Stock Market
Article/Letter/Op Ed Submission: Wall
Street Conventional Wisdom and Stock Market Corrections
During every correction, I encourage investors to avoid the destructive inertia that results from trying to determine: how low can we go; how long will this last?
Investors who add to their portfolios during downturns invariably experience higher Market Values during the next advance…
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Article/Letter/Op Ed Submission: The
Investor's Creed and Your Investment Portfolio
Growing up at Lake Hopatcong in Northwest Jersey, the most popular entertainment
around was the rickety old Roller Coaster at Bertrand Island Park. The
excitement would build as you ascended the first peak, anticipating the
breathtaking plunge; eyes wide open (or shut), screaming from the thrill
with a white-knuckled grip on either the safety bar or your date's hand…
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How Much Is Your Financial Consultant
Really Worth?
How Much Time Does A Big Time Investment Firm's Financial Consultant Devote
to Your Account? Most financial consultants that work for a large global
investment firm need about U.S. $50 million of assets under management
to make a decent living in a metropolitan region…
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How To Build Wealth During Turbulent
Markets, Part II
I’m not really sure why but the private client wealth divisions of large
investment firms by and large seem to ignore year after year investments
in precious metals such as gold, silver, palladium, zinc and others…
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How To Build Wealth During Turbulent
Stock Markets, Part I
In mid-2006, the global markets corrected a great deal. In the U.S., the
Dow plummeted 4%, the Nasdaq about 6%, and the S&P 500 about 5% in a single
week. European stocks posted their biggest drop since May 2003…
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The Surging Interest in Dividends,
Especially Among Boomers
This article explains the growing interest in dividends among stock investors,
especially baby Boomers looking for income in retirement…
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Welcome to the BIG Buy Low
Every correction is the same, a normal downturn in one of the Markets
where we invest. There has never been a correction that has not proven
to be an investment opportunity. You can be confident that the Federal
Reserve, as hypnotized as it is with keeping inflation under control,
is not going to cause either a financial panic or a prolonged recession
with tight money and high interest rate policies. While everything is
down in price, as it is now, there is little to worry about. When the
going gets tough, the tough go shopping…
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On Formulaic Investing
One question almost every investor asks at some point is whether it is
possible to achieve above market returns by selecting a diversified group
of stocks according to some formula, rather than having to evaluate each
stock from every angle. There are obvious advantages to such a formulaic
approach. For the individual, the amount of time and effort spent caring
for his investments would be reduced, leaving more time for him to spend
on more enjoyable and fulfilling tasks…
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8 Tried and True Commodity Stock Trading
Application Rules
Some commodity Stock Trading Application rules are made to be broken,
but when you’re trading, there are some rules are meant to be followed.
Here some of the Stock Trading Application rules that I consider the most
important principles of trading. I suggest that you make a copy of them
and place them in your trading diary or tape them to your desk, so that
you’ll always remember to follow them…
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How May Continued Global Crises Affect
the Stock Market?
Nearly five years have passed since the devastating 9/11 attacks on the
United States, and it appears that time and perspective may have helped
investors learn difficult lessons about staying calm amid the uncertainty
that terror generates. On July 7, when a string of bombings hit the London
public transportation system, U.S. markets opened down but spent the rest
of the day recovering, as major U.S. stock indexes finished the day on
an upward trend…
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12 Rules of Investing
RULE 1: WHY DO YOU INVEST?
Make more money, this is the answer to most people. If your reason is
to make more money, then ask yourself these three questions…
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The Danger Of Inflexible Enterprises
Whenever a large investment has been made in a particular area, whenever
there is a lot capital, people, and ego tied up with some operation, the
transition away from that operation is apt to be far slower than what
an objective observer would have expected…
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Stock Market Window Dressing: The
Art of Looking Smart!
As investors, and we all are investors these days, it is important that
we understand the idiosyncrasies of the Stock Market pricing data we use
to help us in our decision making efforts. On Wall Street, investing can
be a minefield for those who don't take the time to appreciate why securities
prices are at the levels that appear on quarterly account statements.
At least four times per year, security prices are more a function of institutional
marketing practices than they are a reflection of the economic forces
that we would like to think are their primary determining factors…
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Relax, A Volatile Stock Market Is
Your Dearest Friend
Most people never forget their first love. I'll never forget my first
trading profit! But the $600 (1970 dollars) I pocketed on Royal Dutch
Petroleum was not nearly as significant as the conceptual realization
it signaled! I was amazed that someone would pay me that much more for
my stock than the newspaper said it was worth just a few weeks earlier!
