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It’s important to keep the watch list when the market is volatile. Watch lists change pretty constantly, as promising stocks don’t pan out and more attractive candidates appear. They’re not a buy list until you get a buy signal from the market. But they give you a head start on the large population of discouraged investors who haven’t had the heart to sell their losers and won’t get excited again until a new bull market has been going on for months.

Ford (F) didn’t react well to its earnings report, but it the stock’s advance over?

After years of buying gadgets, cars and whole wardrobes on credit, the gravy train has stopped. Not only has it stopped, it’s derailed and is hurtling off of a cliff. Many people have locked up their purses and wallets, cut up their credit cards and stopped spending money. American consumers are spent.

Many value investors adhere to the old buy-and-hold forever theory. The past year, though, has been a brutal time to be a buy-and-hold investor. According to Morningstar, 95% of all mutual fund managers lost more than 27% last year. Holy cow! The S&P 500 Index (before dividends) dropped 21.85% for the 10 years ended December 31, 2008. The buy and hold strategy that many value investing gurus recommend has clearly not worked well during the past 10 years. Jeff Macke on CNBC’s Fast Money went so far as to proclaim “2008 will go down as the year buy-and-hold came to die.” Oh no, what do we value investors do now?

How do we gauge what is high and what is low in the stock market?

Now is the time to invest in the stocks of companies that will lead the way forward in the energy industry.

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Travel search engine Kayak.com is considering a share offering.

With high home prices and high mortgage rates, it may not feel like you can profit from real estate right now. But you can, and here’s how.

As markets are in a volatile state, many investors swerve toward income stocks and the energy sector.

The big problem is that the market has been going up for so long that people forget that it can go down.

My value approach seems contrary to the thinking of most investors, but I believe selling when the market is high and buying when the market is low makes sense.

Last week, reviewing the 10 Revolutionary Stocks, I asked you which ones you owned.

In my mind, Warren Buffett is the best investor ever. Here are eight guidelines that will help you become a better investor.

Once a very popular stock (or sector) falls from favor, it takes far more than six months’ time to make it an attractive stock again.

Abbott Laboratories (ABT) and Advance Auto Parts (AAP) are among five stocks with the right credentials to perform well in 2012.

Here are five of my 10 top value stocks for 2017. All of my top value stocks are selling at bargain prices, and all have the potential to easily beat the stock market indexes in 2017!

I expect the Trump effect to favor value stocks at the detriment of growth stocks in 2017. If stocks continue to rise next year, albeit at a slower pace, the advance will certainly spread to other sectors. Technology stocks, except those with sky-high valuations, should perform well, and I include Alliance Data Systems and Facebook among my 10 Top Value Stocks.