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81. Inflation Proof Your Investment Portfolio with ETF’s By John J. Lah
    Summary: There are currently more than 170 different ETFs (and still growing!) that investors can choose from, and these ETFs cover the full gamut from domestic stock index to fixed income, international and even real estate and commodity related.An easy way to inflation proof your portfolio then would be to replace a portion of your portfolio holdings from domestic equity based securities, such as S&P500 type stocks and traditional bonds, with a…



82. The Traders Secret Art of Setting Stop Losses - Guaranteed To Boost Profits By David Jenyns
    Summary: When traders first begin considering their stop losses, keep in mind this comment from Tom Baldwin, a leading day-trader. Traders set their stop losses, and then stick to the plan.How do traders go about setting stop losses? For example, if traders had a one dollar stock that moved up five cents on average over the last 20 days, that doesn't tell traders whether the stock is moving up or down. Although their methods of calculating this…



83. Dollar Cost Averaging: Taking Some Volatility Out of the Portfolio By Glenn Dahlke
    Summary: Instead of buying at a single share price with a lump sum investment, dollar cost averaging buys when prices are both high and low, thus averaging the share price.There is some argument that dollar cost averaging (DCA) can actually inhibit the return on investment, and I have no disagreement with that argument. Secondly, short-term, dollar cost averaging often does not give the process enough time to show its true colors.Thus, in order …



84. The Biggest Oil Opportunity in the World – And How You Can Profit From It By Leon Altman
    Summary: Where is the second biggest deposit of oil reserves in the world?In the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada. Other examples of new technology and extraction methods include burning bitumen instead of gas to produce steam, a solvent-assisted production technique called VAPEX and a system that injects air into the oil well and ignites it to stimulate oil flow.In addition to improvements in technology, higher oil prices are fueling expan…



85. The Scalp By Larry Potter
    Summary: When the stock pops in the opening minutes, the scalper will quickly sell for a profit of a point or two.Later in the morning the momentum usually reverses on the news-driven stock as other traders take their profits. This can continue all day long.If the momentum in ABC tails off, the scalper will look for another target of opportunity.There is another, similar term, "scalping," which refers to the practice of getting shares of stock fo…



86. Ways to Play Defensively By Larry Potter
    Summary: It is not an easy answer.The concept behind averaging down is that if you buy XYZ at 100 and it falls to 90 and you buy more, your "average" cost is just 95 now. They aren't usually long lived and you get the chance to buy some more XYZ at a bargain price.**Part 2What about buying more (averaging down) simply because the market is having a bad hair day? It all depends on what XYZ has done lately.For the most part, if XYZ has had an "o…



87. Super Rules, OK? By Darby Higgs
    Summary: We all hope to use this money to fund our retirement, but unless you look after your super then you are in danger of losing some of your money along the way.Myth number 1. Make sure your employer is paying the correct amount, and that if your employer goes broke your super is still available.If you change jobs you need to decide if you wish to 'roll over' the money into another fund. It's your money, just like the rest of the money in…



88. Compounding In Action By Hari Wibowo
    Summary: If you are in your early 20s, all it take is $ 2 a day and 10.5 % annual return on your investment. When you are 30 years old and you expect to retire by the time you are seventies, you need to invest $ 5 per day with 10.5 % annual return. Article: Compounding is one of few wonders in the world. Albert Einstein said it himself. I tend to agree. It is so powerful that it doesn't take much to bridge over vast pas of wealth. Yet, so many …



89. Reading "Between The Lines" In Annual Proxy Statements By Paul Dorf
    Summary: We also are interested in learning how companies are reacting to the recent and anticipated changes in tax, accounting rules, and related legislation and the extent to which those changes are affecting executive compensation design.With this in mind, we have been reading various recent filings, which when analyzed, still leaves some doubt if the companies are being as open and straight forward as we have all hoped for. We find it quite…



90. For Entrepreneurs A SIMPLE Plan May Be Best By Tim Knox
    Summary: It should be a big seller among the high brow, comb-over crowd.Here's my best advice on retirement plans: find yourself a financial advisor (or financial planner) who is has experience working with small businesses and have him or her explain the options available and make a recommendation as to the type of plan best suited for you and your business. The SIMPLE IRA was created to make it easier for small businesses with 100 or fewer empl…



