One of the best income strategies in the world involves a “glitch” in the financial markets. It allows individual investors to generate “Instant Income” from the best companies in the world. The best part, more than 80% of… Read More

In the more than 10 years StreetAuthority has been in business, we’ve never come across a trading system that’s got this much potential. In preparation for the inaugural issue of the advisory Maximum Profit, StreetAuthority’s latest investment advisory, Michael J. Carr took a close look at all the holdings in all of StreetAuthority’s newsletters — more than 130 stocks, partnerships and trusts across 10 portfolios. The mission was to discover the No. 1-ranked… Read More

In the more than 10 years StreetAuthority has been in business, we’ve never come across a trading system that’s got this much potential. In preparation for the inaugural issue of the advisory Maximum Profit, StreetAuthority’s latest investment advisory, Michael J. Carr took a close look at all the holdings in all of StreetAuthority’s newsletters — more than 130 stocks, partnerships and trusts across 10 portfolios. The mission was to discover the No. 1-ranked stock — the stock that had the most potential for capital appreciation in the current climate — from a group of fundamentally strong holdings that had already been vetted by the StreetAuthority experts. Of the dozens of choices, which single pick would rise to the top? Which stock would show the greatest momentum and value in the current environment? Which current StreetAuthority holding would rank highest in Mike’s all-important combined indicators of relative strength and cash-flow growth? It turns out the No. Read More

In the more than 10 years StreetAuthority has been in business, we’ve never come across a trading system that’s got this much potential. In preparation for the inaugural issue of the advisory Maximum Profit, StreetAuthority’s latest investment advisory, Michael J. Carr took a close look at all the holdings in all of StreetAuthority’s newsletters — more than 130 stocks, partnerships and trusts across 10 portfolios. The mission was to discover the No. 1-ranked… Read More

In the more than 10 years StreetAuthority has been in business, we’ve never come across a trading system that’s got this much potential. In preparation for the inaugural issue of the advisory Maximum Profit, StreetAuthority’s latest investment advisory, Michael J. Carr took a close look at all the holdings in all of StreetAuthority’s newsletters — more than 130 stocks, partnerships and trusts across 10 portfolios. The mission was to discover the No. 1-ranked stock — the stock that had the most potential for capital appreciation in the current climate — from a group of fundamentally strong holdings that had already been vetted by the StreetAuthority experts. Of the dozens of choices, which single pick would rise to the top? Which stock would show the greatest momentum and value in the current environment? Which current StreetAuthority holding would rank highest in Mike’s all-important combined indicators of relative strength and cash-flow growth? It turns out the No. Read More

I sheepishly raised my hand to ask the real estate guru a simple question during a “no money down”-type investment seminar in Florida back in the 1990s. “What happens when real estate prices stop appreciating and banks refuse to lend to support your investments?” The guru literally jumped backward, visibly disturbed someone would even think in such a way. “Impossible!” he exclaimed. “That… Read More

I sheepishly raised my hand to ask the real estate guru a simple question during a “no money down”-type investment seminar in Florida back in the 1990s. “What happens when real estate prices stop appreciating and banks refuse to lend to support your investments?” The guru literally jumped backward, visibly disturbed someone would even think in such a way. “Impossible!” he exclaimed. “That will never happen!” Well, the guru couldn’t have been more wrong. The overheated real estate market collapsed in 2008, bringing down the house-of-cards mortgage market along with it. The largest casualty was the quasi-governmental mortgage giant Fannie Mae (OTC: FNMA).#-ad_banner-# The U.S. government had to take the once-thriving entity into conservatorship for its very survival. This allowed Fannie Mae to use Treasury funds to support… Read More

Being a StreetAuthority subscriber has privileges. That includes learning firsthand about our biggest breakthroughs. I want to let you know about one such discovery. It’s likely to be one of the most groundbreaking finds in our company’s history and could completely change the way you invest. We’re still finalizing the research, but the results are promising. It’s a new method that has produced average annual gains of 21.4% during the past decade, compared with the S&P’s 7.1% a year. I’ll tell you more in just a moment,… Read More

Being a StreetAuthority subscriber has privileges. That includes learning firsthand about our biggest breakthroughs. I want to let you know about one such discovery. It’s likely to be one of the most groundbreaking finds in our company’s history and could completely change the way you invest. We’re still finalizing the research, but the results are promising. It’s a new method that has produced average annual gains of 21.4% during the past decade, compared with the S&P’s 7.1% a year. I’ll tell you more in just a moment, but first I want to reintroduce you to the man behind this research — Michael J. Carr. You may have heard from Mike recently in this article. Mike is one of our brightest experts here at StreetAuthority. He also has one of the most interesting backgrounds of any analyst on our staff. Mike holds a degree in chemistry and an MBA. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force. His service included stints in Spain, Germany, Japan, Korea, Iceland and Guam. And he’s a former investment… Read More

