DIY Portfolio Management ETFs provide individual investors with a way to lock in market returns while minimizing expense. ETFs have grown as investors become educated about the disadvantages of conventional mutual funds.
Stock Valuation using the SMP Model This is long-term investing, folks. If you are looking for a stock valuation model that predicts short-term highs and lows, well, you can find them all over the internet for $50 - $200. However, when you've spent your money, and then lost some more trying to play the ups and downs, maybe you'll be ready to listen to a little common sense investment advice.
Swing Trading Strategies Using Swing Trading Strategies and Technical Analysis when Trading Stocks to Make Consistent Trading Profits - This article is one small part of a series of lessons using Swing Trading Strategies and Technical Analysis developed by WD Gann which are designed to show how anyone can build a profitable Stock or Commodity trading business from scratch.
How Commodity Trading Differs from Stock Trading There are several major differences between trading stocks and trading commodities. The futures trader, if using a sound trading system, can usually make more money on the futures market and make it much faster.
Finding A Good Stock One of the things people are always asking me is how can I find a good stock. The answer I give does not please them. I say, "You are not qualified to pick stock. You don't know how so don't try. Put your money in a no-load mutual fund that is going up".
Stealth Bull If you have been watching the stock market at all you are probably very confused. You are not alone. One day is a hundred points up for the DOW and the next a hundred down. What is going on? There are many stocks that are going up and unless you are in the right ones you will be left behind.
No Load Mutual Funds: Boost Your Portfolios Returns Investors who exclusively use broadly diversified, no load mutual funds for their stock investments often lose out on opportunities to increase the reward potential of their portfolios. This article ...
Trapeze Artist - Swinging with the Stock Market When we go to the circus we see a trapeze artist working on a high wire or swing either alone or with other athletes. They know what they are doing because of constant practice, but every once in a while there can be a mistake, even a small one that can cause one of them to fall. The result is death or serious injury when they hit the ground
The Next Bull Market We are already in it, but you can't see it. It doesn't look like the one we had in '99. Like the magician who has you watching what he wants you to and with the other hand he is doing something else that is what is happening in the stock market today. The magician is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq or the S&P500 Index. These have John Q. Public mesmerized.
How (NOT) to Buy Mutual Funds When it comes to mutual funds, there is a lot more to success than just finding a good one. Sad investment stories like the following are all too common. I hope my sharing it with you will help you a...
How to Maximize Your 401k Mutual Fund Returns When it comes to 401k's there is an overabundance of sad stories. Here is one that at least has a happy ending—and it's getting happier all the time. Last year (in 2002) a friend of mine—let's call h...
How to Evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds If you have been dealing with mutual funds for any length of time, you undoubtedly have faced the question of which is better: Load Funds or No Load Funds. If you are new to investing, "load" simply ...
How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing What are you thinking when it comes to your no load mutual fund selections? Are you saving pennies and sacrificing dollars? Are you spending your time looking at expense ratios, analyzing Morningstar...
How to Pay Less and Get More: Discount Broker vs Professional How do you invest? What do you really pay? At the end of the day, what are your real results? These are questions smart investors should be asking themselves (but usually don't). In this era of more ...
How We Eluded The Bear Of 2000 The date October 13, 2000 will forever be embedded in my mind. It was the day after our mutual fund trend tracking indicator had broken its long-term trend line and I sold 100% of my clients' investe...
Lifestyle Funds Provide Greater Security? With the stock market stubbornly refusing to settle down and smooth out, Wall Street has been scrambling to come up with "product" they can sell to gun shy investors. One such new concept is the Lif...
No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype vs. Investment Help With the internet such a huge part of our daily lives, many investors have access to a wide range of instant investment information. Whether you're into stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures or option...
Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys sitting in a bar. One is saying to the other: "I did learn something from my broker...how to diversify my investment losses." While this struck ...
Know What You Want Out Of Life At this point in time you have an opportunity to really analyze your life. Where you are right now and where you want to be in the future. Now is your chance to...
Super Powers People fail to achieve the level of success they desire because they do not see themselves talented enough. They see those at the top of their field as super po...
The 3rd Plan Missing from your Business If you're like most people, you probably started with wonderful ideas of fulfilling your dreams, to be successful and to take charge of your own destiny. I hope...
Should Ezine Writers Write on More Than a Few Subjects Recently a discussion broke out about authors on a very popular online article directory website, some in the industry call it a "category killer," as it has ov...
The World Of Voice Mail Voice mail is something that none of us can live without these days. It is used for many reasons and in many ways. Simply, we need ways to stay in touch no ma...
How to Hire The Right Web Design Firm Hiring the cheapest, fastest, or most elaborate design firm does not always equate to hiring the right web design firm.
Dont Forget That Manual! No user manual? Surely you jest! It may seem comical, but it's a surprisingly common situation. I've encountered many companies that don't provide any user ma...
10 Secrets for Free Media Placement Why pay a high priced PR agent when you can get free media placement to promote your product, service, or book?
Exercise Bike Benefits Buying an exercise bike and want to know how one can benefit you? Learn about the benefits of exercising on a recumbent bike and how to reach your fitness goals...
Seven Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Vacations Vacations are important to our mental, physical and emotional health. They provide us a chance to relax, change our perspective and reconnect with parts of our...
The Power of Media: Russian Perspective Real professional journalists understand what should and should not be said and shown. A professional journalist needs to have not only proper education, talent...
Wheres Your Focus, Money or Customer? Is your website Really useful? I had a 'rep' in yesterday who was telling me he had a website, not realising I'm a man of many talents he was telling me about a...
Do You See PRs Real Value? To get PR's real value, you probably should expand your view of public relations to emphasize the behaviors of your unit's key outside audiences rather than pub...
Keyword Popularity Check Before using keywords for your site, it is always better to check for the popularity of these sub theme keywords. Some or all of the tools mentioned in the keyw...
Global Dumbing? I am beginning to wonder if scientists have been getting it all wrong. All this time, people have been worried about the Ozone, or a giant asteroid, or some bre...
Honesty How can one be effectively honest with others who have suffered a tragedy and are in denial? How does one help them overcome this denial and pursue happiness r...
Reviving Dead Clients Most consultants I've talked to don't spend any time trying to recover inactive clients and it's a big mistake. We tend to magnify the problem we had or just wa...
13 Donts on Child Safety For years, we have been taught that 13 is an unlucky number: Don't go up to the 13th floor of a building and don't go out on Friday the 13th, our grandmothers u...
Travertine Information Travertine is a compacted form of limestone that forms in rivers and hot springs. Water, especially river water, has a lot of minerals in it. Sometimes these mi...
Gay Contingency Killing Democratic Party Many Gay American Males are quite politically motivated and they make good volunteers for a political campaign because they are dedicated to their cause. They o...
