Profit Strategies

Browse our most recent articles in the following list:

What It Takes to Win in this Business
2/8/2010 9:31:56 AM
Before you commit a dime of your hard-earned money to trading, consider learning these crucial rules and applying them. Always keep in mind that identifying opportunities, creating low-risk trades and planning your trades are all part of the success equation in trading! Read full article »
Budget Plans Grab Front and Center Attention
2/1/2010 10:21:17 AM
Cisco and nonfarm payrolls will hold traders' attention later this week, but Obama's out-the-gate $3.8 trillion budget plans and a bearish-looking market are front and center. Read full article »
Motivation!
1/25/2010 9:16:55 AM
The week ahead promises a bevy of influential corporate confessionals but politically-charged catalysts should prove the stronger motivator for investors. Read full article »
Heavyweights Set the Tone
1/18/2010 9:48:15 AM
It's not a full week for US markets, but a wave of influential earnings reports spearheaded by financial and technology names should begin to yield strong clues for the Q4 season and what's in store for Q1 and beyond. Read full article »
Q4 Earnings Are Coming In!
1/11/2010 12:05:18 PM
Retail sales, a bevy of other economic data and the first vestiges of Q4 earnings will have investors attention this week. Read full article »
A Super Trader Is Born
1/4/2010 9:51:23 AM
Are you a Super Trader? Does your trading income exceed your ability to spend? If so, then read no further. For everyone else, I want to open this possibility. How? Read on! Read full article »
Mind Matters: Gratitude
12/28/2009 10:37:52 AM
What are you grateful for? What are your blessings? List them regularly and you will see the positive effect this has in your trading and in your life! Read full article »
Mind Matters: Risks and Priorities
12/21/2009 10:39:30 AM
You need to get your mindset right to be able to trade. Here's a great way to do it! Read full article »
Risk Appetite Is Back!
12/14/2009 10:57:02 AM
A hard corrective move in the carry trade could find bargain-hunting bulls' collective risk appetite has returned this expiration week. Read full article »
A Bag of Coals?
11/30/2009 9:38:54 AM
Entering the week, investors will be focused on holiday sales data and whether "What happens in Dubai, stays in Dubai." Read full article »
Mind Matters: Learning
11/18/2009 11:29:37 AM
Never stop studying. Learning and its rewards are waiting for you! Read full article »
November 9, 2009
11/9/2009 9:47:40 AM
Bulls kick off the market's "best six months" with a percentage bid courtesy of a three-week corrective move and a handful of well-received corporate motivators. Read full article »
Change of Costume!
11/2/2009 9:46:03 AM
Bargain hunting treats turned into a nasty trick to close the week and month of October. What's next for November? Read full article »
Weekly Outlook, Oct 25, 2009
10/26/2009 11:06:05 AM
As the market turns its back on generally bullish-sounding Q3 confessionals, investor focus this week will look towards a strong mix of key economic data for guidance. Read full article »
Spreading Risk in Many Ways, Part 1
10/19/2009 9:26:06 AM
Hedging Risk in 2009 has really become the mantra of many traders. But did you know there are many more ways to hedge risk than simply with options? I would like to run down a few such "hedges," if you will, with examples to boot... Read full article »
Weekly Outlook: October 12, 2009
10/12/2009 10:46:59 AM
With a daily "drive for five" and 13-week up cycle complete, poor reactions to strong earnings thus far hint at profit-taking ahead. Read full article »
A Chilly Start?
10/5/2009 9:46:21 AM
Will a chilly 5.55% corrective start to October find bargain-hunters stepping up to the plate in front of the Q3 earnings season? Read full article »
October Witching?
9/28/2009 9:17:16 AM
Hedge Funds, with all their negative publicity, are actually having a good year in 2009. Stocks in equity funds have for the most part risen, as we have seen a return to levels not seen since late last year. The question is, will it continue? Read full article »
Finding Commodities in ProfitSource
9/21/2009 10:35:17 AM
Last week I touched on the Natural Gas market and got a lot of feedback and questions about where to find commodities in ProfitSource. In this week's article and I show you how to find Natural Gas, as well as other commodities using ProfitSource... Read full article »
It's a (Natural) Gas...
9/14/2009 9:56:47 AM
Every month or so I stroll over to the dark side of Platinum, otherwise called Platinum Futures, to see what the commodities are doing. I was looking at these over the past week or so and much to my surprise, Natural Gas was making the expensive list... Read full article »
Happy Labor Day Weekend...?
9/8/2009 11:11:49 AM
Fewer people are traveling for pure pleasure than they were in the past. Let's take a look at one sector of the economy and how this incorporates into my trading plan for the rest of 2009. Read full article »
This Rally Has Legs!
8/31/2009 10:47:24 AM
It's funny that the only one in this company who predicted this year that the market will hit 10,000 was the boss. Not Bruce Springsteen, but George Fontanills. Let's take a peek at two charts that may agree with George's predictions... Read full article »
Trading Psychology. It's More Important Than You Think!
