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| A Macro View of Micro-Caps:
Respite from The Storm?
As a self-directed investor with a strong focus on the small- and micro-cap sectors, I don’t tend to take an expansive view of the market. A[...] more |
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Use Financial Tools to Your Advantage:
Develop a Trade Diary
Doug Newberry
Obviously, capital is the most important asset for stock trading. Without money to invest[...] more |
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| Age-Adjusted Asset Allocation
Rather than following the herd, the independent, self-directed investor relies on good research and due diligence before taking a position. However, as you grow [...] more |
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You Need Small Caps to Balance Your Portfolio
I ran across an interesting study conducted by New York University professor, Aswath Damodaran. Dr. Damodaran examined U.S. markets from [...] more |
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| Boomers Playing Catch-Up:
Building a Nest Egg Fast
Baby Boomers never expected to get old. We thought we’d live forever, change the world and listen to Janis and Jimi for a purple-[...] more |
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Buying Micro-Caps in the Red
After looking at some of the yardsticks used by Confident Trader to identify stocks with upside potential, I’d like to make one critical point relat[...] more |
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Chart Analysis:
Tipping the Scales to Your Advantage
Timothy C. Schewe
I’d like to spend some time talking about chart analysis, dispel a couple of misconceptions and [...] more |
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| Five Small-Cap Investment Traps:
Don’t Put Your Money Down a Rat Hole
Each morning my inbox contains a couple of notes from regular followers of Confident Trader, usually with questions, somet[...] more |
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| Fixed Income Portfolios And Small-Caps:
Should You Scramble Your Nest Egg?
I received an email from a Confident Trader reader that was a real poser. (BTW, I love receiving your emails and questions [...] more |
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Forget Blue Chips:
Go Where the Money Is
Timothy C. Schewe
Cautious investors go with what they know. That’s why they often select blue chi[...] more |
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The ABCs of Fundamental Stock Analysis
I like charts.
They deliver a great deal of information in an easy-to-understand format, showing trading ranges, volume, daily closing prices and, o[...] more |
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| Most General Investment Styles
Anthony Green
Your investing style isn't a blue-jeans-versus-three-piece-suit debate. It refers to your approach to stock investing. Do you want to be conservative o[...] more |
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| Gotta System?
Don’t Tell Me About It
What is it about investors who employ self-designed “systems” for buying and selling? They feel they have to tell the world, or at least me. Fr[...] more |
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| Hot Stock Tips:
Who Can You Believe?
Almost every day my inbox is crammed with emails from readers recommending this or that stock. With all due respect and sincerity, I read these but I’ve [...] more |
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| How To Buy A Stock:
Your Homework Assignment Is…
…find a stock you’d buy in this economic “downturn” in which we find ourselves. And the assignment is due next Monday[...] more |
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IndyMac Bancorp Fails
More Failures On the Way
Timothy C. Schewe
On Friday, July 11, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation[...] more |
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Investment Styles and Micro-Caps:
Don’t Limit Your Analysis
Timothy C. Schewe
There are all kinds of traders. There are contrarians who move in the opposite di[...] more |
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Investment Metrics and Human Bias
Timothy C. Schewe
Investment metrics are employed by financial analysts to quantify both upside potential and downside risk, tipping the bal[...] more |
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| Licking Your Wounds?
Now What?
These are the numbers:
2008
2007
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| Listening to Pundits:
Lessons in Losing Money – Big Time
Anybody lose money first quarter of ’08? Show of hands?
Yeah, it’s been ugly in the trenches. Markets across the b[...] more |
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| Macro Economics in a Micro-Cap World:
“Confident Trader’s” View of the Economy
I received a number of emails from our subscribers disputing my recent suggestion that investing in small- and micro-[...] more |
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| Market Metrics and Other Musings
Exciting times in which we live.
The federal government faces an unprecedented fiscal crisis, markets continue to sell off and the nice fat nest egg you’ve bee[...] more |
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| Micro-Cap Value Stocks
Most investors consider micros growth companies but, as in any market sector, there are stocks that are under-valued by the market and the micro- cap and small-cap sectors are [...] more |
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| Micro-Cap Fraud:
Detecting a Scam
Timothy C. Schewe
The Securities and Exchange Commission is tasked with tracking markets – big-cap, mid- and small-cap markets, and the micro-cap market, whi[...] more |
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The Micro-Cap Investor Mindset:
Visionary and In Synch With the Future
Timothy C. Schewe
I’ve said it many times before – to friends, clients and groups [...] more |
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| Obamanomics:
How Will Barak Affect Your Portfolio?
