Fadi El-Eter

Investors lose money not because the stock market is bad and not because they're unlucky (or jinxed, or born under the wrong start), they will lose money when their emotions are either controlled by fear and/or greed. Let's start with fear... Fear...

I was talking to a fellow stock trader a couple of days ago, and we were discussing stocks, and how fast you can make money if you don't have these two stock trading sins: fear and greed (I will discuss them another time). Anyway, during the conversation,...

One of the funniest lines about Canadian Elections was from a Canadian standup comedian: "What? Elections? Now? Well at least let put my pants on." This line fully describes Canadian elections, they just throw it at you. It's not like every X number of...

For those who don't know, the "January Effect" is a phenonmenon where most stocks surge in the month of January. The January Effect completely fades by the end of January, where investors start looking at the real fundamentals of the stock for...

The words risky and dangerous are often used interchangeably in the trading world, but there is a substantial difference between the two: Risky stocks are those stocks that you believe in, while most of the market doesn't. Risky stocks are typically...

Google took a surprising decision last Thursday: Eric Schmidt will no longer be the CEO of Google as of April of 2011 (which means he still has just a little over two months). Eric will be replaced by Larry Page, a Google co-founder. In less than a...

Currently there is so much excitement among investors about the potential of social networks. But are social networks a good investment? To answer this question, let's examine the social networks, and other related web products that emerged (and maybe...

...and possibly earlier! Take a look at the following chart, courtesy of compete.com: Facebook vs Google - Year over Year While Google's US traffic has decreased by almost 1.8% year over year, Facebook's US traffic has increased by a whopping 21%....

It's been a long time since I traded AAPL, a stock that I think is overvalued, yet still "swallowable", at the current price of around $350 (an all time high). But now that Steve Jobs is about to take a medical leave, is the $350 price tag for this...

I have discussed, just over a month ago, the absurdity of the Google Groupon deal. I argued that it was not only absurd, but also stupid for Google to buy a coupon website for $6 billion. The potential deal was heavily criticized by Google's investors...