E-Minis are heavily leveraged investments that allow you to control massive amounts of the stock market for pennies on the dollar.  And, best of all E-Minis offer investors huge profit potential…

Trading E-Mini contracts is exceptionally attractive because they are liquid, diversified and affordable.  Plus, they trade around-the-clock. Read the full story

A common saying on Wall Street is “Sell in May and Go Away”, meaning it’s time for you to sell your stocks and take a vacation-because the stock market is going to drop in the summer months.

But, is this saying based in fact or is it just some kind of myth? Read the full story

An employee stock option plan (ESO) is a private contract between a company and its employees wherein the employees are given the option to buy a certain number of shares of their employer’s stock at a fixed price over a certain period of time (e.g. ten years). Read the full story

Rick Pendergraft has written some very good articles over the course of the past few Monday’s, highlighting the rather dramatic changes that have occurred in the markets over the last few decades. Read the full story

Making money in investments requires backbone. We call it risk taking. If you are willing to take an acceptable level of risk, you can usually make money.

If you think you can somehow magically invest without risk you are banking, not investing. Read the full story

The banks are back. Profits are up. Writedowns are lower. The government has their back. And the worst is over.

Forget Swiss-based USB. Their huge losses were the exception…

Judging by their latest quarterly reports, big banks have finally figured out how to make money again. Read the full story

We’ve come a long way down from the boozy heights of economic prosperity. But according to economist David Rosenberg, we still have a long way to go. Read the full story

Monday:

Earnings Announcements: BIDU, QCOM

Tuesday:

Economic Reports: Consumer Confidence, S&P/CaseShiller Home Price Index

Consumer Confidence is expected to show an improvement in April, although by a less than impressive amount. The reading is supposed to show an uptick of 2.8 percent, however an increase of 5 percent or more is considered ‘significant’. At this point, I think the economy will take any positive move it can get, small or not. Read the full story

Over the last few weeks, I have talked about how the market has changed and how, in my opinion, you can’t look at the market the same way you could 20 or 30 years ago.  Why use antiquated techniques that applied to the markets of the 1940s and ‘50s while we live in an instant gratification world.  We live in an age where we have a wealth of knowledge at our fingertips. Read the full story

Those of us who have been paying attention to the dismantling of the “American Dream” long enough have been lone voices screaming bloody murder. More and more people are now clued in because recent financial events have exposed the beast for all to see. Nothing like a hit to the pocketbook to get an American’s attention. Will we reach a critical mass? Will anything really change? Read the full story