Trading Tips
63 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTrading Tips brings you the best unconventional moneymaking strategies available to the individual trader. Stock Picks, Options Trades, Market News and Actionable Commentary. Founded in 2006 as an independent publisher of investment newsletters, our products, and advisory services teach regular people how to become better and smarter traders.
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Is Boeing a Buy in 2020?
January 07, 2020 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.41 MBThe start of the year brings new companies into focus for investors, particularly those that had a poor showing in the prior year. There are a few different ways to classify these opportunities, but most are based on being a “dog” of some sort. Originally, the strategy was to buy the five highest-yielding companies in the Dow Index—hence the name Dogs of the Dow. But there are variations, like using 10 names, or using the S&P 500 index, or sorting by other means. One of those means should ...
Three Stocks to Buy for 2020
December 31, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 5.44 MBWith the end of the year, there are all sorts of predictions about the next. But more important than predictions are specific investment ideas. There are a few ways to take advantage of the changing calendar and find profitable investments. By focusing on a few key areas and concepts, traders can find specific investments that play to these opportunities. First, investors can look to buy stocks that have been out of favor with the market. By doing so, investors are taking advantage of the...
Is Disney+ Stock Making Investors Too Optimistic?
December 24, 2019 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5.47 MBOne of the best-performing stocks of the 2010’s was Netflix. And, with 2019’s big push for new streaming services, the competition is heating up. The most interesting competitor to emerge this year was The Walt Disney Company (DIS), with its Disney+ streaming service launch. Taking advantage of its massive library of content spanning nearly a century, the company could have gotten away with pricing its service at a premium. But instead, Disney went with one of the most accessible pri...
What to expect from the 2019 Santa Claus Rally
December 17, 2019 12:00 - 8 minutes - 5.6 MBDecades of investment data can reveal a lot of interesting patterns. A fun seasonal one right now is that of the Santa Claus Rally. Simply put, it’s the propensity for stocks to rally into the end of the year. Originally, this trend was noticed in the last week of December and into the first few trading days of the next year. However, looking at the data, the last six weeks or so of the year tends to be good for the market on average. Investors can expect an average move of 1.5 to 2 percen...
Does the Cybertruck Make Tesla Motors a Buy?
December 10, 2019 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.6 MBTesla Motors Continues to Innovate, But Will Shareholders Benefit? There’s no room in life for complacency. Capitalism has been described as a form of “creative destruction,” whereby new products and services lower costs and shift demand to new products. In the past few years, Tesla Motors has shaken up the automotive industry. With a push for an all-electric car at a time when many of the major manufacturers were simply considering hybrid vehicles, Tesla’s existence has forced the industr...
One Troubling Sign of a Market Top - Beware of the Buyout
December 03, 2019 23:00 - 7 minutes - 5.5 MBMarkets often top out for a while—or go through a multi-month correction—when greed gets rampant. There are a lot of ways to look at this phenomenon. It can happen when everyday folks are suddenly interested in the stock market. But a more important one comes from corporations themselves. Specifically, one warning of a market top occurs when there’s a record-setting buyout offer from one company to buy another. When big companies merge, it takes big bucks to make it happen. And the acquiri...
What Celebrity Investors Do—and Don’t—Mean for a Company
November 26, 2019 12:00 - 7 minutes - 4.99 MBTypically, celebrities and investing seem like two entirely different subjects. That hasn’t always been true. There’s actually been a rich history of celebrities getting involved with publicly-traded companies as investors, active partners, and even board members. To use one historic example, actress Grace Kelly once served on the board of 20th Century Fox. Today, a myriad of celebrities can be seen as getting involved with a company. That may include a celebrity investment, like that of ...
The Secret to Stock Market Gains
November 19, 2019 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.17 MBThere are many ways to invest—and many potential ways to beat the market. But one way, more than any other, will result in different returns than the market. Done right, it means beating the pants off of the index. Done wrong, it means underperforming. This secret has to do with portfolio allocation. While most investment professionals discuss the importance of diversification, they tend to do so to stress an investment that could go wrong. Having no more than 10 percent of your wealth in...
