18 posts tagged “stocks”

Just checking back in here because I know that curiosity in our new trading/investing site is gaining intense interest. In fact we are working with some big guns like Price Headley, Abe Cofna, Pete Najarian of CNBC and TradeMonster fame, as well as some pretty famous market bloggers. We are even working with a fantastic resource of educational videos and charting tools from INO TV and MarketClub. 

Learning by experience can be costly, especially in the financial markets. Fortunately, there are shortcuts. "I've changed from losing money to consistently making a profit," says Paul, a trader from Illinois. "I've learned techniques that really have made a big difference in my trading." He credits the streaming educational videos and audios for his success. Its is a pioneer in the web-based delivery of financial information since 1995.

Traders of all levels will appreciate the online digital library of video and audio seminars, the largest and most comprehensive collection of trader and investor seminars available anywhere today. There are currently 547 seminars with more being added all the time. They present time-tested theories, techniques, and strategies from over 150 master traders like the one below. The site is INO TV and gives traders an easy and convenient way to improve their skills, confidence, and high returns. 

Many of the seminars come with downloadable workbooks. INO TV's digital library of trading seminars is the most extensive collection available online, and these seminars are not available anywhere else. Members can watch and listen to as many seminars as they want, as often as they want, for one very low amount.

And should you want to add our most used tool to your arsenal then you'll useMarketClub. You will also then have access to the founder Adam Hewison who will continually teach you how to use the tools and apply them to stocks, forex, gold, whatever has a price chart.

You'll often hear him say this about INO TV:
"Even though I caught some lucky breaks early in my financial career and went on to become a successful forex trader, I still look back with 20/20 hindsight and realize that I could have been more successful, sooner, if I had been a more educated trader. That's why I'm so excited about what we have to offer at INO TV: proven trading techniques - practical tools for consistent success - step by step trading methods that will empower you to build wealth and create the life you want. And all straight from the lips of the masters themselves."

Adam is the co-creator of this seminar archive. He's also a terrific fella and family man who has a voice you'll enjoy listening to in his frequent educational videos like this onethat you'll see here at MarketEDU from time to time or on MarketClub. 

We don't appreciate bull-shit and there is a lot of it out there and in emails. We know if you are even a little bit like us, you want straight forward information that works. Check out this straight forward video and decide if it might be for you with no risk attached.

Of course you should decide for yourself. Its still an expense though; one that you can write off your taxes. Its still an expense but what is the comparison to what you could loose without knowledge like you'll find here?

There are tools you'll pay for and never use. Then there are those that you can't do without. Until you become an expert yourself, INO TV will be your mentor, available any time you are. MarketClub will be your daily tool to help you trade the market every day. Then of course there is all the rest; some you'll treasure, and lots you'll trash. Don't just buy everything or nothing. Make decisions that will help you acheive the dreams that trading the markets can bring. Don't make all the usual mistakes and turn it into the nightmare that won't end.

Have any other great tools that you yourself use regularly?  Please share them in the comments below.

 Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae tanked Friday on news of a possible bail-out which neither company's representative would talk about with the Wall Street Journal.

FRE hit a bottom of $3.53 and FNM $4.62 in the after-hours trading though each has recovered somewhat but not anywhere near Friday's close.

One news story says the bail-out will come soon but no one yet knows just what soon is yet. As one writer put it: To the poor we say: "Get a job!" To Wall Street we say: "How much do you need?"

For those of you who did not take advantage of the FREE look into MarketClub, a tool we live by and for those who have but have not had the time to really get into all they have to offer, I am reposting a blog post written by one of the founders Adam Hewison. I'm doing so because not only does it follow-up to my previous posts regarding electric vehicles and our country's need to get on the ball, but it shows how MarketClub can be used when a stock is going down, as well as up! This is the case for General Motors (GM). You can read the entire piece here too if you like.

“What is good for General Motors is good for America”

Back in 1955, Charlie Wilson, then chairman of General Motors Corp. made this somewhat pompous statement. Here we are, some 53 years later and look what is happening to the stock of General Motors (NYSE_GM). This stock is at a 53 year low and shows no signs of turning around.

