When I went bargain shopping last October looking for a few new outfits, I not only found a great discount on clothes, I also found a winning investment idea that has been producing averaging monthly gains north of 3%. In fact, this stock is up over 82% since I bought… Read More

Among the biggest losers in Wednesday’s early trading are Dycom (NYSE: DY) and Frontline (NYSE: FRO).  It’s often profitable to find stocks that continually exceed profit forecasts. Yet once such a pattern is established, a company is unwise to break the… Read More

Among the biggest winners in Wednesday’s early trading are Jos. A Bank (Nasdaq: JOSB), The Fresh Market (NYSE: TFM), Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE) and WellPoint (NYSE: WLP)   While many traders are away from their desk during this last week of August, they’re missing… Read More

One of my favorite places to search for undiscovered income stocks is in the small-cap sector. Most small-cap stocks have few analyst followers and little institutional ownership, because their limited liquidity makes big positions more difficult to unwind. As a result, many good… Read More

The metrics in the housing sector are slowly but surely improving, and while the numbers are still light years away from where they were during the height of the housing boom, the trend is nevertheless higher. We received the latest data point on housing from the National Association of Realtors… Read More

As traders, we can take advantage of the late summer doldrums in the market and open a trade that is virtually a guaranteed winner. Volume has all but disappeared from the stock market — it seems… Read More

Living halfway around the world, it’s hard for most of us to really know what’s happening in China. But more and more, what happens in that country affects the global economy and stock markets — and eventually your portfolio. #-ad_banner-#We do… Read More

When it comes to investing, there’s an old saying: “No one rings a bell and tells you when it’s time to buy.” This is especially true in cases where a pretty strong rally has already been underway for quite some time. After all, who wants to buy a richly-valued stock… Read More

Among the biggest losers in Tuesday’s early trading are Perfect World (Nasdaq: PWRD) and Polypore International (NYSE: PPO). In the United States, video-game stocks have been trading at multi-year lows, in part due to a dearth of hot new gaming consoles that typically spur demand for new gaming titles. Read More

Among the biggest winners in Tuesday’s early trading are Molycorp (NYSE: MCP), Movado (NYSE: MOV), and PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH). Shares of rare earth-mining firm Molycorp have finally landed on Terra Firma, rallying more than 7% this morning. That’s cold comfort to… Read More