Take The Time
You must take the time once a month to review your investment portfolio. It won't take long - less than one hour, maybe 15 minutes.I don't believe the average working person or business owner should own anything but mutual funds because these are the easiest to buy and evaluate. However,... Read More
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... Read More
Option Trading Basics
Options trading can increase the profits you make when trading Stocks if you understand how to use them and know what you are doing. Options can be a very useful tool that the average investor can use to enhance their returns.This article - Options Trading Basics, looks at what options... Read More
Fools Gold
The stock market has been in an up trend for more than a year. Almost everyone is feeling good and many believe we are back in the old bull market with the previous high of the Dow Jones Industrial Average just about to be broken.This could be the case, but... Read More
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... Read More
Dont Spend Another Dollar on Business Opportunities Until You Read This
With an insecure job market, overworked employees, insufficient retirement savings and parents wanting the option to stay home with their kids, it is not surprising that many individuals are taking the leap into online business opportunities.The need to create a secondary income is a smart move for people who recognize... Read More
Political Investing
We have two candidates for president that have really different ideas on how to make the economy grow.Bush believes in the entrepreneurial approach. People should be allowed to invest in themselves. He even wants to let people have some of the 15% that now goes to the Social Security "trust... Read More
Choosing An Investment Stock Broker
If you want one.And I don't recommend any broker with whom to trade who will be giving you advice on what to buy and sell. When a broker speaks it is a eulogy for your money. My definition of a broker is one who makes you broker.The reason I say... Read More
Zero Sum Game
Most people think the stock market is a zero sum game because there is a buyer for each seller and seller for each buyer so each cancels the other and everything is equal. Not quite.There are losers here, both the buyer and the seller because each one paid a commission... Read More
Economists
In today's volatile and confusing stock markets everyone is searching for a guru who knows which way the market is going and when. Ask any economist and he will have an answer. Ask 2 economists and you will have 2 answers. Ask 3 economists - ad infinitum.At the Federal Reserve... Read More
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Stock Market Volatility
In my opinion, due to the volatility of stock market... Read More
Kick The Tires
Before you buy another car you walk around the lot,... Read More
A Stock Market Investment Plan that Never Lets You Down
The bulls and bears of the stock market are both... Read More
Stock Market Education; Day Trading for Beginnners; How to Pick Stocks
The trading method you employ to approach the stock market... Read More
Hedge Funds: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Alfred Winslow Jones started hedge funds in 1949. He was... Read More
A Common Misconception about Stock Prices
I cringe every time I hear a novice investor tell... Read More
Chart Reading
As an investor you will want to check out any... Read More
Dont Buy Stocks based on P/E Ratio alone
I use the P/E ratio as a secondary indicator for... Read More
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a... Read More
This Market Is Different
All of the talking heads have been telling us that... Read More
Economists
In today's volatile and confusing stock markets everyone is searching... Read More
Using Sector Funds to Construct Diversified Mutual Fund Portfolios
'Sector funds are too risky.' 'I doubled my money with... Read More
Stock Valuation using the SMP Model
Disclaimer: Please note that I do not necessarily purchase, own,... Read More
Emotional Maturity
If you are going to be a winner in the... Read More
E-mini Day Trading - Day Trading for Beginners - Stock Market Timing Software
I mean it when I say that. While plastic silverware... Read More
Trading For A Living - Part 1
There can't be many traders who haven't at least considered... Read More
Selection Vs Direction
As I have said many times before in this column... Read More
Stock Market Insanity
Let's first define insanity. It is doing the same thing... Read More
I Love To Lose Money
Well, not really. What I mean is I don't mind... Read More
What Can Model Airplanes Teach You About Trading?
I was devastated!I just couldn't believe it. I was 10... Read More
Series 7 Exam
What is the Series 7 Exam? If you... Read More
Online Broker Trade History Not Doing the Job
Let me start by saying that...Most online brokers do not... Read More
Whos Calling?
