Spotting New Trends- It is said that hindsight is 20/20. It’s easy to think, “If I had just bought apartments in Paris in the 80s, or tech stocks before the bubble, or gold in 2000 or 2001, I’d be sitting on a fortune right now.” The thing is, kicking yourself for lost opportunities doesn’t do […]
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The Only Way to Win with Gold Stocks While I have read certain works on the life and ponderings of Buddha, I claim no deep knowledge of his philosophy. Note that I didn’t use the word “religion,” because Buddha himself claimed no supernatural powers and even begged his followers not to deify him after his
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Mutual Funds- Do you worry about your teen or 20-something’s financial choices? Although the world of investing may be second nature to you at this point in your life, often teens and even college grads don’t understand anything about investing. Having worked around my fair share of fiscally-clueless twenty-somethings, I am no stranger to explaining
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Avoiding Bad Investments- Investing can be scary and confusing. You may be dealing with someone who has a conflict of interest with what they’re selling, but you don’t want to miss out on what seems like a great opportunity — even if you don’t fully understand it. To ensure you have a good investing experience,
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Investing in the Stock Market The ability to predict stock market movements is one of the most sought-after skills on Wall Street. Yet research indicates that there are simpler ways to consistently use publicly-available information to improve future stock market and Investing performance. Mood Swings The public’s mood has generally been considered an inverse predictor for those investing
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The 3-Year Rally: It Doesn’t Have to End This Way – Or Does It? The market’s trend is set to accelerate By Elliott Wave International Is it wise to forecast financial markets based on what central bankers say? Look no further than a chart of long-term stock market prices for the answer: No major trend
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Risk Management Trading the financial markets can be a great way to generate income and grow your wealth. At the same time, it can also cost you a lot of money if you make the wrong choice or if you don’t know what you’re doing. The key to being able to keep the balance in your
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By Elliott Wave International Financial markets always have always posed two basic questions that investors seek to answer: What’s the direction of the main trend? How far will it go? Systematic approaches to these questions commonly belong to either fundamental or technical analysis. Let’s consider each one briefly. Fundamental analysis studies how a market behaves in response
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Often governments and corporations need to raise capital for a multitude of reasons. To do this they have several channels available. They can borrow from banks, issue stock or borrow from investors or they can issue debt securities in the form of bonds. Many investors (called bond holders) purchase these bonds and in return, the company gets a lump
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DRIPs Many companies which pay dividends on their stock also offer dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. Receiving a quarterly dividend check is nice, of course, but you’re probably not going to be receiving much at once, and many of us would be inclined to fritter that extra cash away. DRIPs help you make more effective
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