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141. Landlording 101, Tricks of The Trade By Dan Auito
     Summary: I'm rushing you up to the day that your face-to-face meeting occurs with the tenants who have passed your telephone interviews and have succeeded in getting an appointment with you to see your wonderful rental.Now, here are some things that your uneducated dummy-type landlords can't begin to recognize, plan for or evaluate when it does appear before their very eyes.As soon as your potential renter shows up to view your property, take no…



142. It’s Never too Early to Start Investing! By Scott Pearson
     Summary: But let's get out of Personal Budget-Crisis mode for a moment and consider: just $2000 invested in a Roth IRA for a child when s/he is born is worth about 2 to 3 million dollars when that child reaches the age of 65! Depending on your income, age, and tax bracket, the Roth IRA now allows an initial investment of $4000, and additional investments of up to $4000 annually. Deeply inspired, the professor followed the janitor's investment exa…



143. Stock Market Money Management Skills By Chris Perruna
     Summary: Tighten the stop loss range in down markets and loosen the range in strong bull markets.Establish smaller positions if your account has had a recent losing streak (the losses may be telling you important information such as a critical turning point, it may be time to sell and get out).If you think you are wrong or if the market is moving against you, cut your position in half 'this is the best insurance policy on Wall Street."If you cut…



144. Currency Trading: How To Get Rich And Powerful From Currency Trading Program By I-key Benney
     Summary: What is currency trading?How can you get rich and powerful from currency trading?Who can do currency trading?Can you do currency trading from any country of the world?Until six years ago, when the United States Congress passed a law and made it possible for the small investors and average citizen to participate in this currency day trading, only large banks, financial institutions, millionaires and billionaires were doing currency tra…



145. Pensions and Investments Performance - How to Target a 20% Annual Return! By Stephen Todd
     Summary: The most important criteria in picking pensions or investments to deposit your funds in, is their performance.Many investors are disappointed in their pensions and investments performance, as the majority of fund mangers cannot even beat the index!In recent years, this has led to a huge growth in index tracker funds.Pensions and Investments can beat the Index! If this is the case, there is a conflict of interest, as they may trade to ea…



146. Variable Annuities By Tony Bahu
     Summary: You know all the articles you read about annuities that have extremely high fees? They do offer market upside potential, have a guaranteed death benefit, and offer tax deferral...but they have a lot of downside also.Now don't get me wrong...I am an annuity advocate for the right situation and for the right candidates...but I am wildly opposed to variable annuities in MOST situations. So for the most part, I think variable annuities do…



147. Nicolas Darvas: 1955 - 1960 By Mark Crisp
     Summary: Had he have had some money management rules in place, sure the gains would not have been as big, but at least IF things hadn't have worked out he could live to fight another day.A number of occasions Darvas "plunged" into the market with little thought to money management and risk. Jesse Livermore was not quite so lucky.Conclusion:A shining light of hope to the man on the street that anyone given time, education, desire and determination…



148. Emotions: A Trader's Worst Enemy; Get Rid of Fear and Greed - You'll be Glad You Did By Jonathan Van Clute
     Summary: If you jump into trading believing that just because someone else can do it this way, then so can you ' you may be in for a very painful surprise.Never trade someone else's plan. Are you comfortable with the thought of losing the money you are putting into the trade, and will your trading account survive to trade another day if you do?These are all part of what you need to have in your plan. I urge you to have considered them thorough…



149. Formalizing Equity Investment By John Vinturella
     Summary: Under Regulation D, Rule 504 generally pertains to securities sales up to $1 million, and this is the rule most applicable to the ventures we are considering.Rule 504This rule is considered by many as the perfect answer for the company just starting out that needs to raise less than $1 million but cannot afford to go through the whole SEC registration process. Rule 504 offers such companies an alternative:An exemption to raise up to $1 m…



150. Glittering Gold: A Rare Opportunity By Larry Holmes
     Summary: But, as an investor, here are some key points that I think are important for the gold market'The amount of gold that is left to be mined is extremely small and it is coming from the poorest countries in the world. Just in the last year, gold sales are up 11% in China and a whopping 47% in India, a country with close to a billion people who are huge gold consumers. Article: The price of gold is higher than it has been in 17 years. And it…



