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In a word, discipline is the key to a successful investment strategy. At Investment U, we have sought to give the public some fundamental tools about how to exercise discipline to avoid financial disaster. You will notice, for example, that we put a lot of emphasis on Trailing Stops. That’s because the only thing worse than losing 25% of an investment is losing 30%… or 50%.
Here are a few more ways to exercise discipline. You’ll also find several explosive strategies for picking winning stocks. Combine one or more of these investment strategies with a strict trailing stop policy, and you’ll be way ahead of the average investor.
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- The Dependency Ratio: Use This Number to Find the Best International Investments
- Choosing Dividend Stocks: Six Steps For Finding These Safe, High-Yield Investments
- How to Profit From Volatility Through One Simple Investment
- The Best Ways to Play Oil, Gold and Frozen Florida Oranges
- Three Reasons Why You Should Add This Tech Titan to Your Portfolio
- Why You Should Expect Small-Caps to Shine (Again) in 2010
- VIX Volatility is Back: Here's How to Profit from a Complacent Market
- Your Best Investment Strategy for 2010... And Beyond
- "Merger Mania" Will Return in 2010: Here Are Three Ways To Profit
- Danger! Three Stocks to Avoid in 2010
- As The Bulls Run Wild... Here Are Three Ways to Protect Your Profits
- Momentum Trading: Five Guidelines for Supercharging Your Portfolio with Momentum Stocks
- Trailing Stops Made Simple...
- The Stock Market's Red Flags: Four Ways to Handle Potential Market Turmoil
- The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX): Using The Fear/Greed Index to Pinpoint Your Best Time to Profit
- The F.I.R.S.T. System: Searching For the "Holy Grail" of Investing
- Why Great Traders Average Up, Not Down
- Harry Dent: Bold Predictions of the Great Depression Ahead
- hhgregg, Inc. (NYSE: HGG): The Only Retail Stock Worth Buying Right Now
- What Corporate Insiders Are Telling Us
- Investing Without Trailing Stops: Here's Why 75% of Stocks Are a Sucker's Bet
- E*Trade (Nasdaq: ETFC): Why You Should Buy This Stock Before It's Too Late
- How To Turn Ordinary Profits Into "Xcelerated" Profits
- Trailing Stop Discipline: How to Know When to Sell Your Stocks
- How to Unearth Explosive Small-Cap HealthCare Stocks
- Buy "Low-Density" ... How to Take the Guesswork Out of Valuing Stocks
- Why You Need to Buy Apple and Sell Palm Short
- Investing 101: Six Factors That Determine Your Investment Portfolio Value
- Investing in Small Caps: Why it Pays to be Contrarian
- Pocketing Nice Dividends with Hot Small-Caps
- Why Most Investment Systems Simply Won't Work
- The M&A Market: When This Number Falls, Expect the Takeovers to Heat Up
- Partial Profit Taking: What To Do When You're Sitting On Explosive Gains
- Commodity Futures: Playing The Grains & Orange Juice Markets
- The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: The Best Low-Cost, Tax-Efficient Investment System
- Position Sizing: How to Limit Risk & Maximize Gains
- Dr. Jeremy Siegel: Are Stocks Still The Best Long-Term Investment Vehicle?
- Understanding Earnings Surprises: What to Look For & Their Meaning For Investors
- CDARS Accounts: How To Protect Your Assets From FDIC Insurance Limits
- Investing in Commodities: How to Buy Gold During Secular Market Cycles
- Slothful Investing: How to Be Lazy... and Still Beat the Market
- Foreign Exchange Trading: The Emotional Discipline of Trading Forex
- Value Investing: Following in The Footsteps of Sir John Templeton
- The Forex Markets: A Rare Glimpse Into The World of Forex Trading
- Investing in Sin Stocks: How to Oppose Radical Islam in Your Portfolio
- Selling Put Options: How It's Done & How Easy It Can Be
- Cerner Corporation: Big Stock Market Winner
- 6 Steps for High Yield Dividends
- Three Investing Lessons from Bernie Madoff
- Need An Income Investment? Keep Dumping GE and Buy This Stock Instead
- Momentum Investing: The Secret to a Red-Hot Stock Portfolio
- The Friedman Effect: Is Another Bear Market Around the Corner?
- Short Selling Strategies: How To Avoid The Short Squeeze With Put Options
- Earnings Reports: 3 Stand-Out Stocks & The Post Earnings Announcement Drift
- Excessive Executive Compensation: When is Too Much, Too Much?
