Small cap stocks are loaded with opportunity for the individual investor, like you.
If you're newer to
small cap investing, I invite you to read my quick article about small caps in general.
You can read it here.
When you trade small cap stocks (or anything really) do you have a clear plan or are you just trading because you can? To break free from serious losses, including account destruction, and enter the realm of...
In the middle of last week, I found what I thought was a pretty strong case for pattern trading. Rather than post it here, I wanted to see if the stock would fall on Friday first, which would give even more...
Over the past couple of days I have been looking at a particular small cap oil stock’s chart and felt I had a handle on two-way price action for it. As of this weekend, I was thinking that shorting the...
Here’s a listing of small cap stocks in the oil & gas equipment & services industry. For each stock, I’ve provided a link to Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, FinViz and StockCharts.com. Each link...
iShares S&P Small Cap 600 Value Index Fund (IJS) fell by almost 2% today. In fact, there was a $3 swing in the day’s trading range. A very small portion of the downfall was captured back in after-hours...
Here’s a listing of small cap stocks in the oil & gas drilling & exploration industry. For each stock, I’ve provided a link to Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, FinViz and StockCharts.com....
One thing I know a lot of small cap investors (especially new ones) look for is a listing of stocks within an industry. While you could go to a place like finance.yahoo.com and screen through stocks to find...
Unless you live under a rock, you know gold continues to be hot. My favorite gold ETF that I’ve made money with has been rising each year. As more and more investors shift toward a gold investment strategy,...
Today, I was reading an article at the Financial Times that was about US Department of Agriculture stating that global agriculture stocks are going to rise for the 3rd year in a row (40% over past three...
Today, I decided to browse around for free stock screeners to see what was out there. Typically, I recommend the screeners over at Yahoo Finance and Google Finance. But it’s a big world out there, so I...
Recently I was reading an article that kept interchanging trading and investing like they were the same thing. In the context of the article, they weren’t. It got me thinking that not everyone knows the...
Here’s the power of news. Today, Leap Wireless International (LEAP) got downgraded to a hold by Citi. If that wasn’t enough, it was also cut from the company’s “Top Picks Live”...
As a continuation from my previous post about small cap stock gainers, I will share with you 5 small cap stocks in the healthcare market sector that have shown increases for 2010.
Here’s the list of small...
As I often do, I was researching stocks tonight and looking for small cap stocks that have increased by at least 30% over the past 13 weeks. I also wanted stocks that showed no worse than a 1% downturn in...
A small cap stock is of no value if you can’t get in and out of it as you desire. Imagine you’ve found the stock of a lifetime. You buy it, the stock goes up and now you’re stuck trying to get out. This...