With market volatility picking up this past week, now is as good a time as any to review why it’s important to take your losses early. If you lose 10%-20% in a trade, it’s not that hard to recover. It only takes 11% – 25% to get back to where you started. But if you...Read More

The following is an excerpt from The 5 Best Investments You Can Make in 2018, originally published in Kiplingers. The stock market is the biggest wealth creation machine in human history, and that’s not hyperbole. Stocks give you a little piece of the U.S. economy. So if you’re bullish on America’s long-term future, you’re bullish...Read More

The following is an excerpt from 7 Stocks to Sell Before the Crash – And Tesla is #1! It’s been years since we’ve had a proper stock market crash. And while that doesn’t necessarily mean that you should be looking for stocks to sell because a crash is imminent, now’s not a bad time to...Read More

Oaktree Capital’s (OAK) Howard Marks is one of my favorite investors. (Full disclosure: I also happen to be long OAK .) In his latest memo, he covers everything from the FAANG stocks to Bitcoin, but what I found most interesting was his comments on passive investing. I’ve expressed similar views over the years, as have...Read More

Prospect Capital’s (PSEC) insiders have a good track record of making large purchases near major bottoms in the stock. But then, they also have a good track record of making large purchases near major tops too… CFO Brian Oswald made news this week by making a large, 50,000 share purchase on the open market valued...Read More