When it comes to investing in the stock market, losing money can be an easy task.
Here are five guaranteed ways to screw up your portfolio, cause stress, and most importantly, not make any money. Avoid these and you are on your way to some quality long-term returns:
1) Continually trade [...]

     That was an ugly close.  While the market bounced around most of the day, the late fade in the market leaders raises flags.  While some will claim that we are in a trading range until the Fed, I do not like what I see.  Yesterday, I said the bears must kill the market leaders [...]

Found a great article on the newest company to be going public that falls under the ‘green’ category of energy conservation.
As most investors should know last year was all about ethanol, and this year it seems that solar is the #1 choice as stocks like First Solar (FSLR) have had fantastic runs in 2007. Are [...]

     Yesterday’s poor showing from technology is carrying over into the open.  Research in Motion (RIMM), Apple (AAPL) and Baidu.com (BIDU) are all down 1%.  This weakness is reflecting what we have seen in both the futures and international markets.  They key for today will be to see if this weakness continues.  The markets have two [...]

The long awaited November numbers are in for stocktradingtogo.com.
The month as a whole was very successful and to be honest was probably the most fun blogging I have had yet. This blog put up a record 74 total posts in November, and added several very fine writers to the team. Alongside posts, subscribers hit a [...]

November was a wild month for the site as page impressions came in at… oh wait, that report isn’t coming out till later tonight, whoops.
Traffic and earnings stats aside, I do have the winners of the November top commentator contest ready to be shared :twisted:.
Final Leader Board

Jorge (44)
Investors Journal (21)
Thewild1 (17)
Aaron (16)
Jonathan (13)
Brandon (13)
Bubs (11)
My [...]

     Over the past year, one of my favorite trades had been to trade RIMM and AAPL versus one another.  Believing these stocks are similar in nature, I have looked for short term price movements where the behavour of one is not confirmed by the other.  Today we have such an event.
     Since Thursday’s close, [...]

Welcome to the December 3rd, 2007 edition of carnival of everything finance, Investment Education Edition. Since this blog discusses investing tips, tricks, picks, and education from market professionals you will be exposed to 10 great ways to learn investing in the stock market. Enjoy.
Editor’s Choice
1st Way to Learn: Open an account with a top [...]