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ETF Investing Strategies — What You Need to Hear
The world of ETFs keeps getting better and better. We now can invest in almost any asset class, currency or country in the world with just a few clicks of a mouse. But in order to use ETFs properly, you have to learn a few key concepts. Here are three important concepts you’ll learn by […]
Mortgage Rates Are Still Low — Don’t Miss Out!
Believe it or not, you still can get a cheap mortgage at some of the lowest interest rates of the year. The professionals at Miracle Mortgage are offering a free assessment of your current financing, so take advantage of this offer now before interest rates start rising. Click here to get Miracle Mortgage’s special report […]
ETF Talk: Emerging Markets Present Big Opportunities, Risks
Emerging markets typically offer the greatest opportunities — and the most risk. If you have tracked the markets closely in just the past week, you likely noticed sizable one-day swings up and down largely due to news of debt problems from Dubai last Thursday. On that day, emerging markets dropped sharply. However, emerging markets rebounded […]
Time to Talk Taxes
You might not be thinking about taxes with the holidays now in full swing, but my friend and CPA Lee Haight called me the other day to remind me that there are several strategies that I can employ before the end of the year to reduce my tax burden. Lee asked me to pull together […]
Just Stop Teasing Me
Let’s start off this week’s Alert with a quick glance at a chart of the S&P 500 Index for the past two months. As you can see, we’ve basically been mired in a trading range between 1,030 and 1,110 throughout this entire time. It’s as if the market was just teasing us here, tempting us […]
JFK on Gratitude
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy As the late president so poignantly put it, gratitude is much more about action than mere words. This Thanksgiving, don’t just merely speak about the things you’re grateful […]
ETF Talk: Does the Yen Offer a Safe Haven?
If you are concerned that the stock market’s rise in recent months could be running out of steam, you may want to consider protecting yourself by making a short-term investment in a stable foreign currency, such as the Japanese yen. With the yen appreciating in the face of a weakening U.S. dollar, the Japanese currency […]
Give Thanks to Those Who Deserve It, 2009
Now, for another perspective on being thankful, here is my good friend and writer extraordinaire Jim Woods with a few unconventional thoughts on the matter. Enjoy! By Jim Woods This Thursday is Thanksgiving, and I suspect that most of you reading this have plans to spend time with friends and family feasting on a sumptuous […]
What I’m Truly Thankful For
I can’t let this Thanksgiving week go by without addressing a few things that I’m truly thankful for. On Monday, I had a great conversation with a new Successful Investing subscriber who told me that prior to joining the service he was so worried about the market and his investments that it actually was making […]
A Year-End Rally?
This time of year, we normally can count on the market being in full-rally mode. There is a term that I use in my book "Maverick Investing" to describe this time of year. I call it the growth season, and it’s from Nov. 1 through April 30. Historically, this is the time when the market […]
Jim Woods is a 30-plus-year veteran of the markets with varied experience as a broker, hedge fund trader, financial writer, author and newsletter editor.
His books include co-authoring, “Billion Dollar Green: Profit from the Eco Revolution,” and “The Wealth Shield: How to Invest and Protect Your Money from Another Stock Market Crash, Financial Crisis or Global Economic Collapse.” He’s also ghostwritten many books and articles, as well as edited content for some of the investment industry’s biggest luminaries. Read more about Jim Woods.
