Finding dependable, double-digit yields in this market isn’t easy… The Federal Reserve has pushed interest rates to all-time lows. Bonds are barely beating inflation, and the yields on dividend stocks are awful… the S&P 500 only pays 2.2%. To make matters worse, stocks are within pennies of their all-time highs. So even if you are lucky enough to find a company with a decent payout, chances are you’ll be taking a lot of risk. But that doesn’t mean income investors have to throw in the towel. There are plenty of ways to earn dependable high-yields in this market… you just… Read More

Finding dependable, double-digit yields in this market isn’t easy… The Federal Reserve has pushed interest rates to all-time lows. Bonds are barely beating inflation, and the yields on dividend stocks are awful… the S&P 500 only pays 2.2%. To make matters worse, stocks are within pennies of their all-time highs. So even if you are lucky enough to find a company with a decent payout, chances are you’ll be taking a lot of risk. But that doesn’t mean income investors have to throw in the towel. There are plenty of ways to earn dependable high-yields in this market… you just have to get creative. #-ad_banner-# For example, ProfitableTrading’s Amber Hestla has been using covered calls to earn an average annual yield of 38% in her Maximum Income portfolio since she launched her service in January. I know what you’re thinking. You probably saw the words covered calls and 38% annual yields and thought “damn, there must be a lot of risk involved with this strategy… right?” Wrong. In fact, using covered calls is arguably the safest — if not the only — way to meaningfully boost your income stream in today’s market. It’s a strategy I’d… Read More

I love it when perception differs from reality… that’s when you can really make money in the stock market. Take emerging markets for instance. If you read the news regularly, you’d think emerging markets were the last place you’d want to put your money. Almost every day there’s a headline decrying how the economies in these developing nations are on the verge of collapse. In 2010 it was Greece… in 2012 Egypt… last year it was Syria… and today it’s Ukraine. The problem with following all this bad news is that sometimes it leads us to miss out on the… Read More

I love it when perception differs from reality… that’s when you can really make money in the stock market. Take emerging markets for instance. If you read the news regularly, you’d think emerging markets were the last place you’d want to put your money. Almost every day there’s a headline decrying how the economies in these developing nations are on the verge of collapse. In 2010 it was Greece… in 2012 Egypt… last year it was Syria… and today it’s Ukraine. The problem with following all this bad news is that sometimes it leads us to miss out on the good things… like how stocks in India and South Africa recently touched new 12-month highs or how Irish companies rebounded 45.6% in 2013. Unfortunately, most investors didn’t see a dime in profits from these incredible rallies. They succumbed to the headlines, avoided emerging markets and instead settled for the good, but lower returns offered by U.S. stocks over the same period. The good news is that the opportunity to earn explosive profits from emerging markets is far from over. While India and South Africa might be doing better, the rest of the world’s emerging markets have been absolutely crushed lately,… Read More

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) may soon become the best “high-yield” stock in America… #-ad_banner-#Now when I say that, I don’t mean “yield” in its traditional sense. Yes, Apple pays a dividend. But at $3.05 a share, that dividend equates to a mere 2.1% payout. The yield I’m talking about is something different. While this yield does take Apple’s dividends into account, it doesn’t stop there. It also considers other ways Apple is returning money to shareholders by buying back stock and paying down debt. As regular readers might have guessed, I’m referring to Apple’s Total Yield. Regular readers of Dividend Opportunities… Read More

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) may soon become the best “high-yield” stock in America… #-ad_banner-#Now when I say that, I don’t mean “yield” in its traditional sense. Yes, Apple pays a dividend. But at $3.05 a share, that dividend equates to a mere 2.1% payout. The yield I’m talking about is something different. While this yield does take Apple’s dividends into account, it doesn’t stop there. It also considers other ways Apple is returning money to shareholders by buying back stock and paying down debt. As regular readers might have guessed, I’m referring to Apple’s Total Yield. Regular readers of Dividend Opportunities are already familiar with concept of Total Yield. For those who aren’t, I’ll let Nathan Slaughter, the Chief Investment Strategist behind StreetAuthority’s premium Total Yield advisory, explain: You see, company CEOs can return wealth to you as a shareholder in three distinct ways: They can pay dividends, they can increase the value of outstanding shares by buying back their own stock and they can reduce their corporate debt. While most investors approach investing with a myopic focus on dividends, Total Yield finds and recommends stocks that use all three strategies in combination to maximize shareholder wealth. Investing with dividends… Read More

Today I want to tell you about an investing strategy that defies logic. It shouldn’t work based on everything we’ve learned about the stock market. Yet it does. In fact, for over half a century, investors and traders have used this strategy to produce unparalleled results. And no, for those of you who may be wondering, this strategy doesn’t involve options, derivatives or any other obscure financial product. What’s more, what I’m about to show you can be used as part of any general investing strategy — regardless of whether you’re focusing on income, growth, blue chips, small caps or… Read More

