Crisis Investing - Three-Pronged WCM Strategy

One of the great things about being a professional investor is the opportunity one has to apply his or her long-term experience to the investment environment that is unfolding (or coming unglued) in the present. If nothing else, most successful...

By: Steve Selengut

The Investment Gods Are Angry

The Working Capital Model (WCM) is an historically new methodology, but with roots deeply imbedded in the building blocks of capitalism, and financial psychology--- if there actually is such a thing. The earliest forms of capitalism sprung from ancient Roman...

By: Steve Selengut

Its Deflation

We have seen a huge deflation of wealth in both the real estate and stock markets and we feel that on the macro level, the duration of this economic downturn has quite a ways to go yet. This situation is...

By: Martin Straith

Stock Tips - Why You Should Avoid Them

History of Stock Tips Stock tips are as old as the market itself. I guarantee you during the tulip bubble during the 1600's there was some guy passing out leaflets in every market he could find pushing tulips. Stock tips are...

By: Alton Hill

Penny Stocks - are they worth trading?

Penny stocks are low-priced securities that are currently trading below $5 per share. Often times these stocks have fallen from much higher prices and now trade thinly with low volume. Penny stocks are no longer listed on the...

By: Al Hill

Mutual Fund Ratings And How We Benefit

Most people these days know the definition of a mutual fund, however many do not know what mutual fund ratings are. Mutual fund ratings are the numerical scale that is placed on funds to determine the history of their performance....

By: Christopher W Smith

The Hows and Whys of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown

During this past month the nation learned of the collapse-in-progress of the sub-prime mortgage market, which it appears will be promoted as this seasons spectator sport. Each day we view another victim in this saga: a former sub-prime loan processor...

By: Al Jacobs

Why I Don't Invest in Mutual Funds

For more than four decades Ive involved myself in investments, including stocks and bonds, real estate, mortgage lending, and variety of enterprises, some of them hard to describe. However, there is one endeavor that Ive systematically avoided. It is the...

By: Al Jacobs

Creating Wealth With Mutual Funds

For ten years or more, U.S. investors in increasing numbers have depended on mutual funds to save for their retirement plans, creating wealth and other financial objectives. Mutual funds offer the benefit of diversification along with professional management. Diversification is...

By: Craig Sipe

Learn Stock Trading From Playing Poker

Picking good stocks is only the first step to become a consistently profitable trader. Those of you that track the performances of stock picks I post on http://www.cisiova.com/analysis.asp know that it is impossible to determine if a stock is good...

By: Zheng Fang