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2008 Trades Gone Bad #3: Buying non-durables
Filed under: Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Newsletters, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Campbell Soup (CPB), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), General Mills (GIS), Procter and Gamble...
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2008 Trades Gone Bad #4: Betting on the financials
Filed under: Newsletters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Stocks to SellBuying the financials while the Fed was aggressively cutting interest rates was supposed to...
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2008 Trades Gone Bad #5: The peak oil trade
Filed under: Newsletters, Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Stocks to SellThis oil trade takes the cake. At the zenith of the speculative bubble in the oil patch -- when crude hit $147 per barrel in July -- you...
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2008 Trades Gone Bad: 5 moves that hurt this year
Filed under: China, OilWhether a novice or a pro, we all may mistakes investing. Sadly, for many of us, 2008 proved to be a year rich with bad options and negative results -- or, as I prefer to call...
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Best Trades of 2008: 5 moves that could have made you rich
Filed under: India, ChinaFor most investors and traders, 2008 was a tough year. But while many people saw their portfolio take a merciless beating and watched their retirement vanish into thin air,...
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Best Trades of 2008: #1 Shorting 'Chindia' the day after New Year's
Filed under: India, China, Newsletters, PetroChina Co Ltd ADR (PTR), Huaneng Power Intl ADS (HNP), China Life Insurance ADS (LFC), China Mobile Limited (CHL)With all the media buildup leading up to the...
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Best Trades of 2008: #2 Getting long and staying long the 30-year Treasury bond
Filed under: NewslettersThis strategy went from being a modestly successful trade through October to a hero-sized trade in the past 45 days. The Fed funds rate, the most widely followed interest rate...
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Best Trades of 2008: #3 Shorting oil on the Fourth of July
Filed under: NewslettersFor those that had the fortitude to pull the trigger, shorting crude back in early July when all the perfect storm conditions for $200 per barrel oil were on the horizon ... and...
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Best Trades of 2008: #5 Shorting 'too big to fail' Fannie and Freddie
Filed under: Bad News, NewslettersThis shorting strategy defied all odds and pretty much defined the year for the stock market. I don't know anyone who truly thought Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie...
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Best Trades of 2008: #4 Buying DryShips (DRYS) at the November low
Filed under: Newsletters, Bargain Stocks, Stocks to BuyDuring the bull market in commodities that peaked midway through 2008, shipping companies that transfer base commodities across the oceans enjoyed...
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Five winning Super Bowl trades: IV. Buy Denny's Corp. (DENN)
Filed under: Bargain Stocks, Stocks to BuyWhen shares of Denny's Corp. (NASDAQ: DENN) are trading at half the price of a Grand Slam Breakfast, yet it was one of the companies willing to drop big bucks...
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Seven Deadly Sins of High-Yield Investing
Filed under: Getting Started, Mutual FundsIn the world of high-yield securities, investors on a quest for the biggest yields are often lured into securities that either they don't understand or are...
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High-Yield Sin #1: Buying Open-Ended Mutual Funds
Filed under: Getting Started, Mutual FundsThis statement may come as a shock to most investors, but if there is a choice to buy a certain index or sector closed-end fund instead of an open-end fund,...
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High-Yield Sin #2: Paying Big Premiums over Net Asset Value
Filed under: Getting Started, Mutual FundsMost closed-end funds trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value (NAV) for various reasons and can offer excellent investment opportunities....
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High-Yield Sin #3: Receiving a Return of Capital
Filed under: Getting Started, Mutual FundsThis is one of those areas that should be treated like poison. When a big, fat, juicy dividend yield is composed in whole or in part by what is termed a return...
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High-Yield Sin #4: Buying into Managed Distributions
Filed under: Getting Started, Mutual FundsSome closed-end funds pay out what is known as managed distributions as a template for their dividend policy. What happens here is that the fund, in its...
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High-Yield Sin #5: Owning Securities with High Payout Ratios
Filed under: Getting Started, Mutual FundsAll common stocks, income trusts, master limited partnerships, REITS and other pass-through entities have what is called a payout ratio. It's a number that...
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High-Yield Sin #6: Getting Paid in Special Dividends
Filed under: Getting Started, Mutual FundsA common method for paying dividends from funds that invest outside the U.S. is to pay special dividends composed of short-term and long-term capital gains....
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High-Yield Sin #7: Buying Domestic Energy Trusts
Filed under: Getting StartedMost high-yield income investors want an energy component within their portfolio as a long-term cornerstone against inflation. That makes perfect sense, but only if that...
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Which Tech Buyouts Are Next After 3Par?
Filed under: Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)Just when the American consumer is about to throw in the proverbial towel on the economic recovery, Dell Inc. (DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ)...
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