Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market When to Buy, Sell, And Sell Short

How to earn market-beating profits most of the time and avoid devastating losses all of the time Whether you're a private investor aiming to retire in style or an investment professional responsible for hundreds of millions in client assets, this book is one investment resource you don't want to be without. Written by legendary trader Colin Alexander, it arms traders with proven timing tools and strategies for making market-beating profits year after year after year. Alexander has successfully timed every type of market environment, from bear to bull to non-trending. In this revised and updated edition of his acclaimed Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market he coaches you in classic technical tools and signals well-known to veteran traders and shows you how to integrate them into a powerful system for determining which stocks to buy, when to buy them, and when to sell them--either to lock in profits or avoid impending losses. This results-focused book isn't about picking precise market tops and bottoms--nobody can do that consistently. Instead, it provides you with the knowledge and technical skills you need to dramatically improve your investing performance and achieve record profits, including: Clear-cut buy and sell signals that work in all market environments Strategies for identifying stocks poised for an upside breakout Step-by-step guidelines for using charting tools, including MACD, stochastics, support and resistance, and more Valuable insights into how demographic changes influence market trends and how to take advantage of them September 2000: the Dow is holding at around 11,400 and the NASDAQ above the 4,000 mark. Like the markets themselves, investor euphoria is at an all-time high. Yet, it is at this historic moment that market timing wizard Colin Alexander breaks the news to his newsletter clients that the markets are headed for a precipitous decline. He advises them to sell off virtually all of their stocks and invest in money instruments until further notice. Turned out to be pretty good advice. In Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market Alexander reveals the secrets behind his uncanny insights into the markets. More importantly, he shows you how to put his unique brand of market timing wizardry to work for you. He arms you with timing signals you can use to capture rising stock prices while removing the bulk of your downside risk. You get market-proven techniques for determining when to buy or sell a stock based on what is happening in the market, rather than an analyst's reading of the company's financial statement. And he describes an innovative approach to combining technical analysis of price action with fundamental analysis of company prospects for truly outstanding results. Updated and revised for today's increasingly volatile markets, this eyes-wide-open investing primer shows you how to: Find the stocks most likely to deliver above-average performance Time your buys to when those stocks are most likely to take off Avoid the buy-and-hold disaster of riding a stock to the bottom Manage your money intelligently for minimal risks and losses Earn big in bear markets through short-selling Get wise to charge-laden mutual funds and self-serving financial planner Take your financial destiny into your own hands and run your portfolio like a successful business For more than a century, investors and traders have exhibited behavior patterns that are predictable, reliable, and--for those who understand them--highly profitable. Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market shows you how to exploit those patterns every day and add a new level of precision and predictability to your investing performance.Alexander, Colin is the author of 'Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market When to Buy, Sell, And Sell Short', published 2005 under ISBN 9780071461054 and ISBN 0071461051.