Strategies – Page 203 – Smarter Investing

Because the markets can turn quickly, be ready. May the market be with you!

Has the market topped?

The U.S. dollar and silver's technical position are the key inputs.

These two stocks represent the type of opportunity I believe provides investors with the most reward for the least risk.

Overall, the longer term picture remains positive for equities and especially commodities.

For a few minutes there at the close of trading in the gold market on Feb. 29 I felt like I was witnessing a slow train wreck.

Though investment possibilities are, in Buffett’s words, “both many and varied,” there are three major categories that we have to choose from.

A simple sign suggesting that the era of depressed values that we have seen since the economic recession is over.

It has cost me far more in time and money than I had planned. Yes, I bought a house.

I shifted shorting strategy on my VIX-linked investments to reflect shifting market sentiment. Here's how.

With global tensions rising, I doubt President Obama will be able to cut even 1% of the core defense budget in 2013.

Right now, a disproportionate number of consumer-based companies fit our valuation criteria.

The question to ask, I think, is “If I were a ground squirrel just awakened from hibernation, would I like valuations today?”