How to Start Growing Wealth Today With Just $50
November 12, 2019 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.63 MBWe all come into some extra money from time to time. Whether it’s from a birthday card from a relative, some cash found in the pocket of an old jacket, or even just literally found on the street, that extra money can be put to good use. In today’s age, it’s easy to even take that money and invest it. While most say you need thousands to start investing, even with as little as $50 you can start to get yourself on a financial track to wealth. Of course, even $50 that grows quickly will still...
Warren Buffett’s Timeless Investment Advice
November 05, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.28 MBWhat Warren Buffett’s Investment Strategy Tells Us About Today’s Values Only a few investors have come close to Warren Buffett’s track record. Over the decades, he’s beaten the market handily. That success all comes down to one factor: Value. Whenever you buy shares of a company, if you don’t have an idea of what the company is worth, and will be worth in the future, it’s impossible to know if you’re buying at a great price or not. In Buffett’s early investment years, the 1950’s, this cou...
Warren Buffet Investment Strategy Theory From a Penny
November 05, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.28 MBWhat Warren Buffett’s Investment Strategy Tells Us About Today’s Values Only a few investors have come close to Warren Buffett’s track record. Over the decades, he’s beaten the market handily. That success all comes down to one factor: Value. Whenever you buy shares of a company, if you don’t have an idea of what the company is worth, and will be worth in the future, it’s impossible to know if you’re buying at a great price or not. In Buffett’s early investment years, the 1950’s, this cou...
Three Numbers to Understand When Trading
October 29, 2019 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.42 MBAs tempting as it is to just dive into trading, it’s important to know a few things first. Knowing these “rules of the game” ensure you’re going in with sufficient knowledge to profit more often than you lose on a trade. With just three simple numbers, however, you can get most of the knowledge you need to know if a trade is worth making or not. If you’re trading on a fundamental basis, for instance, you should look at a company’s PE ratio. That’s a simple calculation of showing a company’...
How to Manage Risks for the Best Returns
October 22, 2019 07:00 - 8 minutes - 5.71 MBWhile most investors think of the potential returns possible, they do so at the danger of overlooking the flip side to the equation: Risk. All investments have risks. It may be the risk of a bond losing value over time due to inflation. It may be the risk of owning a company that goes bankrupt. Risks can vary, and knowing how to manage those risks is critical. While financial analysts think they can plug some numbers into Excel and know a company’s expected risk—usually by referring to an...
The Psychology Behind Great Trading Performance
October 15, 2019 10:00 - 8 minutes - 6.03 MBThe stock market can do a lot of things efficiently. It can digest news about a company’s performance in seconds, for instance. But it also picks up on the fear or greed of traders. If traders think a company is going bankrupt, they won’t wait to sell, and shares may end up going bankrupt as a result of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Likewise, a lot of high-tech companies that went public in 2019 fizzled after their IPO as more investors were able to weigh in on their high valuation relativ...
How to Make Passive Income With Stocks
October 08, 2019 11:00 - 7 minutes - 5.34 MBHow Stocks Are the Best Game in Town For Income When most people think of the stock market, they think of big price swings that can make—or lose—a fortune quickly. While that’s certainly a component to it, smart investors know that price moves higher, or capital gains, are just part of the investment equation. In fact, capital gains are only about half the market’s performance in your portfolio over time. The other half? Income. The stock market is a place to buy and sell fraction...
The Three Top Trading Tips for Beginners
October 01, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 5.33 MBWhat Investment Beginners Really Need to Know About Investing There’s a lot of excitement around investing—and rightly so. It’s possible to build a fortune. But it’s also possible to lose your shirt. If you’re just getting started—or if you’ve tried to start in the past and can’t seem to get any momentum going—investing can seem intimidating at first. There’s a lot that goes into it besides your money, after all. Investing also carries with it all the hopes and dreams, and also...
