To be a successful stock trade you need tools to do your job. There are many expensive tools on the market. However today, I would like to share with you some of the many free stock investing tools I have found on the web. Market Timer This tool predicts 10% drops or rallies in the Russell 2000. You can sign up to my free alert service (look for the orange box on this [...]

THE JANUARY EFFECT Today I'm examining a trading strategy called the "January Effect". This trading strategy is aptly named because it's designed to be traded only in the month of January. I've run the numbers and now it's time to reveal if this trading strategy is a money maker or a money burner. Wall Street has maintained that stocks rise in January. As such, going long [...]

IBD Leaderboard Review In this review I examine IBD's Leaderboard subscription service. A subscription service where IBD does the time consuming research for you, then presents you with a list of stocks near their buy points. While subscribing to proven services such as Leaderboard is the fastest way for anyone to make gains in the market when they first start, in thi [...]

Sell In May And Go Away is an investment strategy that suggests the months of November through the end of April are the best performing months. Investors should sell their holding at the end of April and go to cash until the next November. Does this really work? Are markets cyclical in nature and can be timed? In Academic circles they reject this idea because it violates th [...]