John Whitefoot

Oil’s Down, Opportunities are Up!

According to my calendar, winter is in full bloom, but you'd never know it if your seasonal gauge is oil prices. Crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange slipped to $50.24 a barrel earlier this week, trading at levels not seen since May 2005. In f... Read >

Confident Investors Boost Penny Stock Index

Penny stocks, those little gems of companies that can deliver startlingly good returns regardless of what their large cap peers are doing, have been performing exceptionally well these past few years. And yes, 2007 may still be in its infancy, but if t... Read >

And a Happy Anniversary to Ben Bernanke!

I like to think that penny stocks are lone marauders that buck long held stock market trends. They don't follow typical trading patterns, they don't care how much oil is trading at (unless it's an energy stock of course), they don't care what Bill Gates t... Read >

Things You Should Know About Penny Stocks

Whether it's the stock market, your job, or your day-to-day relationships, it's easy to get comfortable when things are going good. Letting your guard down and lapping up the beams of success, while duly earned, may also mean you are unprepared for any su... Read >

Did Valentine's Day Heat Up Your Penny Stocks?

Some astute penny stock investors look on the front page of the daily newspaper to see what kinds of stocks they should be investigating in. Marketing and speculation are after all one of the engines that help propel the markets on a daily basis. Still... Read >

What Judge Judy Taught Me About Penny Stocks

I was watching Judge Judy the other afternoon. The litigant was charging her "ex-friend" with fraud. The defendant asked her friend to cash some money orders for her. Apparently, there was a Nigerian model that had some money orders she needed cashed. She... Read >

Signs of the Apocalypse? or Why You Shouldn’t Listen to your Shoeshine Boy

An article I was reading noted that more than half of all U.S. households are invested in our stock markets. In 1929, this figure was much lower. But, even in the early 1900s, businesses relied heavily on the markets for capital. And by the Roaring Twenti... Read >

I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail

It's been a little over a week since the world-wide markets went through a correction of sorts. On February 27, North American penny stock investors awoke to discover that the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which more than doubled in value over the past year, p... Read >

Not Too Much Fun in the Hot Summer Sun

It's been well over 100 degrees in my neck of the woods these past few days...and I'm not really having all that much fun. Central air conditioning is something I'm lacking. If I could just direct this heat onto Wall Street...where it is needed...I wo... Read >

Tensions are High - Buy Low

When I was about 5 or 6 years old I read one of my first books; the protagonist was a furry blue puppet. Our hero told the dear reader not to flip to the end of the book, there was a monster waiting there...and like any wise blue puppet, he did not want ... Read >

The Velvety Sounds of Ben Bernanke

The sound of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's voice isn't quite as soothing and reassuring as Perry Como's... but it's something penny stock investors and market analysts are (slowly) warming up to. A quick recap...back in October 2005, Presiden... Read >

Pssst...Want an Investing Secret? Know Thyself First

Take some time grazing through the business or investing section of your favorite local bookstore and you'll discover that virtually every literary business or stock guru has some great secrets (some simple...some not) that (apparently) can help you bust ... Read >

Hi, May I Speak With Bill...How About Paul?

It's been almost a month since Bill Gates announced his slow departure from Microsoft, the company he launched with Paul Allen way back in 1975. In 2008, Bill Gates, the world's richest man, will step back from the daily operations of the company and... Read >

Tis the Season...

Christmas and (insert your favorite holiday here) come but once a year; earnings season on the other hand, comes four times a year. And while earnings season may be devoid of streamers, balloons and cake...the outcome can be just as festive for penny sto... Read >

A Murky Crystal Ball

While the early results of earnings season may not be giving investors much to cheer about, it is a nice diversion to the stock market's May-June sell-off. And like a much needed summer holiday, it may be just the break penny stock investor's need be... Read >