- Financial Independence: How to Build a Million-Dollar Portfolio From Scratch
- Sin Stocks: 2 Profitable Vice Investments Soaring Despite the Recession
- Building Wealth: Five Steps Towards Becoming a Millionaire
- Return On Equity (ROE): Find Explosive Momentum Stocks With This Financial Ratio
- Trading Options: The Power of Leverage, Call Options & LEAPS
- Inflation Hedging: Four Ways To Protect Your Investment Portfolio
- Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO): Five Reasons This Stock Will Smoke The Markets
- How to Beat the Markets: Tracking the Elephant Herd Through Institutional Ownership
- Tech IPOs Are Back... But Don't Buy This One
- The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Your Retirement's Financial "Declaration of Independence"
- Casino Stocks: The One Sin Stock You Should Be Betting On
- How to Become a Market Timing Expert
- Hot IPOs Coming Your Way: Why Innovation Will Lead Our Recovery
- Penny Stocks: The Worst Investment You Can Make
- Investing in the Pink Sheets: The Most Speculative & Lucrative Companies on the Planet
- This Stock Gave Investors 5,460% & It's About to Do It Again
- Guy Cohen Interview: A 4-Point Trading Plan For Finding Stocks
- The Investment U Roving Reporter: Day 3 - Live at the Conference
- The Investment U Roving Reporter: Day 2 - Live at the Conference: "Profitable Trading Strategies To Use Right Now"
- The Investment U Roving Reporter: Live at the Conference
- Investment U: What No Books, No Schools, No Brokers Will Teach You
- Compounding Your Interest: How To Increase Your Saving's Return
- Mark-to-Market: A Rule That Begs to Be Broken
- Using Exchange-Traded Funds: How to Put Your Index Mutual Fund on Steroids
- 2 Stocks Growing Despite Economic Downturn
- Tracking Insider Trading: How to Pick a Winner in a Down Market
- Small Cap Gains: 2 IPOs the Entire Market Should Be Watching
- The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: The Right Way to Invest
- Investment Strategies To Survive And Thrive... Even As Stocks Fall
- The Recency Bias: Why Your Subconscious Is Wreaking Havoc On Your Investment Portfolio
- Financial Fraud: 3 Easy Steps to Avoid "Bad" Investments
- 32 Billion Reasons The Average Investor Will Fail
- Exchange Traded Funds: An Investment Move You Need to Make...
- Small Caps: It's Time to Think Small
- What If You're Wrong?
- Long-Term Investment Goals: Answers to The Top 3 Investing Questions Right Now
- Master Limited Partnerships: A New Way to Shop for Bargains
- Arbitrage Opportunities: What to Look For When Efficient Markets Break Down
- Investment Advice: Don't Take A Shovel To Your Stock Portfolio
- Investment Risk: How to Avoid the 4 Most Dangerous Pitfalls of Investing
- The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy… & Get On With Your Life
- Warren Buffett's Investment Strategy: Time to Buy the Ultimate No-Brainer
- Stock Market Research: How to Find Winning Stock Ideas on Your Own
- Deep Value Investments: How to Find Your Portfolio's Next Superstar
- Position Sizing: Why Not Using This Strategy Is The Best Way to Lose Everything
- Using Trailing Stops: The True Art of Selling Stocks
- Financial Independence: How to Make It… How to Spend It
- Why Doing Nothing is the Right Investment Strategy
- Financial Analysts: 3 Ways to Beat Their "Educated Guesses"
- Market Timing: What All Great Investors Have in Common
- Variable Annuities: Beware These Promises of "Risk-Free Income"
- The Ultimate Inflation Hedge: Stocks?
- Municipal Bonds: The First "Obama Investment"
- Money Managers: An Easy Way to Find the Best
- Trailing Stops: Lock In Your Profits with This Not-So-Secret Sell Strategy
- Momentum Investing: A Proven Investment Strategy That Earns 350% When Put to the Test
- The Gone Fishin' Portfolio - Get Wise, Get Wealthy… & Get on With Your Life
- Annual Reports: How to Understand the Financial Picture of any Company
- The Truth About Managed Accounts
- A Contrarian Strategy: Why Clear Channel Is Today's Top Stock Pick
- Further Evidence Against The Efficient Market Hypothesis
- The Visa IPO: Why We're Going Long…
- 4 Investing Lessons: How To Profit During a Financial Crisis
- The Permanent Portfolio Fund: Harry Browne's "Peace of Mind" Investment
- Auction-Rate Securities: Just How Safe Is This "Safe" Investment?