Its dinnertime and the phone rings. It's Joe Noname with... Read More
What To Buy?
Now that you have some money burning a hole in... Read More
Understanding the Bulls and the Bears
If you've ever flipped on the television to CNN Financial... Read More
Stock Loans
Hedge current portfolio positions and gain access to capital resources... Read More
Low Expense Ratio
One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds... Read More
How to Maximize Your 401k Mutual Fund Returns
When it comes to 401k's there is an overabundance of... Read More
Investing in the Stock Market - When To!
Is really not as important as to how you invest... Read More
Market Timing?
The recent criminal fiasco in the mutual fund industry is... Read More
Shorting Stocks ? The Basics, Part II of II
After the publication of the first part of this two... Read More
Pension Plans
If you have a pension plan at work you will... Read More
Market Success
Who are the successful investors?There are those who follow the... Read More
What is a Mutual Fund?
Ever wondered what is a mutual fund? A mutual fund... Read More
The I Word is Coming to a Town Near You
Hello Inflation, it has been awhile, I see you on... Read More
Nest Eggs and Omelets
Do you have a nest egg? You know, a place... Read More
Mutual Funds are Dead
You may have wondered why your mutual funds have been... Read More
Lemmings Are Gathering
Before they go over the cliff to their destruction these... Read More
Basics of Stock Market
Financial markets provide their participants with the most favorable conditions... Read More
Wal-Mart: Discount Store, Discounted Stock?
As GuruFocus updates the stock buys and sells of gurus,... Read More
Maximizing a Stock Market Investment
Maximizing a stock market investmentThere are several factors an investor... Read More
The Importance of Using Stop Loss Orders When Spread Trading the Financial Markets
A Guide to Using Stop Loss Orders Stop losses are... Read More
Picking Mutual Funds to Outperform the Market
With over 6,000 mutual funds available, it may be tempting... Read More
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... Read More
365/7/24
What does it take to be a stock trader? It... Read More
E-mini Day Trading - Day Trading for Beginners - Stock Market Timing Software
I mean it when I say that. While plastic silverware... Read More
What the SEC Really Thinks About Mutual Funds!
Let's go into the details of why non-indexed mutual funds... Read More
Planning Your Dive and Diving Your Plan ? Trading!
A colleague of mine just returned from a scuba diving... Read More
Market Timing
Every broker and financial planner will tell you that you... Read More
Mutual Fund Commissions
You have heard about a particular mutual fund from a... Read More
Buying Mutual Funds
It looks like the market is ready to start up... Read More
Protect Your 401K
Checked your 401K lately? Going back to about a year... Read More
Getting Even
I know there are a lot of you out there... Read More
Evaluation II
As I said in Part I everyone in the insane... Read More
Long Term Financial Vehicles
Investing in long-term financial vehicles give you the most gains... Read More
Dividends
When is a dividend not a dividend?The latest thing "conservative"... Read More
Stops Make Money
During the day I watch CNBC-TV, the stock market channel.... Read More
VIX
No, this is not a symbol for some Latin number.... Read More
High Price/Earnings Ratios and the Stock Market: a Personal Odyssey
After some forty years of banking and investments, I retired... Read More
Leverage - Margin Debt
What is leverage?Here is a definition of leverage from an... Read More
A Stock Market Investment Strategy
I feel that an investment strategy in the stock market... Read More
Mid-Cap Stocks: Asset Class with an Identity Crisis
Much like the middle child, mid-cap stocks have long struggled... Read More
Big Buildings Can Mean Big Economic Disaster
AS BUILDERS BEGIN WORK ON THE FREEDOM TOWER in New... Read More
Struggling Stocks, Booming Commodities
04/28/2005NASDAQ dropped -12.5% year to date in 2005. S&P500 index... Read More
Stocks: Understand What You Buy!
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action!" Johann... Read More
Lights of the Stock Market
There are red lights, green lights, blue lights and spot... Read More
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