Today I want to tell you about an investing strategy that defies logic. It shouldn’t work based on everything we’ve learned about the stock market. Yet it does. In fact, for over half a century, investors and traders have used this strategy to produce unparalleled results. And no, for those of you who may be wondering, this strategy doesn’t involve options, derivatives or any other obscure financial product. What’s more, what I’m about to show you can be used as part of any general investing strategy — regardless of whether you’re focusing on income, growth, blue chips, small caps or even commodities. Specifically, I’m talking about relative-strength investing. Longtime readers might already be familiar with relative strength investing. We’ve talked about it before in previous StreetAuthority Daily issues. For those who need a refresher, allow me to provide a brief recap. Relative-strength investing is simply a type of momentum investing. It involves buying the best-performing stocks (relative to the market) and holding them until their momentum changes course. To most investors, especially those considered value investors, this strategy probably sounds ridiculous. After all, most people have heard the phrase “buy low, sell high.” Since relative-strength investors buy stocks that are… Read More

The second “dot-com” bubble is collapsing. Here’s what you need to know… Unless you were living under a rock in 2001, you undoubtedly remember the “dot-com” bubble. At the time, rapid changes in technology (the Internet) had investors so enamored with tech stocks that any company with “.com” in its name was instantly loved by the market, regardless of its future earnings potential. #-ad_banner-#As a result, the Nasdaq Composite Index soared 550% between 1995 and the year 2000… Most of us know what happened after that. By 2001, the bubble had burst. Investors realized companies like Pets.com, the infamous website… Read More

The second “dot-com” bubble is collapsing. Here’s what you need to know… Unless you were living under a rock in 2001, you undoubtedly remember the “dot-com” bubble. At the time, rapid changes in technology (the Internet) had investors so enamored with tech stocks that any company with “.com” in its name was instantly loved by the market, regardless of its future earnings potential. #-ad_banner-#As a result, the Nasdaq Composite Index soared 550% between 1995 and the year 2000… Most of us know what happened after that. By 2001, the bubble had burst. Investors realized companies like Pets.com, the infamous website that tried to convince us selling dog food over the Internet was a good idea, were nothing more than big dreams with little economic substance. The Nasdaq — which traded as high as 5,132 at the bubble’s peak — was below 1,500 by July 2002. Today, we’re seeing a similar situation develop in the stock market. And if we’re right, then like the “dot-com” crash of the early millennium, this event could also produce devastating losses for investors. To understand why, all you need to do is look at social media companies… Over the past five years, social… Read More

My friend John just quit a 30-year addiction… The first time I met John was at a local poker tournament a few years ago. Of all the times I played with him, he was never once without a cigarette in his hand. So imagine my surprise when I rolled into the game last Friday and saw John sitting at the poker table… his cigarettes nowhere in sight. After 30 years, he had quit cold turkey. I was shocked. When I asked him why he stopped, he pulled out an electronic cigarette (e-cig) and gave it a puff — blowing the… Read More

My friend John just quit a 30-year addiction… The first time I met John was at a local poker tournament a few years ago. Of all the times I played with him, he was never once without a cigarette in his hand. So imagine my surprise when I rolled into the game last Friday and saw John sitting at the poker table… his cigarettes nowhere in sight. After 30 years, he had quit cold turkey. I was shocked. When I asked him why he stopped, he pulled out an electronic cigarette (e-cig) and gave it a puff — blowing the vapor right back into the bar. #-ad_banner-#My friend John isn’t the only former smoker who’s made the switch from traditional cigarettes to their electric counterparts. In Amy Calistri’s March issue of Stock of the Month, she told readers how she herself used the product to quit smoking last December: Last year, I started using an electronic cigarette sold by the tobacco company Lorillard (NYSE: LO). Over time, I went from using cartridges with medium amounts of nicotine (9 to 12 mg) to low amounts of nicotine (6 to 8 mg) to cartridges with no nicotine — basically just flavored… Read More

The “Best Industry To Invest In This Year” is already making people a lot of money… Regular readers know that we’ve been talking about banks a lot lately. You might recall our February 19 issue where we said that this industry could be responsible for more than half the market’s growth. So far we’ve been right… Since we first told you about banks in February, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) have all established new 52-week highs. #-ad_banner-#This is a great sign for the banking industry. It’s an indication that the fears… Read More

