The only guarantees in life are death and taxes. I know this sounds a bit morbid, but it’s a common phrase used in the finance industry. The word “guarantee” is taught to be nixed from your vocabulary. And while this truth about death and taxes may be true, there are other near-certainties in life — some of which have made (and lost) investors millions of dollars over the last few centuries. One of these certainties is population growth. Every minute there are roughly 255 births worldwide, along with… Read More

The only guarantees in life are death and taxes. I know this sounds a bit morbid, but it’s a common phrase used in the finance industry. The word “guarantee” is taught to be nixed from your vocabulary. And while this truth about death and taxes may be true, there are other near-certainties in life — some of which have made (and lost) investors millions of dollars over the last few centuries. One of these certainties is population growth. Every minute there are roughly 255 births worldwide, along with about 108 deaths. That leaves 147 net additions to the world every single minute. That works out to be more than 211,000 people every day added to the world population. During 2015, the world’s population will grow by about 80 million — equal to the population of California, New York and Texas combined. My colleague Nathan Slaughter of Total Yield gave an interesting perspective on the stress that the growing global population has on the economy and the transportation industry, in particular. #-ad_banner-#Nathan discussed the drastic steps local officials have taken… Read More

For novice investors it’s always the hardest part: where do you begin? But it’s not only novice investors that have this problem. No matter where an investor falls on the learning curve, it’s tough to know what stock to buy, which strategy to pursue or which retirement account to use. Even the basics can be overwhelming for somebody new to the market. Should you invest in a Roth IRA, Traditional IRA, Simple IRA, SEP IRA, Uni-401(k), Mutual Funds, ETFs, stocks, bonds? The list goes on… Investors are literally inundated with options. And if you go to a financial advisor, most… Read More

For novice investors it’s always the hardest part: where do you begin? But it’s not only novice investors that have this problem. No matter where an investor falls on the learning curve, it’s tough to know what stock to buy, which strategy to pursue or which retirement account to use. Even the basics can be overwhelming for somebody new to the market. Should you invest in a Roth IRA, Traditional IRA, Simple IRA, SEP IRA, Uni-401(k), Mutual Funds, ETFs, stocks, bonds? The list goes on… Investors are literally inundated with options. And if you go to a financial advisor, most require at least $50,000 and can charge outrageous fees. Most investors start out with a few hundred bucks and stuff it in a savings account, earning next to nothing, simply because they don’t know what else to do with it. #-ad_banner-#These were the shoes Matthew Michaels, a young father who works here in the StreetAuthority office, was in when his grandparents gave his two young daughters money for Christmas last year. At first, he figured he’d use the money to buy more diapers and onesies, but after talking it over with his wife, they decided to invest it for their… Read More

Understanding this one catalyst could dramatically change where and how you invest… Right now, it’s the foundation of the largest wealth transfer in history. More money will change hands over the coming years from this trend than the annual sales of Wal-Mart, Kroger, Costco, Target and Sears combined. It’s revolutionized entire industries, created new markets and saved entire corporations. Take the baby food industry for example. In the early 40s and 50s this very catalyst helped launch a relatively unknown company, called the Freemont Canning Company, into a global icon. The company — now better known as Gerber — went… Read More

Understanding this one catalyst could dramatically change where and how you invest… Right now, it’s the foundation of the largest wealth transfer in history. More money will change hands over the coming years from this trend than the annual sales of Wal-Mart, Kroger, Costco, Target and Sears combined. It’s revolutionized entire industries, created new markets and saved entire corporations. Take the baby food industry for example. In the early 40s and 50s this very catalyst helped launch a relatively unknown company, called the Freemont Canning Company, into a global icon. The company — now better known as Gerber — went from selling just 590,000 jars of baby food per year to nearly two million jars per day. By 1955, Gerber’s sales swelled to 1.8 billion jars of baby food per year. It sold more jars of baby food in one year than in the company’s first 18 years combined. It’s also what helped boost Buster Brown’s shoe sales. The company went from selling $6 million worth of merchandise in 1949 to more than $30 million in sales in less than nine years — a 400% increase. Nobody understood this trend better than a man named Lee… Read More

