Dollar cost averaging suggests buying stocks even as they're going down in price, because hopefully the price will go back up. The problem is many stocks go down and never go back up. A JP Morgan study found that 40% of stocks since 1980 have suffered "catastrophic losses", meaning declines of 70% or more without [...]

Yes. While VectorVest is great at telling you when to buy, it's also useful in knowing when to move to a cash position. For more advanced users, we also offer classes on shorting the market. Our savviest users have found that the market falls much faster than it rises, making for impressive short term profits.

VectorVest analyzes a stock's positive attributes (earnings, earnings growth, profitability) and negative attributes (interest rates, inflation) to determine its value. If the positive outweighs the negative, the value increases. Price moves towards value over time. If a stock is undervalued, its price will tend to rise over time to meet its value. If price is [...]

VectorVest is the only system that analyzes, sorts and ranks stocks for value, safety and timing. We created a rating that we call VST - the value, safety, timing rating - which allows us to rank stocks from those that have the best combination of value, safety and timing to the worst. We have an [...]