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461. High Volatility Investments By James Andrews
     Summary: Penny stocks and options are high volatility investments that attract both the trader and the long term investor because of the small amount of capital required to make substantial gains as compared with less volatile higher priced stocks. While it is more likely that a micro cap penny stock will gain 50% in a single day than it is for a higher priced stock, the typical 5 or 10 to one leverage that options provide makes it only necessa…



462. Seecrets on Investment: Tired of Making Huge Losses in the Stock Market – Part 1 By Stan Seecrets
     Summary: Most of us are familiar with this typical headline: 'Whiz kid makes stock picks that outperform the market than most fund managers'. Joseph Granville, a market technician, started his newsletter (Gransville Market Letter) in 1963 and is still going strong at age 80+. This author suspects that his loyal customers are those who can form their own opinions and views on the market but, they are receptive to a different perspective or viewpo…



463. Useful Tips on Investing By John Mussi
     Summary: Some investments make money, and some don't.You can potentially make money in an investment if:The company performs better than its competitors.Other investors recognize it's a good company, so that when it comes time to sell your investment, others want to buy it.The company makes profits, meaning they make enough money to pay you interest for your bond, or maybe dividends on your stock.You can lose money if:The company's competitors ar…



464. Getting Started Investing is Often the Hardest Part By Mika Hamilton
     Summary: There are several reasons people give for not investing their money in things like stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. In fact, if more people understood the basics of investing and had a cohesive plan for getting started investing, more people would do it.Let's assume that the first reason does not apply to you and you do, in fact, have some amount of money that you'd like to invest. Article: There are several reasons people give for no…



465. Real Estate Clubs Hot Among Investors By Charles Essmeier
     Summary: Real estate prices are at record levels, particularly on the East and West coasts, homeowners have record amounts of equity in their homes, and with the stock market still crawling along, people are putting money in real estate and helping each other do it.The typical real estate club has anywhere from a handful to several hundred members, and they typically meet once a month or so to share their experiences. Article: Six or seven year…



466. Larry, Moe and Curley, Investment Brokers By Al Thomas
     Summary: Larry, Moe and Curley were sitting in their favorite restaurant just off Wall Street having their usual 3 martini lunch and were discussing the day's events and their client portfolios.Larry:'I had 12 calls this morning from customers wanting to know why the market was going down'.Moe: What did you tell them?'Curley: 'Yeah, what', taking another gulp of his libation.Larry: 'You know, the usual. Nyuk.'Yes, it may sound funny, but the…



467. Get Wealthy With the Rule of 72 By Vincent Moloney MD
     Summary: When it comes time to retire how many people would like to have a nest egg that is 2 or 3 or even 4 times larger than what they have? Over the last 100 years or so the United States stock market has returned 10 to 11% per year on average, depending whose figures one reads. Observe that during the first 7-year period you accumulated $13,000, during the 2nd 7-year period $27,000, during the 3rd 7-year period $43,000 and during the 4th per…



468. Don't Just Pick Any Dividend By Hari Wibowo
     Summary: Therefore, picking a good dividend paying stocks will pay off in the long run.What is the criteria that you should be looking for in dividend paying stocks? Business tends to fluctuate and I want to make sure that the company is solidly profitable before they initiate dividend payments.Average Payout ratio of less than 75%. Payout ratio is the ratio of dividend paid versus net earnings. Article: Dividend is earnings distributed to the s…



469. How Do You Determine Resistance and Support Levels? By Larry Potter
     Summary: Support is a price level a stock or average tends to hold above.We use these as trading signals as stocks often bounce up off of support levels or break through resistance levels if they are going to move up. When a stock breaks its 50 day moving average on strong volume, that is another caution flag as the 50 day moving average is a critical level for stocks that are trying to keep moving up.Trendlines are similar to moving averages. …



470. Income Investing: Selecting the Right Stuff By Steve Selengut
     Summary: Other gurus will suggest the purchase of shorter-term bonds or CDs (ugh) to stem the tide of the perceived erosion in portfolio values.There are two important things that your mother never told you about Income Investing: (1) Higher Interest Rates are good for investors, even better than lower rates, and (2) Selecting the right securities to take advantage of the interest rate cycle is not particularly difficult.Higher Interest Rates are…