What had changed?…
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In Value Stock Investing, Quality
is Job One
How much financial bloodshed is necessary before we realize that there
is no safe and easy shortcut to investment success? When do we learn that
most of our mistakes involve greed, fear, or unrealistic expectations
about what we own? Eventually, successful investors begin to allocate
assets in a goal directed manner by adopting a realistic Investment Strategy…
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Mismanagement At The New York Times
The New York Times Company (NYT) isn’t just reporting the news – it’s
making the news. At yesterday’s annual meeting, shareholders withheld
28% of their votes for the four directors elected by holders of the company’s
common stock. Nine other directors are elected by holders of the Class
B shares, effectively granting control of the company to a group holding
less than a 1% economic interest in the business…
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average:
Failing the Average Investor
In addition to a well thought out Investment Plan, successful Equity investing
requires a feel for what is going on in the real world that we all refer
to as "The Market". To most investors, the DJIA provides all of the information
they think they need, and they worship it mindlessly, thinking that this
time tattered average has mystical predictive and analytic powers far
beyond the scope of any other market number…
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What is Value Investing?
Different sources define value investing differently. Some say value investing
is the investment philosophy that favors the purchase of stocks that are
currently selling at low price-to-book ratios and have high dividend yields.
Others say value investing is all about buying stocks with low P/E ratios.
You will even sometimes hear that value investing has more to do with
the balance sheet than the income statement…
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An Analysis of Lexmark
(LXK)
In 2005, Berkshire Hathaway bought about a million shares of Lexmark.
I haven't followed this story closely, but I assume the stock was purchased
by Lou Simpson rather than Warren Buffett. I have only two reasons for
believing this: the total purchase was small relative to Berkshire's investable
assets and the Lexmark purchase is typical of Simpson's investment philosophy
(or at least, what little I can glean about his investment philosophy
from his past purchases). Regardless of who actually makes the purchases,
a new Berkshire holding always draws a lot of commentary…
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Investment Strategy:
The Investor's Creed
Fascinating, isn't it, this stock market of ours, with its unpredictability,
promise, and unscripted daily drama! But individual investors are even
more interesting. We've become the product of a media driven culture that
must have reasons, predictability, blame, scapegoats, and even that four-letter
word, certainty. We are a culture of investors where hindsight is rapidly
replacing the reality-based foresight that once was flowing in our now
real-time veins…
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Steal Warren Buffet`s
Stock Market Lesson Plans?
Why should you want to steal someone else`s stock market lesson plans?
First, let me tell you that a trading plan is only useful if you follow
it. Following your plan will make you successful, yet many traders circumvent
the stock market lesson plans that they have carefully created…
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The Idiots Guide To
Back Testing For Confidence
After you`ve set your initial stop loss, chosen your method for calculating
your trailing stop loss, and implemented all your money management rules,
there is one last thing you should do; you should begin back testing your
system…
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Stock Option Trading
Millionaire Principles
Having been trading stocks and options in the capital markets professionally
over the years, I have seen many ups and downs.
I have seen paupers become millionaires overnight…
And
I have seen millionaires become paupers overnight…
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Could an Oil Slick
Trip Up Stock Investors in 2006?
After generally rallying for the last 2 or 3 months, stocks suddenly ran
into an unexpected roadblock. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
had climbed to within about 6% of its all-time high and other indexes,
while not as close to peak historical levels, had risen in tandem…
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The Case for Value
Stock Investing... What If?
Wall Street Institutions pay billions of dollars annually to convince
the investing public that their Economists, Investment Managers, and Analysts
can predict future price movements in specific company shares and trends
in the overall Stock Market…
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Avoid Day Trading Your
Dollars Down the Drain
Day traders quickly buy and sell stocks during the day, hoping their stocks
will continue climbing or falling in value for the seconds to minutes
they own the stock. This allows them to lock in quick profits. Day traders
usually buy on borrowed money, hoping that they will reap higher profits
through leverage…
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Will Santa Visit Stock
Investors in January?
Bullish investors would likely have rather received a lump of coal in
their stockings, given the prevailing lofty level of energy prices, than
the uncharacteristically lackluster performance delivered them by the
stock market in the waning days of 2005. What made the sour ending so
unusual was its defiance of the well-documented normal tendency for stocks
to rise in December, particularly near the end of the month…
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How To Buy Stocks That
Are Hot With No Effort
Even traders want to be trendy when they buy stocks. Many traders make
trades because of public opinion, not because the trade itself makes sense.
When a particular stock seems popular, they rush in so they don`t feel
they`ve missed an opportunity. As a result they end up buying at a price
point where the trade can`t possibly work out. You should always avoid
the emotion of the HOT stock…
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Fiscal Measurements
A former colleague at a major stock brokerage firm always confused "fiscal"
with "physical". On June 30th, he would talk about the close of the "physical
year". Just a mental block for an intelligent man. Fiscal year-end differs
for corporations with most ending June 30th while others use December
31st. Fiscal is fancy jargon for "show me the money"…
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Metastock Part 2: Designing
a Trading System in MetaStock
In Part 1 of Designing a Trading System in MetaStock, I had discussed
the major components you needed to be able to track to create a mechanical
entry system. These were measures of price, liquidity, trend, and volatility.
