Generally, I believe, people are optimistic by nature. Many of us always look for that proverbial silver lining. That is especially true when it comes to investing. Optimism explains the popularity of buy-and-hold investing. Individuals following this model say things like, “Prices always come back.” And, so far, prices in the U.S. stock market have always come back. —Recommended Link— Dear StreetAuthority Reader, I want you to be the FIRST to hear about this. A stock market “hack” we’ve been tweaking is actually working. I’m talking about gains like +20% in 14 days, +83% in 28 days, +64% in… Read More

Generally, I believe, people are optimistic by nature. Many of us always look for that proverbial silver lining. That is especially true when it comes to investing. Optimism explains the popularity of buy-and-hold investing. Individuals following this model say things like, “Prices always come back.” And, so far, prices in the U.S. stock market have always come back. —Recommended Link— Dear StreetAuthority Reader, I want you to be the FIRST to hear about this. A stock market “hack” we’ve been tweaking is actually working. I’m talking about gains like +20% in 14 days, +83% in 28 days, +64% in 48 days, +118% in 86 days…+266% in less than a year. Click here to learn more. But it took 13 years for the S&P 500 index to fully recover from the 2000 bear market. Prices did reach new highs in 2007 but then fell to new lows. It took 11 years to recover after prices peaked in 1968 and 25 years to recover from the 1929 peak. #-ad_banner-#In global markets, the track record is worse. Japanese stocks still remain more than 40% below their 1989 highs. That’s an extreme example but it’s been almost 30 years since Japanese stocks peaked. Read More

If 2018’s stock market behavior was an amusement park ride, potential riders would probably be required to read a 60-page warning booklet and sign a release. “All Over The Road” would probably be a good name for it. Unfortunately, investors can’t exit through the gift shop. —Recommended Link— Just Released To The Public: 10 Stocks You MUST Own If You Want To Beat The Market Discover the 10 stocks with the most potential to crush the market in 2019. This is your chance to gain access to the definitive guide to beating the market for FREE ($99.00… Read More

If 2018’s stock market behavior was an amusement park ride, potential riders would probably be required to read a 60-page warning booklet and sign a release. “All Over The Road” would probably be a good name for it. Unfortunately, investors can’t exit through the gift shop. —Recommended Link— Just Released To The Public: 10 Stocks You MUST Own If You Want To Beat The Market Discover the 10 stocks with the most potential to crush the market in 2019. This is your chance to gain access to the definitive guide to beating the market for FREE ($99.00 value). Click here for the full details. It’s been a brutal year. And anyone who says they aren’t sitting on losses is either a liar or a genius. #-ad_banner-#But what if you still believe in your idea longer term? The way markets can move you may sell and book a loss, only to wait 31 days and buy back the stock at a higher price. It’s what psychologists refer to as “fear of missing out” or “FOMO.” From a tax-loss standpoint, investors may sell a stock to realize a loss to offset the tax consequence of a gain. However, the… Read More

A buddy of mine once got a bit of a shocker a few days before his wedding, when his soon-to-be bride confided that she owed $40,000 or so in unpaid student loans. Fortunately, it wasn’t a deal-breaker and they are still happily married. But it took years to dig out from that deep financial hole. —Recommended Link— Investment Income That Crushes Dividends With the S&P 500 yielding just 1.9%, the average dividend stock will take 52 years to double your money. But one new income approach lets you collect $565 (or more) in cash every… Read More

A buddy of mine once got a bit of a shocker a few days before his wedding, when his soon-to-be bride confided that she owed $40,000 or so in unpaid student loans. Fortunately, it wasn’t a deal-breaker and they are still happily married. But it took years to dig out from that deep financial hole. —Recommended Link— Investment Income That Crushes Dividends With the S&P 500 yielding just 1.9%, the average dividend stock will take 52 years to double your money. But one new income approach lets you collect $565 (or more) in cash every week — INSTANTLY. Over time, it’s amounted to a large pile of money — $140,490 since 2013. Learn about the “Guaranteed Income Strategy” that’s beating the pants off other income investments. Many companies come with the same kind of baggage. General Electric (NYSE: GE), for instance, has some attractive assets, including $62 billion in cash and $50 billion in property and equipment. But then hidden a little lower on the balance sheet is a whopping $115 billion debt load. Even for a global giant, meeting the principal and interest payments on these loans is a heavy… Read More

