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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The inside scoop on mutual fund rip offs
- The bear market that showed up at the end of 2000 has every brokerage house-as well as the entire mutual fund industry-scrambling to find creative ways to boost both their image and bottom line. Unfortunately, this is often at the investors' expense.Fund managers are ever on the lookout for ways to spin the stats to hide lousy track records and to find ways to obscure fees. To add insult to...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to find value in no load mutual fund investing
- What are you thinking when it comes to your no load mutual fund selections? Are you saving pennies and sacrificing dollars?Are you spending your time looking at expense ratios, analyzing Morningstar ratings and searching for funds with low fees and no 12b1 charges? If you are like most people, you know these things in and out. You've spent hours evaluating them, and your chosen mutual funds...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to evaluate load vs. no load mutual funds
- If you have been dealing with mutual funds for any length of time, you undoubtedly have faced the question of which is better: Load Funds or No Load Funds. If you are new to investing, "load" simply refers to the commission paid to the broker selling the fund. "No load" means there is no commission on the purchase or sale.Most discussions in the past have centered exclusively on performance...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to maximize your 401k mutual fund returns
- When it comes to 401k's there is an overabundance of sad stories. Here is one that at least has a happy ending-and it's getting happier all the time.Last year (in 2002) a friend of mine-let's call him Jack-phoned and asked if I could help him with his 401k. Jack works for a large company as Senior VP of lending and is financially pretty astute. However, when it came to his 401k mutual fund ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How (not) to buy mutual funds
- When it comes to mutual funds, there is a lot more to success than just finding a good one. Sad investment stories like the following are all too common. I hope my sharing it with you will help you avoid making the same devastating financial mistake one of my former clients made.This story begins during the height of the investment madness in 2000, just prior to the bear market. I had been ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - No load mutual funds or exchange traded funds (etfs)?
- If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund managers, read on. There is a quiet revolution going on in the no-load mutual fund industry and you, the individual investor, may benefit from it greatly.I am referring to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), which have been around for years, but have grown tremendously sin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Buy and hold: how to perpetuate your investment losses
- A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys sitting in a bar. One is saying to the other: "I did learn something from my broker...how to diversify my investment losses."While this struck me as funny, there is certainly an element of truth to it judging by the number of tragic e-mails and phone calls I have received over the past couple of years.This was brought h...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - No load mutual funds: investment hype vs. investment help
- With the internet such a huge part of our daily lives, many investors have access to a wide range of instant investment information.Whether you're into stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures or options, there are tons of electronic investment newsletters offering to turn your small stake into a giant fortune. All you need to do is subscribe and watch your portfolio soar.Yeah, right!...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Prospering with mutual funds: how anyone can ?afford? an investment advisor
- Recently I was invited to appear on a live CNNfn television show to discuss my article "How to evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds." (You can read that article on my website http://www.successful-investment.com/articles21.htm)As the producer and I were working out the logistics of my appearance, she...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to make, and keep, money trading stocks
- If you are serious about making and keeping money by trading stocks, then there are three things you need to do, and do well.Money managementOrdersTrading systemMoney managementMoney management comes first. Without a rock-solid method of managing your trading funds, you trading results will be only be fair at best. Money managem...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Precision money management
- This article describes the model of a natural relationship between trading system performance, trade position size, stop loss settings and profit goals. The model consists of algebraic equations that specify the trade size and stop loss settings needed to meet profit goals over a specified time period for any consistently used trading system for which historical performance data is available....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stock market diversification
- In one of my previous articles (Investing in the stock market -9 powerful tips), tip number one was:1. Do not spread your money too thin.My friend has a little over $200,000 invested in the stock market through 27 different Mutual funds. In my opinion, 27 Mutual funds is 27 too many collecting load fees, management fees, commission fees, operating and advertising fees. Diversity is i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tips to finding other people?s simple trading plans
- Did you know you can make money (and a lot of it) by simply modeling someone else's trading plan? Yes, it is true. Unbelievably, there are many of trading gurus doing it RIGHT NOW.All you do is model your system on an already tested and proven trading plan.If you are new to trading, or even if you have been trading a while, this is a secret very few successful trad...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Losses, not profits, will stop you from trading in the market
- Should the market turn against you, it is important that you design a system that will produce as much loss as you are prepared to take. This loss, known as drawdown, is the maximum amount by which your trading float will temporarily drop at anytime. Doing this in advance, will help you avoid nasty surprises in the future. This gives you the confidence to continue trading when the good times start...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secret art of backtesting
- If you have not back tested your trading system, you might as well trade with your eyes close. In fact, whatever technical analysis criterion you use to trade with, be it moving averages, candle sticks, volatility breakouts, fibonacci retracements or any other trading system you have devised you're going to need to back test your trading system thoroughly and objectively in order to ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is a trading plan ? and why you need one?