These days, investors are bombarded with a lot of chatter from the market. #-ad_banner-#The internet, TV and radio are flooded with so-called “experts” claiming to know the future of the economy and offering varying opinions on where investors should place their hard earned dollars. On any given day, you might come across a dozen articles online claiming the market is in-store for a major bull run, only to see a news report claiming the next recession is just around the corner, not even an hour later. With the market presenting you… Read More

These days, investors are bombarded with a lot of chatter from the market. #-ad_banner-#The internet, TV and radio are flooded with so-called “experts” claiming to know the future of the economy and offering varying opinions on where investors should place their hard earned dollars. On any given day, you might come across a dozen articles online claiming the market is in-store for a major bull run, only to see a news report claiming the next recession is just around the corner, not even an hour later. With the market presenting you such a mixed bag of opinions, how are you to know what investments you can actually trust? Simple: just ignore it completely. Now, I know that might sound like a stretch, but trust me, it isn’t. The market — and its thousands of pundits — often panders to what I think is an investor’s absolute worst enemy: their emotions. Whether its fear, optimism, excitement or panic, many investors have a way of letting their emotions completely cloud their judgments. And often times, that can cost them a big… Read More

I’m going to do something today that I’ve never done before… #-ad_banner-#For those who don’t know, I’m the Co-Chief Investment Strategist of Maximum Profit — StreetAuthority’s proprietary trading system that’s designed to identify when a stock is about to deliver double- or even triple-digit gains in the coming days, weeks and months. Every two weeks we publish an issue telling readers exactly which stocks to buy and which stocks to sell in our premium advisory. Our readers pay good money for our research and so I can’t just give away all of our recent… Read More

I’m going to do something today that I’ve never done before… #-ad_banner-#For those who don’t know, I’m the Co-Chief Investment Strategist of Maximum Profit — StreetAuthority’s proprietary trading system that’s designed to identify when a stock is about to deliver double- or even triple-digit gains in the coming days, weeks and months. Every two weeks we publish an issue telling readers exactly which stocks to buy and which stocks to sell in our premium advisory. Our readers pay good money for our research and so I can’t just give away all of our recent trades to the public. It wouldn’t be fair to our paying subscribers. But today I’m breaking that rule. That’s because after delivering a string of winners to our paying subscribers, I wanted to share one of our recent recommended trades with the public — so you can have the chance of profiting alongside us. After discussing this with my editor, he gave me the go-ahead to let the cat out of the bag. I know this won’t always be the case, so make sure to pay close attention to the rest of this issue. Read More

I must say, I really enjoy what I do. #-ad_banner-#I’m fortunate enough to be able to analyze some of the most interesting companies, and detail that analysis in my premium newsletter, Maximum Profit. This allows me to mix my two favorite hobbies: investment analysis and writing. I thought I couldn’t ask for anything better… That is, until I met StreetAuthority’s very own Dave Forest. If you’ve never had the chance to read any of Dave’s premium analysis, then you’re missing out. Not only does he offer incredible in-depth research you can’t… Read More

I must say, I really enjoy what I do. #-ad_banner-#I’m fortunate enough to be able to analyze some of the most interesting companies, and detail that analysis in my premium newsletter, Maximum Profit. This allows me to mix my two favorite hobbies: investment analysis and writing. I thought I couldn’t ask for anything better… That is, until I met StreetAuthority’s very own Dave Forest. If you’ve never had the chance to read any of Dave’s premium analysis, then you’re missing out. Not only does he offer incredible in-depth research you can’t find anywhere else, but you also get some of the best stories. I like to think of him as the Indiana Jones of the investing world. Seriously, just look at this excerpt from a recent edition of his premium advisory Scarcity & Real Wealth:         I’ve doused my boots with rancid-smelling liquid — intended to ward off deadly coral snakes that lurk in the pools and swamps where I was treading. I’ve climbed to mountain peaks near 10,000 feet — where the lungs start to put up serious resistance to… Read More

