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When To Take Profits On Stocks

People like Warren Buffet will tell you that you should buy a stock and hold it until you no longer believe in the company or management team. Unfortunately for most of us, we aren’t privy to the level of information and management attention that Warren Buffet gets. For us, we can look at outdated financials […]

Profiting From Temporary Market Distortions

When the BP Oil Spill first came to light there was a sharp sell off in the entire oil sector including crude oil itself. I had a hard time understanding this reaction because obviously this was going to cause a slow down in drilling activity in the gulf. Any slow down in drilling activity in […]

18 Year Commodity Cycle

Whenever you are making investment decisions (especially those that affect your retirement plan) you need to be aware of two cycles that dramatically affect the markets. 1. Where we are in the business cycle (expansion or recession) 2. Where we are in the Stock / Commodity cycle. Right now we are in the expansion phase […]