Investing in Stocks

Patience is not only a virtue, it’s a necessity to becoming a great investor.  Few investors possess patience, which is why few are great investors. Patience matters even more… Read more

US Steel Corp (NYSE: X) appeared on my bearish scan the other evening thanks to a bearish crossover of the daily stochastic readings. The stock has been in a downward… Read more

I hadn’t heard it suggested until a colleague of mine hinted at it in an article this week. It was a question I had not yet asked myself. “Should… Read more

There are just some stocks that investors should “never, never” own. That’s because certain companies will never make profitability its top priority or it will never willingly deliver a… Read more

Many investors continue to stand on the sidelines when it comes to investing in China, and  for good reasons. Much of the economic data that China puts out is… Read more

Once upon a time, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was a high flying tech stock that presented the kind of return investors dream about. If you had purchased Microsoft stock at its… Read more

Thematic investing is a tried and true way of capitalizing on broad, fast moving trends. The latest trend is in healthy and active living. There are multiple ways to… Read more

Since Facebook’s (Nasdaq: FB) May 2012 IPO, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has steadily sold chunks of stock worth millions. In fact Sandberg has sold over $500 million in… Read more

Sectarian violence in Iraq has escalated to the point that the U.S. military may get involved. The Federal Reserve continued to “taper” back its monthly bond buying. Projections for… Read more