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As you look for money-making stocks and develop long-term investing strategies, use the following calculators, tools and investing tips to improve your chances of making money:
- Check out past performance of a stock with the Stock Return Calculator, a favorite of our visitors. See how your favorite stocks correlate with the S&P 500 or other stocks.
- Check out the innovative Stock Return Map Maker; green shows profitable returns and red shows unprofitable returns. Get a quick visualization of short-term and long-term returns for your favorite stocks.
- Use Stock Performance Analysis and Stock Return Calculators and Tools to analyze you favorite stocks. Check out your favorite stocks, ETFs and indices with Price, Return and Dividend Information For Stocks and Exchange-Traded Funds.
- Buy high-quality dividend-paying stocks with rising dividends. See All Weather Dividend-Paying Stocks, Dividend Achievers, Dividend Aristocrats, U.S Dividend Champions and Great Dividend Stocks. See Inflation Fighting Dividend-Paying Stocks. See Dividend Map of High-Yield Stocks. See Deschaine & Company Equity Income Portfolio (A-Z).
- See table of and links to price, return and dividend information for over 300 dividend-paying stocks. See Dividend Map. Use the Dividend Stock Screener to find yields and dividends.
- Use the Great Dividend Stocks Portfolio Builder and Any Stock Portfolio Builder to build your own portfolio of stocks.
- Reinvest dividends. Use the Dividend Reinvestment Calculator, Dividend Reinvestment Portfolio Calculator, Dividend Reinvestment Backtest Calculator and the Dividend Reinvestment Backtest Portfolio Calculator to analyze the benefits of dividend reinvestment. Use Dividend Investing Calculators and Tools to analyze dividend-paying stocks.
- Develop a systematic savings and investment plan. Use dollar-cost averaging to invest regularly. Save now, spend later. See Dividend Income Calculator - With and Without Dividend Reinvestment.
- Diversify your holdings; don't overload your portfolio with one or two stocks. See Sample Portfolios for many diversified stock portfolios.
- Minimize your investing costs; avoid high commissions and fees. Avoid most managed mutual funds; own exchange-traded funds (ETFs) instead.
- Buy on the price upside; avoid the price downside. See Sell Now, Buy Later Calculator - Coping With Falling Stock Prices and Hold Now, Buy or Sell Later Calculator - Coping With Falling Stock Prices. Don't pay too much for a stock; avoid buying at or near tops.
- Learn to understand price patterns. See 50 and 200-day price moving averages for all Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. See interactive price and volume charts of your favorite stocks. Use the Mirror Image Stock Price Chart Maker to see projected price patterns.
Thank you for using buyupside.com. Take some time to explore the many calculators and tools that will help you make informed investing decisions. If you have questions or comments, please send me mail. I'll answer it promptly.
Richard Howard
rahoward@buyupside.com
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Timely New Book by Michael Lewis - Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
The author of The Big Short describes the origins of the current financial crisis in Greece. He also discusses the financial bubbles in Ireland and Iceland. See six of his books.The Mutual Fund Merry-Go-Round
David F. Swensen, the chief investment officer at Yale University, writes a very important article, The Mutual Fund Merry-Go-Round, about why investors should avoid most managed mutual funds. This article is a must read.
Also, read The Mutual Fund Industry Is A Huge Scam That Costs Investors Billions Of Dollars A Year.
See Is modern portfolio theory all bunk?
Price, Return and Dividend Information For Stocks
Stock Performance Analysis - Quick Links to Stock Return and Dividend Calculators and Chart Makers
Stock Market Follows Multiyear Price Cycles - Are Prices Headed Lower?
The chart below shows five major cycles constrained by the lower boundary and upper boundary of a 139 year secular price channel from 1871 to the present. The two long parallel green trendlines define the price channel.
The upside green line midway between the upper and lower boundaries is the long-term trendline that was fitted using a simple linear regression model.
The five major cycles within the price channel are complex, making the overall pattern of prices quite volatile over long periods. Each major cycle is defined by a multi-year upside and a multi-year downside (red trendlines). There are minor cycles with well defined price upsides and downsides within each of the five major cycles.
Currently, stocks are on the upside of a minor cycle that is within the major cycle (labeled 5 on the
chart) that peaked in 2000 after an 18-year upside. See the red trendline for cycle 5.
Click here to see the entire article. See Are U.S. Stocks Setting Up for a Triple Top? and Stock Returns Depend on When You Buy and How Long You Hold Your Stocks - Returns Are Cyclical.
U.S. Stocks Deliver Mixed Returns For Last Ten Years
Despite the turmoil in the U.S. stock market, profitable returns have beaten out unprofitable ones about three to two during the the last ten years. And the average annualized return is around two percent.
The following 10-year stock return map of the S&P 500 (^GSPC) shows an alternating pattern of profitable returns in green and profitable returns in red resulting from volatile upside and downside price moves.
Click here for the entire article. See more return maps: All Ordinaries Apple AT&T Bovespa Dow Jones Industrial Average ExxonMobil Ford Nikkei Teradyne and Verizon
Map of your favorite stock, exchange-traded fund or mutual fund.
Will Baby Boomers Sink the Stock Market?
Read Boomer Retirement: Headwinds for U.S. Equity Markets? for possible stock price scenarios.
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