I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of hearing about the economic troubles in the eurozone. The media seem too focused on bad news, rather than reporting the tremendous progress that’s been made in cleaning up the debt mess and getting the struggling nations back on track. While… Read More

One of my favorite investing strategies is to follow the big money and mimick what the insiders and large money managers are doing.  Fortunately, insiders are required to make their stock transactions public using the SEC form 13F. These filings can provide you with a… Read More

I used to be one of the original Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) skeptics. I disliked everything about the company, from its goofy logo to the names and artistic interfaces of the products. To me, it was clear these machines belonged in an art classroom and not the workplace like a regular… Read More

Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn is a true American success story.  Starting with just $900,000 in 1996, he has grown the assets of his fund, Greenlight Capital, to more than $6 billion. The fund has earned an average return of 22% since its launch, thanks to Einhorn’s prescient long and short… Read More

One of the best and most profitable times to buy stocks is when bad news is at its apex and everyone is preaching doom and gloom. This is the one proven stock market pattern that constantly repeats itself. In fact, it… Read More

If you’ve read my articles lately, then you probably know how much I like following the pros when it comes to making investment decisions. I truly believe that following large fund managers, observing certain big-time investment analysts, their “copycats,” or even tracking the holdings of certain government officials is as… Read More

I like buying small-cap stocks because of their upside potential, volatility and ability to maximize my investment.#-ad_banner-# Typically, small caps are any public… Read More

“Junk Bonds? Didn’t those risky things go the way of the DeLorean, Gordon Gecko and Michael Milken back in the 1980s?” That snarky question was recently asked my trading partner during a recent conversation about long-term investments.#-ad_banner-# It’s true that junk bonds are considered… Read More

Outspoken entrepreneur and real-estate mogul Donald Trump is well known for stating that he doesn’t like gambling. Instead, he says he prefers to own the casinos — The Trump Taj Mahal Casino resort, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino and the Trump Marina Hotel Casino, all in Atlantic City, N.J., to… Read More

I usually receive some quite weird emails that are generally obvious scams. But the other day I received a very unusual one. It rang with a sincerity and genuineness that was quite compelling. It requested that I contact my government representative in order to save this company. It was signed… Read More