Short selling, a help or a hindrance? I am not talking about individual traders who enjoy the ability to short sell shares, I am referring to the existing shareholder. Whilst existing holders may not want anyone shorting their shares on a certain level, if the shares are shorted, and the shareholder has done their homework, [...]
Nicolas Darvas was a dancer who invented a trading system while traveling the world, and made over $2,000,000 in about 18 months. Keep in mind: this was in the late 1950’s! In today’s dollars (at 5% annual compounding), he made over $20,000,000. That system, the Darvas box theory, relies on a very simple technical analysis [...]
We often hear people saying that trading or investing in options is very risky. Yes, it is certainly no mean feat to trade or invest, using options as your investment vehicle. But is it really that risky in the first place? If trading or investing in options is really risky, then why are there so [...]
Back in the summer of 2008 Mervyn King gave the startling news that the average family’s standard of living would ‘stagnate’. This is hardly news as the same thing happened (pretty much) last year and the year before. The huge rise in personal debt is evidence that many people have been financing any increase in [...]
Trading stock options can be enticing for those new to the equity markets. Their relative low cost as compared to the price of the underlying stock is what makes them so appealing since the amount of money laid out can be enormous when purchasing stock rather than stock options. Some people even refer to the [...]
Planet Wealth is an independent investment company that is run by a group of private investors who have a long history of experience and success with stock market investing. Many people are under the impression that most investment services like planet wealth are a scam, so I decided to do some homework on planet wealth [...]
Every person reading this article will be living, working and investing in different circumstances, with mind boggling possibilities for variation.For example:
However, very few of us get to start full time investing right away – we just don’t have the capital. So, what to do? You need to develop your own long term Investment Plan [...]
With so many different securities to choose from, investors have a vast array of options with which to trade and boost their portfolios’ returns. But with so many choices, how is an investor to decide? The next part of that question is figuring out if it’s even prudent to limit yourself to just one asset [...]