My $10000 Dollars

You may have seen investors or financial media talk about “Window Dressing” and how it impacts the stock price. Well “Window Dressing” is a term describing the unique strategy many investors employ around year ends and quarter ends to sugar-coat their investment portfolios.
So what is window dressing?
It’s a strategy used by mutual fund [...]

ETFs for commodities have been increasing popular in the last few years.  Some have been so popular in fact that ETFs like UNG (US Natural Gas Fund) have run out of shares this year.  Now with ETFs come the important topic: backwardation and contango that ultimately impact your investment on commodity ETFs.
Backwardation has been defined [...]

While many of the readers here trade stocks full-time, there are many others who are part-time investors in various forms.  I am one of the latter.  Having a job that does not allow you to constantly monitor the market and make frequent trades, I have to bridge that gap by using many of the tools [...]

Since I like to keep things fresh, I figured I would move away from a my normal writing and post a collection of swing trading videos.  These swing trading videos are  not developed by me, but instead scanned the web and picked the ones I liked and more appropriate for learning.
Swing Trading Advantages and Disadvantages [...]

I have previously posted several series discussing some of the top investing mistakes people make as I see it.  Well I consolidated all of my past posts into one and added my final point.   It’s a bit long but here it is:
1. Investing Against the Trend
2. Holding Stocks Too Long or Too Short
3. Using Too [...]

Accumulation/Distribution is a momentum indicator that displays the direction in which the stock price is headed.  It determines whether the investors are Accumulating (buying) or Distributing (selling) the stock by looking at the stock price and its volume.
Now Accumulation/Distribution line alone will not serve too much benefit to the interpreters other than whether the [...]

So you’re new to investing.  Or maybe you’re an intermediate or perhaps even an advanced trader.  Regardless of where you are in your investing career, there’s one trick that I’ve learned through the course of my investing experiences that really helps me gain a slight edge every time I trade.  Over time, this strategy leads [...]

Have you ever looked at a historical chart and determined with absolute assertion that there is a certain pattern to a particular stock?  I certainly have.  Here’s the scoop, you can never assume that history will repeat itself even if there is evidence strong enough to suggest that such a pattern exists.  It becomes especially [...]