BASIC INVESTING CONCEPTS

• Compound Interest and The Time Value of Money for Investors
• Do You Know What’s In the QQQ’s?
• How To Find Good Investing Books
• Understanding Stock Analyst Research and Recommendations
• Trading a Short Squeeze
• How Does an IPO Work?
• Does Wealth = Intelligence? The SEC Thinks So
• Using Insider Trading In Your Investing
• Short Squeezes

THE BASICS OF ETFS AND MUTUAL FUNDS

• Contango Isn’t a Dance from Argentina
• The Dark Side of Currency ETFs
• Mutual Fund Redemptions Help You Determine a Market Bottom
• ETFs or ETNs? Choose Exchange-Traded Funds
• Understanding ETFs and Mutual Funds
• What is a Fund of Funds?
• Absolute Return Funds: Higher Fees, Lower Returns
• How Contango Affects Commodity ETFs
• Avoiding the Traps of Mutual Funds
• Stimulus or Broken Window? Beware Diversification Fallacies
• The Risks of Inverse ETFs
• Why Target Date Funds Don’t Work Like You Expect
• Paying Taxes on Mutual Funds with Losses

ETF INVESTING STRATEGIES

• Truly Diversify with a Commodity Index ETF
• Stocks vs. High Yield Bonds: Which is Better?
• How to Buy Gold in Your Brokerage Account
• Smart vs. Not-So-Smart Diversification
• Cash in on Municipal Bond Funds
• Commodity Stocks vs. Commodity ETFs – Which is Better?
• Investing in Oil Through ETFs
• Improve Your Returns by Reducing Your Fees
• Building a Diversified, Low-Cost, High-Performance ETF Portfolio
• Investing in Real Estate Through ETFs and Stocks
• Investing in Oil Through Oil ETFs
• Using A Strategic ETF to Outperform the Market
• Weak Ruble May Lead to Weak Russian Stocks
• Dividend Stocks or Growth – Do You Have to Choose?
• Four Ways to Invest in the Stimulus
• Covered Calls the EZ Way
• How to Trade Leveraged and Inverse ETFs
• What Bulls Need to Make Money in a Bear Market
• Profiting from Rising or Falling Bonds

CHOOSING A BROKER

• Understanding IRAs and Rolling Over Your 401(k)
• Discount Brokers or Full-Service Brokers: Which is Right For You?
• How to Create a U.S.-Based Brokerage Account Even if You Don’t Live There
• Is Your Broker Your Biggest Risk?
• How to Move Your Brokerage Account

FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS DEMYSTIFIED

• Growth Stocks are a lot Like Ponzi Schemes
• Understanding the Stock Short Interest Ratio
• Understanding Institutional Ownership
• Understanding Revenue and Earnings Per Share (EPS)
• Stock Fundamental Analysis the Easy Way
• Understanding the Financial Statements
• Using Insider Trading In Your Investing
• What is Bargain Hunting or Value Investing?
• Understanding Relative Strength
• Market Capitalization and Diversification
• How to Determine if P/E Levels Are Too High or Too Low

UNDERSTANDING AND PROFITING WITH BONDS

• Understanding Bond Yields
• What Are Bonds and How Do They Work?
• Why Bonds Fall When Interest Rates Rise
• Stocks vs. High Yield Bonds: Which is Better?
• Cash in on Municipal Bond Funds
• Understanding the Yield Curve
• How to Short Bonds
• Monitoring Inflation with the TIPS Spread
• Understanding How Stocks and Bonds Work Together
• Using TIPS to Profit From Inflation
• Combining LEAPS Index Options and Bonds
• Stimulus or Broken Window? Beware Diversification Fallacies
• Profiting from Rising or Falling Bonds

INVESTING SCAMS AND MISCONCEPTIONS

• The Dark Side of Currency ETFs
• The Truth About Penny Stocks
• Invest Exactly Like Warren Buffett (Really)
• What is a Fund of Funds?
• Growth Stocks are a lot Like Ponzi Schemes
• Binary Options: Not Ready for Investors
• Absolute Return Funds: Higher Fees, Lower Returns
• Summer Doldrums: Fact or Fiction?
• Why Financial Writers and Analysts Mislead Readers
• Why Most News is Meaningless
• The Truth Behind Broker Commissions
• The Iraqi Dinar Scam
• Why Target Date Funds Don’t Work Like You Expect
• Why Market News Headlines are Meaningless
• Is a New U.S. President Good or Bad for Stocks?

