I wasn’t always a momentum investor. Like many of you, I began my career as a contrarian investor. After all, some of history’s most successful investors have been contrarians. Baron Rothschild, Warren Buffett, George Soros — all made their fortunes in part by betting against prevailing market opinion. Baron Rothschild,… Read More

The moment the market opens, my inbox gets flooded with alerts I’ve set up to notify me when... Read More

The moment the market opens, my inbox gets flooded with alerts I’ve set up to notify me when a holding makes a big move, hits a stop-loss, releases important news, etc. This week, I was... Read More

There’s a group of stocks currently trouncing the S&P 500. In just a few months,... Read More

There’s a group of stocks currently trouncing the S&P 500. In just a few months, they’ve generated 44.8%, 58.1%, 74.8% and even 137.7%. And I expect this elite club of stocks to... Read More

A few months ago, we told you about a little-known indicator that’s making a small group of... Read More

A few months ago, we told you about a little-known indicator that’s making a small group of investors a lot of money. We call this indicator the “Alpha Score,” because it... Read More

Charles Dow, the editor of The Wall Street Journal around the beginning of the 20th century,... Read More

Charles Dow, the editor of The Wall Street Journal around the beginning of the 20th century, provided a framework to study the stock market that would become known as the Dow Theory.  He had... Read More

I recently told you about one of the key investing tools Amber Hestla uses in her conservative... Read More

I recently told you about one of the key investing tools Amber Hestla uses in her conservative options strategy that led to her perfect track record. Since her premium newsletter, Income Trader,... Read More

July marked another perfect month for Income Trader’s Amber Hestla. She closed two more winners in her Income Trader newsletter. The recent victories bring Amber’s perfect track record to 63 for 63. She’s yet to close an unprofitable trade since launching her premium service over 17 months ago. Read More

When it comes to investing, you should always stick to the fundamentals. This refrain, or some version of it, is what many new investors are taught. In my opinion, that’s terrible advice.   A metric such as the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, for example, is often cited as a way to… Read More

Today, I want to tell you about an investing strategy that defies logic. It shouldn’t work based on everything we’ve learned about the stock market. Yet it does. In fact, for over half a century now, investors and traders have used it to produce unparalleled results. And no, for those… Read More

Last week, we told you about the Alpha Score, a little-known indicator that can flag exactly which... Read More

Last week, we told you about the Alpha Score, a little-known indicator that can flag exactly which stocks are about to jump 61.5%, 26% or even 118% within weeks and months. On Jan. 14, for example,... Read More