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Trading For A Living
How many times have you said to yourself, “I’d like to quit this job and just make a living trading in the stock market”? Well, maybe you can, BUT...
There a few things to consider.
First, you have to have enough money to generate the income you ne...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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When Should I Sell?
People are always asking me when should I sell my stock or mutual funds?
There are some relatively easy answers to this. In fact, so simple that you won't believe them, but they are things I have learned over the past 30 years as a professional tra...
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Whitewater Stock Market
Ever done any whitewater rafting or canoeing? Long periods of tranquil river followed by short periods of terror. Suddenly the water grips your vessel and you are pushed and shoved by massive currents over which you have no control. Missing boulder...
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Why Buy and Hold?
Since I can remember, and that’s a long time ago, the Wall Street brokerage companies, mavens and mutual fund managers have been exhorting the mantra of Buy and Hold for all your investments. There have been erudite studies published that this is t...
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You Wont Like This
Why? Because I am going to shatter your conventional wisdom as I have many times in previous columns about the lies that Wall Street continues to tell you. This time we are going to go deeper into the economy to unearth the truth about lies the pol...
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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...
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Price to Earnings Ratio - P/E
After finding the price of a particular stock, usually the next number everyone looks at is the PE ratio.
PE is the ratio of a company's share price to its per-share earnings.
A PE ratio of 10 means that the company has 1 of annual, per-share ea...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Ioannis - Evangelos Haramis
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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.
Before you invest in any given fund, decide whether the investment strategy and risks of the fund are...
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Mutual Funds
Outlined below are some of the advantages and disadvantages of mutual funds. Every investment has advantages and disadvantages. But it's important to remember that features that matter to one investor may not be important to you. Whether any partic...
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What is a Mutual Fund?
Ever wondered what is a mutual fund? A mutual fund is a pool of money run by a professional or group of professionals called the “investment adviser.”
A mutual fund is a company that pools money from many investors and invests the money in stocks, ...
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Successful Trading – Taking Profits - Part 2
Suppose your position has made a big move and you moved your stop to your purchase price as recommended. Then let’s say your stock continues to make a big move and now we’re asking again the questions we asked back in the first paragraph. The fir...
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Successful Trading – Taking Profits - Part 1
So you’re started trading, you bought some positions with your online broker, you’ve set some reasonable stop-losses to protect your account and all of a sudden one of your positions move strongly in your favor – so what do you do now? This my fri...
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Successful Trading – Establish Your Risk Level
Before you embark upon a journey of trading stocks or futures, and before you make any trades, you MUST determine and establish your risk level. Traders that fail to do this are usually doomed from the start. The fact is that most trading account...
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Your Trading Objective: Why is that so Important?
You’ve decided to try your luck at trading stocks or commodities, but so called experts tell you that you need to determine your trading objective. What exactly does that mean and why is it so important? Well, it’s really a question of your tradi...
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Mutual Fund Expense Lies
When purchasing mutual funds we are cautioned
to read the prospectus, look at past
performance, check out the fund manager’s record
and see what their expense ratios have been.
We are also told that we should not buy funds
with expenses exceeding 1...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Stock Trading Diversification
This is the continuing story of our two imaginary traders, Peter and Paul.
Peter is a professional trader, Paul is not. Peter has a tested, proven, written trading plan that he follows each time he enters a trade, Paul does not.
Peter and Paul have...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Tony Spann
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Stock Trading - Daddy, Why Arent We Rich?
One Saturday morning, while he was sitting at his computer studying the market, David's 7 year old daughter came up, tugged at his shirt sleeve, and said, "Daddy, why aren't we rich?" He looked his child in the eye, and thought to himself, what a g...
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Trading Tips No 2: The Big Lie in the Stock Market
It is commonly reported that the stock market averages about 10% per year return over the long term (decades). So the investor that buys and holds a diversified portfolio of stocks or mutual funds is led to believe that their portfolio will grow by...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bill Poulos
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Commoditizing the world
Let’s discuss commodities; with the latest Enron situation, it is important to understand the way things work. A commodity is anything useful, especially a transportable agricultural product or mining product. This comes from the Latin word “commod...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Lance Winslow
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Why Is The Macedonian Stock Exchange Unsuccessful?
The Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE) is not operating successfully. True, some of the parameters which we use to measure the success of a stock exchange have lately improved in the MSE. For instance, the monthly money volume has increased together w...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
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Using Sector Funds to Construct Diversified Mutual Fund Portfolios
‘Sector funds are too risky.’ ‘I doubled my money with Fidelity Select Technology in 12 months!’ ‘Avoid sector funds.’ If all of this sounds confusing, you are not alone. Sector funds are among the more misused and misunderstood investments. So, ho...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Sam Subramanian
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Struggling Stocks, Booming Commodities
04282005
NASDAQ dropped -12.5% year to date in 2005. S&P500 index
suffered -5.7% this year. US stock market has been terrible
over past few months.
Not only general market is down, oil stocks recently had a
significant correction as well. It i...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Henry Lu
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Buying Stocks and the Importance of Correct Timing
An investor can find and research the best stock on the market, one with huge potential but if the general market indices are negative, it will most likely be the wrong time to buy. A stock with tremendous accelerating earnings, rising sales, an u...
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How Covered Calls Turned a Trader Around
Sidney felt sick as she looked at her latest OptionsXpress trading statement. In just 8 months, she had managed to turn her $120,000 account balance into less than $70,000.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she realized that the financial freedom she ...
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The Shadow
The Shadow knows. There used to be a radio program called The Shadow where the hero, Lamont Cranston, the Shadow, would overcome the shadowy forces of doom by clouding the vision of those around him. “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men”...
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