Successful investing requires discipline, focus, and a healthy skepticism of quarterly and annual reports. But it’s this last idea that counts the most. For if investors fail in their duty to look beneath the surface of corporate reports, they have nobody to blame but themselves for making poor investment decisions. —Recommended Link— URGENT NEWS: Experts Warn Your Pension Is ‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’ Save your retirement from miserly interest rates and an overstretched stock market with our special “Executive Dividends” Program… Learn more inside. Take Target (NYSE: TGT), for example. Many investors looking for an entry point for… Read More

Successful investing requires discipline, focus, and a healthy skepticism of quarterly and annual reports. But it’s this last idea that counts the most. For if investors fail in their duty to look beneath the surface of corporate reports, they have nobody to blame but themselves for making poor investment decisions. —Recommended Link— URGENT NEWS: Experts Warn Your Pension Is ‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’ Save your retirement from miserly interest rates and an overstretched stock market with our special “Executive Dividends” Program… Learn more inside. Take Target (NYSE: TGT), for example. Many investors looking for an entry point for the stock may have found it after the stock declined behind the company’s quarterly earnings announcement last month. As you can see from the chart, the stock took a nosedive on the report — wiping out an entire year’s gains. Now, it’s true the stock has since regained about 2% since the decline, but clearly, investors didn’t like what management had to report. The Catalyst Ostensibly, the catalyst for Target’s stock decline was lighter than expected growth for its third quarter. Analysts’ expectations were for the company to report same stores sales growth of 5.5%. Instead, the… Read More

How do you position yourself into the end of the year in order to maximize the potential for gains and while minimizing exposure to the least-promising stocks? With the markets taking wild swings on an almost daily basis for the past month, this question becomes more important than ever. —Recommended Link— 9 Investment Revelations For 2019 From toppling the titans of Monday night entertainment to robotic heart surgery… 2019 will be a very interesting year for investors. Want to know where the smart money will be in 2019? Discover 9 Game-Changing Predictions for 2019 NOW. The answer to the… Read More

How do you position yourself into the end of the year in order to maximize the potential for gains and while minimizing exposure to the least-promising stocks? With the markets taking wild swings on an almost daily basis for the past month, this question becomes more important than ever. —Recommended Link— 9 Investment Revelations For 2019 From toppling the titans of Monday night entertainment to robotic heart surgery… 2019 will be a very interesting year for investors. Want to know where the smart money will be in 2019? Discover 9 Game-Changing Predictions for 2019 NOW. The answer to the first part is relatively simple, albeit not easy: the best stocks are usually the ones that are positioned to grow in good times and bad. But it can be harder to determine stocks that are best to ignore (if you don’t own them) or to sell (if you do own them). It could be even harder to pull the trigger. #-ad_banner-#Even as the market, during periodic re-evaluation processes, inevitably creates new bargains, some stocks remain too dangerous. Their relative unattractiveness could stem from their deteriorating businesses, over-leveraged balance sheets, or inept management. So today, I want to concentrate on some… Read More

There are many investing strategies available to investors to build long-term wealth. And although out of fashion with Wall Street, a buy and hold strategy with stocks in the midst of a strong secular trend remains one of the best strategies for retail investors. —Recommended Link— Is Your Portfolio Missing Something? Legendary investment analyst Jimmy Butts reveals the 10 stocks he believes will crush the market in 2019. Be one of the first to get your hands on this report to make sure you’re not missing out on a windfall stock pick. Click here to discover all 10 now. Read More

