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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Play another day
- Money management starts with protecting your capital, realizing profits and cutting losses. As I have stated in the past, without cash, you can't invest. Cash is king and learning to manage your money is the most important aspect to investing in stocks. The game is won by lowering your risk by properly turning the numbers in your favor. Cutting losses is the best insurance to keeping your cash....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ignore stock market talking heads
- You should ignore analysts on TV, the radio, the newspaper and all other TALKING HEADS when it comes to investing! What stocks do they talk about? - The same old group, every day of every year - Why? Because they don't know any better, they are sheep like the general public, repeating what every economic textbook says and every other economist tells them to say. Everyday, the same companies are hi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why the majority fail at stock investing
- The gleam and bright lights of Wall Street lure in many new investors each year, only to send them home crying to their friends and family. Why do so many people fail when it comes to the stock market? The reason is very simple: Hard work! Most people are looking for a quick buck or a fast path to riches. This is not the case when it comes to investing in individual stocks. If you wish to invest i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The three little pigs went to the stock market
- Three little pigs went to the market to stock up for the future.The first little pig liked chips so he went to the DOW market. He was told by everyone you could always rely on their products. They were always good. The manager told him you could put them away and forget about them.The second little pig liked spicy things. He shopped at the NASDAQ market where they had unusual product...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Invest, be wrong, and make money in the stock market
- I have been trading for several decades and was an exchange member and floor trader for 17 years. You learn fast there or you go broke in a hurry. As you can see I managed to hold my own for a few years until I found the secret and started to become a successful trader. Every professional trader I know knows the one great secret and that is to keep your losses small.We all learned that when...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Maximizing a stock market investment
- Maximizing a stock market investmentThere are several factors an investor in the stock market should consider for a maximum return on an investment: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 divide...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A triple dipper: how to make 3 profits on 1 stock trade
- This is a rather simple strategy with which I am sure a lot of seasoned traders are very familiar, possibly under some other name with which I am not familiar. I wanted to write about it because I don't see anyone talking about it anymore. Since the big hey-days of day trading and, of course, the burst of the Internet bubble of 2000, there seems to be a lack of patience that this strategy needs to...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The right mutual funds for baby boomers
- If you are a baby boomer, time is not on your side. Many baby boomers see retirement age fast approaching with little to nothing in the way of retirement assets that will allow them to actually retire and live a comfortable lifestyle.With the benefit of time in short supply, substantial investment performance in a shorter than normal time frame becomes strikingly important.Mutual Fun...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Invest in the stock market for the right reason, using the right choices
- Invest in the stock market for the RIGHT reason, using the RIGHT choices!Investing in the stock market is not purchasing a stock at 25 dollars a share, hoping it will go to 35 so you can sell it, then hoping it will drop back to 25 so you can buy it back, so that you can sell it again at 35, and so on and so forth.In my opinion, that is gambling. And, I would imagine, some would beli...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Race horses and mutual funds
- For years investors have been taught to look into the composition of a mutual funds. In other words the "experts" want you to take the time to analyze the stocks within the mutual fund portfolio, categorize them by industry group and try to understand the objective of the fund manager. This is nonsense.When I go the track I look to see what the horse has been doing for the last several race...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of a proven stock investment plan
- When you invest in the stock market for ever-increasing cash dividend income, verses trying to make a buck in the stock market, your mindset will change. There will no longer be a fear of losing money in the stock market. With the right type of investment plan and investment choices all worries of losing money in the stock market will disappear.The mind set that will emerge when you adopt a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 components needed for beating the market
- Time to look back2004 is over, now we are in 2005. This is time to seriously look at performance of your personal investment, such as mutual fund, or individual stocks holdings, etc. Does your fund beat index last year? Does it beat index over past many years? How are you doing with your own stock investment comparing to SP&500 index?If the answer is "great", well congratulations. Yo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The top 10 reasons to invest in mutual funds
- Everyone who follows the financial news has heard of mutual funds and knows the stock market has generally risen (with various ups-and-downs) for over 200 years. In fact, by most measures, the stock market has made more money for more people, and done it more reliably, than any other investment over the past 100 years! If you want to accumulate substantial wealth, you must include stocks in your i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Trading for a living - part 1
- There can't be many traders who haven't at least considered the idea of telling the boss what they think of him, throwing it all in and going off to trade the stock market for a living. It's a big risk financially, and that uncertainty is what stops most from jumping ship. Is it really possible to trade for a living?The DreamYou know how it is, you're sitting in a traffic jam at some...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Discover the biggest trading & investing online mistake
- Any online investor / trader seeks an excellent off or online future trading career opportunity. Despite this goal, did you know 95 percent of all traders go broke within the first two months? Why do investors lose vast amounts of wealth in one or more of the following markets ? option trading, forex trading or currency trading, stock trading, future or commodity trading etc? in such a short amoun...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stock trading secrets?