8/25/2009 11:19:26 AM
It's one thing to have a trading plan and system, but actually following it, especially when things aren't exactly going your way, is something else entirely. Following the key trading success rules can help you improve your plans when it comes to real life trading... Read full article »
Weekly Outlook: August 24, 2009
8/24/2009 4:49:34 PM
The fear of missing out was back in a big way last week as bulls break through key time and price resistance in the S&P500. Read full article »
Tom's Market Outlook: August 17, 2009
8/17/2009 11:41:34 AM
Investors finally show a slight bit of atypical fear during the market's defense of SP-1000 this past week... Read full article »
Oil's Next (Potential) Move
8/3/2009 8:27:39 AM
The oil market has seen big swings in the past year, so it's no wonder the market isn't more volatile. Oil prices have rebounded, but are still nearly 55% below last year's levels. But this year oil on its own has made impressive moves... Read full article »
Late Summer Rally?
7/24/2009 11:32:32 AM
Typically a rally into July 4th usually fizzles, but it isn't a typical market this year. Seems that everything we have learned about ups and downs and seasonality can be thrown out for 2009. Everything except Elliott Wave, that is. Read full article »
Weekly Outlook, July 20, 2009
7/20/2009 6:53:08 PM
Can heady green shoots efforts in the broader market receive further earnings fuel this week? Read full article »
Fresh Quarterly Inflows Are No Match July's Early Sell-a-bration
7/6/2009 8:46:10 AM
Green shoots efforts get more than just questioned courtesy of Thursday's weak monthly jobs data. Read full article »
Back to Business
6/29/2009 2:09:51 PM
We are back from Oasis 2009 and if you missed it, you missed a great event! One of the case studies George and I went over involved risk and reward, and I want to use it as an example in this article... Read full article »
Trading Mistakes and How to Correct Them, Part V
6/19/2009 4:36:57 PM
It absolutely shocks me how many people try to learn this business on reading a few books and then opening a brokerage account to get in the game. Although I laugh about this, the laughter is short lived as I remember that's exactly how I got in this business... Read full article »
Trading Mistakes and How To Correct Them, Part IV
6/14/2009 11:12:46 AM
There are three main reasons why traders lose money. Following rules will help eliminate a large majority of losses in the markets. Here are a few quick rules to follow Read full article »
Trading Mistakes and How to Correct Them, Part III
6/6/2009 9:16:21 AM
Trading Mistake #3: Thinking that investing is safe, but trading is risky. This might have been a logical mistake 30 years ago, but not today. Here are the top reasons why investors are afraid to be traders... Read full article »
Trading Mistakes and How to Correct Them, Part II
5/26/2009 3:34:33 PM
We're on Week 2 of our series on trading mistakes and how to correct them. This week's lesson: It's not too late to start saving, investing, and controlling your retirement! Read full article »
The Biggest Investing Mistakes and How to Correct Them
5/13/2009 6:51:18 PM
Complacently leads to losses, so for the next several weeks we will be looking at the mistakes of investing and how to correct them. Read full article »
Time to Start Investing Like Warren Buffett
4/24/2009 2:20:21 PM
It's hard not to like this guy. Let's dive into exactly how the "Oracle of Omaha" came to be, as well as his investing style and, finally, how to trade options using Warren Buffet stocks. Read full article »
Don't Buy the Hype!
4/18/2009 11:02:06 AM
It's quite amazing how fast the market has come in the past 6 weeks. But let's remember that we haven't even retraced 25% of what we have given up since the highs of 14,000 in 2007... Read full article »
Dogs of the Dow... Now?
4/5/2009 3:05:21 PM
The Dogs are down on hard times. The question is, will this trend continue and is there safety in buying the Dogs in the event that the market is stabilizing? Read full article »
Swingtown
3/30/2009 10:12:10 AM
I like old music. One of my favorite bands, The Steve Miller Band, has a song that continuously reminds me of the stock market in the past few months. Swingtown was a favorite for myself and others, but now that's the worst thing you want to say to anyone who is still holding the stock market waiting for the stability to return. Read full article »
Reload Your Weapons!
3/23/2009 9:44:18 AM
Last week I wrote an article about the demand that is going on in the gun industry right now. Let's look at a snapshot of what happened this week... Read full article »
Ready, Aim, FIRE!
3/13/2009 12:37:01 PM
Some people say we are going to hell in a hand basket. If you are one of those people, consider our right to bear arms. Okay, not our right to bear arms, but our right to own stock in a company designed to help people with our 2nd amendment. Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation... Read full article »
Protecting Your Profits
3/8/2009 2:31:38 PM
How do I protect my profits? What about setting a stop? There are a variety of ways to do this, either with a dollar stop loss, a percentage stop loss, a trailing stop, etc. But what about options to help protect your trades? Here are three such ways to do that... Read full article »
Does Money Management Really Matter?
2/28/2009 8:44:23 AM
We all need to have a plan for the amount of capital at risk in our trades. One of the simplest forms of money management is what is referred to as "Fixed Fractional" trading... Read full article »
Close, But No Cigar...
2/20/2009 5:14:16 PM
There are 3 things I want you to think about going forward, even if you don't agree with my outlook... Read full article »
Has Black Gold Run Its Bearish Course?
2/8/2009 9:39:09 PM
A lot of the big oil stocks are showing a type of bottoming pattern. If it's true that oil stocks precede oil itself, perhaps we are at a short-term bottom... Read full article »