Stock Trading Techniques

Our China 25 ETF (FXI) has struggled lately, almost reaching our sell stop before rebounding slightly. However, two different advisory newsletters I receive are now pointing to a possible rebound in the Chinese stock market. Following is a reprint (with permission) from today’s Money and Markets. It’s entitled “What China Wants, China Gets!” by [...]

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We came close to being stopped out of CXZ while I was out of town this week, but we’re safe for now. Uranium is in the doldrums with its price declining to $65 a pound over the last month or so from $75 a pound. That has driven uranium exploration company stock prices down, way [...]

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Alistair Darling, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer who is responsible for economic and financial matters, speaking at the G7 meeting last weekend highlighted the global nature of the problem. “For the first time in a generation we are seeing inflationary pressures that are not home-grown but are being imported,” he said. “Food prices are [...]

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This is a catch up post. Although I made several purchases for the portfolio last week, taxes and family obligations prevented me from making a timely post.
Two areas we haven’t talked much about are agricultural commodities and energy.  I do not have to tell anyone what’s happened to the prices for both. Last week we [...]

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Sometime others can say things better than I could ever express them. The title of this post is taken from a post on another site where the Arden sisters, who are internationally know as some of the most accurate precious metals forecasters around, wrote a post with the same title. It expresses some powerful views [...]

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The French philosopher Voltaire observed, over two centuries ago, that “All paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value-zero.” Remember his wisdom in conjunction with a comment from John Pierpont Morgan (better known as J.P.), the brilliant U.S. financier who essentially saved the U.S. financial system following the Panic of 1907. In 1912, one year [...]

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[Erv's note: This is a guest post from my friend, Hank.
Click here to see this chart full-sized and keep it open as you read the commentary (by the way, the bottom of the chart says "sometimes by ~50% in 4 to 8 weeks". That is not a minus 50%, but is the squiggly "tilde" symbol [...]

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What a time to start a bog on stock trading techniques and target uranium and precious metals as the industry sectors to be in.  Did I make a mistake? No, but the timing sure looks bad.  The first thing to remember is that this blog is about stock trading techniques, so they apply no matter [...]

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Before we can successfully trade stocks, we need to find an industry sector that is on a secular (long-term) up trend. While there are always exceptions, stocks, even good ones, in an industry that is in a secular down-trend tend to get dragged down with the group. Most recent examples are the housing sector, the mortgage [...]

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