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161. Remembering TEOTWAWKI and Learning from It By Harald Anderson
     Summary: TEOTWAWKI....(The End Of The World As We Know It ) It was a word created by the Y2K scare.I think there is a very profound lesson to be learned from the Y2K scare. As traders we must learn to constantly differentiate the difference between FACT and OPINION and determine how new data can affect us.For those who never learn to do this, The End of The World As We Know It will reflect itself in their portfolios. Article: Its only been up a…



162. What My Horse Had For Breakfast By Al Thomas
     Summary: All I wanted him to do is come in first and I can't say I'm crazy about that mutual fund either.That fund has a 5-star rating, is managed by one of the great names on Wall Street and has 60 of the best known company stocks I can think of and yet it is going down. Unfortunately, my broker is not going to be much help here either as he has been trained by the Wall Street method which has nothing to do with making money or protecting my cap…



163. How to Use Annual Report By Hari Wibowo
     Summary: Annual report gives investors a glance of the company's line of business, financial health as well as management's strategies for doing business.Let's look at CNET Networks Inc. CNET's Annual Report will gives you all that.From CNET's annual report, we can do a little digging for CNET's internet traffic. Reading an annual report serves as the first step towards investing in a particular company.How do we obtain annual report? Article: T…



164. Help with My Annuity By Tony Bahu
     Summary: The problem was, in order to get into this annuity, the agent talked him into surrendering his old annuity and paying a $13,000 surrender charge to do so-AND THE ANNUITY HE PUT HIM INTO WAS WORSE THAN THE ANNUITY HE GOT HIM OUT OF...When I asked him why he called the other salesperson in the first place, he told me he just needed to make a small withdrawal from his annuity and didn't know how...And the agent tricked him into switching i…



165. Dogs of the Dow: A Nifty Strategy for Potentially Increasing Yield in Your Living Trust By Glenn Dahlke
     Summary: You select the 10 Dow stocks with the highest dividend yield and one year later rebalance to the new 10 with the highest yield.The theory is that the DJIA is made up of high quality issues, and the highest yielding securities among those high quality issues are those that have increased dividend yield due to their stock prices being depressed. Type 'Power Searches' in the MSN search box and go to 'Dogs of the Dow.'You should also know th…



166. Investing As A Sport? By David Leonhardt
     Summary: Most people are happier when they forget they even have investments.Number Two: If you are one of those people with a terminal case of Itchy Trading Finger, then you probably would not be happy ignoring your investments. They view stock trading as a sport.In fact, stock trading is a sport. We call this "friendly fire".Contrast this to Itchy Trading Finger, who stands an equal chance of striking gold or of moving into a cardboard box on…



167. What Options Trading is Not By Tony Chai
     Summary: Like any other trading instruments like forex, index, futures, commodity or even shares trading, options trading involves learning specified trading skills tailored towards options. earnings outcome, upcoming FDA approval for drug etc.If you want to sustain your options trading journey from the stage where you would commit every beginner mistakes till the stage where you could cut your losses quickly and decisively and learn how to let …



168. Delist My Corporation Please By Lance Winslow
     Summary: Which is all to common as any insider will tell you.A company which is delisted or deregistered stands to have an instant gain on their bottom line and will have the advantage of making decisions based on market advantage and profit goals rather than appeasing brain dead regulators and thousands of pages of new rules with millions of pages of new case law.Some companies are seriously thinking of going private, not going public. Article: …



169. The Past Does Not Equal The Future: Mutual Fund Returns! By Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D.
     Summary: A way that investors get ripped off and in a sense rip themselves off is based on the culture of performance in the mutual fund industry. Mutual fund managers try to outsmart the market in the short term instead of patiently waiting in the long term where it is more likely to correctly determine if stocks are high or low.So why then does the public pay so much attention to the nonsensical advertising of mutual funds that brag about pri…



170. Invest or be Pink Slipped By David D. Wells
     Summary: I started setting goals and taking vacations away from home instead of using my vacation time simply as time off from work.I even started solving problems that were a challenge for others but the solutions seemed to come to me with ease. This view allowed me to start taking full advantage of their tuition reimbursement program and their interest free loans for computer purchases.My experience of investing in commodities allowed me to cha…



