One of the best income strategies in the world involves a “glitch” in the financial markets. It allows individual investors to generate “Instant Income” from the best companies in the world. The best part, more than 80% of the time, in my experience, investors don’t have to buy a single share of stock. I’ve been using this strategy to deliver winning income trades for readers during the past few months. So far, the results have been great — my strategy has allowed us to enjoy thousands of dollars in “Instant Income.” For example, we made $2,700 “Instant Income” from a… Read More

One of the best income strategies in the world involves a “glitch” in the financial markets. It allows individual investors to generate “Instant Income” from the best companies in the world. The best part, more than 80% of the time, in my experience, investors don’t have to buy a single share of stock. I’ve been using this strategy to deliver winning income trades for readers during the past few months. So far, the results have been great — my strategy has allowed us to enjoy thousands of dollars in “Instant Income.” For example, we made $2,700 “Instant Income” from a $6,400 “down payment” on MasterCard (NYSE: MA) in July 2012. That’s an immediate return of 42.2%. Last September, I collected $710 from Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), a company that’s never paid a single dividend. And last October, I collected $125 “Instant Income” from Coach (NYSE: COH) for every $880 I set aside. It’s clear that this the strategy has a lot of income potential. Yet, less than 25% of investors are taking advantage of the “glitch” to generate income. And I think I know why… My “Instant Income” strategy involves one of the most misunderstood corners of the investing world: the… Read More

In this modern age of instant market access, high-frequency trading and real-time news, there really is nothing new under the sun. The stock market still goes up and goes down, investors still make and lose money, and the basic market dynamics between a buyer and a seller remain the same. Many market lessons taught a century ago still ring true today. One of the most influential and successful stock market speculators of all time… Read More

In this modern age of instant market access, high-frequency trading and real-time news, there really is nothing new under the sun. The stock market still goes up and goes down, investors still make and lose money, and the basic market dynamics between a buyer and a seller remain the same. Many market lessons taught a century ago still ring true today. One of the most influential and successful stock market speculators of all time is the legendary Jesse Livermore. Many lessons can be learned from both his successes and failures, which were epic in scale. He made and lost several fortunes over his career, and his life ended tragically.#-ad_banner-# Livermore was keenly aware of his own shortcomings. Although this knowledge wasn’t enough to save him, the wisdom he shared with the world is as much worth heeding today as it has ever been. Let’s take a closer look at the man once called the “Speculator King” and one of his powerful investing strategies. Fortunes Won, Fortunes Lost… Read More

One of the best income strategies in the world involves a “glitch” in the financial markets. It allows individual investors to generate “Instant Income” from the best companies in the world. The best part, more than 80% of… Read More

In the more than 10 years StreetAuthority has been in business, we’ve never come across a trading system that’s got this much potential. In preparation for the inaugural issue of the advisory Maximum Profit, StreetAuthority’s latest investment advisory, Michael J. Carr took a close look at all the holdings in all of StreetAuthority’s newsletters — more than 130 stocks, partnerships and trusts across 10 portfolios. The mission was to discover the No. 1-ranked… Read More

In the more than 10 years StreetAuthority has been in business, we’ve never come across a trading system that’s got this much potential. In preparation for the inaugural issue of the advisory Maximum Profit, StreetAuthority’s latest investment advisory, Michael J. Carr took a close look at all the holdings in all of StreetAuthority’s newsletters — more than 130 stocks, partnerships and trusts across 10 portfolios. The mission was to discover the No. 1-ranked stock — the stock that had the most potential for capital appreciation in the current climate — from a group of fundamentally strong holdings that had already been vetted by the StreetAuthority experts. Of the dozens of choices, which single pick would rise to the top? Which stock would show the greatest momentum and value in the current environment? Which current StreetAuthority holding would rank highest in Mike’s all-important combined indicators of relative strength and cash-flow growth? It turns out the No. Read More

In the more than 10 years StreetAuthority has been in business, we’ve never come across a trading system that’s got this much potential. In preparation for the inaugural issue of the advisory Maximum Profit, StreetAuthority’s latest investment advisory, Michael J. Carr took a close look at all the holdings in all of StreetAuthority’s newsletters — more than 130 stocks, partnerships and trusts across 10 portfolios. The mission was to discover the No. 1-ranked… Read More

In the more than 10 years StreetAuthority has been in business, we’ve never come across a trading system that’s got this much potential. In preparation for the inaugural issue of the advisory Maximum Profit, StreetAuthority’s latest investment advisory, Michael J. Carr took a close look at all the holdings in all of StreetAuthority’s newsletters — more than 130 stocks, partnerships and trusts across 10 portfolios. The mission was to discover the No. 1-ranked stock — the stock that had the most potential for capital appreciation in the current climate — from a group of fundamentally strong holdings that had already been vetted by the StreetAuthority experts. Of the dozens of choices, which single pick would rise to the top? Which stock would show the greatest momentum and value in the current environment? Which current StreetAuthority holding would rank highest in Mike’s all-important combined indicators of relative strength and cash-flow growth? It turns out the No. Read More