471. Powerful Hidden Techniques Mystery Formula - The Covered Call Option Trading Buy-Write Strategy By Bret Fogle
     Summary: By employing the covered call or buy-write strategy, you can change the outcome of the scenario profile so you have two positive potential results instead of only one.Employing the covered call or buy-write, we still have the up scenario as a positive result, but now the stagnant scenario will also produce a positive result since we collect a premium and the third scenario, the down scenario will not be as negative.Thanks to the covered …



472. Investing and the Fear of Regret and Greed By Ioannis - Evangelos Haramis
     Summary: People tend to feel sorrow and grief after having made an error in judgement.Investors deciding whether to sell or buy a security are typically emotionally affected by whether the security was bought or sold for more or less than the current price.One theory is that investors avoid selling stocks that are going down, in order to avoid the fear, pain and regret of having made a bad investment. Article: People tend to feel sorrow and gri…



473. Will a Falling Dollar Derail Your Plans for Retirement? By Christopher Lawson
     Summary: it leads to asset bubbles, potential inflation, and a declining currency over time.' Bill Gross hints at a continued slide in the value of the dollar but the real question is: what does this mean?There are three main schools of thought regarding America's current economic situation with respect to the falling dollar.Reduction of the trade deficit perspectiveSome experts say that the dollar's fall is good because it makes US exports less…



474. HYIP Monitors - How They Work and Can You Trust Them? By Michael Goldman
     Summary: This money is invested aftewards into the program.HYIP monitors are great to check the program and see if it pays, but they mostly list programs paying high returns, like over 10% daily and these HYIP usually don't last long, so a lot of people get scammed by believing that the program is able to generate this kind of interest for a long term period.Use HYIP monitors to find new programs, but also use HYIP forums and read HYIP articles t…



475. Optimizing Portfolio Performance with Equity Styles By Matthew Xiarhos
     Summary: 1) Equities can be grouped into six "equity styles"2) Returns of each equity style can vary significantly with trends persisting for months and years.3) By dynamically altering a portfolio's exposure to various equity styles, investors can attempt to add performance over a static allocation.4) Relatively simple strategies can be employed to signal rotational decisions among various equity styles.September, 2005I view equity style strate…



476. A Guide to Indexes and Futures By John Mussi
     Summary: Many people think that investing in the stock market means that you're going to either be buying stocks or bonds' after all, those are the more well-known types of investment, and it stands to reason that some people would think that they were the only types available.Other investment alternatives exist, however' depending upon the type of investment that you're wanting to make, indexes or futures might serve your purposes better than s…



477. Understanding The Money Market By Leon Chaddock
     Summary: The money market is one of the safest financial markets available. Also, it is a dealer marketing in which companies and governments buy and sell within their own accounts and at their own risk.If this all sounds too good to not get into, the best way for the individual to get into the money market is to look into money market mutual funds. Article: The money market is one of the safest financial markets available. It is again and ag…



478. Issuing Warrants to Investors By Dave Lavinsky
     Summary: However, whenever a debt security with warrants attached is issued as a package, original issue discount problems are invited.One type of warrant that once popular as a financing mechanism for emerging ventures is contingent warrants. That is, the warrants are considered exercised, new stock is issued at the exercise price, and the proceeds to the issuer are used to buy in stock at the market price.Warrants are a common financing mechani…



479. Insider Trading - Blogging That Might Be Risky Business By David Jenyns
     Summary: Web logs are growing at an exponential pace on the internet, with an unpredictable and dramatic rise in new users and new services. Market commentators are already predicting that certain blogs may be crossing the border between up-to-date news and insider trader, and corporations have started looking carefully at employee blogs.`What regulators may be scared of is the potential for this new media to leak stock price sensitive news to t…



480. Easy Ways To Make Money Using Compounding As Your Compass By Martin Thomas
     Summary: What if you could buy and sell at 30% twice per month?Now lets turn to the calculator, as I can assure you, as an individual who realizes they can make a million dollars very quickly, you will find ways to keep to the schedule that the numbers on your calculator mapped out.Now punch the keys, 100 then the times symbol, then type 1.3 We will compound our money at 30% twice per month for 14 months. Article: If you will find your actuary d…



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