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Posted by: | CommentsHow to profit with Charting and Technical Analysis
Charting and Technical Analysis are the combination to successful investing. The buy-and-hold theory has been the investing fallacy of the decade. Investors have increasingly grown tired of paltry returns and fear their nest-egg will never be sufficient for retirement. Many have been forced to place any plans for retirement on hold – indefinitely.
Implementing an investing strategy that works is not difficult, and can prevent loss to the investment portfolio due to market corrections and bear markets. Taking control your financial future simply means learning when to invest and when to move your money to safety, such as a money market account.
Knowledge when to invest
Knowing when to invest requires basic knowledge of Charting and Technical Analysis and implementing that knowledge in investing decisions. Knowing when to invest and when to keep your money safe from risk is 90% of the battle. This gives the individual investor a distinct advantage in making wise investing decisions and being on the right side of the market while the hard-earned money is at risk.
Technical Analysis
Technical Analysis of the markets was first discovered, used, and formulated from a series of Wall Street Journal editorials authored by Charles H. Dow from 1900 until the time of his death in 1902. While more than 100 years old, Dow Theory remains the foundation of much of what we know today as technical analysis. Yet, his theory has held true for more than 100 years. Modern Day Charting and Technical Analysis uses the Dow Theory approach as a basic foundation and implements modern charting techniques to give the Investor or trader a vast understanding of the market, thus, providing successful investing strategies.
Investing and trading successfully requires much more than luck, a hot stock tip or buying shares of a fund and forgetting about it. Those techniques can lead to financial suicide. Hot stock tips are no better than a lottery ticket and there are in excess of 15,000 mutual funds available. Only a very small percentage of funds make money, and finding the one that is making money at any one specific time is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
For the individual investor, Charting and Technical Analysis is an absolute must. You will not be successful without it. Why? It does not matter if you pick the stock market darling of stocks or the best performing mutual fund on the planet, if you buy at the wrong time you will get burned. You will lose.
For short-term traders, minor price moves can have a dramatic impact on trading performance.
For long-term investors, the aspect of Technical Analysis is just as important. Buying a stock or mutual fund ‘willy-nilly’ at whatever price it might be currently selling for is a recipe for complete disaster. Many novices and uninformed investors make this catastrophic mistake, thinking they are going to be holding it long term so a few dollars won’t matter. However, just as many have learned the hard way while watching their investing account be decimated, a few dollars can turn into postponing retirement, or worse, loss of retirement funds.
It is always about risk versus reward and only putting your money at risk when the risk is minimal and the propensity for reward is high. Never risk your hard-earned money on a whim, a hot tip, or the advice of a salesman. Always place the odds for investing success in your favor. Either learn how to invest with the knowledge to make your own informed decisions, or keep your money safely in the bank. It really is that simple. Charting and technical analysis is required to profit in the markets. Discover how to be successful and protect your investment dollars.
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Stupid Investing
Posted by: | CommentsStupid Investing
Watching the demise of 1400 mutual funds in 2010 was painful. Especially painful for the unsuspecting and uninformed investors that thought their money was safe. You know the ones, all those that believed they purchased shares in mutual funds thinking they have a safe, diversified investment?
Well, sorry to say, 2010 was another year that saw funds come and go, and the ones that went by the wayside left the usual trail of debris in their wake. For instance, my favorite was Frontier Funds.
Here are the stats of that piece of garbage. Since 1993, the fund only had two calendar years (1999 and 2009) when it made money. It peaked along with the pre-Internet stock market with $1.8 million in assets in 1999. But was down-hill from there. At one point, an inexperienced 20-year-old college drop-out was hired to run the fund and pick micro-cap stocks (even though Frontier was not technically a micro-cap fund at that point). At the end, the fund had just over $50,000 in assets.
If you invested $1,000 in the Frontier fund and held on until Frontier finally cashed out in April 2010, you had roughly 11 bucks left.
Never rely on a salesperson
Never rely on a salesperson to make your investment decisions. Financial Advisors continue selling funds and other investments regardless the risk, and regardless what the market is about to do. They have no plan to protect your investment capital. Charting and Technical Analysis gives you the strategies to prevent falling prey to funds and stocks that will certainly hand you a loss.
Look, either educate yourself on investing and be knowledgeable in making your own investing decisions or keep your hard-earned money safe in the bank. It’s your choice.
The Investing Decade Debacle
Posted by: | CommentsThe Decade That Tanked Your Portfolio
The past decade has given many investors a bad case of the ‘Hibby Jibbies.’ Do you know what that is? That’s the sick feeling in the pit of the stomach, the weak knees, and the uncontrollable urge to cry while perusing the bottom line on the investment account statement. Many are ready to just give up on investing entirely. They look at all the equity market's red ink over the past 10 years and think that investing has drastically changed, and some are convinced that the next decade will look a lot like the last. They may be right.
What happened?
The claim that investing returns have been non-existent over the past 10 years is hardly exaggerated. Between the start of 2000 and the beginning of 2010, the S&P 500 index dropped 23%. Many individual stocks performed even worse. To name a few:
- · Corning (GLW) (55.1%) return
- · Cisco Systems (CSCO) (55.3%) return
- · Merck (MRK) (45.6%) return
- · Home Depot (HD) (57.9%) return
- · Intel (INTC) (49.8%) return
And the list could go on, but I won’t bore you with the details or list all the ones that went bankrupt or dropped to trade with Penny Stocks.
You want to know ‘WHY’ the market has not produced average returns of 10% per year like it has over the past 70 years or so and what you can expect in the near future, right?
There are 2 reasons that are quite possibly the crux of the issue.
1. Secular Bear market.
For more than 100 years the stock market has experienced Bull and Bear markets that always take turns controlling whether the market is advancing or declining. You hear about those all the time. When the economy expands and the market is advancing the news always acts as if the sky is the limit and stock prices are going to reach the infinite, wherever that is, and you are happy as a lark with the money you are making on your investments. But then on the average of every 3.5 years the economy contracts, a Bear Market ensues, and hauls your portfolio with it to the rock bottom – bargain basement prices. But that’s only part of the story as to why nothing has progressed in this decade.
The bigger picture is much more telling. During the past 100 years the ‘Secular Bull and Secular Bear’ markets have dominated the bigger picture while those individual bull and bear markets take their respective turns during shorter time frames. The Bull and Bear markets you hear about on the news last only a few years. But the Secular Bull and Bear markets are different, they last anywhere from 15 to 20 years, and just like their smaller counter-parts, one always follows the other, when a Secular Bull market ends, a new Secular Bear Market begins.
Common Sense Investing
Posted by: | CommentsFire Your Financial Advisor!
Investing Solutions challenges you to fire the salesman responsible for killing your investment portfolio today! Financial Planners and Advisors just don’t get it. But they get paid even when your portfolio declines. They are nothing more than Investment salespeople and will sell you whatever is paying the highest commission. They never consider the health of the market, whether the stock market is advancing, declining, or about to decline. Your Broker is not concerned about the bottom line of your account statement.
Warren Buffett said in 2000:
“The next 17 years will certainly be different than the past 17”
He was right! Your investments will likely continue to suffer for years to come. Your portfolio may advance for a while, then fall back down into the red. That is no way to manage your retirement plan. You don’t have to be a Day Trader, Forex Trader, Options Trader, listen to the ‘Talking Heads’ on TV, or constantly watch the stock market. You do have to have an Investing Plan that works.
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