MARKET NUMBERS AND EVENTS

• 52-Week Highs and Lows — Hype or Helpful?
• How Can You Predict The Market Opening?
• Understanding Reverse Stock Splits
• What Happens if NYSE Delists a Stock?
• Understanding Unexpected Volume
• Understanding the NYSE Debt-Margin Numbers
• Understanding the Uptick Rule
• Understanding Pre-Market and After-Hours Stock Trading
• Is a New U.S. President Good or Bad for Stocks?

MONEY MANAGEMENT AND POSITION SIZING

• How Much Should You Risk in the Options Market?
• Is Your Job Like a Stock or a Bond?
• Determining Expectancy in Your Trading
• How to Position Size an Option Trade

WHY DID MY STOCK JUST MOVE LIKE THAT?

• How Stock Buybacks Benefit Investors
• How Mergers and Acquisitions Affect Stock Prices
• Why Stocks Move Like They Do After Earnings
• Trading a Short Squeeze
• What Happens to Stocks and Options During a Bankruptcy?
• Short Squeezes

INVESTING IN COMMODITIES

• Contango Isn’t a Dance from Argentina
• A Weak Dollar Can Make Commodities More Profitable
• Trading the Crude Oil Inventory Numbers
• Learn to Profit at the Gas Pump
• How to Buy Gold in Your Brokerage Account
• Commodity Stocks vs. Commodity ETFs – Which is Better?
• How Contango Affects Commodity ETFs
• Investing in Oil Through ETFs
• Investing in Oil Through Oil ETFs
• What’s Driving Gold Prices?
• Understanding and Trading the COT Report
• Using the Oil VIX (OVX) to Forecast Energy Prices
• Trading Oil with Index Options

BASIC ECONOMICS FOR INVESTORS

• Understanding Systemic Risk
• Understanding Unsystemic Risk
• Understanding the Paradox of Thrift
• Understanding the Fractional Reserve Banking System

ECONOMIC CRISIS AND BAILOUTS

• What Are Zombie Banks?
• How Does a Liquidity Trap Affect Investors?
• Risks of Monetizing U.S. Government Debt
• Who Pays When the Government Bails Out the Market
• Stimulus or Broken Window? Beware Diversification Fallacies
• How Quantitative Easing Works
• The Federal Reserve’s Response to the Credit Crisis
• Trickle Down Economics: AKA Stimulus Spending

ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR INVESTORS

• Mutual Fund Redemptions Help You Determine a Market Bottom
• Understanding the U.S. Treasury’s TIC Data
• Mortgage Rates and the 10-Year Yield
• Understanding the Yield Curve
• Monitoring Inflation with the TIPS Spread
• Understanding the LIBOR Spread
• Understanding the TED Spread
• Understanding LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate)
• Understanding the Baltic Dry Index
• Understanding Overnight Index Swaps (OIS)
• The Yield Curve and Investor Sentiment

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS

• Economy Chokes as Banks Hoard Cash
• Understanding Money of Zero Maturity (MZM)
• Netting and Credit Default Swaps
• Understanding Credit Default Swaps

ECONOMIC REPORTS AND NEWS

• Trading the Durable Goods and Building Permits Numbers
• Why Consumer Confidence Reports Matter
• Understanding the Weekly Unemployment Claims Number
• The List of FDIC-Insured Problem Institutions
• Understanding the ISM Manufacturing PMI Number
• Why Investors Care About Retail Sales
• Understanding the Senior Loan Officer Survey
• The Truth Behind Unemployment Reports

RECESSIONS, INFLATION AND DEFLATION

• Does a CPI Drop Lead to Deflation?
• How to Trade the U.S. Dollar Index
• Understanding V, U, W, and L Shaped Recessions
• Understanding Stagflation
• Using TIPS to Profit From Inflation
• How Quantitative Easing Works
• Who Decides When We are in a Recession?
• Profiting From Deflation and Inflation

THE FEDERAL RESERVE DEMYSTIFIED

• Structure of the Federal Reserve
• Risks of Monetizing U.S. Government Debt
• Why the Fed Pays Interest on Excess Reserves
• Is the Fed Really Running the Printing Presses?
• What is the Fed’s Balance Sheet
• Fed Currency Swaps and the U.S. Dollar
• Understanding What it Means When the Fed Cuts Rates
• The Federal Reserve’s Response to the Credit Crisis
• The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Operations
• The Goals of the Federal Reserve
• The Monetary Policy Tools of the Federal Reserve