The question now is, how do we code this into MetaStock?…
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Now That the Stock
Market Made an October Low, Where Will it Go?
A lot has changed in more than a century since Mark Twain first uttered
his memorable quote, but with no less than 14 important stock market lows
established in the month of October just since the launch of daily S&P
indexes in 1928 (a disproportionately large 17% of all bottoms), it appears
Mr. Twain was on to something…
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The Stock
Market Report That Wall Street Does Not Want You To Read
The best way to maximize your profits is to be prepared to give some back
to the Stock Market. When most traders first hear this, they are a little
taken back. Why would you give any of your profits back to the Stock market;
because you are never going to be able to exit right at the peak of the
Stock market trend. But, you can still stay with the trend as it develops,
and let your profits run in the Stock market. Then, when the price turns,
you can exit…
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Professional
Stock Market Advice Reveals Most Common Trading
The best Stock Market advice you will ever read is to learn from mistakes
when someone else has made them. So, this stock market advice list I made
a list of some of the most common trading mistakes that are made. Even
I`ve made some of these. If you have already made some of the mistakes,
you can rest assured that you aren`t alone in making them. If you haven`t
made them, then here`s a way to get around having to learn by making the
mistakes yourself, by reading my stock market advice list…
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A New Wall
Street Line Dance: Performance
It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you
just can't know where the stock market is going or when it will change
direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying
to predict course corrections. even more is squandered comparing portfolio
Market Values with a handful of unrelated indices and averages. If we
reconcile in our minds that we can't predict the future (or change the
past), we can move through the uncertainty more productively…
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Penny Stock
Strategies
Why should the rich guys have all the fun? The small investor can seek
out huge returns too...if they know how.
Technical analysis that uses statistics for forecasting price fluctuations
is one approach. However, because it is difficult to track changes in
fractions of a penny, there simply isn’t enough data to be able to analyze.
Therefore, you have to keep an ear to the ground when you trade penny
stocks…
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What Makes
A Good Surety Bond Producer?
The difference between bond producers can be night and day. A good producer
knows the surety industry and the construction industry (for contract
bond producers). For contractors, a bond producer is a key to the door
of suretyship. The differences in contract producers could be the difference
of approval and declination, bond line size, collateral requirements versus
no collateral, etc…
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Why Do
I Need A License Surety Bond?
There are thousands of different surety bonds in the United States alone.
One of the most common types are license bonds. Simply put, these bonds
are required by the government in order to obtain a license to legally
operate a business…
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Investing
Stock Market ABC’s
While most folks today trust mutual funds and their professional managers
with their investments, it’s still important to understand the basics
of the stock market. Although investing in individual stocks may not be
right for everyone, a basic understanding of the stock market is essential
to understanding the workings of our economy and business sector…
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The Uranium
Bull Market Keeps Getting More Bullish
China Demand for Uranium, World Growth in Electricity Demand to Drive
Uranium Price Higher.
Industry expert says all new production already factored in uranium price
“We are consuming far more uranium than we are producing worldwide,” explained
David Miller, Wyoming legislator and recently appointed president of Strathmore
Resources (TSX-V: STM; OTC: STHJF.PK)…
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Stock Options:
Limited Loss and Unlimited Profit
Many people believe that the stock market can make you rich one day, but
also make you bankrupt the next. Well, how eould you like to know about
a method of stock trading that completely saves you from unlimited loss,
but still leaves the door open for unlimited profit? That method is buying
and selling stock options. How to trade stock options would best be explained
using the following example…
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Metastock
Part 1: Relative Strength Comparison (RSC) The Key Success Tool In Trading
By Stock Market Sectors
Within this report I`ll show you how you can find these profitable
trading opportunities with MetaStock. You`ll be able to make use of techniques
usually only used by professional traders, such as the Relative Strength
Comparison. The basis of the RSC (Relative Strength Comparison) is found
in sector analysis…
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How to
Read Stock Market Quotes
The stock market quote is the basic collection of numbers an investor
must understand to achieve success in the stock market. It is a list of
prices for certain stocks at one point within the trading day. In the
past, stocks were quoted in fractions, but now, most exchanges use decimals.
Stock market quotes are found in newspapers, as well as online. Stock
quotes are updated regularly during the trading day…
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Understanding
Fixed Income Securities: Expectations
I’ve come to the conclusion that the Stock Market is an easier
medium for investors to understand (i.e., to form behavioral expectations
about) than the Fixed Income Market. As unlikely as this sounds, experience
proves it, irrefutably. Few investors grow to love volatility as I do,
but most expect it in the Market Value of their equity positions. When
dealing with Fixed Income Securities however, neither they nor their advisors
are comfortable with any downward movement at all…
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3 Steps
To Profitable Stock Picking
Stock picking is a very complicated process and investors have different
approaches. However, it is wise to follow general steps to minimize the
risk of the investments. This article will outline these basic steps for
picking high performance stocks…
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