3 Tips to Ease the Portfolio Pain
If you’re anything like me, your portfolio is in the toilet. Mine is very heavily biased toward small-cap stocks and cryptocurrencies right now — the absolute worst-performing securities of the past few months. My portfolio is down over six figures… It hurts. But I haven’t lost my cool. I’ve been through this before. And I…
Brandan FurnaceWhat’s With All This Market Volatility?!
You know it’s been volatile. It sucks seeing your stocks down. But why is the market kicking us in the gut right now? Well, we’ll dive into that today. You see, $1.3 trillion worth of single stock options expired last Friday. That’s the second-highest of all time in a single day. That almost never happens….
6-Figure Portfolio? You Gotta Earn It
Alright Nation. It’s time to stretch those Strong Hands muscles. You know how it’s done … like this: This week, we’ve been showing you why it pays to hold your stocks. The proof behind our strategy such as: You’ve heard from us. Now take a look at what one of our awesome members of the…
Market Fears, GE’s Fall From Grace and Charles’ Canine Companion
Volatility is still ruling the markets right now. But as Alpha Investor founder Charles Mizrahi says: “Volatility is the price we pay for higher returns.” That’s why his Real Talk this week is all about not panicking … because pullbacks are normal. In fact, most of the stock market’s returns have been concentrated in periods…
Why Traders Sold the News From the Fed
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve completed a two-day meeting. The announcement afterwards met all expectations. The Fed will wind down its bond-buying programs. Interest rate hikes will almost certainly start in March. Even though there were no surprises in the announcement, the Fed did surprise traders by releasing a document called, “Principles for Reducing the Size of…
2 Stocks Show You Why to Hold
Here’s my no-brainer question of the day: If you could go back in time and buy Tesla stock when it was priced under $200 — would you? I’m guessing, yes. We’ve seen record-highs in Tesla Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA). But that wasn’t always the case in our Profits Unlimited portfolio… At one point, we actually sold…
Did You Catch the MSFT Rally?
As I was recording my latest Bank It or Tank It video yesterday, I came across something incredible, yet familiar. You see, as I sat down to run the unusual options scanner on Microsoft (MSFT), I wasn’t sure what to expect. The company just announced earnings the night before. And earnings reports can always be a…
1 Chart Shows the Markets Are Bottoming
During the Iraq War, President George W. Bush’s Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was asked about the lack of evidence linking Baghdad to Al Qaeda. His response was one for the ages… “There are known knowns: There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns: That is to say, there are things that…
What Are You Investing For?
Can you guess what is pictured in this photo? I’ve zoomed in extra close so you may see the fine details: Probably not. In this case, zooming in on an object doesn’t help decipher what is. On the other hand, as my colleague Ian Dyer often says, “Zooming Out,” especially where our America 2.0 stocks…
Bad News for Momentum Traders
Many people believe stock market prices are usually “correct.” The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) says that, since everybody has access to the same information about a company’s performance, its stock price shouldn’t remain over- or underpriced for long. Try telling that to someone who bought a high momentum stock in late January last year. Here’s…