How does an investor know when to sell? What indicators trigger a “sell” for investors and what can we do to protect our profits when the trend turns decisively against us? What if we’ve earned a big paper profit and want to realize that gain? How do we know when to cash out?

You’ve got to be pretty bold to bet against two of the savviest investors in the history of the markets. That’s the case now with legendary hedge fund manager, George Soros and the world’s most successful stock market investor, Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway. Both investors are bearish on the American economy.

After a big bruising since last summer, Bill Gross is buying distressed mortgage-backed securities, excluding subprime debt instruments. He’s also selling Treasury bonds.

The dean of fixed income at PIMCO is loading up on high quality mortgage bonds. For value investors, now is the time to ride the coattails of the world’s best performing bond fund manager as the U.S. government moves to guarantee the country’s largest mortgage lenders. That could mean big gains lie ahead for bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Every other month I like to update and revise my Bubble-Trouble Outlook for the year. It's an in-house composite of heavily overvalued global markets, including asset classes, that have risen to absurd levels with no justifiable fundamentals supporting values. For...

Over the last five years, Eastern European stocks have blasted ahead of all regions recording a wicked 36.7% annualized gain, according to MSCI/Barra. Compared to staid “Old” Europe, which logged a 15.8% annualized return since March 2002, that’s a big...

On March 30, corn and the rest of the grains complex suffered their worst single-day drop in weeks following a government report forecasting the largest prospective corn crop since 1944 projected for 2007. The news sent corn, oats, soybeans and...

It's that time of year again... Each year at this time, I start to prepare my multiple presentations for the grandest offshore investment conference of the year -- The Sovereign Society's Total Wealth Symposium in Panama City, Panama, from May...

Just when you thought the news on Canadian income trusts couldn't get any worse, the next wave of proposed taxation deals another potential blow to a distressed sector. This time, it's the United States that's considering raising the tax bar...

Exchange-traded-funds or ETFs are the fastest-growing segment of the mutual fund industry since 2003. Currently, over 430 ETFs trade on U.S. exchanges with a combined $430 billion under management. But a recent study by The Wall Street Journal paints a...

Watch-out global investors! For the first time in 16 years, Japanese real estate prices posted an increase in 2006. If the trend persists in 2007, it'll provide more fuel to my argument for a stronger Japanese yen versus all major...