Resource Investors: Why You Can Expect Sunnier Days Ahead

More sunshine, less stormy wheather

During the current commodity super-cycle, there have been occasions-too many to count-when investor psyche has been damaged by reports about slowing U.S. growth, a hard landing in China or a debt crisis in Europe. Yet just behind the gloom, significant and positive trends are taking hold, causing the storms to start dissipating.

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The 12 Rules to Follow for Buying Dividend Stocks

Editor's Note: This is the article that many have been waiting for. If you're interested in "total return investing", where you earn both capital appreciation and dividends, you're going to like this article. If you do tell others about it please! By the way, I subscribe and have learned lots from Mr. Miller's many decades of investing experience.

Many of you have probably filled out one of the "retirement planner" forms available online. Plenty of tax and accounting programs also have "Lifetime Planner" sections for folks to determine if they can afford to retire.

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A Smart Resolution for 2013

Preparing for a new year offers new opportunities in precious metals. As 2012 slips into memory, many have now embraced the tradition of setting resolutions for the new year. Part of this practice often includes examining the past year or two in an effort to assess where we are today and how that fits in our overall goals.

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In 2013 Preserve Your Money & Follow the "Smart Money"

When it comes to a success story, I've enjoyed following the career of Porter Stansberry, the remarkably prolific Founder and Executive Editor of the organization that bears his name, Stansberry & Associates Investment Research. In a recent edition of his S&A Digest Mr. Stansberry gave two very important reminders on how to be "smart" with our money.

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When It Comes to Stocks, We All Need a "Safety Net" and an Exit Strategy

[Editor's Note: Since completing his PhD in mathematical systems theory, Dr. Smith has applied his research skills in the private sector to a variety of problems. The common thread to all of Dr. Smith’s work is providing simple solutions to complex problems. As a consultant to one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, Dr. Smith oversees the analysis of massive databases and is responsible for delivering user-friendly presentations that don’t require a PhD to understand. When the electric utilities in New York State were facing deregulation, Dr. Smith led the development of an expert system that helped one of the biggest firms in the region increase manpower by a factor of ten… without adding any additional personnel.He's the founder and President of TradeStops.com, which has just launched its latest, most effective version].

Don't we all need a "safety net" underneath our stock market portfolios? Only gamblers and inexperienced traders would answer "no". As an investor, there’s one simple step you can take to protect your investments that stands out above the rest. This simple step is often overlooked and undervalued, yet it's incredibly vital to the kind of results you experience.

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