Three Simple Ways to Make Trading Consistently Profitable
September 24, 2019 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.14 MBTrading isn’t for everyone. Most active investors fail to beat the market’s average return. That’s because they make a lot of mistakes. While that’s an inevitable part of investing, failing to learn from those mistakes and build on successes can end up costing traders even more. One of the most important things a trader can do is think about risk. After all, every investment has a tradeoff between a risk and a reward, and most folks start by seeing the big dollar signs that represe...
A Simple Way to Repeatedly Bank Profits From Smaller Companies
September 17, 2019 15:00 - 8 minutes - 6.13 MBStudy after study on the market indicates that investors in smaller companies often get a return premium over time. There’s some common-sense explanation behind that superior return. Bigger, more established companies may get all the attention in the market, and investors may have already paid up to own a big, established, blue-chip name. But smaller companies that could become the next great blue-chip firm still remain off-the-radar, and consequently far cheaper than they have any right t...
Three Good Investments From Negative Interest Rates
September 10, 2019 12:00 - 9 minutes - 6.57 MBIf you just follow the stock market, you may have missed the biggest financial news in years. That news is the rise of negative interest rates—or bonds that pay investors less in total than what it costs them to invest. In the past, you may have bought a bond with a par value of $100 for, well, $100. And after receiving interest, you’d get back your $100 value, ensuring a total positive return. Negative yields occur when bond prices are so high that, even after all interest payments are ma...
Profit From Weathering a Storm
September 03, 2019 12:00 - 8 minutes - 6.04 MBHurricane season is in full swing this time of year, and once again the east coast is in the crosshairs. It’s something that’s happened before, and will happen again. While the unpredictable weather can sometimes cause billions of dollars in damages in a few short days, astute traders can take advantage of these developments to make an extra profit from it as well—as long as they’ve planned ahead carefully and are prepared. For instance, it’s easy to see long lines at gas stations and gro...
For the Best Investments, Look Forward, Not Backward
August 27, 2019 15:00 - 8 minutes - 5.91 MBHindsight is 2020. While it’s easy to look back on a great trade that you passed up, investors make a much more common mistake. They tend to use recent trends and extrapolate them out forever. The problem with that strategy is that investment looks like the best opportunity after it’s already had a great run. Early investors already made their money. And no company can always be on the growth path. There will be times to change course and even restructure, sell, or close a business. Inve...
A Simple Way to Find the Best Bargains Within a Sector
August 21, 2019 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.26 MBIf you’re looking to invest in one sector specifically, you may come in with some perceived notion. For instance, if you were looking to invest in an oil company, you may pick a stock where a family member or friend worked for years. If you invest in the restaurant space, it may be because it’s a place you like. Those types of decisions are part and parcel of investing. But once you’ve narrowed down on a sector to invest, a comparative analysis can help you find the best opportunity and h...
A Simple Way to Profit From Trade War Fears
August 13, 2019 13:00 - 3 minutes - 2.75 MBFor the past few years, markets have had some big swings every time concerns have risen over trade between the U.S. and China. But rather than get worried over it, the best thing to do is to look at the pattern, and see how you can trade it time and again for profits. The pattern has been pretty simple. Stocks have hit new all-time highs, then some new concerns, usually provided by a Tweet from the President, have talked up hammering China on trade. That’s created fear and uncertainty in t...
This Sector’s So Hated that It’s Worth Buying Now
August 06, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 5.4 MBInvesting is a lot more than just the numbers—earnings, sales, future financial projections, you name it. There’s a mental and emotional aspect too. That’s where you get extreme moves. For instance, during the tech bubble in the late 1990’s, folks just kept bidding up shares of companies with no future prospects to be profitable within five years. But they felt that shares had been going up and would keep going up. They were right—until the bubble popped. At the other extreme, after an ...
