Tag: risk management

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 This is a quick and purely hypothetical entry about a trading idea I mentioned last week; Sherwin-Williams (SHW). Although what follows can be...

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...

By Jeff Voudrie The landmark decision on Obamacare on June 28th by the Supreme Court removed another ‘uncertainty’ that was supposedly holding back businesses and the...

By Andrew Nyquist This is the part of the market ride that gets wacky. Folks fighting the tape (yes, cue the fingers at myself) start to...

By Andrew Nyquist We laughed, we cried, we felt cocky, and ulitmately we freaked out.  What a year!  And all this netted out to a precisely...

Yes, it feels good to say "Danger is my middle name," but when the financial markets move into correction mode, participants are best to...

Ever had a stock or index fund in your portfolio head south and thought "I'll give it a little more room" or "I've got years to...