151. What Makes a Business Worth Investing In? By Craig Rowe
     Summary: You have always been interested in investing in a business, however you always hold back because you are scared of making a bad choice and losing your investment. Of course, this is an easy question although the answer is a little more difficult.Investment Tip #2 Business PlanA business plan that is well laid out and shows positives, negatives, and how the company and management will handle problems within the business is very important…



152. Lobster Trapping for Investment Ideas By Kemberly Wardlaw
     Summary: During our stay, we toured the rocky shore lines and took in the beautiful architecture of the old towns.One sunny morning, three generations of Wardlaws boarded a lobster boat and set out on a guided lobster trapping excursion.We quickly learned lobstermen lead a life of hard work and regulations.Over the course of many years, Maine's lobstermen and state officials have established certain criteria to protect lobsters and allow for grea…



153. Have Analysts Gotten Honest? By Mark Mahorney
     Summary: It caught my attention when I heard an analyst on a popular financial news program tell investors to sell a stock because too many analysts liked the company, citing the fact that there were no sell ratings.It seemed perfectly logical to me that analysts wouldn't be telling investors to sell 3M (MMM), which has one of the most consistent positive earnings records in the history of the stock markets. Article: It transfixed my cognizance…



154. 5 Day Trading Tips for Success By Mike Reed
     Summary: When Are The Best Times of the Day to be Trading?For me, the best times of the day for trading are the first hour and the last 2 hours. Here's an old rule of thumb (and this used to work like clockwork in the "old days", and although it has diminished a bit, it still happens): "The Minor Time of Day"- If the Market opens higher, then there tends to be a pullback within the first 20 to 40 minutes. But, if the pullback is sharp, then yo…



155. Stocks: Reduce Risk Yet Maximize Profits By John Lux
     Summary: If they did go down, I was happy to buy more because at those prices, you could buy the whole company and sell off the assets for a profit.From this group of 'safe' stocks, you select the ones most likely to have large appreciation.A stock is cheap in my book if it sells below the liquidation value of its assets, and most cheap if it sells anywhere near the net amount of cash it has on hand. It may be that the stock will not go down, but…



156. Protecting the Tax Advantage of Your Deferred Compensation By Daniel Lamaute
     Summary: The new rules apply to nonqualified deferred compensation plans at taxable and tax-exempt organizations.An option for independent corporate directors and individual board members who receive 1099 income for their services may consider is to freeze their nonqualified plan and adopt a qualified plan such as the 'one person defined benefit plan', called the Solo-DB Plan. Article: The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 imposed strict new ru…



157. The Arrow-Debreu Contingent Claims Model of Investment By Dr. Michael A. S. Guth
     Summary: Concerning information needed by market participants in the prior trading round(s) of the securities version of the Arrow-Debreu model, Radner observedAlthough the second part of the price system might be interpreted as spot prices, it would be a mistake to think of the determination of the equilibrium values of these prices as being deferred in real time to the dates to which they refer. `Compared to Lindahl prices, these `personal pr…



158. Making Every Penny Count By Lawrence Groves
     Summary: As far as these plans' were concerned, it's as if the money was never earned.Since the post employment earnings were not included in 401 k or 403 b compensation, these earnings were not a factor in any non discrimination or top heavy testing, as well as not being available for profit sharing or matching contributions.Depending upon the employers' policy on vacation, sick or other leave accumulation, this exclusion could be a substantial…



159. How to Setup a Profitable Trading Business By Jeff Wilde
     Summary: This is vital if you trade all day because, the worst thing is to be in a losing trade and the power goes out and you then have to spend 5 panic filled minutes rebooting your system and wondering what is happening.*Trading Software: This would be your charting software that gives you a wide range of choices for displaying graphs, quotes and data in real-time. Quick and efficient as well as uninterrupted access to your data is extre…



160. Part II of Day Traders and Swing Traders and Options? Maybe! By Brett Fogle
     Summary: Remember, stock loss, (stock price paid - strike price), plus option cost (option price) equals maximum potential position loss.The protective put strategy, when used correctly, will allow investors to take advantage of the same opportunities that could provide large potential gains, but without being exposed to the extreme risks the position could potentially present. Quite often, stocks experience bad news or break down through a tech…



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