Sometimes the smart thing to do is to sell your shares of stock. So it’s good to know how to do this beforehand and take the mystery out of the process. I assure you the process is pretty routine and a lot like buying it.  But we’ll walk through it step by step and you’ll [...]

Have you ever looked at your past raises from work and figured what they may be in the future.  In other words, how big your paycheck might be five years from now. Or looked at a social security statement that estimates the amount your retirement check will be at some future date. I think many [...]

Here’s the smart way to let your stock profits run and limit your losses.  I like this method because often, even when your stock has gone down, you cash out at a profit. That has a nice sound to it, yes? So let’s check it out.  This technique is called trailing stop losses, and it [...]

I couldn’t believe how big the dividend check was that I had just printed. I actually thought my computer program had made a mistake.  I rushed over to my program listing and looked through the program code for about an hour.  Finally, shaking my head in pure wonderment, I concluded the code looked fine and [...]

Let’s take a clear-eyed view of how stocks are going to pay for your retirement. Because I think most people have kind of a muddled view. Indeed, there’s a muddled view about stocks in general.  That is to say, the most common view seems to be that  you get some kind of hot tip on [...]

With the markets moving up and down these days, we want to protect ourselves and try to keep from losing our money when things start going south. So one way we keep our money is we “stop” our losses.  This activity is actually called setting a stop loss, so that’s a new term for you [...]

I think many people are a bit intimidated about trading their own stock account online.  And I can understand that.  It seems easier to call your broker and let him worry about placing your order – correctly. But it’s really not that hard to do.  And after you’ve done it a few times, it’s actualy [...]

Much is being said these days about tax fairness and the 1% not paying their fair share.  I kept hearing so much about this that I decided to do something quite radical, and unusual, in our national discourse on the subject. I hope you’re sitting down for this. What I decided to do was actually [...]

Rather than rushing out to buy a stock I’m excited about at the market price, I use the Good Til Canceled method of placing an order. For example, if you wanted to place your order for the Sprint stock at $4.50 a share, even though the market price was $5.17, you could do it by [...]

Using quality financial newsletter recommendations can greatly enhance your investment success in the stock market.  Here are some of the newsletters I‘ve used off and on through the years.  In my opinion, these guys are some of the rock stars of the financial newsletter business. I’m sure there are many other good ones, but it [...]