- Long-Term Stocks: Three "Best of Breed" Companies On Sale Right Now
- Your Investment Portfolio - Why You Don't Need A Financial Planner
- Closed-End Funds: Two Closed-End Companies Primed For Profits Over Mutual Funds
- Inflation Adjusted Treasuries: Why TIPS Aren't The Safest Place For Your Money Right Now
- The TakeOver Trader: 3 Ways to Master the "Skim" Trade This Year
- The Oxford Club: The Best Place to Be in 2008?
- Investing In Municipal Bonds… The First No-Brainer of 2008
- Principal Protected Notes: How to Make Money Risk-Free Right Now
- Share Buybacks: Why Companies Buy Back Shares and Which Ones Are Doing It Right
- Investing Lessons from My Secret Life as a CIA Agent
- Blue Chip Stock: Here's A Stock that Keeps On Winning, No Matter What
- Investment Target: The Value of Having a Specific Investment Goal
- Bull Market Investing: Here's How to Invest In a Late-Stage Bull Market
- Financial Panic: A Warning On Financial Crises From Alan Greenspan and George Santayana
- Stock Market Timing: The World's Best Investors Weigh In On Market Forecasting
- The U.S. Housing Market: Land of The Home Seller "Delusion"
- A Volatile Stock Market: Here's How to Respond to the "Attack of the Ninjas"
- Lee Lowell: How To Make Money In Any Market
- Financial Market Volatility: What Should Investors Do In a Market Downturn?
- Low Cost Investing: The Best Way to Boost Your Investment Income
- Corporate Cash Surplus: A Look at the Dangers of Corporate Cash
- Share Buybacks: One of the Very Best Buy Signals You Can Get
- The World's Best Investment Philosophy
- Investment Strategy Quiz: What Is Your IU IQ?
- Management Quality: The Stock Market's Ultimate Intangible
- Investment Returns: 5 Ways To Improve Your Portfolio Returns and Lower Your Risk
- Graham's Number: How to Calculate and Use This Classic Metric to Make Yourself a Bundle
- Insider Activity: One of the Very Best Investing Signals You Can Get Here's How To Use It
- Investment U: The Best Investment Education You Can Get & It's Free
- Stock Market Panic: Lessons Learned When the Market Drops & A Fund Buying Opportunity
- Investment Fees: How A 1% Hit Can Be Worth More Than Half of Your Portfolio
- Limit Orders: Dodging The Market Maker's Bullet & Side Stepping The Liquidity Trap
- Position Sizing Strategies: Why Equal Risk Beats Equal Dollar Investing
- The Market Volatility Index: Using The VIX To Straddle And Strangle Stock Options
- The Dogs Of The Dow: Forget the January Effect and Bag Some Rebound Profits
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- Dogs of the Dow: A Twist on the Dow Investing Strategy, with 5 Stocks On the "Fly"
- Dow Theory: The Most Important And Powerful Concept In Technical Analysis
- Best Stocks To Invest In: Revealing the 10 Companies Worth A "Fortune"
- Variable Annuities: A Revolutionary New Twist on Annuities Lets You Enjoy Risk-free Stock Market Returns
- Value Investing: 3 Lessons from Seth Klarman's "Margin of Safety" and 1 Value Investment Recommendation
- Test Your Investment Knowledge: What's Your "IU IQ?"
- Lord Rothschild's Investment Advice: Why It's Best to Sell at the Sound of War-Time Trumpets
- Buy and Hold Stocks: Why This Investing Strategy Is Dangerous for Your Portfolio
- Early Exit Contingency Plans: Three Reasons to Sell Before Your Trailing Stops Hit
- The Trailing Stop Strategy
- Health and Wealth: If You're Not Healthy, You're Not Wealthy
- A Stock Market Crash? Four Investment Safe Havens For The Ailing Market
- The Safest Investment Right Now... And It's Not International Stocks Or Gold
- Insider Stock Trading: Due Diligence For "Insider" Profits
- Money Guide for Graduates: "Hey Dad, Do You Have Any Tips On How to Get Rich?"
