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  • A Five-Step Market Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a simple five-step investment process that can help you participate in the market without paying those exorbitant mutual fund or manager fees and limiting downside risk.

  • Adding ETFs To Your Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is it time to consider adding exchange traded funds to your portfolio?

  • An All-Weather Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here, we'll look at how you can structure a portfolio to achieve a good balance between gains and volatility, and how you can program a backtest for it using code in the Python language

  • An ETF Portfolio Based On Minimizing Drawdown

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A good risk management plan will deal effectively with the inevitable drawdowns that will occur. The results of this study point to a way you can improve an ETF portfolio and minimize drawdowns

  • Assessing Risk In An Equity Portfolio by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Assessing Risk In An Equity Portfolio by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A. Portfolio management is a balancing act -- enhancing returns by systematically investing in the most promising assets while simultaneously limiting the variance of returns (that is, ri

  • Building A Profitable Home Construction Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...After the real estate bubble burst, homebuilding stocks suffered a multiyear drubbing. But the landscape has changed and things are looking up, especially for the industry leaders.

  • Can Relative Strength Be Used In Portfolio Management? by J. Lewis, M. Moody, H. Parker, & A. Hyer

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:9 (24-29): Can Relative Strength Be Used In Portfolio Management? by J. Lewis, M. Moody, H. Parker, & A. Hyer The concept of relative strength is part of the foundation of technical analysis, but can it be used successfully wh

  • Customized Portfolio Diversification

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...And here, some strategies to diversify and protect your portfolio.

  • Discerning Portfolio Patterns Using Data Animation by Bruce Peterson, PhD

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discerning Portfolio Patterns Using Data Animation by Bruce Peterson, PhD Here is a method using animation that helps you visualize patterns of stock behavior for an entire portfolio. Traders have long used technical indicators and charts to identify p

  • Diversification And Your Portfolio by Phil Abel

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Diversification And Your Portfolio by Phil Abel Thinking about adding financial and commodity futures to your trading? Here's how it can improve profitability and reduce risk. Stockpicking can enhance a portfolio, but only to a certain extent. If you i

  • Diversify Your Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Save yourself! To protect your portfolio from market volatility, create a diversified portfolio by using the oppressively named correlation coefficient, but it's not as complicated as it sounds.

  • Do ESG Funds Rate A Place In Your Portfolio?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The category of "environmental, social, and governance funds" have become a mainstay in fund offerings. Do they offer a compelling investment choice? Here's a lo

  • Do ESG Stocks Rate A Place in Your Portfolio?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Environmental, Social and Governance funds have changed the trading game. But do they really offer a compelling investment case?

  • Finding The Perfect Mutual Fund Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What works best for you? Here's how to diversify your portfolio and still sleep at night.

  • Following The Money: ETFs And Your Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exchange traded funds can be the best way to add exposure to your portfolio.

  • Injecting Hospital Stocks Into Your Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The smallest industry in health care may feature the sector's best buys in stocks.

  • Is It Time To Clean Up Your Portfolio?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you busy putting away those winter sweaters and coats and straightening out the closet? Maybe it's time to do the same with your portfolio and yes, it can be just as easy as cleaning out your closet. And maybe even less onerous.

  • Is Your Investment Portfolio Working Hard For You?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can invest randomly, or you can develop a financial plan.Is your investment portfolio working as hard for you as you worked to fund it? Are you following a reasoned, deliberate plan to meet your financial objectives, or is your portfolio a haphazard

  • Jabil Circuit For Your Portfolio?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the world economy on its way to recovery, many market participants believe that technology companies should make up a good part of your portfolio.

  • Keep Your Portfolio Safe

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We often find ourselves making the same mistakes over and over. Coming to terms with the reality of trading can help you break those bad habits. Find out how.

  • Managing Your 10-Bagger Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's a lofty goal to go for a 10-fold increase in the price of a stock, but is it realistic?

