I was raised in a home with a brother seven years older than I.  During my pre-teen to early teen years (mid to late 70s), my brother introduced me to what we now call classic rock from the likes of Eric Clapton, AC/DC. Led Zeppelin, Elton John, and the Rolling Stones.  I say introduced, the walls in my home were thin and his room was next to mine.  Needless to say when his stereo was on I could not help but be introduced.  I continue to listen to these same artists and many more too numerous to mention here but suffice it to say it took me an entire weekend to download my classic rock cd collection on my new IPOD.  I now will need a another IPOD if I wish to download any new music.

While working out

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This month, we received word that the independent Hulbert Financial Digest just ranked our investment letter – The Oxford Club Communiqué – among the five top-performing letters in the nation over the past 10 years. Part of our success has come from knowing what to buy. Another major factor is knowing when to sell. And that, quite frankly, is the result of keeping our trailing stop discipline.

Whenever a recommended stock closes 25% below its closing high – or our original recommended price – we sell, no questions asked…

Why do we do this? Number one, a stock trader needs to have a sell discipline or he’s simply flying by the seat of his pants. Anyone can plunk for a few shares. But getting out at the right time is the true art of investing.

Your timing will never be perfect, of course. No investment

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by Sarah Munsun

I don’t just use stock charts for my analysis. I’m going to spill those proverbial beans and show you how I find the incredible stocks for a very popular stock blog.

This is not about using technical analysis to read a stock chart. It is something much more effective.

I got this secret algorithm from the crowd of the world’s best traders that I run with. This algorithm has the potential of putting you in stocks that can return 100%, 200% even 1,000% and more!

This revolutionary algorithm makes your computer think better than a human brain. Older software used statistics and set models for processing, but this algorithm is literally like having 100 stock analysts and day traders sitting inside your computer working for you!

I know a millionaire trader who swears by this formula and now I’m going to give you his formula for free.

So you are probably …

by W. Alan Gay

There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding the field of stock trading that trigger new trader’s fears and keep others from trying the profession at all. As a successful trader for over 15 years, I prefer to take a more positive approach and deal with the prevailing truths that exist in the field of stock trading. Here are just a few.

1. You will be successful at stock trading if you can keep your trades consistently low risk over time. Sure, you might miss out on some of those too good to be true, windfall trades that all the movies are centered around. However, you will find that, over time, searching for those dream come true trades more often than not results in a fantastic loss that ends up deteriorating the portfolio you worked so hard to accumulate. Better to …

by W. Alan Gay

As a Stock Trader for over 15 years, I have learned a lot about the ins and outs of the business. I started out on my own, rather than with a big brokerage firm with fancy employee training courses. I took seminars and self study classes and learned as I went, many times through sheer trial and error.

While my self taught training may have resulted in a slower success, I know a lot more about the real world of stock trading than a lot of those investment advisors out there who only know what their employer told them. One thing I have discovered over the years is that there are myths that continuously recur when talking to people about stock trading. Here are three of them:

First, is the misunderstanding that you …

When I first started reading a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593154917?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=1593154917"Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Investment Strategies for Lifetime Wealth from a #1 Wall Street Stock Picker/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=1593154917" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" / by Natalie Pace, I wasn't sure I was going to write a review about it, for a couple reasons. The author didn't attend an Ivy League school, didn't have a degree in finance, and hadn't worked for a major Wall Street firm. But the book grew on me and I realized that she became a successful stock trader in spite of the fact that she wasn't a Harvard MBA who worked for Goldman Sachs. This is why her success is all the more important and her story and her techniques are worth reading. br /br /She discusses techniques on finding the best stocks, dealing with hot industries, establishing the most appropriate diversification, and dealing with ...

Many market observers are warning that after a so-called "Obama Bounce," the sector could be due for a considerable slowdown.

 

Prospects that Barack Obama will become the next U.S. president continued on Tuesday to provide a surge for exchange-traded funds focused on solar energy.

"There are a lot of factors going on in markets right now, but we think there's good evidence that at least with solar ETFs, a lot of this is coming from an Obama bounce," said Christian Magoon, president of Claymore Securities.

He was speaking as the day's session along Wall Street was finishing and right before many polling centers were opening on the East Coast. Later in the night, of course, results were expected in the race between Obama and Sen. John McCain.

The Bush administration has focused more on oil- and transportation-related issues, noted Magoon. "But this presidential campaign has really brought more attention to

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In June 5’s “Web Extra: Suspicious Stock” which Fast Money trader wanted to share his/her investment doubts?

We ran out of time on TV but Guy Adami wants you to know about this stock. In Thursday’s Web Extra find out what happened that’s making him suspicious.

The stock in question was Nucor (NUE), and Adami felt that the company’s guidance increase may signal an acquisition. Nucor shows up in the models I follow for having a particularly high accrual ratio, which is often a signal of poor earnings quality. It also has strong price momentum, which can be both a blessing and a curse for investors.