You want to make money trading stocks. You have a decent system that makes money if you stick with your plan. Great. But sometimes you get that feeling of not being anchored, like you are just wandering in the woods. You are not necessarily lost – it’s just that the path has become a tad overgrown, covered with leaves, a bit more difficult to discern than before. Suddenly your trading begins to suffer, you take some losses, and, because you are a wise manager of risk who’s in it for the long haul, you realize that you are out of your element, so you exit all of your positions and take stock of what’s going on.

So what happened? Once you are out of all of your positions …

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters produced a return of over 113% this year alone. When powerful momentum stocks are charging upwards, it can be difficult to know when to get on board. But it’s not as difficult as you would believe.

If you want the inside track on the best momentum stocks with ultra-explosive gains, throw on your “x-ray glasses” and focus on one of the most useful financial ratios around.

It’s called return on equity (ROE), but in many ways it tells us so much more.

ROE is one of the best measures of a corporation’s profitability. It shows you how much profit the company generates with the money shareholders have invested. Let me show you how to easily pull this number out - and how profitable it can be.

How to Calculate Return On Equity (ROE)

You calculate return on equity (ROE) by dividing net income by a shareholder’s equity. The higher the

Debt-based monetary systems are inherently unstable. Money is created out of thin air by the banks and lent to government, consumers and businesses. In order to service and replay those debts, the borrowers take on more debts. Asset prices are inflated, and the vicious cycle continues until the debtors are unable to borrow or the banks are unwilling to lend. At that point the system snaps, everything is sold off, and we have a financial crisis at hand. In this paper we examine what happens to equity and currency markets in the aftermath of financial crisis.

1998 Russia

Declining productivity, an artificially high fixed exchange rate between the ruble and foreign currencies to avoid public turmoil, and a chronic fiscal deficit were the background to Russia ’s financial meltdown in 1998. The economic cost of the first war in Chechnya that …

Return On Equity (ROE): Find Explosive Momentum Stocks With This Financial Ratio

by Dr. Scott Brown, Education Director, Investment U

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters produced a return of over 113% this year alone. When powerful momentum stocks are charging upwards, it can be difficult to know when to get on board.

But it’s not as difficult as you would believe.

If you want the inside track on the best momentum stocks with ultra-explosive gains, throw on your “x-ray glasses” and focus on one of the most useful financial ratios around.

It’s called return on equity (ROE), but in many ways it tells us so much more.

ROE is one of the best measures of a corporation’s profitability. It shows you how much profit the company generates with the money shareholders have invested. Let me show you how to easily pull this number out - and how profitable it can be.

How to Calculate

Following through on yesterday’s gains stocks took the lead and moved higher as volume tracked higher. A very bullish sign to see stocks moving higher with higher volume especially right after a day where prices advanced on lower trade. All was well and good with stocks until the final hour of trading where we began to see selling pressure. The selling pressure was enough to send the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average into negative territory but the NASDAQ was able to slip in a small gain. Preliminary volume indicates NASDAQ saw higher trade while the NYSE declined avoiding a distribution day. A positive sign is we saw IBD indexes lead the market and we’ll await to see if volume on the IBD indexes came in higher. In summary, not a terrible day following yesterday’s move, but signs of …

The market was able to avoid further price deterioration with a low volume move higher. Volume on the NYSE fell nearly 15% while the NASDAQ volume fell 8%. Although the rebound lacked volume it was nice to see the market not follow through to the downside. Ideally, today we would have seen institutions step up and support this market. Instead, it appears for the moment they simply stood aside while stocks moved higher. All in all not an excellent day, we just need more work if this uptrend is going to last.

The NASDAQ led the market in gains finishing up 1.5% while the IBD 100 index was right behind it. A glimmer of hope as we will need the IBD indexes take over as the leaders of this market. It will have to come relatively soon as we do have quite …

I looked around the barroom and said, “The gold exchange on the Comex is a den of lying, thieving, corrupt bastards who are in cahoots with the lying, thieving, corrupt banks and the lying, thieving, corrupt government!”

Instead of the expected rousing response of, “You’re right, Mighty, Mighty Mogambo (MMM)! This is an outrage!” all I got was a few, “Shut the hell up!” replies and one wag saying, “Tell us something we don’t already know! Hahaha!”

Undaunted, I continued on with an appeal to their greedy natures by saying, “Well, GoldForecaster.com reported the interesting news that ‘With a hefty increase in long positions of nearly 28 tonnes and the trimming of some short positions, COMEX turned around again and went long last week.’ This means that although the gold exchange is full of lying, thieving, corrupt bastards, they are not stupid! They are buying gold! These are the insiders! And they’re

Opening the week stocks end lower on lighter trade as Big Cap Techonology stocks aid the NASDAQ finishing well off the days low. The S&P500 was unable to sustain any buying as the index closed near its low-of-the day. A day of consolidation is welcomed, but having a large percentage drop is a bit concerning. Let’s not overshadow the NASDAQ’s resilency here even though volume finished the day lower. Today, in of itself wasn’t a bad day but will need to be taken into context over the next few trading sessions.

A positive note would be to see the Small Caps lead the market tomorrow in higher trade signaling the market is being accumulated. It’ll be important that we do not sell off any further on volume as this would highlight there is more weakness to come. Remember, we have come …

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Today was owned by the banking sector as the “Bank Stress Tests” were released today. By in large this stress was viewed vastly different from all sides of the aisle. Regardless of anyone’s opinion, the market’s opinion was positive as banks roared higher pushing the NYSE composite Index and S&P500 higher. Lagging behind was the NASDAQ composite index and the IBD indexes. It shouldn’t be a major surprise seeing the banks leading for one day as the stress tests showed most banks can withstand further downside, but we’ll need to see leadership from the IBD indexes. Once again, we did see major support for the NASDAQ and other indexes showing there is a bullish tint …

Stocks were hit hard from the onset, even leaders found themselves being sold. Ben Bernanke was testifying on the hill while traders were dumping stocks. Selling accelerated as the day wore on but were able to find footing prior to lunch time. Stocks then were hit hard after 2pm hitting new lows but support was able to come in. Stocks once again were able to avoid a nasty distribution day if the NASDAQ had gone out on its lows. This market is once again proving there is an underlying bid to the market.

Two key levels were held today and an important moving average. The NASDAQ was able to hold 1750 which happens to be its 200 day moving average while the S&P500 was able to hold a psychological level of 900. Holding the 200dma is very important level for the …