I’ve been talking a lot lately about how our country is on a collision course with fiscal disaster. We’re borrowing money like crazy. We’re spending trillions we don’t have. Our budget deficit is exploding, with red ink spewing as far as the eye can see! Longer-term threats to government programs like Medicare and Social Security [...]
Investors Or Traders?
Those who use the stock market to grow their assets have two choices. They can either be investors, which means they are “buy-and-hold” for the long term. Or, they are traders who try to use the ups and downs inherent in free markets to profit.
Buy-and-hold investors have much to worry about. Are they [...]
Technical analysis is sometimes studied as if it contains a grain of secret knowledge or portrays an intrinsic truth about currency movements. Often it is said that a specific chart formation will produce a specific price movement.
Technical analysis does nothing of the sort. A chart is a reflection of past prices, nothing more. In itself [...]
In the financial markets, a trend is generally understood to be the current market direction. Markets can be trending higher, trending lower, or trending sideways.
But defining a trend so that it can be profitably traded is something else entirely.
Many would say the U.S. Dollar is currently in a bearish trend. But at the same time, [...]
What is the purpose of the foreign exchange market, or any trading market for that matter? It seems like a simple question with a simple answer. The purpose is to facilitate exchange, to permit participants to sell and buy commodities, equities or futures and to trade one currency for another. But that simple definition disguises [...]
You probably know that exchange traded funds (ETFs) are usually based on an index. In some cases the indexes are broad, like the S&P 500. Others are narrowly specialized in sectors like biotechnology or software. This means that ETF investors need to understand how indexes work.
So today I want to tell you about index weighting. [...]
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