To be a successful investor, you have to make a point to invest a portion of
your money in small cap stocks.
Not exact matches
That's because there isn't enough
money in covering and reporting on
small -
caps, so research firms and Wall Street banks avoid the
stocks.
$ CYTK is a
small -
cap biotech
stock that is setting up for a base breakout from a first - stage base (see How to Make
Money in Stocks: A Winning System
in Good Times and Bad by William O Neil for a great explanation of base reading and stage counts).
The Russell is a leading indicator for the
stock market, since speculative
money tends to move
in and out of
small cap stocks first.
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small -
caps spice up a retirement portfolio Foreign big -
cap value
stocks outshine U.S. counterparts What global large -
cap stocks do for your retirement portfolio Six reasons you should invest internationally How to double your target - date retirement fund's return
in a single move Why REITs belong
in your retirement portfolio When it pays to go all -
in on
small -
cap value This 4 - fund combo wallops the S&P 500 index Buy the best performing
stock sector for 87 years How to make
money with
small -
cap stocks Looking for action?
If more and more people
in the market started piling their
money into the S&P 500,
smaller cap stocks, starved for capital, would become increasingly attractive from a risk / return perspective.
Just as Ackman lost
money in an acquisition - hungry pharma
stock, I lost
money in MLPs,
small -
cap REITs and business development companies — three sectors that would normally have very little
in common.
But by finding the correct allocation for you needs, you can invest
in small cap stocks, earn a higher return and not worry about risking your
money to a greater potential loss.
Since
money isn't concentrated
in large
cap stocks, it offers a better representation of mid and
small cap stock performance.
In 2010, Dale started buying
small -
cap stocks and REITs «so the
money would go further.»
Save enough
money in this account to either purchase a total
stock market index fund or a combination of large
cap, medium
cap, and
small cap index funds.