91. The Truth About Real Estate Investing - Is It Right For You? By Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D.
    Summary: Then these real estate investment course promoters show 'actual' interviews of people who have reportedly made gobs of money with the course system.Although it is true that fortunes can be made in real estate it is actually more likely that it will be the guru owner of the real estate course than you! They damage houses and are down the street as soon as they get a little cash out of the hapless real estate investor.It also takes many …



92. Industrial Revenue Bonds Overview By Paul Nicolosi
    Summary: Industrial Revenue Bonds have a variety of names and purposes, but there are three basic types of bond issuances as follows:' Tax Exempt - (Small Issue IDB's) Because the income derived by the bond holder is not subject to federal income tax, the maximum bond amount is $10 million in any given jurisdiction. Article: Industrial Revenue chain have a variety of names and purposes, but there are three elemental types of bond issuances as f…



93. The Best Silver Miner in the World By David Morgan
    Summary: The answer to us is covered in our third rule of silver investing below.This third rule of Silver Investing can be found in the global-investor book of Investing Rules.This rule is one that many silver investors know quite well and the joys of watching your mining stock outperform the increase in bullion prices by a factor of two or three to one is exciting. This is a question we are asked quite often.The Ten Rules of Silver Investing w…



94. Having A Goal In Investing By Hari Wibowo
    Summary: If he can't save more than $ 300 a month, the only way he is going to get $ 1 Million is to have his investment grow by 17% year in and year out.For this gentleman, his goal is to achieve 17% return on investment. Instead of thinking that he can reach $ 1 Million by investing in index fund, he now has to find other ways to boost his investment return to 17% annually.The second scenario is a 40 year old investor who had amassed $ 100,000 …



95. CYA By Al Thomas
    Summary: When your stocks are going up and you are making money you don't want to give back those profits, do you? If you say 10% then each week tell your broker you want an Open Stop Loss Order placed on the closing price of each Friday (or Monday , Tuesday, whatever) as it moves higher and not to reduce that price.This way he does not have to watch all the different stocks you have in your portfolio and you are protected against any big losses…



96. The Advance/Decline Line By Larry Potter
    Summary: "Every day I hear about the "advance/decline" line and more times than not its negative even if the market is up. All things are NOT equal!When the NASDAQ as a whole was in a full blown bear market, there were about 70 or so stocks that moved the index higher on a daily basis, but overall the decliners won out almost every day. But if you look at who moved higher it was the MSFT's, IBM, INTC's of the world, that are so weighted, they ca…



97. Trading For A Living - Part 2 By Geoff Turnbull
    Summary: In part 1 of this article I started to look at the financial implications of giving up the day job to instead start trading full time for a living. For day traders, certainly practising is easier if your intended market is not your home market, for example if you want to trade the US and you live in the UK where you can come home and paper trade in the evening.There are other try before you buy options open to the day traders who want t…



98. Nicholas Darvas Reveals The Biggest Trading Secret Of All Time - Discover The Truth By David Jenyns
    Summary: Nicholas Darvas was a brilliant investor, and one of the first traders to use technical analysis. But cheered on by whatever small profits he did make, Darvas began asking questions about why stocks behaved the way they did.Realizing that even experts couldn`t predict the market, Darvas decided that he needed to acquire his own understanding. Wanting to keep up on his holdings in stock he already owned and always on the lookout for new …



99. How to Choose the Right Share Class By Brian Dylan
    Summary: If you plan to own a fund for just a year or two, for example, you may want to opt for C shares, and if your time horizon is in the neighborhood of five years or fewer, B shares may be the way to go. Some fund shops--including Franklin--have stopped selling B shares altogether.To help ensure that you get into the right share class for your needs and time horizon, it never hurts to ask your broker why he or she is recommending a certain s…



100. How To Find A Good Financial Planner By Larry Potter
     Summary: "How do we find financial planners, or estate planners to help execute in our best interests?" The standard reply one would get from a talking head on CNBC is "Find a licensed Financial planner, and then get at least three references, then make sure that you see if he is working towards his own goals and not yours, etc etc" That's a fine canned response, but what's it really mean? Here is what I suggest.The hardest part of finding good …



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