Dollar Cost Averaging
Dollar cost averaging is one of the most popular ideas in the investment community. Everyone seems to like it and it has become a watchword among stock and mutual fund brokers. If it is properly done you will make money, if not you will lose money or at best stay... Read More
How to Evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds
If you have been dealing with mutual funds for any length of time, you undoubtedly have faced the question of which is better: Load Funds or No Load Funds. If you are new to investing, "load" simply refers to the commission paid to the broker selling the fund. "No load"... Read More
Two for the Money
Look back over the years and try to remember how many different stocks and mutual funds you have owned. Suppose you had owned only 2 different equities during that entire time. One when the market was going up and the other when the market was going down.And you always make... Read More
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 funds to protect the rich folks.... Read More
Stock Investment Advice
Stock investment advice is easy to find. Do you get cold called by brokers with the latest investment tip? I have, as have countless others around the globe. And many of us have lost a lot of money to these people. So, how can you avoid some of these pitfalls?In... Read More
Mutual Fund Honor Roll ? Buy High, Sell Low by Chasing Performance
Buy high and sell low -- It's not a typo.Millions of investors guarantee their failure by selecting mutual funds and stocks based on quarterly or annual performance records. Do you chase performance? You might be buying high and selling low!As the year draws to a close, millions of mutual fund... Read More
Why Investors Use Financial Planners
Do you have a financial planner? Does one of your friends have a financial planner? Maybe you take your advice from your broker. As I have said countless times before a broker will make you broker. And a financial planner won't do any better. I know. You thought they would.Let's... Read More
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 works.Now I... Read More
So, What is This Stock Market Thing Anyway?
We've all heard of the stock market and probably have a general idea of what it is and how it works either from high school economics classes, television financial reports, and the countless film depictions of what happens on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. But how does... Read More
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 emotional tribulations... Read More
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What is a Trading Plan ? and Why You Need One?
How do you make money without picking tops and bottoms?I... Read More
The Holy Grail (of Investment)
Every year I go to the Money Show in Orlando,... Read More
Intervention
Intervention. Now don't let that big word scare you. The... Read More
Trading Stocks ?Never Forget About A Past Trade
We all know that emotions control every decision that an... Read More
The 10 Commandments
Wall Street has been preaching for years and years to... Read More
DIY Portfolio Management
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are growing. Investors are choosing low... Read More
Nest Eggs and Omelets
Do you have a nest egg? You know, a place... Read More
Trading Tips No 5: Stock Trading Curve Drawdown and Commitment
All stock trading and investing methods must deal with the... Read More
Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses
A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys... Read More
Value Investing: Selecting From The Bargain Bin
Picking a beaten-down stock requires a different kind of selection... Read More
I Love You, Warren Buffet
Sometime around 1980, can't remember exactly, there was a flight... Read More
Do You Know What is the Single MOST Critical Mistake in Trading the Stock Market??
Well maybe that's overstating it a little, but it's certainly... Read More
Trading Education: The Best of Both Worlds!
I made my very first investment in the stock market... Read More
Trading Tips No 6: The High Cost of Low Cost Stock Market Information
It has been said that low cost or even free... Read More
How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing
What are you thinking when it comes to your no... Read More
Low Expense Ratio
One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds... Read More
The Big Bad Bear
The big bad bear is stirring again. So far he... Read More
How to Pay Less and Get More: Discount Broker vs Professional
How do you invest? What do you really pay? At... Read More
Rebalance And Diversify
The stock market has not been very kind to your... Read More
The Stock Market Doesnt Care if You are a Beginner?. Get Prepared to Succeed at Trading
Stock trading remains a very competitive field and the stock... Read More
How to Read an Annual Report
Every publicly traded company is required by the SEC(Securities and... Read More
Keep Your Profits
It looks like we have now entered a new bull... Read More
Performance Funds
Mutual funds are doing more and more to discourage investors... Read More
How To Make, And Keep, Money Trading Stocks
If you are serious about making and keeping money by... Read More
Which Way The Market
I am hearing predictions by brokers, financial planners, talk show... Read More
Trading Baskets II: The Crapolio, A Roll of the Dice in the Stock Market
In a previously written article, we expanded the use of... Read More
Why Is The Macedonian Stock Exchange Unsuccessful?
The Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE) is not operating successfully. True,... Read More
Dont Ask Your Broker
Unfortunately, most of you who are reading my column are... Read More
Chart Reading
As an investor you will want to check out any... Read More
No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype vs. Investment Help
With the internet such a huge part of our daily... Read More
Option Trading Basics
Options trading can increase the profits you make when trading... Read More
The Problem With Hedge Funds
Are hedge funds a suitable investment for you? Hedge funds... Read More
Option Spread Trading
Spread trading is a technique that can be used to... Read More
Defining a Long-Term Investment in the Stock Market
For some "long term" would mean holding a stock position... Read More
Leverage - Margin Debt
What is leverage?Here is a definition of leverage from an... Read More
Advisory Service for You?
It depends on your level of understanding of the market... Read More
Understanding a Stocks PEG Ratio
A PEG ratio cannot be used alone but is a... Read More
A Stock Market Investment Plan that Never Lets You Down
The bulls and bears of the stock market are both... Read More
Dividend Reinvestment Plans: Investing on Automatic Pilot
If you're like many investors who squander those small dividend... Read More
Robert Rodriguez Weathers the Stock Market
Robert Rodriguez likes to buy stocks at their lows. When... Read More
Trading Tips No 5: Stock Trading Curve Drawdown and Commitment
All stock trading and investing methods must deal with the... Read More
Price Targets
Every day in any financial publication you will find the... Read More
Where Is The Rabbit?
We need a rabbit!This was a pretty horrible week for... Read More
Laws and Efficiencies and Theories of Diminishing Returns
The basis of diminishing return discussions surround such simple notions;... Read More
China Syndrome
There has been great condemnation recently because China has been... Read More
Traders, Defend Against the Dreaded Death Spiral.
It has often been said that there is only two... Read More
Duct Tape
Did you run out to buy that duct tape yet?... Read More
NASDAQ 800?
In November of 2000 when the NASDAQ was trading at... Read More
DIY Portfolio Management
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are growing. Investors are choosing low... Read More
Emotional Involvement
I'll bet with almost anyone that has stocks or mutual... Read More
Social Insecurity
Just about everything you have been told about Social Security... Read More
10 Tips For Creating Wealth From the Stock Market
1. Do not spread your money too thin.My friend has... Read More
Hedge Funds: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Alfred Winslow Jones started hedge funds in 1949. He was... Read More
Stocks & Oil, Sat Jun 18th, 2005
Both the stock market and oil prices rallied recently, which... Read More
Who Knows?
The Shadow knows. Remember him? It seems a shadow has... Read More
Stock Market Insanity
Let's first define insanity. It is doing the same thing... Read More
Look Out The Window
Quick, look out the window. It's raining. No, the sun's... Read More
A Penny for Your Stocks
According to Investopedia Inc. the penny stock market has seen... Read More
Hot Stock Investing ... How to Pick Hot Stocks with Momentum Stock Trading
Profitable day traders recognize that momentum trading is among the... Read More
How To Make, And Keep, Money Trading Stocks
If you are serious about making and keeping money by... Read More
What To Buy?
Now that you have some money burning a hole in... Read More
Its Better
Question: How does it get better when it gets worse?Last... Read More
The Information Age
It is wonderful to be alive in the information age.... Read More
Investment Attorneys and Garbage Stocks
How is it possible that trash Companies are posting less... Read More
Stock and Fund Dividends
When is a dividend not a dividend?The latest thing "conservative"... Read More
Pamplona, the Wild Investment Bulls
You remember (they show it on TV every year) the... Read More
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