171. Day Trading Strategy or Stock Trading Software? The Way You Pick Stocks Affects Your Results By James Levington
     Summary: The trading method you employ to approach the stock market can make a big difference in your results.Stock trading is a very competitive field and in order to succeed you need to FOCUS on a set of simple strategies that you can implement without hesitation.The real "secret" of the stock market game is enclosed within the trading set ups you rely on to decide when to buy or sell a stock. Article: The trading method you employ to corresp…



172. Make Money with No Money-When Will Opportunity Knock? By Jack Reynolds
     Summary: To make money with no money seems like a difficult task. Everyone has access to this much at least if they were to discover how to compound it rapidly and effectively.Making money with no money, the thing to remember is that money is numerical in nature. If you did that 47 times and bought up higher and higher cost items as your funds increased, and made sure each increase was a mere 30% then as your calculator has already told you, you…



173. The Cost of Green Eggs and Ham By A. Raymond Randall, Jr.
     Summary: Sometimes his culinary skills warrant a cost per item analysis the same way the U.S. Department of Labor reports the Consumer Price Index (CPI).CPI reports tell us what a "basket of goods and services" costs using a benchmark dating from 1982-1984 Importantly, the CPI becomes one of many components within inflation measurement models. If a bank certificate of deposit earns 5% annually and the inflation index reads 2.5%, then…



174. How Do Know if a Breakout Will Hold? By Larry Potter
     Summary: At the very first signs that a stock won't break out, they pile on the shorts, and that extra pressure will often lead to the stock failing it's move. In our example, if 60 is the breakout line, and the stock gets to 60.50, chances are better that it's going to stick than if it only gets to 60.08 and can't seem to get further. Secondly, is the stock going to close above that breakout level?Over the years we've found that stocks that clos…



175. Investing for Retirement - Not an All or Nothing Play By Seneca Spade
     Summary: Perhaps the company has been doing well lately and the employee is bullish on the future success of the company. Companies fail suddenly, layoffs occur and you do not always have the meteoric rise in your career that you might hope for.To subject your savings to the fortunes of the company that you already are so dependent upon is something you should do only after careful consideration of all the alternatives. Even the pros have a hard …



176. Learn How to Lose and Risk Management By Ioannis - Evangelos Haramis
     Summary: Little effort is put into considering how low the market could go, and where they should get out in order to control their losses.These thoughts, which are so distant from the minds of most traders, are what separate the winners from the losers.Risk management is the practice of determining what percentage of your account to risk for each and every trade in order to maximize the expected profit potential of your trading strategy.Once thi…



177. How to Buy to Let By Jennifer Tweed
     Summary: Finding the correct buy to let mortgage is crucial to your success when you are buying and selling investment property.To Buy or Not to Buy an investment property for sale?' As soon as you find a property you would like to buy, run a To Let advert in the local press. Find out more about buy to let mortgages, landlord inventories, tenancy agreements, landlord insurance, landlord tax, furnishing your buy to let and credit checking your te…



178. Discipline in Trading and Investing By Joe Ross
     Summary: The one thing I can think of that most affects both trading and investing has to be self-discipline.Being disciplined is fully 50% of the job of trading or of investing. Getting out would mean you were wrong.- Adding to a losing trade: You are making a massive effort to prove you were originally right.- Grabbing a profit too soon: You want affirmation that you did the right thing.- Missing an opportunity because you can't pull the trigg…



179. Index Trading Weekly Update By Richard Bastien
     Summary: Here is a sample of the last newsletter:SP500 Last Signal Comment We just had a new sell signal last friday on june 10th 2005. We just completed our second cycle this year and we are now waiting for the next buy signal to start a new one.ND100 Last Signal Comment We had our last buy signal on April 21 2005. So this last buy signal is ahead for some good profit.DOW Last Signal Comment We had our last buy signal on April 21 2005. It st…



180. 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…



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