Archive for 'Trading Strategies' Category
How to profit from slumping “X”
11 September 2006 by Christopher Suleske“X” is whatever – markets, commodities, equties, bonds, indicies, currencies – anything tied to something liquid.
I read a bevy of contrarian / pessimistic / downright dystopian literature nearly daily. Some of it is better in its content, suspicions, assertions, and analysis than others. It’s always interesting, however. Some contrarians tend to be [...]
The Interesting 135
8 September 2006 by Christopher SuleskeA quick visit to the Wikipedia’s listing of the Fortune 500 led me to wonder what that list, sorted by gross operating profit would look like. I took the list, sucked it into Microsoft Excel, divided profits by revenues, multiplied it by 100 to get a percentage and sorted on the new column. [...]
Speculators v. Investors
14 July 2006 by Christopher SuleskeSays Robert Kiyosaki in a recent piece about value investing (in equities and real estate):
Investors who buy a property to sell, often known as flippers, invest primarily for capital gains. This is often taxed at higher rates if they spend their gains instead of reinvesting their money; to me, these people are speculators, not investors.
and…
True [...]
Do your own thing: Part 2
7 July 2006 by Christopher SuleskeThe daily e-mails suggesting I queue up to follow Warren Buffett prompted a recent article on the WealthMotor, Do your own thing! In that vein, I recently read a piece at MSN Money titled “How to invest like Peter Lynch“. This time, however, my take is a little different.
Rather than merely following Lynch [...]
Trailing stops
5 July 2006 by Christopher SuleskeSome links to good articles on utilizing trailing stops in your trading:
The Trailing Stop Strategy (Alexander Green, InvestmentU)
Trailing Stops (Steve Sjuggerud, InvestmentU)
Trailing Stops Tested (Steve Sjuggerud, InvestmentU) — This one is particularly interesting and elucidates the premise of trading the S&P 500 based on a Simple Moving Average and using trailing stops to trigger sells.
I [...]
Market Timing v. Value Investing
28 June 2006 by Christopher SuleskeSomething I’ve gotten my mind around in the past several years is the idea of an investor having different goals and thus different pots and the strategies for those pots. Harry Browne called it creating a “permanent portfolio” (security) and a “variable portfolio” (speculation). So, an investor can be both a value investor [...]
Profiting from the Russell Reconstitution?
27 June 2006 by Christopher SuleskeIs it possible / probable to profit from the Russell reconstitution, as the annual process of shedding and adding stocks to the Russell company’s indicies is termed? That’s the subject of this page over at webspeedreader. It’s an interesting premise, but one I for which I withhold judgment until I can run the [...]
Dealing with the downside of mutual funds
26 June 2006 by Christopher SuleskeMark Skousen suggests the following 3 strategies to minimize your exposure to the perils of mutual funds:
1. Be your own money manager and invest in several mutual funds and individual stocks. Be prepared to take profits and use stop orders to protect you on the downside, in case there is a crash or bear market. [...]
Scaling up and down
21 June 2006 by Christopher SuleskeHere I was the other day thinking myself so smart at buying a double helping of EMC and Microsoft each after their prices went against me soonafter. It makes sense, right(?), that if you like a stock at a particular price and that price drops even lower soonafter, that buying more at the lower price [...]
Buy and hold?
15 June 2006 by Christopher SuleskeI read this over at the Motley Fool yesterday, in a piece regarding the recent downturn in the broader market:
Anyone who is employed, healthy, and not planning to retire in the next five years should be a net saver (or paying down debt) and not hoping for higher stock prices in the short run. You’re [...]