Relationship Investing

Despite receiving offers to write technical analysis textbooks over the years, I’ve politely refused. Many good ones already exist. So rather than write an exhaustive book with lots of charts ...

Whether they appear on a bottle of shampoo or as a line in a hit movie like The ...

Back in the 1970s I used to frequent what were referred to as “visitor’s galleries” in all the ...

I’m not sure what the term blue chip means anymore. To me it’s a remnant of markets past—not ...

You won’t hear the phrase “the company’s not going broke” uttered by anyone holding a stock at a ...

Years ago, when I was working at E. F. Hutton & Company, a broker called to ask my ...

Of the myriad of decisions that you make when deciding what to do with your paycheck, one is ...

How many times have we told our kids to learn from our miscues and errors in life so ...

In chapter “Dangerous Phrases,” I listed more than three dozen market sayings I’ve heard over the years that bother ...

When talking about market adages that have stood the test of time, this one—you can’t go wrong taking ...

How often have you heard that oft-spoken phrase, “Buy low, sell high”? Sounds sensible, right? Wrong! The problem with this statement is that no ...

I was thinking about some of the investment phrases that cause me to cringe when I hear them ...

I’ll save you the trouble—don’t try to pursue perfection! Perfection doesn’t exist in either life or the stock ...

When a rare event occurs, it’s often labeled as a once-in-a-lifetime happening or an occurrence so infrequent that ...

Kids grow up so fast. One moment they’re in our arms, the next they’re on our nerves (but ...

Dollar cost averaging may sound sensible, but theory and practice couldn’t be further apart when it comes to ...

The stock market is unique. After all, in how many enterprises can you be correct in the lion’s ...

I know that I will stir some controversy (which I’ve been known to do in my career) with ...

This one word—selling—describes what traders and investors have tried to do successfully since the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

The stage is set. You’ve done your research and determined that a stock should be sold. It’s simply ...

I’ve never believed that “stop orders” (predetermined prices at which to sell on the downside or buy on ...

You cannot treat your stock market purchases in the same fashion in which you shop for department store ...

Legendary market maven Newton Zinder (the man who gave me my big break in the technical analysis world ...

I can’t help but think of Bob Barker, the game show legend, when I hear a stock market ...

What investor doesn’t like to receive a dividend on their investments? It’s what many market participants search for. ...

“It’ll come back” is often uttered after a stock has slid a visible distance from its highs. Along ...

If I hear “I don’t need the money” again when I suggest that a stock is vulnerable and ...