So the question becomes, what happened to America and General Motors? How did this company lose its edge in the marketplace?

HOW DID GM GET IT SO WRONG?

Digging through the history of GM, I found one fascinating item. GM developed an electric car back in 1996 when gas was $1.28 a gallon! They named the battery powered car the EV1 and then basically scrapped it in 2002.

Today there is very little evidence that this car was ever in existence. I am sure you’re thinking right about how we could sure use a car like that today with gas prices trading over $4.00 a gallon.

When you look at the stock of General Motors, you’ll see that the high for the stock in the last eight years was around $68 in 2002. What’s interesting is that high point in the stock was right around the time GM scrapped its EV1 car.

So what happened to GM’s first electric car? GM claims there was not enough public demand. That could be, but I think the story is a lot more complicated than that.

You can see all the GM - Big Oil conspiracy theories in the movie

WHY KILL THE GOLDEN GOOSE?

From a business standpoint, why would GM want to improve something that would kill the goose that lays the golden egg? General Motors tends to make most of its money on sales of replacement parts. Up to 40% of its profits come from selling replacement parts for existing GM automobiles, so why would they sabotage their own cash flow?

Unlike a gasoline driven car, which has many moving parts, an electrical car like the GM’s EV1 has very few parts to go wrong, so therefore part sales and cash flow would go right into the tank for GM. The other perception problem GM has with an all electric car with zero emissions is this: if GM produces an all electric clean car with zero emissions, it’s making an admission that all of their other cars are dirty, spew out harmful emissions and pollute the planet.

But look at how GM got it wrong. This may be one of the biggest blunders ever in American corporate history. GM took the lead in electric car technology (smart move), but was not convinced that they as a company could be profitable selling electric cars.

WHO OWNS THE MOST ADVANCE BATTERY TECHNOLOGY?

One fascinating piece of information is that GM acquired advanced battery technology from Ovonic’s in the form of a NiMH battery. This battery produces a stronger, longer lasting charge, and was the ideal battery for their second generation of EV1 cars. What came out later was truly a shocker, GM sold this amazing battery technology along with the patent (dumb move) to Texaco who was later taken over by Chevron. Now Chevron owns the technology and the patent!

You have to ask yourself the question… why would an oil company be interested in purchasing advanced battery technology from a major car producer like GM?

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

Fast forward to 2008 when everyone is mad as H#LL for having to pay over $4.00 for a gallon of gas. Back in 1996 when GM launched the EV1 with very little fanfare, the cost of gas was around $1.28 a gallon.

Why GM decided to scrap the EV1 and look for short-term profits in big cars as opposed to building and preparing to adopt a different business model is still a mystery and one that has decimated GM’s stock price in the last five years.

The automobile business has not changed in almost a century and the industry appears reluctant to embrace change. It would now appear that GM’s business model like many of its big cars is rapidly becoming outdated and destined for dinosaur land.

LET’S LOOK AT THE STOCK OF GM

Let’s take a look at the GM stock chart and see how you would have fared had you purchased GM stock at $68 in 2003. Then let’s look at the same stock using a MarketClub’s proactive approach. As you can see the results of a buy and hold strategy have been a disaster losing 79% of its value for all share holders while the proactive results have been quite stellar.

If a major company like General Motors can fall to a 53 year low, so can any stock on the big board.

Readers of this blog know that MarketClub uses a proactive approach when taking positions in the marketplace. The world has changed, and it has changed not only for GM but for many other mature companies that are using business models and products that are rapidly becoming outdated and will prove to be noncompetitive in the long run.

Original Posting

In a couple short weeks following our outcry over GS downgrading Solarfun Power (SOLF) and suggesting that they took the opportunity to buy into the stock for themselves and their customers...

Goldman Sachs upgrades Solarfun Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (Nasdaq: SOLF) from Sell to Neutral.

Makes you go Hmmmm?!!!