- How do you make money without picking tops and bottoms?I am glad you asked...Successful trading is similar to a successful business. You see, every successful business has a business plan so do successful traders. The astute reader knows that, successful traders have a systematic way they approach the market.The definition of a trading system is a trader's bus...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Money, insanity and wall street
- Money: the most charged word in the planet. It means something to everyone. For some, money means a blessing, for others it means a disaster.We all have heard stories of people who have lost their fortunes or their life savings trading in the stock market; but, we don't hear much of people who are currently trading and how their lives are turning upside down.For some, the process of ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to beat the mutual fund companies at their own game
- You'd have had to be living on a desert island with no TV, newspaper or internet connection to have missed hearing about the great mutual fund scandal of 2003.The issue was that some mutual fund companies allowed certain hedge funds to engage in after-hours trading, sometimes incorrectly referred to as market timing. Unfortunately, some companies have used the confusion about the term "mark...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secret method to selecting a winning trading system
- Every successful trader has a winning system. There are of course, as many systems out there, as there are traders. Some systems get you to buy on strength and sell on weakness others do the opposite.Some investors succeed as value investors , a la Warren Buffet ; others make their millions in momentum trading . I have even heard of an astrologist who uses the stars ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Psychology ? how to reduce negative thoughts relating to trading?
- The thinking process of the brain relating to the psychology of trading involves:-- Beliefs -- Feelings -- Values -- Dispositions and -- FaithThe positive or negative energy brings power to a person's actions, which ultimately determines whether a person is a winner or a loser. You can change for the better or for the worst. The old saying g...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lies, damn lies and mutual fund returns
- How many times has this happened to you? You're at a social function and the conversation turns to investing. Pretty soon, people are comparing how well their investments are doing. As you might imagine, being an investment advisor this happens to me a lot. However, I recently had an experience with it that startled me.Bob, one of the guys I was chatting with at a party, asked what kind of ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secret to more winning trades is as simple as avoiding this common mistake
- If you're a normal human being, your need to feel good about yourself probably causes you to sell your winners too soon ? and -- your need to avoid feelings of regret, causes you to hang on to your losers too long.At one time or another, we're all guilty of letting our emotions dictate our investment decisions. But the only way to succeed in the market, is to keep greed, fear, pride and hop...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Pamplona, the wild investment bulls
- You remember (they show it on TV every year) the running of the wild bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Some of the nuttier people get out their capes and stand in their path as they come roaring down the street.Our would-be matadors wave their home made cloaks at the bulls hoping the bulls will charge at it and not at them. The list of casualties at the end of the day is sometimes quite large, but,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lights of the stock market
- There are red lights, green lights, blue lights and spot lights. There are orange lights, pink light and flash lights. There are search lights and micro lights. And the one you must obey is the stop light.If you don't stop when the light is red you could easily have an accident and lose everything you have, even your life. These different types of lights alert us to possibilities and danger...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Investing in the stock market
- From the book 'The Stockopoly Plan' by the author Charles M. O'MeliaThere are several factors an investor in the stock market should consider:1. All stock purchases should be commission-free.2. All stocks purchased should be from a company that has a history of raising their dividends every year.3. The company should not only have a history of raising their dividend eve...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Can?t stand the heat
- It seems that every day I turn on the TV and find a Poker game. Texas No Limit seems to be all the rage these days. I love watching it. When I discuss this with others, their response is always the same, "You should play." Ah, but what they don't know is I stay out of the kitchen. As far as risk to reward ratio. That's a gamble I'm not willing to take. I prefer to invest my money. Someti...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 12 basic stock investing rules every successful investor should follow
- There are many important things you need to know to trade and invest successfully in the stock market or any other market. 12 of the most important things that I can share with you based on many years of trading experience are enumerated below.1. Buy low-sell high. As simple as this concept appears to be, the vast majority of investors do the exact opposite. Your ability to consistently buy...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Investing in stocks and the game of monopoly
- To begin, you might look at playing the stock market as though you were playing a game of Monopoly. That's right; for playing the stock market 'game' is not unlike playing a game of Monopoly. There are definite comparisons and parallels.In Monopoly there are a Boardwalk, a Marvin Gardens, Utilities, Railroads, etc. In the stock market you have the same type of properties (stocks), as in the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 tips for creating wealth from the stock market
- 1. Do not spread your money too thin.My friend has a little over $200,000 invested in the stock market through 27 different Mutual funds. In my opinion, 27 Mutual funds is 27 too many collecting load fees, management fees, commission fees, operating and advertising fees. Diversity is important, but just as important is over-diversification. Also, in my opinion, $200,000 should not be put in...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Making a stock watch list
- I am taking the time to help others learn the basics in evaluating stocks for investment using both fundamental and technical analysis. Both tools are equally important in making serious decisions with your hard earned CASH!If you wish to invest in stocks, treat it like a business, NOT A HOBBY. (ex: a retail outfit can't make money if it doesn't have goods to sell; the same goes for investo...