The “Best Industry To Invest In This Year” is already making people a lot of money… Regular readers know that we’ve been talking about banks a lot lately. You might recall our February 19 issue where we said that this industry could be responsible for more than half the market’s growth. So far we’ve been right… Since we first told you about banks in February, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) have all established new 52-week highs. #-ad_banner-#This is a great sign for the banking industry. It’s an indication that the fears surrounding the industry following the financial crisis are fading, and that regulators are regaining faith in America’s banking system. That’s one reason bank stocks have been on an absolute tear… This chart shows how bank stocks have been trampling the S&P 500 recently. But even after the rally, banks are still ridiculously cheap. Of the six major U.S. banks — Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — only Wells Fargo is trading back above its 2007 highs. Wells Fargo’s performance is unique in that it was the only major bank to… Read More

This month, the bull market officially celebrated its five-year “anniversary.”  For some reason people think that’s a big deal. It’s almost as if the rally’s birthday has led analysts to believe it’s finally old enough to get in trouble.  How ridiculous.  There have been 25 major bull markets throughout U.S. history. Each of those runs has lasted about 900 days (2.5 years) on average — with the longest spanning almost 14 years (1987 to 2000). The S&P 500 gained an average of 103% during each of those periods.  #-ad_banner-#The current bull market period ranks fifth on that list in terms… Read More

This month, the bull market officially celebrated its five-year “anniversary.”  For some reason people think that’s a big deal. It’s almost as if the rally’s birthday has led analysts to believe it’s finally old enough to get in trouble.  How ridiculous.  There have been 25 major bull markets throughout U.S. history. Each of those runs has lasted about 900 days (2.5 years) on average — with the longest spanning almost 14 years (1987 to 2000). The S&P 500 gained an average of 103% during each of those periods.  #-ad_banner-#The current bull market period ranks fifth on that list in terms of length, coming in just short of the index’s 5-year rally from 1982 to 1987 — which ran longer than the current rally by a matter of days. But if someone tells you that means something about the market’s future price action, they’re just blowing smoke. Yes, this rally has lasted a long time. But that’s because it’s had to.  Remember, the 2008 financial crisis was the biggest market catastrophe since the Great Depression. It was so bad that people thought asset prices may fall to zero (No joke). While things never reached that point, once it was all said… Read More

Recently, we told you a story about a select group of traders who have effectively “stolen” thousands of dollars from Wall Street. By performing these “heists,” as we call them, these traders have scored annual gains of 78.8%… 125.6%… and some are even earning returns (regularly, mind you) as high as 212.2%. The best part about these “heists” is that you can do them yourself. You don’t need a million-dollar brokerage account or access to a high-powered financial adviser. All you need is an open mind and the willingness to try a new investing strategy. For example, one of our… Read More

Recently, we told you a story about a select group of traders who have effectively “stolen” thousands of dollars from Wall Street. By performing these “heists,” as we call them, these traders have scored annual gains of 78.8%… 125.6%… and some are even earning returns (regularly, mind you) as high as 212.2%. The best part about these “heists” is that you can do them yourself. You don’t need a million-dollar brokerage account or access to a high-powered financial adviser. All you need is an open mind and the willingness to try a new investing strategy. For example, one of our subscribers, Texas hospital worker Duane S., told us how he used these “heists” to earn $2,000 from the market last month: “This was my first time, and it was easy!” Or how about the story of 1st Sgt. Rory D., who has been able to “steal” $10,000 through these “heists” since he started doing them a few years ago. As Rory said: “I had no problems learning [this strategy]. I have made over $10,000 so far.” But before I go any further, I want to clarify that when I say “steal,” I’m not implying these traders did anything wrong. The… Read More

I’d like to preface this issue by saying today’s essay might prove uncomfortable for some. At StreetAuthority, our job is to present you with the very best investing opportunities. To ignore an opportunity just because it might be morally objectionable would be doing you — as well as the rest of our subscribers — a grave injustice. With those disclaimers in mind, today I want to tell you about the current investment opportunities in the United States’ burgeoning marijuana industry. As you may know, 20 states have already made cannabis legal for medicinal purposes, while several others have recently added… Read More

I’d like to preface this issue by saying today’s essay might prove uncomfortable for some. At StreetAuthority, our job is to present you with the very best investing opportunities. To ignore an opportunity just because it might be morally objectionable would be doing you — as well as the rest of our subscribers — a grave injustice. With those disclaimers in mind, today I want to tell you about the current investment opportunities in the United States’ burgeoning marijuana industry. As you may know, 20 states have already made cannabis legal for medicinal purposes, while several others have recently added a medical marijuana provision to their statewide ballots. Voters in both Colorado and Washington state have even gone so far as to legalize the drug for recreational use. As a result, legal marijuana operations like Cannabis Science (OTC: CBIS) — a purveyor of some of the country’s finest grown hemp (or so I’ve been told) — have been popping up in “green” states all over the country. These dispensaries — or “compassion clubs,” as they’re sometimes called — have created a very interesting phenomenon… That’s because according to federal law, the possession and distribution of marijuana is still considered a… Read More