Stock Market Calls

REUTERS/Brendan McDermidTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Nov. 5, 2010.US presidents don’t usually talk about stocks.But when they do, everyone listens. Because, who wouldn’t love to remind everyone that the President of the United States, like us, is terrible at making stock market calls.However, it turns out that President Barack Obama made one of the […]

US stock market hits milestone following surge in economic growth …

​US stock market hits milestone following surge in economic growthPublished time: December 23, 2014 22:09Get short URLReuters / Hannibal HanschkeTagsEconomy, Inflation , Interest Rates, Investment, Oil, Real Estate, Retail, USAThe US stock market hit a historic milestone on Tuesday, following an announcement that the country’s economy grew five percent between the months of July and October ‒ its fastest pace […]

Future: Perfect!

My future is perfect for me! In English, we use future perfect tense to talk about actions that will be finished before some point in the future. In my case, it is less than three (3) years away. My future is certain, however the duration is not! I planned for thirty (30) years in retirement just in case I am […]

3 stocks to buy in a market crash

NEW YORKThe stock market has gotten a bit more finicky over the past week, and that begs the question of whether or not investors could be in for a rocky start to 2015.If so, investors should be putting together their plans for handling a market drop now, rather than risk reacting poorly when the tape is tumbling. With that in […]

3 Ways to Play Surging China Stock Market with ETFs – December 9 …

The stock markets across the globe are enjoying a boom this year, and China is no way behind. Chinese stocks have been on the tear over the past six months and the country’s Shanghai Composite Index hit the major threshold of 3,000 for the first time in three years on Monday trading session.With this, the benchmark has surged nearly 20% […]

IceCap Asset Management: The Third Law Of 'Stock Market' Motion …

Excerpted from IceCap Asset Management’s Keith Dicker’s latest letter to investors,Three hundred years ago, physicist Isaac Newton, compiled the Third Law of Motion. Ever since, people everywhere have noticed how every action does indeed have an equal and opposite reaction.This Third Law of Motion is certainly evident in the music world where The Rolling Stones gathered a lot of moss. […]