Stock Trading – Golden Cross – A Buy Signal

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Ever heard that a rising tide lifts all boats, it works that way in the stock market as well. After a tumultuous 2011 and ending the year just about unchanged, the stock market is rising. What has changed to cause the market to climb, not much. Trading volume is still on the low side. There [...]

A Day In The Life Of A Day Trader

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I am a day trader, I love the thrill of the trade, every day presents a new opportunity. I don’t believe that there is any better teacher than experience, so much of what I know is learned from my trading successes and failures. I stick with what works for me and that is shorting. For [...]

5 Things You Can Buy Cheap to Start the Year

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The new year is underway and Christmas shopping is behind us. You may have noticed that many stores have sales in January. You can think of it as the New Year’s slump. They want to do everything possible to encourage shoppers to come out to the stores and spend money. As you have probably noticed [...]

Stock Analysts – Does Anyone Really Care

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If you’re an investor, you probably know that Wall Street is full of analysts who study and report on what they believe is the health and stability of stocks as well as commodities and other investment products. Their primary duty is to give investors unbiased, tradable advice based on careful study of industry analytics as [...]

Stock Market Decisions – Forget the Noise

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The more information we can get our hands on, the better, right? Not necessarily and here’s why. Speaking personally, I have to admit that I’m a bit of a hypochondriac. A stomach ache might be cancer, a small pain in my chest could be a heart attack and a common cold could be the beginning [...]

Long Term Bonds and S&P Divergence – What Does it Mean

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If at the beginning of 2011, anyone had forecast long term bonds returning more than 20% by year end you might expect that stocks got pummeled. Oh contrar, the S&P closed at 1,267.50 on December 30th down .04 points or 0.0%, the Dow was up a few percent and the Nasdaq was down a few [...]

Simple Ways of Going Green and Saving Your Green – Money

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The desire to change the world and do the environment good are very admirable and show a sense of responsibility for the planet as well as a great deal of awareness. There is another reason why going green is such a great idea- are you ready for this? – it can help to save you [...]