This one investing rule could drastically improve the performance of your portfolio… #-ad_banner-#I’m not talking about asset allocation, position sizing or stop losses. Sure, those are great rules… but they won’t immediately improve your overall performance. After all, it doesn’t matter how diversified your portfolio is, or how small of a position you take, or even if you have a stop-loss set in place — the fact remains, if you buy the wrong stock at the wrong time you will lose money. It’s that simple. Now, I’m not saying that by… Read More

This one investing rule could drastically improve the performance of your portfolio… #-ad_banner-#I’m not talking about asset allocation, position sizing or stop losses. Sure, those are great rules… but they won’t immediately improve your overall performance. After all, it doesn’t matter how diversified your portfolio is, or how small of a position you take, or even if you have a stop-loss set in place — the fact remains, if you buy the wrong stock at the wrong time you will lose money. It’s that simple. Now, I’m not saying that by following this one rule you will never lose money. But what I can guarantee is that this simple strategy will help you know which stocks to buy and exactly when to sell them. Take Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) for example. Apple is one of the most fundamentally sound companies on the planet. For years, the popularity of iPods, iPhones and its computers caused earnings and cash flow to soar. Since 2003 alone, the company’s annual revenue rose from $6.2 billion to $182.8 billion. And if you were an investor focused only on Apple’s fundamentals — a strong… Read More

Today I want to tell you about an investing strategy that defies logic. It shouldn’t work based on everything we’ve learned about the stock market. Yet it does. In fact, for over half a century, investors and traders have used this strategy to produce unparalleled results. And no, for those of you who may be wondering, this strategy doesn’t involve options, derivatives or any other obscure financial product. #-ad_banner-#What’s more, what I’m about to show you can be used as part of any general investing strategy — regardless of whether you’re focusing on income, growth, blue chips, small caps or… Read More

Today I want to tell you about an investing strategy that defies logic. It shouldn’t work based on everything we’ve learned about the stock market. Yet it does. In fact, for over half a century, investors and traders have used this strategy to produce unparalleled results. And no, for those of you who may be wondering, this strategy doesn’t involve options, derivatives or any other obscure financial product. #-ad_banner-#What’s more, what I’m about to show you can be used as part of any general investing strategy — regardless of whether you’re focusing on income, growth, blue chips, small caps or commodities. Specifically, I’m talking about relative-strength investing. Longtime readers might already be familiar with relative-strength investing. We’ve talked about it before in previous StreetAuthority Daily issues. But for those who need a refresher, allow me to provide a brief recap. Relative-strength investing is simply a type of momentum investing. It involves buying the best-performing stocks (relative to the market) and holding them until their momentum changes course. To most investors, especially those considered value investors, this strategy probably sounds ridiculous. After all, most people have heard the phrase “buy low, sell high.” Since relative-strength investors buy stocks that are already… Read More

Every so often we like to step outside the normal mold, and give readers something different. One of the great things about StreetAuthority.com is that we can write about anything we want – well anything related to investing at least – so long as we see it as a value to our loyal subscribers. We have a variety of newsletters that specifically focused on recurring investment themes or strategies, but not this one. #-ad_banner-#​StreetAuthority.com is our main outlet to share with you what we would want to know if our roles were reversed. Fairly often our top analysts… Read More

Every so often we like to step outside the normal mold, and give readers something different. One of the great things about StreetAuthority.com is that we can write about anything we want – well anything related to investing at least – so long as we see it as a value to our loyal subscribers. We have a variety of newsletters that specifically focused on recurring investment themes or strategies, but not this one. #-ad_banner-#​StreetAuthority.com is our main outlet to share with you what we would want to know if our roles were reversed. Fairly often our top analysts will respond to reader Q&A, and the exchange proves to be a very candid look into the thought processes of our top analysts. So today I wanted to share with you a Q&A from one of our readers that addresses an important question many investors face. Where do I start and which strategies should I follow? With so many different investing strategies out there, it’s tough for investors to know where to begin or what advice to follow. A reader posed this question to Andy Obermueller,… Read More