Daily Posts Archive
In today’s Stock Market Crash Course, we hear from several experts who think Thursday and Friday’s action was the start of a new rally, including Investors Intelligence’s John Gray, Cabot Option Trader’s Rick Pendergraft and Joseph Cotton of Cotton’s Technically Speaking. In addition, The Prudent Speculator’s John Buckingham says sentiment...
With a slight bit of wistfulness for the dangers of the past, I wish you all a happy Fourth of July celebration.
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Investors hate being told to do nothing. And when the market is chopping up and down like a roller coaster, it’s especially hard. Maybe you want to pick up some screaming bargains, or maybe you’re itching to sell everything at any price. But those times, when the market has no...
Have dividend-paying stocks become too popular? Mark Deschaine recently asked just that in Deschaine & Company’s Viewpoint, which has long focused on dividend-paying stocks: “In a world of zero interest rates and another mediocre year for stocks, dividends are garnering more investor and press attention. As a result, we’re increasingly asked if the...
Hendershot Investments is a quarterly newsletter focused on conservative, high-quality (or HI-quality, for Hendershot Investments) companies for the long-term investor, many of which pay dividends. Editor Ingrid Hendershot wrote the following essay on the importance of free cash flow (or FCF) in the March, 2012, issue: “Seeking to build an investment stash,...
Steven Check, editor of The Blue Chip Investor, studied the newsletter’s gain on its position in McCormick & Company (MKC), the spice company, to demonstrate the importance of investing when stocks are trading at low valuations. “As of this issue, we’re selling our position in McCormick. This is a trade that worked out...
MLPs are easy to buy and sell; they trade on major exchanges just like regular stocks, and usually cost the same to trade. But how do you invest in them? There are restrictions on what kind of enterprises can receive MLP treatment: their primary business (generating about 90% or revenues) has...
A lot of the most reliable income-generating investments don’t have much growth potential: they’re bonds with a fixed value, or companies that pass earnings on to shareholders instead of reinvesting them for growth. But there are plenty of exceptions. One type of income investment that often also offers growth potential, particularly...
This technique can work wonders if you are bold and are willing to go against traditional investing systems.