- How often have you come across an advertisement or e-mail proclaiming to "teach" you the stock trading secrets that Wall Street Insiders don't want you to know? Usually included in the descriptions of these trading products are claims such as "Make 10K monthly in minutes per day", or "Learn the secrets of Professional Stock Brokers", etc. etc. So what are these "secrets" that they are SELLING?...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The stock market investor?s worst enemy
- Every stock market investor faces one primal enemy. An enemy so perverse, it will drive thousands of investors from the stock market through its ability to defeat even the most practiced investment strategy. Who is this enemy you ask? Your arch nemesis, in this case, goes by the name E. Motions?don't ask me what the "E" stands for.Emotions are the driving force behind every stock ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Picking mutual funds to outperform the market
- With over 6,000 mutual funds available, it may be tempting to pick funds from a popular star or index rating system. Savvy investors, however, balance multiple factors in their selection process. Ratings represent only the historical performance of funds and cannot predict the future. Performance consistency, management skill, and expense limitations are among the many factors that influence a fun...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Size counts!
- What the heck am I talking about?It is often said that to grow mentally, spiritually, emotionally and personally that you have to stretch and move out of your comfort zone. I definitely believe in this concept, however... When it comes to day trading, swing trading or position trading stocks, futures, options or forex, going outside your comfort zone can be dangerous!Let me explain.....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stock and fund dividends
- When is a dividend not a dividend?The latest thing "conservative" brokers are preaching these days is to buy stocks that pay dividends. Everyone likes dividends. I know I do, but when Wall Street tells me something I am automatically suspicious because they lie to me every day. Is this a new scam? Let's take a look.When you buy a bond or a CD at the bank it pays interest an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Mutual fund honor roll ? buy high, sell low by chasing performance
- Buy high and sell low -- It's not a typo.Millions of investors guarantee their failure by selecting mutual funds and stocks based on quarterly or annual performance records. Do you chase performance? You might be buying high and selling low!As the year draws to a close, millions of mutual fund investors begin an annual event to divine next year's winners. Yet most of these individual...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to make big money safely in stock market
- (1) Stock Market is Tough Place to Make Any Money ConsistentlyNASDAQ or SP&500 averaged about -6% per year for 5 years between 1999 and 2003. Many individual investors who made killing in the internet bubble period got wiped out during those 5 years. Many who trusted Wall Street experts by investing their life savings into mutual fund had rude awakening after the huge loss and scandals in m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Forecasting the stock market
- Every day I see in the financial section of newspapers how to forecast what the market will do in 6 months, 12 months, several years. "Ten stocks that will double in the next 6 months." Right! I have trouble trying to forecast what it will do tomorrow. Do not trust any who claims he knows what the future will be for the market.Of course, your broker will send you gobs of slick mat...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stock chart reading
- As an investor you will want to check out any equity before you buy it. Many investors go to Morningstar which is one of the largest providers of mutual fund information in the world. It is assumed that their information is correct. After all that is what you are paying for.Recently the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) called them on the carpet for not correcting an error within a r...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Analysts - do they really know the stock market?
- When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund you can call your broker and he will send you reports on how the company is doing, what their management is like and what might be the projected earnings for the company and how the industry is doing. Great information.You will apply yourself to this mound of papers to determine if you want to buy the equity. You might also send for more ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Defining a long-term investment in the stock market
- For some "long term" would mean holding a stock position over the weekend. For others, it may mean holding a security for at least 1 year for the purpose of declaring a long-term capital gain, thus saving on taxes.The rigid definition of a long-term investment in the stock market would be holding a security for a minimum of 5 years, to as long as 30 years.I'm going to tell ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Oil stocks chk wll - what is their worth?
- (1) CHK stock price $16.74, NAV $32.5CHK is my favorite oil or natural gas stock. Here is updated Net Asset Value (NAV) table from CHK July 2004 earning release:Table CHK PV-10 per share NAV vs Natural gas priceN Gas price NAV per share$4.50 $16.11 $5.00 $19.60$5.50 $23.11 $6.00 $26.61 $6.50 $32.5PE = 10 or 10% of e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Historical briefing: stocks, finance and money
- The World Bank claims that some two billion of the world's citizens live on $1 per day or less! That fact absolutely shocked me. With this statistic in mind it becomes important to focus on all of the things that have served as money over the history of civilization. Aztecs used Cocoa beans, Norwegians used Butter and dried cod, many Indian tribes used animal skins and some of the early colonists ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Trading education: the best of both worlds!
- I made my very first investment in the stock market when I was ten years old. Ever since then I have been hooked! Now I check out hundreds of trades each year with the same excitement andenthusiasm, and each time try to find that one market at the right time that could dramatically create wealth.If you would've been fortunate enough to invest $1,000 in Microsoft when it first came public, t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Planning your dive and diving your plan ? trading!
- A colleague of mine just returned from a scuba diving trip in Cozumel, which just happens to be one of my favorite places to dive. Anyway, she was telling me about an unexpected difficulty she encountered while swimming around the corral reef down about 85 feet. It wasn't anything serious but her story reminded me of something my scuba instructor used to say over and over again. "Plan your dive, a...