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8 Penny Stocks to Avoid
There are many good penny stock investments available, which could turn a small amount of capital into a small fortune very quickly. However, to discover these you need to know what to look for and what to avoid. When searching for that one big pay...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Peter Leeds
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Managing Investing and Stock Market Risks
Reduce your investing and stock market risks by:
Setting your sights on the long term, patiently riding with the ups and downs!
If you have the time to be patient, you can benefit from time diversification. The more numerous good years for stocks o...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Ioannis - Evangelos Haramis
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The Information Age
It is wonderful to be alive in the information age. We know in a matter of seconds the change in the value of gold in Switzerland, the death of a world leader or the birth of a peasant in Israel.
We are inundated with facts and figures and the emot...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Choosing A Fund
For years I have been saying you must have a fund that is outperforming the S&P500 Index. Well, I've changed my mind. Now I think your fund should be outperforming the NASDAQ Composite Index. So far this year, March 30, the S&P is up 1.3% and the N...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Stops Make Money
During the day I watch CNBC-TV, the stock market channel. Fortunately, I keep the sound muted or I would be hollering at the dumb "experts" being interviewed. The experts seem to know all about the market except they don't know how to protect their...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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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%...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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How To Pick A Mutual Fund
Mutual funds by definition are a mixed bag of stocks, bonds and a little cash. Their price per share is the NAV, Net Asset Value of the total amount of money in the mutual fund divided by the number of shares. They seek to be fully invested at all ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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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 ha...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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One Way Street
Ever turn down a street, get half way and suddenly realize it is one way and you are going the wrong way? Is that the way you feel when you look at your stock brokerage statement?
In either case don't panic. You can get out of that one way street b...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Protect Your 401K
Checked your 401K lately? Going back to about a year ago many of these retirement accounts have shrunk by 30%, some even more. What Happened?
You have been putting money in for years and your employer may have been contributing to your plan also. I...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Risk Control
Everything you invest in has risk so you want to do your research before you put your money on the line.
For example, when McDonald's opens a new restaurant (please, don't call it a hamburger joint) they will investigate as many of the relevant fac...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Social Insecurity
Just about everything you have been told about Social Security is an obfuscation. That is a big word for convoluted truth or lie.
In a recently published obscure government document by the presidential Social Security commission there are two pages...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Rebalance And Diversify
The stock market has not been very kind to your investments lately. Your broker knows this so you may have received a call from him suggesting it is time to 'rebalance and diversify' your portfolio.
What does this really mean? He wants you to sell ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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How To Buy And Hold
One of the most believed bits of conventional wisdom from Wall Street is to Buy and Hold. Any stock or mutual fund should be put away for eternity and never sold. This is total hogwash and is guaranteed to reduce your investment income.
Brokerage c...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Kick The Tires
Before you buy another car you walk around the lot, kick the tires, slam the doors and look at the mileage indicator. That's an odometer. I know. That is about all the "research" you can do other than what the car salesman tells you and I hope you ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Why This Bear?
People are constantly asking me why is the stock market going down. What is causing this bear market? It is relatively simple so don't ask an economist. He will give you a 200-page answer that is undecipherable. Can you understand Mr. Greenspan?
Le...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Peer Groups
Whenever I see mutual fund comparisons in the trade publications and in the financial section of the newspaper they almost always mention a specific fund and tell you how good it is in relation to its peer group. A peer group is a specialized secto...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Bollinger Bands Strategies
The Bollinger Band theory is designed to depict the volatility of a stock. It is quite simple, being composed of a simple moving average, and its upper and lower "bands" that are 2 standard deviations away. Standard deviations are a statistical too...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Steven T. Ng
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Shorting Stocks – The Basics, Part II of II
After the publication of the first part of this two part series, I had a few questions asking if shorting stocks is legal and I will quickly reply with a big YES. Some people believe that shorting shares of American companies is not patriotic or do...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Chris Perruna
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Shorting Stocks – The Basics, Part I of II
What does it mean to short a stock?
This means that you borrow the stock from your broker to sell to a third party. The idea is to buy back the stock at a lower price, returning the shares to your broker while leaving the remaining cash in your acc...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Chris Perruna
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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 n...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael S.L. Bombard
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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. It always...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Mindset
In 1960 an engineer working for a watch company in Switzerland discovered that a small crystal would vibrate at a constant rate. He found this was so accurate that it could be used to calibrate time so he took it to company management and said it w...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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Market Success
Who are the successful investors?
There are those who follow the advice of their brokers and financial planners or those who choose to use their own good judgment? If you care to compare the results of the past 4 years from 2000 to now I believe yo...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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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.
Now the SEC is going to make new regulations for hedge ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Al Thomas
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