Tag: active investing

By Ross Heart Faced with a challenging investing or trading environment? Having difficulties pulling the trigger? Hitting on all cylinders but worried about when it’s going...

By Alex Salomon When starting this column a couple of weeks ago, I was not entirely sure what to do with it: was I going to...

By Alex Salomon Last week highlighted a very interesting difference between traders and investors: traders got whipped up, down, all around, then big ups to end the week,...

By Alex Salomon Last week was the first installment of my new weekly trading column, "Trading Ideas." Similar to my scribes in "Investment Lessons for Life," I would like to...

There are two reasons that most investors quit. The number one reason people get out of the game is because they have suffered a...

By Alex Salomon As I have written before in "Investment Lessons for Life," I strive to limit my number of transactions (and urge to trade all...

Last week, I mentioned that the uptrend line may be a likely target for the S&P 500 as it heads lower, stating that it...

By Andrew Nyquist Holiday weeks are typically lazy and full of directional drifts that tend to move upward. The key word here being "tend." This week started...

By Alex Salomon 1. Whether you invest for the long haul, for retirement or big plans or putting kids through college; or trade actively; and even...

By Andrew Nyquist As per usual, Fed week has proven to be both volatile and pesky. Monday started with a nice ramp up that overflowed happily into...