There are many investing strategies available to investors to build long-term wealth. And although out of fashion with Wall Street, a buy and hold strategy with stocks in the midst of a strong secular trend remains one of the best strategies for retail investors. —Recommended Link— Is Your Portfolio Missing Something? Legendary investment analyst Jimmy Butts reveals the 10 stocks he believes will crush the market in 2019. Be one of the first to get your hands on this report to make sure you’re not missing out on a windfall stock pick. Click here to discover all 10 now. Better yet, when applying this strategy with undervalued blue-chip stocks with a solid history of growing dividends, the buy-and-hold strategy morphs into a powerful wealth building investment philosophy. It has made Warren Buffet a wealthy man, and it can grow your own portfolio beyond your wildest dreams, too. Strong Secular Trend According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. will see strong tailwinds in the production of oil and gas for several decades. The following EIA chart shows oil production in the United States growing until about 2040 before stabilizing thereafter. But the… Read More

In the last two mid-month updates of my premium newsletter Extreme Tech Profits, I shared with subscribers a scan built around a discovery I learned from Dr. Len Zacks, founder of Zacks Investment Research. He is the one who taught me to look for what I call a “valuation disconnect”; that is, an event in the life of a company that takes place whenever new earnings information arises unexpectedly. If this new information is positive – e.g., an increase in earnings growth that had not been foreseen by the analysts – it typically causes the stock price to rise over… Read More

In the last two mid-month updates of my premium newsletter Extreme Tech Profits, I shared with subscribers a scan built around a discovery I learned from Dr. Len Zacks, founder of Zacks Investment Research. He is the one who taught me to look for what I call a “valuation disconnect”; that is, an event in the life of a company that takes place whenever new earnings information arises unexpectedly. If this new information is positive – e.g., an increase in earnings growth that had not been foreseen by the analysts – it typically causes the stock price to rise over the next few weeks as investors strive to price in that new information. —Recommended Link— JUST RELEASED: The 9 Biggest Things To Happen To Investing In 2019 Your 2019 investment “cheat sheet” is ready… Our annual Game-Changing Stocks Predictions have left many readers stunned. Some wondered if we had some kind of crystal ball on the market… others asked if we were getting away with insider trading. And this year… could hold our biggest reveal yet… Click here to see what 2019 has in store for you. I also showed you how, once we add a valuation filter to… Read More

There are many tools designed to help investors analyze their portfolio holdings and to ultimately weed out undesirable or riskier stocks. Financial analysis is always helpful, of course, but studying companies’ balance sheets and their filings requires a lot of time and effort. Financial ratios, such as Price-to-Earnings, Price-to-Sales, Debt-to-Equity and others are all very useful, but some are more readily available than others. —Recommended Link— New Retirement Solution: ‘Executive Dividends’ Issued by some of the biggest corporations in America but unreported by the press, these “Executive Dividends” can be worth a fortune–if you know where to look… See… Read More

There are many tools designed to help investors analyze their portfolio holdings and to ultimately weed out undesirable or riskier stocks. Financial analysis is always helpful, of course, but studying companies’ balance sheets and their filings requires a lot of time and effort. Financial ratios, such as Price-to-Earnings, Price-to-Sales, Debt-to-Equity and others are all very useful, but some are more readily available than others. —Recommended Link— New Retirement Solution: ‘Executive Dividends’ Issued by some of the biggest corporations in America but unreported by the press, these “Executive Dividends” can be worth a fortune–if you know where to look… See how to cash in HERE, starting at $3,080 per month. For the most recent stock screen I shared with my Fast-Track Millionaire subscribers, I chose one of the “less-available” ratios to search for companies with questionable financial health, with the ultimate goal of locating a set of stocks investors are better off avoiding. As a second measure, I reviewed revenue growth from last year. But let’s start from the beginning. A good measure of a company’s overall health is Return on Equity (ROE). This financial ratio shows, generally speaking, how much profit is generated for shareholders’ equity stake. #-ad_banner-#A negative… Read More