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The Motley Fool January 5, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Let This Destroy Your Financial Future How to lessen the tax man's sting. |
The Motley Fool October 14, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Last-Minute Move Could Save Your Retirement With a certain strategy involving options, you can protect yourself against further downside risk while simultaneously giving yourself an exit strategy to build a more conservative portfolio in retirement. |
On Wall Street December 1, 2009 Bill Fleming |
Markets Are Up and It's Time to Sell Now that the markets have started to show some signs of life, it's safe -- prudent even -- to revisit your clients' portfolios and start thinking about gains. |
The Motley Fool June 3, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Repeat This Wealth-Killing Mistake Your patience has now been rewarded. Don't blow it again. |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Tax-Smart Way to Lock In Gains Today A variation of the popular covered call strategy can help you preserve your stock market gains without immediately creating a taxable event. |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
What Was Your Worst Investment Mistake in 2009? This was a completely different year. |
InternetNews December 1, 2009 |
Chip Stocks Lead, But Apple Left Behind Apple and eBay were left out of today's rally. |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Make the Right Call on These Stocks Buying call options can help you manage risk. |
The Motley Fool August 6, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Low-Risk Way to Ride the Rally You can earn profits from a continuing rebound while capping your potential losses by using options. |
The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
The January Effect Won't Save You If you're looking forward to the New Year to bring your portfolio a much-needed relief rally, prepare to be disappointed. |
The Motley Fool January 19, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
3 Ways to Prepare for the Next Big Drop With everything up, here's how to keep your portfolio from going down. |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
You Should Sell These 7 Stocks Right Now These seven stocks have valuations that no longer make sense: Wynn Resorts... Masco... Monster Worldwide... Ryder System... Marriott... MeadWestVaco... Robert Half... |
The Motley Fool August 1, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Why It's Not Time to Panic Clear heads could make some serious money. |
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 T. Hanson & B. Richards |
Don't Sell Without Reading This First For a short-term capital gain, a stock held for less than one year, the tax man takes up to 35%. For a long-term capital gain, a stock held longer than one year, the government takes between 5% and 15%. Investors, think through the consequences of your sell decision. |
The Motley Fool November 2, 2005 |
Capital Gains Rates If you haven't been paying attention, capital gains tax rates, which is what you pay on gains from the sale of stock (among other assets), are not the same as they were several years ago. Know what to expect when you sell those stocks. |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Forget About Taxes! Don't let tax considerations stop you from making good investing decisions. |
The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
The Year-End Mistake You Don't Want to Make If you prefer to use mutual funds rather than individual stocks to invest, there's one expensive tax mistake that you'll want to be sure to avoid. |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2011 Alex Dumortier |
Gold Isn't the Big Trend The gold market is changing. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Profit-Reaping Promise You Need to Keep If you promised yourself to wait until the market stabilized before you decided to jump back into stocks, it's crunch time. Do you have the guts to follow through on that promise? |
The Motley Fool March 22, 2011 Christopher Barker |
Proof That Gold Is Not a Bubble With each successive breakout to fresh all-time highs, gold continues to confound perennial bubble callers with the sheer strength and continuity of its secular bull-market run. |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2009 Robert Steyer |
Beware of Falling 52-Week Highs As stocks rise and their 52-week highs fall, make sure there's a fundamental reason to justify your optimism. |
Financial Advisor September 2010 Alan Lavine |
Gold Stays In Spotlight But investors wrestle with issues surrounding the metal. |
The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Todd Wenning |
Selling Stocks to Buy a House For first-time homebuyers without existing home equity, selling stocks is a common way to raise a down payment. |
The Motley Fool September 30, 2011 John Maxfield |
Gold's Duck Test Why the recent decline in gold prices may be evidence of things to come in economic news. |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Big Gains and Minimal Taxes Many fund investors will enjoy a silver lining come tax time. |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Smart Moves to Fix Your Portfolio If you've decided you need to make major changes to your portfolio, congratulations -- you've made one of the toughest decisions an investor ever has to make. |
The Motley Fool December 10, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Watch Out For These Year-End Traps Sometimes, investments do strange things in December and January. |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Profit From the Next Big Bubble Investors are fleeing back to foreign lands. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Great News Has Been a Long Time Coming Ordinarily, the end of the year is a dangerous time for mutual fund investors. This year, though, most fund shareholders will enjoy something they haven't seen in a while: freedom from capital gains taxes. |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
End of the Line for Emerging Markets? The rally has slowed down. Are emerging market investors coming home? |
The Motley Fool April 16, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Be Tax-Smart With Your Investments Even if stocks lose money this year, mutual fund shareholders still face a tax bill. |
The Motley Fool April 22, 2005 Roy Lewis |
How to Calculate a Holding Period Here are some tips on long-term and short-term gains and losses. |
The Motley Fool January 6, 2010 Todd Wenning |
One Investment We'll Be Avoiding Where are the masses putting their money today? Gold. Therefore, maybe you should avoid it. |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Should You Be a Gold Bug? The price of gold recently hit a 16-year high as the precious metal draws more and more interest from investors spooked by stocks and geopolitical uncertainty. With it priced near $420 per ounce, should you jump in and snap some bullion? |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Do This Now, Before the Next Crash Don't repeat last year's mistake. Take this opportunity to make sure that your portfolio won't take the same hit it did last year if the secular bear market comes back. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2010 Tim Knepp |
Many Ways to Gain Exposure to Gold There are many ways to include an allocation to gold within a portfolio. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2005 David A. Twibell |
Mining the Mother Lode Gold and gold-related investments have been on a tear the past three years. Regardless of how advisers choose to invest in gold, even long-time gold supporters recommend limiting overall gold exposure to a small portion of clients' assets. |
The Motley Fool May 6, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
A Cheaper Way to Lock In Profits If you're looking to take advantage of a strategy that could help you preserve most of the money you've recovered in the past two months, there's good news: It's a lot less expensive to protect yourself than it was earlier this year. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
The Tax Dance In 2009, year-end planning may be anything but straightforward because of the extraordinary events of 2008 and the uncertain prospects for future tax rates. |
The Motley Fool June 14, 2010 Nathan Alderman |
Ask the Fool: Is Gold a Bubble? Is gold the new long-term king of commodities, or will its reign come crashing down when we least expect it? A Motley Fool panel debates the merits of shiny yellow metal. |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2011 Alex Dumortier |
Gold Is Now 3 Times Overpriced! Historical averages matter; sub-$500 gold is likely. |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2006 |
Vexed by Good Fortune What do you do when your stock soars? Hang on or sell? Here's some advice. |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2004 |
Should You Sell a Winner? What to do when your stock goes up too much. |
Registered Rep. December 28, 2009 David A. Geracioti |
Which Is Best? Time in the Stock Market or Avoiding Biggest Losing Days? In the past, advisors would advise their clients that to make money, it was best to have "time in the market" versus timing the market. |
BusinessWeek June 2, 2011 |
Bloomberg View News: The Fed's fight to keep its lending secret... Gold glitters, but regionally... |
InternetNews April 17, 2009 Paul Shread |
Google, Tech Stocks Post Modest Gains Stocks had little to show for a day of rocky trading. |
The Motley Fool November 2, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Is This the Sign That the Rally's End Is Near? The long-awaited correction could finally be approaching. |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2010 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Get Ready for Earnings Season Many companies are headed the right way these days. Here are 7 companies predicted to post year-over-year gains. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Rediscovering Gold As the world's oldest asset class regains its luster, planners are trying to figure out how best to prospect for profits. |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2010 |
6 Things Investors Should Know About Taxes Minimize the amount you have to pay on different types of investments. |