Our Money Morning experts put together a list of the best investment strategies for 2016.
Investors can't afford to not have the best investment strategies available right now.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down nearly 9% this year. And at 15,963 as of Feb. 12, the Dow is only about 12% higher than it was during the 2008 financial crisis.
Here's how our experts are navigating these difficult times...
Our Money Morning experts put together a list of the best investment strategies for 2016.
Investors can't afford to not have the best investment strategies available right now.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down nearly 9% this year. And at 15,963 as of Feb. 12, the Dow is only about 12% higher than it was during the 2008 financial crisis.
Here's how our experts are navigating these difficult times...
Trailing stops are crucial investment tools. They offer downside protection when stocks drop, and they help secure profits during an upward run.
But in order for trailing stops to work, investors must understand how and when to use them.
Here's how to make trailing stops work for you.
A big grin lit up my face when I opened my trading screens recently.
I was looking at the chart for Ekso Bionics. The company was trading at right around $1.81 per share at midday on Monday.
That means it was close to a double from where I initially recommended it as our first human augmentation target to members of my Total Wealth research service.
Ekso is still a great buy, which is why I'm recommending it for Money Morning, too. There's plenty of room for this company to double - again.
Seasoned investors know there are ways a trade can go wrong for you - that's why thorough research and tight investing discipline are so important.
But, the truth is, there's only one surefire way to lose your shirt, only one move that's absolutely, positively guaranteed to cost you money.
And it's a shockingly easy play to make. In fact, as of 2014, more than 52% of Americans have made this fatal trading mistake.
They didn't see it coming, and, even worse, plenty of these folks thought they were actually playing it safe.
You've spotted an unstoppable, trillion-dollar trend. You've identified the stock that's set to benefit most and made a trade using the tactics that will squeeze the most profit out of it.
Nicely done.
Now it's time for the final piece of the Total Wealth strategy.
Mention the words "risk management" and most investors get a look that's somewhere between "bored" and "terrified." It's not that they don't want to control risk; they're just not sure how and they don't make it a priority.
Yet the most direct path to building a fortune is not losing your money in the first place.
All you really need is a handful of tools - which I'm going to walk you through one by one in the coming weeks - and the discipline to enforce them.
One you're probably already familiar with is a trailing stop. They're usually automatic sell orders set at a specific percent below the market price of the investment you hold or at some predetermined dollar amount of risk on a given investment. While people typically think of trailing stops as downside protection, in fact, they can be used to lock in profits, too. That's why I recommend using them on almost every investment.
But few people use what I call "Ultimate Trailing Stops."
Today I want to talk about the one investing strategy that you should never use.
Ironically, this is one tactic that comes naturally to all of us and a mainstay investment principle used by 99% of the population. But it undercuts everything else you do as an investor.
Here's a three-step plan to avoid falling into this common trap...
In the past couple of weeks, we've been seeing record highs in the markets nearly every day.
However, we saw a pretty scary headline earlier this week about the Nasdaq Composite Index.
On Monday, Bloomberg reported that nearly half of the stocks in the tech-centric Nasdaq have declined 20% from their highs of the past 12 months - putting them in "bear territory."
Now this decline is mostly in small caps, which I don't cover in Strategic Tech Investor.
However, Nasdaq small caps are not the only place we're seeing jitters in the overall market.
Even with interest rates so low and the economy steadily improving, many nervous investors - worried about a correction - are selling off.
Whenever there's this sort of negative noise in the air, I tell you it's not a time to sell - but a profit opportunity for tech investors.
So, today I want to share with you three strategies designed to turn market declines to your financial advantage.
With them, you'll leave the nervous sellers in the dust...
Today I want to share with you a classic investment strategy that I've given a brand-new nickname to reflect our focus on the "New West" of Silicon Valley tech stocks.
I call it the "Cowboy Split." When employed properly, the Cowboy Split will protect you from volatile markets.
But that's not all. If your stocks go down, on the recovery, you make more money...
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It has been called the "royal road to riches."
Starting with just $10,000 and a small monthly contribution, any investor can use this method to create their own golden parachute - a million-dollar retirement portfolio.
All you need is time.
