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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Risk and reward
- If you are doing your own investing in the stock market, what would be the first question you would ask yourself before you make any trade or investment? If your answer is how fundamentally sound the stock is, or whether the stock just broke out of a trading range on a chart, or the fact that the stock has gone down 50% in the last 6 months, or whether the volatility is low now so it is a good tim...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Trading tips no 3: online trading and investing: buy, hold, and hope
- So you have learned how to trade the markets by mastering a few trading tools like Moving Averages, Channels, Stochastics, MACD, or RSI - that is a great accomplishment achieved by only a few. However, having the tools and rules to trade markets successfully, year in and year out, is only half of the challenge. The other half is far more daunting and achieved by even fewer investors - I am talking...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Planning starts with the basics
- When developing a plan for your finances, the toughest question often is: "Where do I begin?" Before investing in stocks and bonds or buying life insurance, before implementing any change or making any decisions, you first need to analyze and understand your entire financial picture. Two documents allow you to do just that. A Balance Sheet and a Cash Flow Statement enable you to take an ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Boost your income with financial spread betting
- About 6 years ago I started to notice that certain friends of mine had quit their jobs but continued to live very luxurious lifestyles - seemingly without doing very much. I thought they must just be using up their savings until I discovered they were all making a fantastic living by spending just a few hours a week doing something I had never heard of before - "financial spread betting"...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Investor guide to financial health
- Step 1: Spend less than you earnPerhaps the simplest financial concept is the toughest for us to conquer- spend less than you earn. After paying your living expenses (bills, loan and mortgage payments, cost of food, charitable contributions, taxes, etc), you can begin to save and invest toward your future. If you are spending more than you earn, you must find a way to change this. You may e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Numismatics are for collectors, not investors
- As a precious metals investor, you may heard much about numismatic and "semi-numismatic" coins, particularly the St. Gaudens $20 double eagle gold coin. While coin collecting can be an interesting hobby, it is not necessarily related to metals investing. Coins of this type vary in value with the ebb and flow of the collector market and are not strictly tied to metal value. Also, these coins often ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - An old dividend stock investment idea, for a new generation
- Death and taxes! The certainties of life! And then, of course, there are the mortgage payments, the utility bills, phone bills, the car payments and thirsty automobiles. Add that to the grocery and clothing bills, and there appears to be more then just death and taxes as certainties of life.Having the knowledge these expenses are fixed for most of your life, why not begin a plan to take car...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Just what is arbitrage investment?
- In the simplest of terms, Arbitrage means to exploit price differential.Usually it meant looking at differing sources of an investment, and if there was a price difference between Source A and Source B - then the investor / dealer / broker / manager would buy from the lower priced source, and sell on the higher priced source.Example:- The price of Stock ABC was $20 per share on Excha...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Fundamentals of option pricing
- When one begins to consider an option, it is very important to figure out how the premium is calculated. Option premiums depend on a variety of factors including the time left to expiry as well as the price of the underlying security. There are two parts to an option premium: intrinsic value and time value. Consequently, several different factors have an influence on intrinsic and time value....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The difference between investing and trading
- Investing and Trading are not the same thing. The returns you seek, the length of time it takes to achieve those returns, the amount of risk one is prepared to take, and the commitment one can make to monitor the investments dictate the strategy of whether to invest or trade.InvestingInvesting is holding an asset for a longer term, expecting it to increase in value. The most common e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Foreign investing - us investors still missing out?
- Investors are still too slowly realizing what the academics have long pointed out ?- adding foreign stocks to your portfolio will, over the long term, increase your returns and lower the overall risk of your portfolio.US investors embracing foreign investing are both realists and optimists. They are optimistic that the chances of doing well are better if they have at least some of their har...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - An economical retirement investment plan
- The practice of economy, directed toward a retirement investment plan in the stock market, is in itself a source of great revenue. It is the art of making the most out of every stock market investment, with the definite purpose or goal being to provide a life that is fully independent of monetary concerns.But the economy of making each investment in the stock market does come with a price. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Effective advice for a new generation of investors
- CATCHING A FALLING KNIFEOne of the most common mistakes made by inexperienced investors is trying to "catch a falling knife". This is a habit, common among new investors, of buying stocks that are in "freefall", and it's a bad idea for an investment strategy. Unfortunately, it's common even among old and experienced investors. I have to admit that I've even made that mis...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Inflation proof your investment portfolio with etf?s
- Even though inflation has been relatively quiet in the U.S. since the late 1980's, there now appears to be some strong evidence that it may be starting to heat up again with an expanding economy, combined with skyrocketing oil and housing prices in certain key regions of the country. While the Federal Reserve has been raising key interest rates citing the threat of rising inflation, the cautious m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lessons in transition
- Q: What have been the most successful approaches to attracting direct foreign investments: offering prospective investors tax breaks and similar benefits, or improving the overall investment climate of the country?Empirical research has demonstrated that investors are not lured by tax breaks and monetary or fiscal investment incentives. They will take advantage of existing schemes (and ask ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The myth of the earnings yield
- AbstractA very slim minority of firms distribute dividends. This truism has revolutionary implications. In the absence of dividends, the foundation of most - if not all - of the financial theories we employ in order to determine the value of shares, is falsified. These theories rely on a few implicit and explicit assumptions:That the (fundamental) "value" of a share is...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Investing as a sport?