I sheepishly raised my hand to ask the real estate guru a simple question during a “no money down”-type investment seminar in Florida back in the 1990s. “What happens when real estate prices stop appreciating and banks refuse to lend to support your investments?” The guru literally jumped backward, visibly disturbed someone would even think in such a way. “Impossible!” he exclaimed. “That… Read More

I sheepishly raised my hand to ask the real estate guru a simple question during a “no money down”-type investment seminar in Florida back in the 1990s. “What happens when real estate prices stop appreciating and banks refuse to lend to support your investments?” The guru literally jumped backward, visibly disturbed someone would even think in such a way. “Impossible!” he exclaimed. “That will never happen!” Well, the guru couldn’t have been more wrong. The overheated real estate market collapsed in 2008, bringing down the house-of-cards mortgage market along with it. The largest casualty was the quasi-governmental mortgage giant Fannie Mae (OTC: FNMA).#-ad_banner-# The U.S. government had to take the once-thriving entity into conservatorship for its very survival. This allowed Fannie Mae to use Treasury funds to support… Read More

Being a StreetAuthority subscriber has privileges. That includes learning firsthand about our biggest breakthroughs. I want to let you know about one such discovery. It’s likely to be one of the most groundbreaking finds in our company’s history and could completely change the way you invest. We’re still finalizing the research, but the results are promising. It’s a new method that has produced average annual gains of 21.4% during the past decade, compared with the S&P’s 7.1% a year. I’ll tell you more in just a moment,… Read More

Being a StreetAuthority subscriber has privileges. That includes learning firsthand about our biggest breakthroughs. I want to let you know about one such discovery. It’s likely to be one of the most groundbreaking finds in our company’s history and could completely change the way you invest. We’re still finalizing the research, but the results are promising. It’s a new method that has produced average annual gains of 21.4% during the past decade, compared with the S&P’s 7.1% a year. I’ll tell you more in just a moment, but first I want to reintroduce you to the man behind this research — Michael J. Carr. You may have heard from Mike recently in this article. Mike is one of our brightest experts here at StreetAuthority. He also has one of the most interesting backgrounds of any analyst on our staff. Mike holds a degree in chemistry and an MBA. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force. His service included stints in Spain, Germany, Japan, Korea, Iceland and Guam. And he’s a former investment… Read More

Volatility is often assumed to be a useful indicator. Many traders follow the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) because they expect it to help them spot changes in the direction of price trends. VIX is helpful in finding turning points in the S&P 500 index because futures on that index are used to calculate VIX. In general, traders look for high levels as… Read More

Volatility is often assumed to be a useful indicator. Many traders follow the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) because they expect it to help them spot changes in the direction of price trends. VIX is helpful in finding turning points in the S&P 500 index because futures on that index are used to calculate VIX. In general, traders look for high levels as a sign of a market bottom and low levels as a sign of a potential top. While VIX provides information about the general market, it doesn’t say much about specific stocks in the market. To find the right stock at the right time, traders need an indicator like VIX that can be calculated for any stock. So we created one: the Income Trader Volatility (ITV) indicator, a tool Amber Hestla-Barnhart uses in her Income Trader… Read More

There are many good reasons to look for stocks that the top hedge fund managers like. Activist managers such as Carl Icahn can shake a company up until shareholder value is unlocked. Warren Buffett‘s best ideas often have great long-term potential. But some fund managers can actually destroy value for other shareholders. During the past half decade, fund manager and Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) CEO and Chairman Eddie Lampert… Read More

There are many good reasons to look for stocks that the top hedge fund managers like. Activist managers such as Carl Icahn can shake a company up until shareholder value is unlocked. Warren Buffett‘s best ideas often have great long-term potential. But some fund managers can actually destroy value for other shareholders. During the past half decade, fund manager and Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) CEO and Chairman Eddie Lampert has taken millions of dollars out of his investment in the faltering retailer through a series of one-time payments to his investment firm, ESL Investments. And while Lampert was giving himself robust paydays, he’s virtually ignored the operational trends at Sears and Kmart, the company’s two major retail divisions.#-ad_banner-# Those stores have fared so badly that Standard & Poor’s kicked Sears out of its S&P 500 index last year, where Sears had been… Read More

There are many good reasons to look for stocks that the top hedge fund managers like. Activist managers such as Carl Icahn can shake a company up until shareholder value is unlocked. Warren Buffett‘s best ideas often have great long-term potential. But some fund managers can actually destroy value for other shareholders. During the past half decade, fund manager and Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) CEO and Chairman Eddie Lampert… Read More

There are many good reasons to look for stocks that the top hedge fund managers like. Activist managers such as Carl Icahn can shake a company up until shareholder value is unlocked. Warren Buffett‘s best ideas often have great long-term potential. But some fund managers can actually destroy value for other shareholders. During the past half decade, fund manager and Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) CEO and Chairman Eddie Lampert has taken millions of dollars out of his investment in the faltering retailer through a series of one-time payments to his investment firm, ESL Investments. And while Lampert was giving himself robust paydays, he’s virtually ignored the operational trends at Sears and Kmart, the company’s two major retail divisions.#-ad_banner-# Those stores have fared so badly that Standard & Poor’s kicked Sears out of its S&P 500 index last year, where Sears had been… Read More