What is a Hindenberg Omen?

by Survivor University Published September 22, 2009 | 421 read

The traditional definition of a Hindenberg Omen is that the daily number of NYSE New 52-week highs and the daily number of NYSE New 52-week lows must both be so high as to have the lesser of the... read more »

What's The Risk? Learning about the Various Risks of Investing

by Published August 27, 2009 | 423 read

The average individual investor is saving for retirement, a house, travel money, or some other goal. They want some certainty that the money they put back now will be there when they need it. ... read more »

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The Power of Institutional Investors

by Survivor University Published August 12, 2009 | 383 read

Few investors pay attention to the power of institutional investors in the stock market -- a major mistake considering the immense influence institutional investors have in the dynamics of the... read more »

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What Are Economic Cycles?

by Survivor University Published August 05, 2009 | 764 read

We're all aware that cycles exist. We can easily see cycles in the physical world — just by observing the tides, the seasons, weather patterns, and more. And in our business lives, we often... read more »

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The Armstrong Cycle of Economic Confidence

by Survivor University Published August 04, 2009 | 574 read

Perhaps one of the greatest living cycle theorists, Martin Armstrong, former Chairman of Princeton Economics International, has further refined long-term cycles, discovering what he calls the... read more »

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The Schumpeterian Cycle of Innovation

by Survivor University Published August 04, 2009 | 522 read

Though not as widely known, Joseph Schumpeter is perhaps one of the most important cycle-based economists. Writing in his 1927 paper, "The Explanation of the Business Cycle," and in his seminal... read more »

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The Kondratieff (Kondratiev) Wave

by Survivor University Published August 03, 2009 | 638 read

Immensely popular, the Kondratieff wave — also called the long wave or K-wave — is an amazingly consistent long-term economic cycle of the modern world economy. Russian economist Nikolai... read more »

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The Juglar and Kuznets Cycles

by Survivor University Published August 03, 2009 | 355 read

In 1860, French economist Clement Juglar identified an economic cycle of eight to 11 years long, distinguished by three phases: prosperity, crisis, and inventory liquidation. The crisis phase... read more »

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The Kitchin Cycle

by Survivor University Published August 03, 2009 | 1157 read

First uncovered in 1923 by economist Joseph Kitchin and published in a Harvard University Press article titled Review of Economic Statistics — what is understood today as a typical business cycle... read more »

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Exit Strategies: How to Choose Your Stops

by Survivor University Published July 27, 2009 | 1500 read

As discussed in the previous article Stock Exit Strategies: Knowing When to Sell is Important, stop losses are every investor's safety net against the inherent risks of the stock market. One big... read more »