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I would like to share with the reader an article printed in the financial section of U.S.
Investing in the Stock Market - When To!
Is really not as important as to how you invest in the stock market. And how you invest in the stock market should take into consideration what goals you are setting for that stock market investment.
High Price/Earnings Ratios and the Stock Market: a Personal Odyssey
After some forty years of banking and investments, I retired in 2001. But since I do not golf, I soon found retirement to be very boring.
Forces that Move Stock Prices
Among the largest forces that affect stock prices are inflation, interest rates, bonds, commodities and currencies. At times the stock market suddenly reverses itself followed typically by published explanations phrased to suggest that the writer's keen observation allowed him to predict the market turn.
9 Deadly Trading Mistakes!
The following are a list of nine things you want to avoid at all costs. Anyone of them can literally destroy your financial dreams and goals!1.
Making Outsized Returns in the Stock Market - Using the Dow Theory
The Dow TheoryCharles H. DowRobert RheaE.
Basics of Stock Market
Financial markets provide their participants with the most
favorable conditions for purchase/sale of financial
instruments they have inside. Their major functions are:
guaranteeing liquidity, forming assets prices within
establishing proposition and demand and decreasing of
operational expenses, incurred by the participants of
the market.
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.
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.
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.
Oil Stocks CHK WLL - What Is Their Worth?
(1) CHK stock price $16.74, NAV $32.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Pension Plans
If you have a pension plan at work you will want to read this and if you don't you will still want to because it affects your retirement account.There are two kinds of formal retirement plans that are set in place by employers.
Top 25 Growth Funds
On Monday, November 25, 2000 Investor's Business Daily listed on page B1 the Top 25 Growth Mutual Funds for the last 36 months along with their performance for the year 2000 to date. Only four showed a profit this year of 21% and the other three had increases of 12%, 5%, and 5%.
The Holy Grail (of Investment)
Every year I go to the Money Show in Orlando, Florida. Thousands attend.
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.
Price Targets
Every day in any financial publication you will find the Wall Street mavens giving their predictions on many stocks. It was issued here and should go there.
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..
Different Types of Mutual Funds
This is a guide to the different types of mutual funds. When it comes to investing in mutual funds, investors have literally thousands of choices.
Stock Options Trading Strategies - Lean
Professional stock options traders use the term lean to refer to one's perception about the directional strength of the stock. When you own a stock option and intend to hold it for a period of time, you are aware that you will probably be holding it while it goes up and while it goes down.
Investing in Dividend Paying Stocks
I was recently interviewed for a press release through a financial question and answer format. One of the questions asked of me in the interview was:Where do you think the stock market is headed over the next five years?My Answer!Charles M.
Its A Bull, Its A Bear, Its Suptertrader!
The higher the market goes the more confusing are the "experts". In the September 14 issue of Investor's Business Daily newspaper we find the great prognosticators such as:Sheldon Jacobs, editor of No-Load Fund Investor newsletter quoted that he is recommending having more cash in your portfolio.
Dividend Paying Stocks
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More Window Dressing
Two weeks ago I wrote about what the Securities and Exchange Commission was doing to regulate the mutual fund industry to help the small investor, the "poor folks". It really added up to zero.
Financial Crime
Congress recently passed another new law that is supposed to outlaw financial crime. Corporate officers will be sent to jail for "cooking the books" as it is called.
The Skinny on Mutual Fund Investing
Mutual fund investing is a lot like Thai cooking. Everyone has heard of it, most know a little something about it, but very few actually know how to do it and do it well.
Protectionism
First let's see what protectionism is. According to Mr.
Long Term Financial Vehicles
Investing in long-term financial vehicles give you the most gains but it also puts your funds at greater risk. There is much truth to the saying, "there is no gain if there is no risk".
Trapeze Artist - Swinging with the Stock Market
When we go to the circus we see a trapeze artist working on a high wire or swing either alone or with other athletes. They know what they are doing because of constant practice, but every once in a while there can be a mistake, even a small one that can cause one of them to fall.
Mousetrap
The spring-loaded rat catcher is the ultimate low-tech device invented more than 100 years ago and remains the best demouser in the world. It is so simple anyone can master it and best of all you can keep on using it year in and year out.
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.