The bear market that showed up at the end of 2000 has every brokerage house-as well as the entire mutual fund industry-scrambling to find creative ways to boost both their image and bottom line. Unfortunately, this is often at the investors' expen ...

How do you invest? What do you really pay? At the end of the day, what are your real results? These are questions smart investors should be asking themselves (but usually don't). In this era of more fees, misc. charges, holding periods and back en ...

The date October 13, 2000 will forever be embedded in my mind. It was the day after our mutual fund trend tracking indicator had broken its long-term trend line and I sold 100% of my clients¡¯ invested positions (and my own) and moved the proceeds ...

When it comes to mutual funds, there is a lot more to success than just finding a good one. Sad investment stories like the following are all too common. I hope my sharing it with you will help you avoid making the same devastating financial mista ...

When it comes to 401k's there is an overabundance of sad stories. Here is one that at least has a happy ending¡ªand it's getting happier all the time.

Last year (in 2002) a friend of mine¡ªlet¡¯s call him Jack¡ªphoned and asked if I could help h ...

If you have been dealing with mutual funds for any length of time, you undoubtedly have faced the question of which is better: Load Funds or No Load Funds. If you are new to investing, "load" simply refers to the commission paid to the broker sell ...

What are you thinking when it comes to your no load mutual fund selections? Are you saving pennies and sacrificing dollars?

Are you spending your time looking at expense ratios, analyzing Morningstar ratings and searching for funds with low ...

A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys sitting in a bar. One is saying to the other: ¡°I did learn something from my broker...how to diversify my investment losses.¡±

While this struck me as funny, there is certainly an element ...

If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund managers, read on. There is a quiet revolution going on in the no-load mutual fund industry and you, the individual inves ...

Recently I was invited to appear on a live CNNfn television show to discuss my article ¡°How to evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds.¡± (You can read that article on my website  

With the internet such a huge part of our daily lives, many investors have access to a wide range of instant investment information.

Whether you¡¯re into stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures or options, there are tons of electronic investment ...

If you are serious about making and keeping money by trading stocks, then there are three things you need to do, and do well.

• Money management

• Orders

• Trading system

Money management

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This article describes the model of a natural relationship between trading system performance, trade position size, stop loss settings and profit goals. The model consists of algebraic equations that specify the trade size and stop loss settings ...

How do you make money without picking tops and bottoms?

I am glad you asked...

Successful trading is similar to a successful business. You see, every successful business has a business plan so do successful traders. The ...

If you have not back tested your trading system, you might as well trade with your eyes close.

In fact, whatever technical analysis criterion you use to trade with, be it moving averages, candle sticks, volatility breakouts, ...