All Things ETF

If you are looking for some ideas in this depressionish market, here are are 10 stocks that are still trading in the positive column within the last 6 to 9 months of 2008. These stocks are still in the 'Land of the Living'. 10 Stocks that can reduce volatility in your portfolio ! I just had to post this SNL Sarah Palin/ Katie Couric interview video spoof. It's so hilarious. Enjoy. You need to have the latest Adobe Flash Player to watch video. Click on the video to play.

Take a deep breath folks. Its gonna be a bumpy ride! I am totally at a lost as to what to fund, buy, sell or recommend? There has got to be some manipulation going on. I feel like the more the Feds offer a bailout the more the wall street cockroaches scurry for cover. Again, up is down and down is up but you can't get any financial contracts to reflect the new market rules. Stay tuned!

Looking for short-term gains and profits. Click on over to UCS Specialty Hedge Funds website and pull up the daily investment package under Exchange Offers. Its a weekly posting of short-term profit plays for investors looking to turn a profit and increase their cash flow now. Current package is a regional bank play.

Have you seen the pirate movie- Pirates of the Caribbean- At World's End ? In the movie, Jack Sparrow, the main pirate character in the movie, has been rescued from Davy Jones Locker by his pirate crew only to find himself stuck somewhere between the land of the dead and the living. The crew (including Jack) only means of getting back to the land of the living is by figuring out the cryptic clues provided by an ancient Chinese chart of maps. Well they figured out alright-how to get back, by deciphering a clue where 'up was down' and down was up'. Like the market right now- 'up is down' and 'down is up' . Hah, hah. I am serious though. The market really sucks? I seem to be losing money in certain oil and gas stocks even though oil has been climbing to new highs daily. I am like what the heck. Yes, it seems like I am always losing lots of money in the market, but sometimes blue-chip investments touted as safe sometimes can be really just as unsafe. My tho...

Wow, the market is in a serious sideways funk. Every sector is taking it on the chin. Even, if you try trading options- which I have, you will still lose a crap load of money; I have. Nothing seems to be working. I have been in only one (real) Bear market in my lifetime and that was in 1987. However the subsequent losses after the initial plunge on "Black Monday" of 1987, was not as persistent and severe as this one. Wow! Stay tuned for the next post, maybe we will find the light somewhere.

Yes, the trend is always your friend my fellow investors, but it can also be your enemy. Knowing when the trend has turned into some sort of market bubble will help you prevent huge losses to your portfolio and other financial assets. The two industries in focus right now are the financial and the oil and gas indutry . Which group is a potential bubble, a bubble about to burst, or a bubble that has already burst is the million dollar question of the day. In previous articles, I spoke of building a long-term bank portfolio because I believed that many bank and financial stocks were beaten down sufficiently enough to take another look at the sector. We started with BBT Corporation ( BBT :$32.73), iShares Trust- Dow Jones US Fin Sec ( IYF : $81.70) and JP Morgan ( JPM : $42.32). Our fledgling bank portfolio of three stocks was up by 3.01% as of 5/11/2008 but is now down over the last trading week of 5/19/2008 by about -2.64% . Do we continue building our bank portfolio or do we tak...

Wow, what a horrible week! I lost $742 dollars in the currency markets or 33% of my original investment. I consider myself lucky though, I had only invested $ 2,250 . Still, I could not get it right. Luckily I have a secret weapon to handle all of this insanity. Meet the newest member of the family. It's Pepe at 3 weeks! Wow-e-e. Isn't he sweet! My insanity cure all! Trading on the Forex can be ver-r-ry tough. For example, I tried trading the EUR/USD pair, but that position completely reversed on me after a few days; of course, I reversed my positions but the pair stabilized and went the other way. I tried the USD/JPY pair as the dollar was showing some good strength against other currencies based on the Feds interest rate cut a few weeks ago, but that position just ended up stalling for three days. I tried the EUR/JPY pair, but nothing there. That pair again just stalled then went south after three days of flip flopping around. In the meantime I just kept losing money. By...