- I said last week that money doesn't generally buy happiness, but the lack of it can buy absolute misery. This, by the way, is not just my personal observation. It is the conclusion of some of the most respected happiness researchers (Yes, there is such a thing -- read my book.)The trouble is that we have to pay attention to money more when we lack it than when we have it. This doesn't seem ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - California deparment of corporations and franchise opportunities law
- What CA Needs To Do To Address Issues in FranchisingWe should not allow anymore degradation of California through incessant over regulations in the franchising sector. No other sector of our economy provides as many jobs as franchising. Some people might say retail, yet over half of all retail jobs are also franchises. Now then; There is a problem in the franchising community with the way t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Making it second nature
- Not long ago I was laying on my son's floor throwing one of his toy balls back and forth in the air to myself and I had a strange revelation. I noticed that as I threw the ball up in the air my left arm automatically started to move to where the ball was going to come down. At the time I was pretty amazed at the fact and decided to experiment a little.I wasn't sure if it was really moving a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Investing pointers for neophyte investors
- If you know next to nothing, how do you go about the business of investing? The first thing you need to know about investing is, how much do you really know? If its' not much, then you will need to read extensively to educate yourself.To become well-informed, you should read up on the basics. find out what a stock, a bond or a mutual fund is, and what the differences are between these three...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Short term savings products
- When you invest, it simply means that you are putting your funds in products, in this case short-term savings vehicles, which will allow you to reap high financial rewards.Here is a list of the more common short term savings products you should consider investing in.Savings account: If you are getting your feet wet for the first time in investing, you should consider this, as it is t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Investing: do you want to make money, or would you rather fool around?
- It always amazes me how much stock market investors resemble horse track bettors. Some are very conservative, willing to trade low returns for relative safety. Others bet with both hands, looking for the big score. In this article, I'd like to introduce you to a few characters I've met at racetracks. Then we'll see what they can teach us about investing.CONNIE CONSENSUS - Connie is e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Raising capital in today?s ?new economy?
- We've helped a number of clients develop business plans and raise capital from "angel" investors, corporate entities and venture capitalists during the last 6-8 years. It's always a daunting process that can be full of pitfalls and require a tremendous amount of work ? but it can be done! Here is some perspective gleaned from years of experience.The most important rule for raising...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Retirement plan considerations cheat sheet for small business
- RETIREMENT PLAN CONSIDERATIONS are something every small business person needs to be thinking about. Do you have a strategic plan? Don't expect to have social security save you.Topics to consider when developing a retirement plan for yourself and your employees.ADVISOR:Independent Advisory Firm Insurance Brokerage Based Securities Brokerage BasedPLAN ADMINISTRAT...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Rules of simple ira your business needs to know
- A Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees plan, better known as a SIMPLE plan, is an IRA-based retirement plan available to employers with fewer than 100 employees.Under a SIMPLE IRA plan, an employee can contribute a portion of his pay to his SIMPLE IRA account. An employee can make a maximum contribution of $9,000, ($10,500 if age 50 and over), to his SIMPLE IRA account for 2004. You, ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Discipline in trading and investing
- The one thing I can think of that most affects both trading and investing has to be self-discipline.Being disciplined is fully 50% of the job of trading or of investing. I don't care how good your trading system is, without the discipline needed to follow the system you don't have much of a chance for success in meeting your goals.It doesn't matter how great a planner or organizer yo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - When its too late to save for retirement
- You are 55 years old (or somewhere around there) and your company is going to force you to retire at 65. You have $35,000 saved in your 401K and that's all. The house will be paid for by then so you will have a place to live. The company pension will pay about $1,000/month and so will Social Security. What will my life style be like at that time?Let me give you a clue. You are going to need...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Trend following
- Trend following also called momentum trading is the simplest and safest method of stock market investing. It puts you in stocks and mutual funds that are going up and gets you out when they start down. Properly done there is no guess work.How many times have you bought a stock or fund because of deep analysis? You have gone to Morningstar and bought their extensive reports ? many of which a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Easily finding a good stock
- There is a tremendous amount of software, complicated high priced newsletters, radio and TV stock pickers and Internet web sites that will help you find a stock that is going to make you rich.The problem is you don't know if this is talk or are these gurus putting their own money where their mouth is. Until I know for sure this "expert" has his own cash on the line I don't want to...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont catch a falling knife
- One of the most common mistakes made by inexperienced investors is trying to "catch a falling knife". This is the phrase used to describe the habit of buying stocks that are in "freefall", and is a poor strategy, albeit common among new investors. Sadly, it is a common practice even among old and experienced investors. I've even fallen prey to it myself.Remember, there a...