Here’s a stock buying tip for you. Find out if there is any insider buying going on when you are thinking about buying a stock. Many forms of insider buying are completely legal and this is another investment clue. You can improve your odds of successful investing by knowing when it’s happening. Insiders sell and [...]

In my last post I mentioned I would probably sell my AGNC stock because it was dropping rapidly (see blue line in chart above). But that’s not the only reason I sold.  I sold because it had dropped below a limit I had set in the past.  In other words, I knew when I bought [...]

Here’s a great example of the value of using trailing stops. Take a look at this chart.  It’s for a stock, American Capital Agency (AGNC) that I’ve been invested in since 2010.  It’s been very profitable.  But it has now gone below the trailing stop, so I will sell it today if it doesn’t turn [...]

When the stock market is going great, and most of your stocks are up, it’s all too easy to get carried away with enthusiasm and get reckless.  Which is what most investors do in this situation. Why would they do this?  Why would you do this? I’ll tell you why.  Because it just feels like [...]