Barack Obama
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| Past History Is No Indication
Of Future Performance
Timothy C. Schewe
What a load of bull. Legalese designed to protect the broker or financial planner against lawsuits d[...] more |
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| PATIENCE TO BUY, PATIENCE TO HOLD, PATIENCE TO SELL
Way back in the ‘70’s, Alvin Toffler wrote Future Shock, which predicted -- among other things -- that the pace of life was going [...] more |
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| PERCEPTION AND BELIEF, THE WALL STREET- MADISON AVENUE COMPLEX
Investing in the stock market is fundamentally an information business. There are thousands of sources available online where one [...] more |
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| Teach Your Spouse To Manage The Nest Egg
Timothy C. Schewe
It’s not unusual for one spouse or the other to manage the family’s investments and asset
portfolio. It’s usually th[...] more |
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| SELECTION-SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
“Human beings, almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experiences of others, are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.&rd[...] more |
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| Shelter From The Storm – Obama Style
Okay, so where do you put your money during this economic (ahem) correction? As I’m reviewing company charts and reading through the prospectuses on-l[...] more |
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| Paying the Price for
Artificial Prosperity:
Now What?
We’ve been living a lie since the late 90s.
Ex-president Bill Clinton opened the flood[...] more |
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| Getting Rich One Stock at a Time:
Picking Through the Dumpster
Whoa! Anybody notice the volatility in today’s markets. Down 777 points, up 900 points? The Dow 30 is bouncing around like a ping[...] more |
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| Stock Promoters: 10 Common Scams to Avoid
by Stacey Crevoiserat
The world of Stock Promoters is just like any other in that there are many methods that are, "black eyes of the industry" i[...] more |
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| The Dangers of “Trading on the News”
I admit it. I’m a news junkie. I’ve got the TV on a news channel (it
changes throughout the day), I’ve got news alerts coming into [...] more |
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| The Secret World of Chartists
It’s a strange world filled with buzzwords and jargon – aroons, impulse waves, ascending and descending continuation triangles and the vaguely scatological d[...] more |
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| The Status Quo Syndrome:
Change Happens
As a long-time, self-directed investor, I’m always amazed at the mindset of professional and institutional traders who actually drive the markets in one[...] more |
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Think Big!
Buy Small!
Most independent investors shy away from small- and micro-cap stocks believing that shares in these newer companies are riskier than buying so-called quality st[...] more |
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| To Get Something You’ve Never Had
You Have To Do Something You’ve Never Done
You followed all the rules. You diversified. You employed d[...] more |
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| Trends and the End of Retirement
John Tebar
There are many factors at this time that point to the fact that the idea of retirement will be coming to a close. One of the primary factors is mainly dem[...] more |
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| Value or Growth?
What Kind of Investor Are You?
There are lots of ways to make money in stock markets. Lots of ways to lose money, too, especially if you don’t have an investment strategy. If [...] more |
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When to Buy
Research. That’s what you want. Good, solid unbiased research. Here’s what I look for before moving in and adding a company to the Confident Trader po[...] more |
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| When To Sell That Stock
The Hardest Investment Decision You’ll Make
You track a company for a few months, study its charts and read up on company fundamentals before moving in to take a positi[...] more |
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| Which Trading Platform Is Right For Your Investment Style?
In a word, none. Okay, if you’ve already spent a grand on some hot-shot trading platform, it’s a good tool for keep records of g[...] more |
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| Who’s the Ideal Micro-Cap Investor?
Self-directed investors who place a portion of their assets in smaller companies and smaller markets are a [...] more |
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| Why I Love Bernie Madoff:
The Perversion of a Free Market
Bernie Madoff is a weasel.
Bernie Madoff
He scam[...] more |
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Your Wife is an Equal Partner
Helga Hayse
I have a cartoon pasted above my desk showing two men in angel garb, each with a halo, floating on a heavenly cloud. Looking down towards ea[...] more |
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