Take Advantage of Today’s Bizarre Economic Conditions
July 30, 2019 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.13 MBLately, most pieces of macroeconomic data seem to fall into a “good news/bad news” category. For example, unemployment is near a 60 year low. That’s good news. But as unemployment has gotten low, new job growth has slowed. That’s bad news, as a slowdown that goes too far could tip over into higher unemployment and a slowing economy. Housing data has looked pretty good, but also shows signs of a slowdown. So do many pieces of industrial production data. One corporate CEO, while on an earn...
Buy Fast-Growing Companies Falling On Earnings Letdowns
July 23, 2019 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.73 MBFour times per year, earnings season gives investors new data about a company’s operations. It’s one of the best times to see shares make a big move—in either direction. But sometimes some funny things happen. Like a company reports a great quarter but shares fall instead of rise. That may be because investors got hyped in advance and sent shares higher than they should have gone in the first place. Or it may be because of some key detail that came out during the earnings report that gave i...
The Perfect Trading Strategy for Today’s Markets
July 22, 2019 13:00 - 8 minutes - 5.61 MBWith the Federal Reserve talking about cutting interest rates, companies sitting on record levels of cash are looking for ways to deploy that cash. One big way is to merge with another company. It’s no surprise that late stock market cycles see a big wave of mergers and acquisitions. M&A activity like that gives investors a lot of opportunities as well, particularly by using one low-risk, moderate-reward strategy. That strategy is via merger arbitrage. When Company A says it will buy Compa...
The Secret Marketing Genius Behind Nike
July 09, 2019 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.68 MBSome companies just can’t seem to stay out of the news. And it seems like one company, Nike, is trying to stay in the limelight as much as possible. Just before Independence Day, the company announced that it was pulling a shoe design that it created that featured the Betsy Ross flag—the one with 13 stars in a circle representing the original colonies. It did so due to the comment by its paid endorser Colin Kaepernick that the flag came from an era of slavery. Nike hired Kaepernick last y...
The Gold Market Rally Has Entered its Next Phase
July 02, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 5.41 MBCommodities tend to have very long cycles. It can take years for rallies and declines to play out. These rallies tend to play out in phases. In the first phase of a rally, the commodity typically is coming off a big decline from a prior peak. There’s a lot of skepticism in the market that it can go higher—and that skepticism created a bargain in the first place. Once there’s a meaningful move higher, and as long as the fundamentals are in place for prices to continue rallying, however, sen...
Buy a Company in this Unloved Sector
June 25, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 5.07 MBWhile every sector of the market is different, some sectors offer investors a chance for solid returns with low risk. That typically includes heavily regulated sectors like telecoms and utilities. But the airline industry is in a sweet spot with just the right amount of favorable regulation, combined with a sector that’s determined to build profit margins, not market share. For decades, the airlines were a terrible investment. With fare wars, the competition to increase market share, and s...
How I Pay My Small Bills Each Month With Options
June 21, 2019 12:00 - 11 minutes - 8.23 MBIf there's one thing I love about options trading, it's the ability to make money just about anytime. One powerful strategy involves making what I call "gas money" trades, where I can make a small amount of money, but safely and often thanks to the options market. Not sure the best way to get started? Follow these simple steps to hit the ground running... Step #1 - Get These FREE Reports: Big Book Of Chart Patterns: https://www.tradingtips.com/book-of-chart-patterns/ The Ultimate Stock T...
Are Apple (AAPL) Shares a Buy Following their Event?
June 21, 2019 12:00 - 7 minutes - 4.94 MBNobody can replace the simplicity and genius that Steve Jobs brought to Apple. But Tim Cook is bringing in lower costs, more revenue opportunities, and ultimately higher profit margins for shareholders. That’s the key takeaway from the Apple event earlier this week. The tech company is adding a suite of services, from a credit card to a digital news subscription service to a video subscription service and so on. While many may have been hoping for some new, outside-the-box product, this is...
