Craving the High That Risky Trading Can Bring
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It is easy to dismiss JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel, the rogue trader at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, as a fluke. So here is a sobering thought for Wall Street: There may be a bit of Mr. Kerviel in all of us.
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When the market smacks you around, you wise up fast.
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Think twice before engaging in a lot of trading. Patience often wins out.
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Resist those impulses to lose money, and take advantage of stocks on the bargain rack.
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Resist those impulses to lose money, and take advantage of stocks on sale.
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IF you get speeding tickets, watch out: The chances are good that you will also engage in possibly dangerous investing behavior, too, according to a new study.
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Harness your fear for greater investing success.
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Investing in small caps that have big bets in one market can sometimes bring rich rewards.
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The great hope of investors, including those who buy into mutual funds, is that they'll buy low and sell high. But many people get tripped up on the sell high part, especially during a big decline, when it can take an iron will to resist the urge to pull out of the market.
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Use some psychological tricks and end up richer.
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Several hot drugs are generating smoking returns.
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Play the market with these stocks.
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Sometimes you have to go the extra mile to gain an edge in investing.
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How can you beat the market? Play a different game.
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There's upside to buying in a choppy market.
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Okay, if the mind is powerful, how is your mind making you feel today? It's worth thinking about -- with the stock market down this year, every day worse than the last, many of us are losing lots of money, I know I am, and it's not a good feeling.  I keep arguing with myself, even though I'm losing money at a huge rate, I'm still in good shape financially, I have a nice house, I can pay the bills. But it doesn't help. Inside I feel unsettled, poor, I'm having trouble concentrating. Does it help that I've been through this before? The crash of 1987 was much worse than this downturn, and then I had no cushion, nothing to fall back on, I wasn't even employed when it happened. I was a lot closer to being broke around the turn of the century, even though the market was doing very well. But it doesn't help. No matter how many times I've been through it, I've always known that it's cyclic, that the outlook will likely improve, but knowing isn't the same as feeling. The feeling is much stronger, it can't be counteracted with logic. I can't reason with the feeling, you might say it's un-reasonable. Then I heard that a friend of mine, much younger, with a lot less at stake in the market, is having trouble sleeping because of this feeling. I realize I'm not alone, probably millions of people have a heightened sense of insecurity right now. Does that make it better? Not really... Anyway, I thought, let's post something and find out how others feel about the economy and how much of an impact is it having on our state of mind.
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This options strategy promises income, but at too high a price.