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Investor´s Daily Edge is written by a select group of market experts, each with their own style of investing. So whether you are a long-term investor, a short term trader, or a prudent speculator, you can count on useful advice you can take to the bank.
The market is constantly changing... that´s why you need an edge.
For more information visit Investor's Daily Edge
Articles by Investor’s Daily Edge
July 30, 2008
Small cars (all of them from Japan) grew popular in the 1970´s as expensive gas changed our point of view – just like what´s happening now. But as gas prices crept lower ... and lower ... and lower still, our love affair with spacious and powerful cars slowly but surely returned.
Could it happen again?
April 25, 2008
By Charles Delvalle
I remember my first computer like it was yesterday…
It was an IBM PS/2 with a 33MHZ Intel overdrive processor (before the Pentium days!). Microsoft (MSFT) wasn´t even big at the time. You could tell because the computer came with DOS 5.0 as its operating system.
It was o...
January 21, 2008
Last Thursday the market reacted negatively to yet another presentation from the Fed. In what should have been an opportunity for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to spur a rally, the market didn´t cooperate.
January 18, 2008
Did you know there's a group of officials whose sole duty is to make sure the market doesn't drop too badly? The funny thing is that there are a lot of people out there who believe that this group doesn't even exist.
December 18, 2007
By Rick Pendergraft
Call me crazy, but I am starting to miss Alan Greenspan. For 19 years, Mr. Greenspan led the Federal Reserve through some of the most tumultuous times of the past 50 years. There was the 1987 crash, the Internet bubble, and of course the attacks of September 11.
Through a...
October 18, 2007
By Chris Johnson
The market slid through the first week of earnings with little surprise. This was probably due to investors continuing to focus on the prospects of another drop in interest rates rather than the slew of quarterly results getting ready to hit the market. This plays to the obviou...
September 26, 2007
By Andrew Gordon
Some of you may remember Ronald Reagan’s famous question to voters during the 1980 presidential campaign when he ran against incumbent Jimmy Carter: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” From trouble in the Middle East to runaway oil prices, voters responded ...
September 18, 2007
By Charles Delvalle
Would you lend $500,000 to someone who might not pay you back?
I don’t know anyone who would do that, unless they were rich, knew the person, and didn’t expect that money to come back.
Now imagine you’re a business that depends on the loans you give people. You make mon...
September 13, 2007
By Dr. Russell McDougal
Global debt problems, centered in the United States, continue to wreak havoc internationally. The crisis continues unchecked and it is essential that you fully comprehend it.
The following words were penned in my August 22 IDE editorial:
These are anything but ordi...
September 13, 2007
By Andrew Gordon
I don’t mind if Wall Street is grumbling about the market’s wild swings, as long as it just doesn’t act surprised. It had to know this was coming.
A market hitting highs so late in the economic recovery cycle of the U.S. – as the Dow and S&P 500 did this spring into the sum...
August 28, 2007
By Andrew Gordon
With just a little less greed and smarter lending by people who should have known better, the mess we’re in could have been avoided.
What isn’t avoidable are the consequences.
I’m talking about all the people who have to make higher mortgage payments because a small fract...
August 15, 2007
By Chris Johnson
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been busy putting together a new service that takes advantage of one of my favorite strategies. I like it because it is very forgiving. In fact, it benefits if a stock doesn’t move and can yield a maximum profit even if the stock moves somewhat aga...
August 14, 2007
by Andrew Gordon
Crazy markets got you spooked? C’mon. You’re better than that. This is when the fun begins.
There’s no reason to go ballistic over a rollicking market. Shoot, the S&P 500 was up last week. But you wouldn’t know it by the way some Wall Streeters were crying “foul” or “no f...
August 06, 2007
By Rick Pendergraft
I have written several articles over the last couple of months about the chart of the S&P, but things have changed now. The lower rail of the trend channel and the 200-day moving average both gave way on Friday.
In all honesty, I thought we were in the clear on Wednesday w...
August 01, 2007
By Andrew Gordon
You know the old saying, if something’s too good to be true, it usually is.
The market’s record-breaking performance of late was too good to be true.
Its long ride up the charts wasn’t all smoke and mirrors. It was built on American consumer willingness to spend, global ...
July 26, 2007
by Andrew Gordon
Have you noticed the weird dynamic going on between Wall Street and the Fed?
Wall Street doesn’t often get a pat on the back from a member of the Fed, but it happened last week. William Poole – President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve – said in a speech that Wall Street was...
July 24, 2007
By Rick Pendergraft
No, it’s not Christmas in July, for those of you like me who remember when retailers would do “Christmas in July” sales. The season I am referring to is the earnings season that kicked off two weeks ago with Alcoa’s earnings report.
It may have kicked off two weeks ago, ...
July 17, 2007
By Andrew Gordon
The price of oil is fast gaining cringe-worthy status, and companies are treating the situation much the same as these two people on a nature hike …
Not long into their hike, one noticed that they were being followed by a huge black bear. The fat guy turned nervously to the s...
July 15, 2007
Let me start off by saying I would rather have a democracy than any alternative option.
But a democracy isn’t without its problems. And most of these problems come right back around to bite investors in the rear.
Let’s take the problem of government using financial incentives to further a cau...
July 11, 2007
Extreme profits in the uranium sector have been made by investors over the past five years. While it’s clear that the really easy money has already been booked, you still have an opportunity for mega-profits by selectively positioning yourself.
Uranium prices have gone parabolic – moving from $7...
July 10, 2007
By Andrew Gordon
Dictionary.com defines bubble as “an inflated speculation, especially if fraudulent.” Frankly, I’m surprised about the “fraudulent” part. Since when do you need fraudulence to get a nice big bubble going? All you need is easy money and lots of people getting carried away.
...
July 10, 2007
Since running a modern business is much more than buying low and selling high, why give it a second thought?
Before you agree, hold on a second and let’s look at it from the opposite side of the picture. If that’s all your business is – buying and selling – and you could buy low and sell high, ...
July 09, 2007
By Rick Pendergraft
As expected, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee left the Fed Funds rate at 5.25 percent. This was pretty much a given based on the pricing of Fed Funds futures going into the meeting.
As has been the case for the past six months or so, the important thing was the p...
July 09, 2007
Three weeks ago I wrote an article titled, “Charting a Course for the S&P.” Things haven’t changed much in the past three weeks. If anything, they’ve become even more confusing.
We still have the all-time high looming just above current levels, and we now have the early-June high acting as po...
November 30, 1999
By Andrew Gordon
Coming from the business world, I find it odd (to say the least) that everywhere except on Wall Street, losing money is losing money.
It’s amazing what goes on. In the face of spectacular losses in three of its hedge funds, Goldman Sachs simply goes out and raises more mone...