Two Strategies to Benefit from a Correcting Market
June 20, 2019 18:00 - 10 minutes - 7.25 MBWant to do better than the market? Buy once it’s hit correction territory. In this video, I’ll show you not just one, but .TWO investment plays to benefit from a market that’s now down 10 percent from recent highs Not sure the best way to get started? Follow these simple steps to hit the ground running... TWO investment plays to benefit from a market that’s now down 10 percent from recent highs Step #1 - Get These FREE Reports: Big Book Of Chart Patterns: https://www.tradingtips.com/book-...
Tilray (TLRY) - How to Find The Best Stocks to Trade
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How I Use Options to Get the Most Out of My Stock Portfolio
June 20, 2019 17:00 - 10 minutes - 7.41 MBOne of the first bosses I ever had used this low-risk option strategy to significantly boost the returns he received from his stock portfolio. And it's one that can be used following a market selloff like the one we've had to get back to profitability more quickly. In this video, I'll share with you how that's done and walk you through an example of each. Step #1 - Get These FREE Reports: Big Book Of Chart Patterns: https://www.tradingtips.com/book-of-chart-patterns/ The Ultimate Stock Tr...
Nothing Lasts Forever
June 20, 2019 17:00 - 6 minutes - 4.31 MBThere’s a great old saying on Wall Street: The trend is your friend. But what happens when the trend ends? After all, nothing lasts forever. That’s when things can become troublesome for investors. At least, for those who don’t know the signs. That’s because a stock’s pattern can give you a clue that a long-running trend is about to end. And whether that means a stock that’s been going up is about to go down, or a declining stock is about to rally. This is called a reversal pattern. And ...
Wall Street’s Wisest Saying
June 20, 2019 17:00 - 7 minutes - 4.85 MBThere’s a great old saying on Wall Street: The trend is your friend. That’s especially true if you want to trade in the options market, where you have a limited amount of time for a trade to play out. Yet many investors focused on a company’s fundamentals, don’t think about trends at all. It’s a critical skill for any investor—but it’s crucial for shorter and more leveraged trades like those in the options market. That’s why it’s important to consider all the factors that can cause a compa...
Using The Options Market to Find the Next Big Trade
June 20, 2019 17:00 - 10 minutes - 7.26 MBOne of the hardest things in investing is finding a winning trade. That’s especially true when looking for short-term trades that are ideal for investing with options. Fortunately, there’s a way to use the options market itself to find such winning trades. How? By focusing on unusual options activity. When big money moves in the relatively small options market, it’s incredibly visible. It shows traders exactly which stocks are likely to make big moves – up or down. But that’s not all. Tha...
The One Surefire Pattern for Massive Declines
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 4.9 MBTech stocks in 2000. Gold in 2011. Cryptocurrencies in 2017. Pot stocks in 2018. They all followed the same pattern. They had massive gains. They started from small rises, but over time, they started to rise at a faster and faster rate. Speculation and greed took over. Any attempt to curb prices on the way up were swamped with buy orders instead. Along the way, a parabolic chart pattern started to unfold. That’s a tough pattern to trade—once every investor who wants in has gotten in, earl...
Recognize When to Expect a Flat Trade
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.44 MBMost folks just think of investments as things that go up or down (and even then hopefully just up). But the fact of the matter is, any asset can have a long period of time where it trades in a sideways range, bouncing between a high and low. Recognizing these ranges from a chart pattern is a good way to find short-term trades. It may not be the big grand slam of catching a major move up or down, but it can give you consistent profits time and again. These types of patterns occur in the ...
The Crown Jewels in the Stock Market Kingdom
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.15 MBCompanies come and go. The last component of the original Dow Jones Index, General Electric, got booted last year. But you could have been out of that name for far longer if you had followed a simple rule: Only invest in companies that deliver increasing income to shareholders every year by increasing their dividend. Following that rule would have gotten you out of a lot of stocks before they really took a dive—and kept you in some of the best wealth-building stocks of all time. In the en...
Buy Now, Get More than You Paid In Later (Year After Year)
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.15 MBThere’s an ancient Chinese saying: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. It may seem like stocks go nowhere for long periods at a time. But many companies can use those periods to continue growing their dividends for shareholders. When that happens, buyers see the amount of cash they get rise every year. Over a long enough timeline, they could even see dividends rise to a point where they get more cash payouts every year than what they originally pai...
