Identifying Earnings Season Overreaction Opportunities

Bonds are a good way to diversify your portfolio and smooth out the volatility in your stock holdings. For convenience’s sake, many investors turn to bond mutual funds, instead of holding individual bonds. That may be a bad choice. For the fixed-income portion of your portfolio, you should buy individual bonds rather than bond mutual funds for three main reasons.

By Kapitall:Do you track trading signals from smart money buying and selling trends? Institutions trade large volumes of stock at a time. Given the large volume, the trade can make the stock move significantly both on the upside, and the downside. Hence, for individual investors, trades made by institutional investors can be very meaningful.For a closer look at stocks currently favored by smart money institutional investors, we ran a screen.

By Alan Brochstein, CFA: A few months ago, around the time of the Facebook (FB) IPO, I tuned in to CNBC's Squawk Box, where Henry Blodget and Steve Rattner were guests.

In part one of this series, we wrote about “Why You Should Consider a Short-Term Trading System.” Now we’ll follow up with s

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By Kapitall:Do you track trading signals from smart money buying and selling trends? Institutions trade large volumes of stock at a time. Given the large volume, the trade can make the stock move significantly both on the upside, and the downside. Hence, for individual investors, trades made by institutional investors can be very meaningful.For a closer look at stocks currently rejected by smart money institutional investors, we ran a screen.