BASIC RULES FOR ANY INVESTING STRATEGY

• Long Term vs. Short Term Trading — Avoiding the Pitfalls
• How Much Should You Risk in the Options Market?
• Smart vs. Not-So-Smart Diversification
• Is Your Job Like a Stock or a Bond?
• Does Trading The Pre-Market Give Traders an Advantage?
• Understanding Stop Loss Orders
• Understanding How Stocks and Bonds Work Together
• Dividend Stocks or Growth – Do You Have to Choose?
• What is Bargain Hunting or Value Investing?
• Determining Expectancy in Your Trading
• Fighting Time Value with Vertical Spreads
• Diversification and Indexing

BEAR MARKET INVESTING STRATEGIES

• Using Pairs Trades in Uncertain Markets
• How to Use Option Collars to Protect Your Stock
• Profit in Bear or Bull Markets With Calendar Spreads
• Using Dividend Stocks in a Bear Market
• V-Reversals and Legal Short Selling
• Using Options to Hedge a Falling Dollar

DIVIDENDS AND INCOME INVESTING

• Growth Stocks are a lot Like Ponzi Schemes
• Turbo-Charge Your Dividend Investing
• Investing in Real Estate Through ETFs and Stocks
• Using Dividend Stocks in a Bear Market
• Dividend Stocks or Growth – Do You Have to Choose?

HEDGING YOUR BETS WITH OPTIONS

• How to Use Option Collars to Protect Your Stock
• Combining LEAPS Index Options and Bonds
• Reducing Time-Value Erosion by Adding a Credit Spread
• Increasing Profits with Covered Calls on LEAPS
• Using LEAPS Options to Avoid a Value-Trap
• Option Collars for Volatile Markets

TRADING THE NEWS AND ECONOMIC EVENTS

• Buy the Rumor, Sell the News
• Using LEAPS to Invest In China
• Trading Stock and Futures Price-Gaps
• Why Financial Writers and Analysts Mislead Readers
• Trading Option Straddles During Earnings Releases
• Four Ways to Invest in the Stimulus
• Speculating with Credit Default Swaps
• Profiting From Deflation and Inflation
• Earnings Season is Here…Find Out How to Trade It
• How Investors Profit from Infrastructure Spending

OPTIONS INVESTING BASICS

• Option Moneyness: In the Money, At the Money and Out of the Money
• Option Styles: American Vs. European
• How Much Should You Risk in the Options Market?
• Binary Options: Not Ready for Investors
• Predicting Volatility with The VIX
• Understanding Call Options
• The Options Chain Sheet
• Understanding Put Options
• What Happens to Stocks and Options During a Bankruptcy?
• Choosing At-the-Money, In-the-Money or Out-of-the-Money Options
• Exercise Assignment and Expiration for Option Traders
• How to Position Size an Option Trade

OPTION INVESTING STRATEGIES

• Buying Stocks at a Discount by Selling Put Options
• Using LEAPS to Invest In China
• How to Trade Option Iron Condors
• Building a Diversified, Low-Cost, High-Performance ETF Portfolio
• Trading Option Straddles During Earnings Releases
• How to Use Option Collars to Protect Your Stock
• Combining LEAPS Index Options and Bonds
• Profit in Bear or Bull Markets With Calendar Spreads
• Trading Covered Calls
• Reducing Time-Value Erosion by Adding a Credit Spread
• Covered Calls the EZ Way
• Option Trading Strategy – Calendar Spread
• Increasing Profits with Covered Calls on LEAPS
• Using LEAPS Options to Avoid a Value-Trap
• Profiting from Rising or Falling Bonds
• Option Collars for Volatile Markets
• V-Reversals and Legal Short Selling
• Fighting Time Value with Vertical Spreads
• Trading Oil with Index Options
• Using Options to Hedge a Falling Dollar
• Short Call Options
• Option Trading Strategy – Short Straddles
• Option Trading Strategy – Long Straddles

OPTION GREEKS DEMYSTIFIED

• Using Option Greeks: Theta
• Using Option Greeks: Implied Volatility
• Using Option Greeks: Delta
• Projecting Call and Put Options Prices
• Options – Understanding Delta