The One Surefire Way to Retire Rich
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.67 MBImagine you had a penny that doubled in value every day for a month. Sure, after a week, you’d only have a paltry sixty-four cents. That’s not even enough to buy something off the dollar menu at your favorite fast-food joint. After another two weeks, you’d have less than $10. But if you can hold out for just two more weeks, the doubling power will turn that starting penny into $1.3 million dollars. That’s the power of compounding. Now, we don’t have magic pennies (that I know of). But ...
Are Your Charts Hiding Profits From You?
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.4 MBCharts can provide plenty of profitable trading patterns time and again. But they can also be deceiving. That’s because most charts don’t share key data. It can tell you a price point on a given day—which is handy. But there’s more to a price chart than price. For instance, if a stock keeps moving higher day after day, it may look like a good trade. But if it’s bouncing around during trading hours and only barely heading higher, it may not look like the slam dunk that it could be. To fi...
Buying is Only Half of Investing
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.47 MBMost investment research is based on one thing, and one thing only: Finding the best opportunities to buy. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a good thing in and of itself. After all, if you don’t make a good buy in the markets, you’re pretty much guaranteed to lose money. But what happens when things go well? That’s where the trouble starts. That’s because most investment research doesn’t tell you anything about when to sell a position you hold—whether it’s gone up or down. Many i...
Catch These Patterns for the Best Day Trading Profits
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 4.84 MBMost chart patterns can appear over any timeframe. But a number of unusual-looking patterns often take place over a shorter period of time, such as a day or an hour, or even less. These patterns may not look like anything at first, compared to typical continuation or reversal patterns, but they can lead to powerful returns in a very short amount of time as they unfold. From the oft-occurring ABCD trade to the cup-and-handle to flag patterns, these trades are perfect for jumping in and out...
Jump Start Your Income Today
June 19, 2019 21:00 - 7 minutes - 5.03 MBInvesting is a lifetime journey, and getting started can feel frustrating. That can be the case with income investing, where the first dividend check might just be for a paltry few dollars. While growing a dividend over time can lead to a powerful return, if you’re looking for high income now, there are plenty of opportunities available that can start showing you a much larger pile of cash relative to what you put in. These high-yield plays, typically paying in the 5-10 percent range, are...
The Buffett Strategy to Create a Virtuous Cycle of Wealth
June 19, 2019 20:00 - 6 minutes - 4.37 MBA good investment policy is one that allows you to profit, reinvest those profits, and follow from a virtuous cycle of increasing returns over time. That’s the policy essentially used—in various forms—by Warren Buffett over the decades to become one of the world’s wealthiest individuals. Whether buying individual shares of stock or entire companies, the principle is the same. You want to find companies that can continue to grow over time at a somewhat steady and predictable rate. Growth c...
How Young Warren Buffett Routinely Beat the Markets
June 19, 2019 20:00 - 6 minutes - 4.57 MBThere are plenty of ways to beat the market. Warren Buffett knows them all. For the most part, he’s also tried them all. Investors with small sums of money can fare well following the modern equivalent of the strategies a young Buffett used to outperform the go-go market of the 1960’s. For example, Buffett often made trades based on arbitrage opportunities. That’s where a stock has one price in one exchange, but a different price in another. Buy in the lower priced and immediately sell in ...
How a Mere $50 Can Get Your Investment Portfolio Started
June 19, 2019 20:00 - 5 minutes - 3.73 MBMost folks think you need a few thousand dollars to start investing. If you follow a traditional route, that’s probably true. You’d need that much to fund a brokerage account and start buying a few stocks to start a nest egg. But there’s a way that you can get started investing for as little as $50. In many cases, it’s more. But the secret is a simple one. Companies that pay out dividends to investors often have a plan that lets you directly invest in their shares. And you can set up recur...