You can even go against the market and profit as stocks slip.
It sounds like a pitch for a sham tax shelter: Sell stocks for a profit, and pay no capital gains tax.
Last week, we continued the profit-taking theme and identified six semiconductor stocks that were overvalued by 20% or more according to our proprietary ValuEngine.com stock valuation model.
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Bank of America had helped stocks rally, delivering a profit and hitting estimates.
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The small-cap Russell index has struggled, but Person pointed out that this market was rallying since late last year, so there might be some profit-taking and rotation out of small-cap stocks.
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Generally, inside traders profit by buying stocks of acquisition targets before deals are announced and selling after the targets' shares rise in value.
Calculate the average profit per winning stock and divide this figure by the average loss for all the losing stocks.
It is thought Bin Laden, or some of his supporters, may have carried out trades designed to profit from falls in stocks likely to be affected, such as reinsurance, airlines and armaments.
He partnered with stock trader Mark Messier and pharmacist Mike Havrilla, who both generated impressive short-term gains on Profit.ly, to publish a book and DVD series this summer about trading biotech stocks.
Only 22% of families who have invested in stocks have made a profit overall, while 56% have lost money and 22% have broken even, according to a 2012 household-finance survey by the People's Bank of China.
Also pushing stocks was a dip in oil prices and a handful of strong corporate profit reports.
Looking ahead to 2010, U.S. stocks are expected to rise for a second straight year as the economic and profit outlook brightens, a new Reuters poll finds.
Earlier this summer, the SEC subpoenaed 50 hedge funds and investment managers for trading records and communications in an effort to see whether traders were spreading false rumors to profit from the stocks' decline in March, when Bear Stearns was forced into JPMorgan's arms.
Over the subsequent several weeks it was the very stocks that were reporting the best earnings and upside surprises that ran into the most profit-taking and largest declines.
The contrary trade is often the best trade and the most profitable trade, so today I profile five railroad stocks that are ripe for profit taking.
Kimmel screens for what he calls "magnet" stocks with high relative strength, increasing institutional ownership and accelerating growth in sales, profits and profit margins.
Solar stocks were slammed Monday after SunPower warned that it would have to reduce full year revenue and profit guidance to reflect weak business conditions.
The former group includes the likes of public college and university officials, who perceive the for-profit schools as competition for students and scarce public resources, as well as investors who bet short against the publicly traded stocks of the for-profit schools.
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