Volatility is often assumed to be a useful indicator. Many traders follow the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) because they expect it to help them spot changes in the direction of price trends. VIX is helpful in finding turning points in the S&P 500 index because futures on that index are used to calculate VIX. In general, traders look for high levels as… Read More

Volatility is often assumed to be a useful indicator. Many traders follow the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) because they expect it to help them spot changes in the direction of price trends. VIX is helpful in finding turning points in the S&P 500 index because futures on that index are used to calculate VIX. In general, traders look for high levels as a sign of a market bottom and low levels as a sign of a potential top. While VIX provides information about the general market, it doesn’t say much about specific stocks in the market. To find the right stock at the right time, traders need an indicator like VIX that can be calculated for any stock. So we created one: the Income Trader Volatility (ITV) indicator, a tool Amber Hestla-Barnhart uses in her Income Trader… Read More

There are many good reasons to look for stocks that the top hedge fund managers like. Activist managers such as Carl Icahn can shake a company up until shareholder value is unlocked. Warren Buffett‘s best ideas often have great long-term potential. But some fund managers can actually destroy value for other shareholders. During the past half decade, fund manager and Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) CEO and Chairman Eddie Lampert… Read More

There are many good reasons to look for stocks that the top hedge fund managers like. Activist managers such as Carl Icahn can shake a company up until shareholder value is unlocked. Warren Buffett‘s best ideas often have great long-term potential. But some fund managers can actually destroy value for other shareholders. During the past half decade, fund manager and Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) CEO and Chairman Eddie Lampert has taken millions of dollars out of his investment in the faltering retailer through a series of one-time payments to his investment firm, ESL Investments. And while Lampert was giving himself robust paydays, he’s virtually ignored the operational trends at Sears and Kmart, the company’s two major retail divisions.#-ad_banner-# Those stores have fared so badly that Standard & Poor’s kicked Sears out of its S&P 500 index last year, where Sears had been… Read More

There are many good reasons to look for stocks that the top hedge fund managers like. Activist managers such as Carl Icahn can shake a company up until shareholder value is unlocked. Warren Buffett‘s best ideas often have great long-term potential. But some fund managers can actually destroy value for other shareholders. During the past half decade, fund manager and Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) CEO and Chairman Eddie Lampert… Read More

There are many good reasons to look for stocks that the top hedge fund managers like. Activist managers such as Carl Icahn can shake a company up until shareholder value is unlocked. Warren Buffett‘s best ideas often have great long-term potential. But some fund managers can actually destroy value for other shareholders. During the past half decade, fund manager and Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD) CEO and Chairman Eddie Lampert has taken millions of dollars out of his investment in the faltering retailer through a series of one-time payments to his investment firm, ESL Investments. And while Lampert was giving himself robust paydays, he’s virtually ignored the operational trends at Sears and Kmart, the company’s two major retail divisions.#-ad_banner-# Those stores have fared so badly that Standard & Poor’s kicked Sears out of its S&P 500 index last year, where Sears had been… Read More

High-frequency trading works for a few large firms. They have access to special computer systems and high-speed data connections that allow them to enter thousands of orders a minute. The fastest firms can enter and exit trades in less than a second. Individuals cannot possibly compete with these firms and… Read More

The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as #google-ad# 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago.[1] The Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India, was the first major civilization in South Asia.[2] A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature Harappan period, from 2600 to 1900 BCE.[3] This Bronze Age civilization collapsed before the end of the second millennium BCE and… Read More

The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as #google-ad# 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago.[1] The Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India, was the first major civilization in South Asia.[2] A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature Harappan period, from 2600 to 1900 BCE.[3] This Bronze Age civilization collapsed before the end of the second millennium BCE and was followed by the Iron Age Vedic Civilization, which extended over much of the Indo-Gangetic plain and which witnessed the rise of major polities known as the Mahajanapadas. In one of these kingdoms, Magadha, Mahavira and Gautama Buddha were born in the 6th or 5th century BCE and propagated their śramanic philosophies. Most of the subcontinent was conquered by the Maurya Empire during the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. It became fragmented, with various parts ruled by numerous Middle kingdoms for the next 1,500 years. This is known as the classical period of Indian history, during which time India has… Read More