Building a Profitable Portfolio

It is important not just to have an investment portfolio but to have a well-maintained and profitable one. As an investor you need to learn what you can about asset allocation in order that you can choose the best investment strategies for you. To put it another way, your portfolio of investments should be able [...]

Risk and Risk Tolerance for Beginning Investors

Before anyone begins investing, it is essential to understand some of the basic principles of investing. You must understand risk, return, volatility, and risk tolerance. When we did find a risk in investing we can define it as the uncertainty of investments return. Before you begin investing you likely had a savings account where your [...]

Market Sectors To Watch

We are getting perilously close to that 7800 area on the Dow that was the intraday low we hit in November and bounced back up. This time if we hit it, I do not think it will hold. I believe we will be heading a lot lower around the 6500 area possibly 6000. The markets [...]

Of Bulls and Bears, Investing In Stocks

Making money in the stock market is easy sometimes and sometimes it is just plain work. For those invested in mutual funds, do you realize every stock mutual fund with the exception of one has lost money in 2008? It is not an easy market to trade. Now if professional money managers are having a [...]