- Investment Sites: The Three Free Websites I Use Every Day in My Research
- The Warren Buffett Investment Strategy: If One Warren Buffett Can Make You Super Rich, How Much Money Will You Make With 10?
- Overseas Investments: The Growing Case For Investing Abroad
- January Effect: Bull or BS?
- Short Term Trading: Defending the Undefendable... Why I Like Plungers and Day Traders
- Back-Testing Strategy: 1.8 Billion Ways to Improve Your Trades
- The Five Rules of Profitable Investing Quiz
- Conservative Investing: Beat "Aggressive Returns" With This Safe Approach
- Where To Invest Your Money: When Your 15% Investment Tax Is On the Line
- Sir John Templeton's 5-Step Strategy For Financial Success: How to Build Wealth With Risks, Bargains and Tax Deferral
- How Lin Yutang Can Make You a Better Investor: Investing in Thought, Not Stock... When All Sectors Are Down
- How to Be a Forbes 400 Billionaire By Investing in Only One Stock
- Fair Value Sheets: Quote, Trade and Hedge… In Less Than 30 Seconds
- Investing Guide: The First Investment Rule... and How To Put It To Work
- How To Protect Your Financial Security: 6 Steps that Matter on Your Future Investment Returns
- Safe Investments: Can Cash as an Asset Beat Stock Returns?
- Stock Market Volatility: At 20-Year Lows... What to Do? Check the Volatility Index
- Stock Trading Strategies: 95% Winning Trades... and Still Losing Money?
- Short Sell Plays on Retail Stocks: How to Profit When the American Consumer Stops Spending
- Short Selling Stocks: Is It Time?
- Trailing Stops Tested: Do Trailing Stops Really Work?
- Trailing Stops - How I Track Them And How You Should, Too
- A Position Sizing Lesson: Why Size Matters to All Investing Greats
- Financial Advisors: Finding Good Financial Help In 3 Easy Steps
- The Five Secrets Every Investor Should Know
- How To Master Investing & Not Lose
- Investment Tips: The Top 5 from Great Investors
- Learn How To Invest in the Stock Market: Advice for a Novice...
- How to Get $100,000 Worth of Investment Research a Year - For Free
- The Erection Index: Using This Little-Known Index For Maximum Portfolio Returns
- Stock Market Indicators: Profiting Now from the Two Best
- How to Cash In... Even When a Stock Tanks
- Better Investing: 5 Steps To Beating The Pros
- How to Stay a 'Genius' When the Bull Market Ends
- The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Investment Success In Just 15 Minutes a Year
- Commodity Investing: 6 Ways to Profit & 2 Pitfalls to Avoid
- The Max-Yield Strategy: Double Digit Returns In Safe Investments
- The Best Investment Idea For Kids: The Two-Box System
- Insider Stock Information: How To Use It For Profit in Your Investment Portfolio
- Mega Gains from MicroCap Stocks
- Wringing Profits from Magazines
- Never Miss The Mega-Trend Again
- Trailing Stop
- Stock Portfolio Management: Saving Your Portfolio From Disaster With Trailing Stops
- Investment Concepts: 'Margin of Safety' Investing …Simple and Powerful
- How To Value a Stock …and How Pricey Stocks Can Keep Rising
- Seperating Hype From Reality: What To Look For In A Trading Service
- Insider Buying of Stocks: The Strongest Purchasing Signal in the World?
- Don't Get Taken by the Trader: How to Get the Best Prices on Stocks and Options
- 16 Must-Read Investment Books: The Foundation of Your Future Profits
- Choosing Your Investments: What To Do When "Quality" Is Bad
- Investment Opportunities Found!
- The Millionaire Mind & A Personal Protection Checklist
- Hidden Asset Classes: Four Investments That Nobody Talks About
- Personal Financial Advice: How To Be Sure You're Getting the Guidance That's Best for Your Unique Situation
- Pulling the Investment Trigger: Don't Be Afraid
- How to Follow the Stock Market... and Get the Big Picture
- Treasury Inflation Protected Securities
- Momentum Stock Trading: How One Investor Made 1,379% in Three Years by Copying an Investment System
- The Top 5 Investment Tools You'll Need To Succeed
- Iceland Bonds: Quality Investment Opportunities Are There... You Just Need to Find Them
- Stock Technical Analysis: Holy Grail Or Sham?
- When To Sell Stock
- Stock Trading Analysis: Size Up Any Stock... Quickly and Easily
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