How to Predict What Any Stock Will Do... and Is Your Name on the List?

Sunday, October 6, 2013 In the current edition of the Investment U Weekly Update, Bond Strategist and Host of The Oxford Club's Market Wake-Up Call Steve McDonald runs down the key issues affecting the global economy - and your investments. (Click the image to play.) This week, you'll find... A Small Shale Play The EU Is Hot The "Slap in the Face" Award: Newsbusters You can check it out in this video. This Powerful New Fuel Could Do for Nuclear What Fracking Did for Natural Gas For the first time in almost half a century, a new type of fuel is about to make nuclear power cheaper, more efficient and - most importantly - safer. One pound is the energy equivalent of 3.5 million pounds of coal. And a piece the size of a bowling ball can produce the same amount of power as 440 MMcf of liquid natural gas. Now, thanks to this breakthrough, countries that have never used nuclear - such as Chile, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia - are working to bring reactors online. It's creating a massive profit opportunity for one undervalued mining company. Click here to get all the details. Here are the stories that were featured in Investment U this week... The Smartest Investor on Earth (and It's Not Warren) By Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist Dozens of academic studies and more than two decades of personal experience have demonstrated that there is no better "heads-up" in the stock market than top executives and directors piling into their own company's stock with their own money at current market prices. As buy signals go, it just doesn't get much better than this. Why? Click here to read the full story. Is Your Name on the List? By Mark Skousen, Special to Investment U This week I received my copy of Forbes magazine's "400 Richest People in America." As a former columnist for Forbes, I always look forward to its ranking of the super-rich that comes out every fall. Over the years, I've met around 20 of the Forbes 400, including mega investors Warren Buffett, Ken Fisher, Michael Milken and Ron Baron... business leaders Bill Gates, Bill Marriott, Michael Bloomberg and Rich DeVos... media mogul Rupert Murdock... and the oldest billionaire alive, David Rockefeller. The lives of the rich (and usually famous) are a fascinating subject, and one can learn a lesson or two about wealth-building by studying them. Let's look at what goes into making the list... Click here to read the full story. How to Predict What Any Stock Will Do By Marc Lichtenfeld, Chief Income Strategist In the early 1990s, as soon as I would get home from work, I'd turn on CNBC's predecessor FNN, soaking up all of the financial wisdom that I could. At that time, I was just learning about stocks. I listened to some of the ideas and on weekends would hit the library (remember those?) to research the companies I'd heard about earlier in the week. Less than a decade later, CNBC was more popular than ESPN. Stock investing ideas were everywhere thanks to the Internet, and what once took hours to research now took minutes. That made for information overload for some investors. And I have to admit, I'm part of the problem. Click here to read the full story. Big Dip: What Did Congress Do to Gold Prices? By Sean Brodrick, Resource Strategist The U.S. government is in crisis. After all, the government failed to pass a continuing resolution to fund government operations on Monday. The U.S. dollar fell. But many traders are left wondering, "If it's such a crisis, why isn't gold doing better?" The last time we had this scenario, in December 1995, gold moved higher. But this time, gold tanked. Seems weird, right? Click here to read the full story. The Secret Shared by the Most Successful Professional Traders By Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist Anyone can plunk for a few shares of stock. The real art of investing is knowing when to get the heck out. If you own individual equities and don't have a predetermined sell discipline - and the vast majority of investors don't - you're flying by the seat of your pants. And that doesn't lead to superior investment performance. That's why The Oxford Club advises using trailing stops with your individual stocks. They protect your profits when a stock goes up, and your principal when a stock goes down. And not just in theory... Click here to read the full story. Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published recently on our website at InvestmentU.com. What Government Shutdown? What to Do With Your Money in Your 30s Moto X Could Push Google (GOOG) Well Above $1,000 a Share Opportunity Erupts as the Potash Cartel Dissolves – SHARE INVESTMENT U – If you enjoy reading Investment U, why not share it with your family and friends? 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