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How Eating Bitumen Made Me a Better Trader by David Chandler

Trading the stock market requires special skills. One of them is knowing what to look for.

What Can Model Airplanes Teach You About Trading? by David Chandler

Which one of your personal qualities [that you normally would value] is not useful in the stock market?

Why Stock Is More Risky Than Options! by David Chandler

You will lose your shirt! You have probably been told this about option trading. Beacuse common wisdom is that options are risky. But don't believe everything you hear!

What is the Most Important Indicator of All? by David Chandler

What is the best indicator to use in your trading? Technical analysis uses a range of indicators to analyze price action. What is THE most important one?

The Seven Mistakes All Novice Traders Make and How to Correct Them by David Chandler

Do you want to trade the stock market? Trading the stock market requires the right skills and the right approach. Avoid these seven common mistakes.

Never Fall In Love! by David Chandler

In trading the stock matrket you must not lose perspective!

Attitude Is [Almost] Everything by David Chandler

In trading the stockmarket, your attitude is the key to your success.

Do You Know What is the Single MOST Critical Mistake in Trading the Stock Market…? by David Chandler

As a stock trader, there is one attitude that will ruin you! Do you know what it is?

Finding A Good Stock by Al Thomas

One of the things people are always asking me is how can I find a good stock. The answer I give does not please them. I say, "You are not qualified to pick stock. You don't know how so don't try. Put your money in a no-load mutual fund that is going up".

Stealth Bull by Al Thomas

If you have been watching the stock market at all you are probably very confused. You are not alone. One day is a hundred points up for the DOW and the next a hundred down. What is going on? There are many stocks that are going up and unless you are in the right ones you will be left behind.

No Load Mutual Funds: Boost Your Portfolio's Returns by Sam Subramanian

Investors who exclusively use broadly diversified, no load mutual funds for their stock investments often lose out on opportunities to increase the reward potential of their portfolios. This article ...

Trapeze Artist - Swinging with the Stock Market by Al Thomas

When we go to the circus we see a trapeze artist working on a high wire or swing either alone or with other athletes. They know what they are doing because of constant practice, but every once in a while there can be a mistake, even a small one that can cause one of them to fall. The result is death or serious injury when they hit the ground

The Next Bull Market by Al Thomas

We are already in it, but you can't see it. It doesn't look like the one we had in '99. Like the magician who has you watching what he wants you to and with the other hand he is doing something else that is what is happening in the stock market today. The magician is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq or the S&P500 Index. These have John Q. Public mesmerized.

Prosperity by Al Thomas

It has fallen upon the consumer to make our economy strong. All the politicians, economists and talking heads on TV are telling him (that's you and me) to get out there and spend your money. Buy that new car, build a new house and fly off to some remote place for an expensive vacation.

The Surgeon General by Al Thomas

The Surgeon General of the United States says that smoking cigarettes is harmful to your health. It is printed on every pack of smokes you buy. When was the last time a smoker read or paid any attention to it?

What To Buy Now by Al Thomas

I am sure that if you have a brokerage account with a "full service" broker you have been getting calls about what to buy and sell. If you have big losses in certain stocks you might be hit with that great Wall Street lie to buy more so you can 'Dollar Cost Average'. It doesn't work.

Complacency by Al Thomas

During the month of January the Dow Jones Industrial Average, usually referred to as the DOW, had an almost 1,000 point range, most of it down and the average investor has yawned and said 'so what, this has happened many times before'.

Low Tide by Al Thomas

When you stand on the ocean shore and watch the waves breaking you might become aware that the tide is coming in or going out. It is a slow process to watch the water retreat and when it finally gets to its lowest point it is almost impossible to tell if it has stopped or will retreat further. Plenty of wave action, but going nowhere.

How To Be A Winner by Al Thomas

Everyone who invests in the stock market wants to be a winner. Each person's definition of a winner will be somewhat different, but there is hardly one who isn't looking for that stock that will double in price within one year.

Inertia by Al Thomas

One of the basic laws of physics is that a body in motion will remain in motion unless disturbed by another force. What has this to do with the stock market?

It's Snowing by Al Thomas

The Winter Games for the Olympics are coming up soon and many will want to go to see the giant slalom event. That's the one where the skier starts off from the little hut at the top of a long slope, picks up speed and makes his way around poles on the way down. Each turn about a pole is precarious and some fall on the way down and are wiped out.

Outsourcing by Al Thomas

It’s about time someone spoke the truth concerning outsourcing. The politicians sure won’t. They prefer to do finger-pointing saying it is “his fault”. It is those greedy manufacturers who want to make bigger profits by having cheap labor in Asia perform your task for less money.

My Stock - Right or Wrong by Al Thomas

We all know the expression, “My country, right or wrong”, but have you ever thought about the stocks or mutual fund you own and said to yourself, “My stock - right or wrong” and held on to your position even as you saw your hard-earned money disappearing?

Fool's Gold by Al Thomas

The stock market has been in an up trend for more than a year. Almost everyone is feeling good and many believe we are back in the old bull market with the previous high of the Dow Jones Industrial Average just about to be broken.

Fake Money by Al Thomas

Reach in your pocket and take out that big roll of bills. Depending on how many of them you have you feel pretty good. BUT did you know they are not worth the paper they are printed on? Huh? Let me explain.

Stock Analysis by Al Thomas

I receive emails from Morningstar. This company provides statistics and analysis of just about every publicly traded stock company you can think of as well as voluminous information on mutual funds around the world.

NASDAQ 800? by Al Thomas

In November of 2000 when the NASDAQ was trading at 3000 I wrote in this column that the NASDAQ Index would fall to 1500 and I got lots of heat for saying it. Microsoft had fallen from $129 to $60 per share. You know where they are today.

Low Expense Ratio by Al Thomas

One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds is to tell how low their expense ratio is and that you will make a great deal more money if you buy and hold with them. Partly true, but that is not the whole story.

Valuation by Al Thomas

Every day I hear from the “experts” on CNBC-TV and the radio gurus that the way to buy stocks is find value. One man’s Rembrandt is another man’s connect-the-dots and fill in the spaces. Valuation is like beauty. It is in the mind of the beholder.

Inertia Syndrome by Al Thomas

When it comes to buying a stock or mutual fund most people act pretty quickly. There are some who will take the time to get a report from Morningstar (it is worthless) or get reports from their broker (also worthless) or even do a search on the Internet (if you know what you are doing). When your broker says “buy” you buy and when a friend gives you a “tip” you buy.