A risky method to riches

There is a time to buy stocks and there is a time to sell them. And then there is a time to sell them short. If you are able to sidestep a cascading decline, like we witnessed last year, you can preserve your wealth. If you can sell short (that is sell stocks you don’t own and buy them back later), you can actually profit from a decline. According to Michael...

Investing is part science and part art and there are only two major approaches. It could be fundamental (based on financial data) or it could be technical (based on price patterns). These days, some books openly suggest that you buy and sell quickly and sell stocks short. But this book claims to offer a perfect portfolio methodology (PPM), a revolutionary new approach. Is this pure bluster?...

Little Kevin doesn’t read the Wall Street Journal, nor does he worry about the US economy. He believes in Santa Claus and loves to munch on a Happy Meal at McDonald’s. Yet, he has created a portfolio of securities that fetch returns that would make a seasoned fund manager turn green with envy. How does he do it? By applying some common sense and simple second-grade arithmetic, with help from...