  • Modern portfolio theory: A powerful tool for futures investing Part 1 by Gary S. Antonacci

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Modern portfolio theory: A powerful tool for futures investing Part 1 by Gary S. Antonacci In an effort to improve on the traditional risk and return characteristics available from investment opportunities, academic researchers developed Modern Portfol

  • Part 2 Modern Portfolio Theory in managed futures by Gary S. Antonacci

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...part 2 Modern Portfolio Theory in managed futures by Gary S. Antonacci Optimal portfolio diversification using Modern Portfolio Theory is a particularly valuable tool when applied to futures trading and is the key to earning attractive returns with less

  • Plump Up Your Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Enhance your portfolio returns by knowing -- and exploiting -- different investment styles.

  • Portfolio Health Check

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Marc Chaikin developed and created Portfolio Health Check, an analytical service that uses the same type of analytics used by professional money managers.

  • Portfolio Maestro

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Portfolio Maestro is software with its own installation that allows users to analyze portfolios of equities, futures, and forex.

  • Portfolio Strategy Based On Accumulation/Distribution

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Whether you are an individual trader or an asset manager, your main goal in reading a chart is to detect the intentions of major institutions, large operators, well-informed insiders, bankers and so on, so you can follow them. Here, we'll build an automa

Product Review: Enhancing Portfolio Value with Covered Call Options

  • Product Review: NASDAQ OMX Portfolio Manager for the iPad by Wallace Wang

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Real-time data is crucial for accurate and timely trading, but in the past, to get real-time data you had to pay a monthly fee. Now, however, if you have either a wi-fi or 3G Internet connection and an iPad, you can retrieve real-time data us

  • Reevaluate Your Portfolio

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Don't let your emotions take over. Reevaluate your portfolio periodically -- before panic strikes!

  • Selecting Stocks For A Portfolio by Donald Stewart and Kenneth Stewart

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Selecting Stocks For A Portfolio by Donald Stewart and Kenneth Stewart As redundant as it may sound, following the stock market is in reality following a market of stocks. And surveying a market of stocks can present a challenge. The brothers Stewart, u

  • Solving The Portfolio Puzzle by Tushar S. Chande

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Solving The Portfolio Puzzle by Tushar S. Chande Stocks & Commodities Contributing Editor Tushar Chande presents guidelines for designing a stock portfolio. Here's my question to all those superb stock traders out there: How many stocks should you hav

  • Stock Portfolio Construction When Recession Looms

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What industry groups fared best during recessionary periods of the past? Armed with this information, investors can better construct their stock portfolio to weather recessions. Here is a study to point the way

  • Students select a winning portfolio by Michael Scott

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Students select a winning portfolio by Michael Scott Can high school seniors on a college prep track outperform leading investment advisors and mutual fund managers? Based on the following evidence, the answer must be an unqualified ""yes."" The underly

  • The Portfolio Risk Dilemma: Let It Run Or Rebalance?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When volatility becomes too high, how can you reduce portfolio exposure without sacrificing your winners? Here is a smart solution you can consider

  • Using Futures And Options to Reshape Portfolio Risk by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using Futures And Options to Reshape Portfolio Risk by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A. Portfolio management at its simplest is finding the highest possible return while limiting the risk involved. Because economic conditions constantly change, keeping to t

  • Using Technical Analysis to Manage a REIT Portfolio Part I -- The RSI Oscillator

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does technical trading apply to REITs? Using three classic technical indicators, I will show you how technical analysis can be effective.

  • Using Technical Analysis to Manage a REIT Portfolio Part II -- Parabolic

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does the Parabolic technical trading system work in a trending market?

  • Using Technical Analysis to Manage a REIT Portfolio Part III -- MACD

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will the MACD indicator improve results? So far the RSI oscillator and the Parabolic trading systems have been flawed.

  • What's in Your Portfolio? A Short Capital One Strangle, Of Course

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Raff MarketSpace Stock System has issued a bevy of new short signals in numerous S&P 500 stocks. Here's a glance at an interesting short setup in Capital One Financial shares, one that can be played a couple of different ways.

Working Money: A Five-Step Market Portfolio by Andy Hicks

Working Money: Adding ETFs To Your Portfolio by John Devcic

Working Money: Customized Portfolio Diversification by Robert Lewis and Rena Gelb

Working Money: Following The Money: ETFs And Your Portfolio by Jim Ulland

Working Money: Managing Your 10-Bagger Portfolio






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