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Leveraged Investing Can Be Wonderful or Terrible

According to Investopedia: Leverage is the use of various financial instruments or borrowed capital, such as margin, to  increase the potential return of an investment. Leveraged Investing Exploded The World of Finance has gotten increasingily complex in the last five years. The collapse of some famous Banks like Lehman Brothers was laid firmly at the door of the problems related […]

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Facebook’s Botched IPO

Who’s Winning and Who’s Losing from Facebook’s Botched IPO By Adam J. Crawford, Casey Research  In less than a week’s time, the Facebook IPO has gone from the most-hyped technology event since Google went public into “blame-storming” mode. Details concerning the stock’s sudden drop, the market’s inability to process orders, and the (mis)behavior of insiders

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Moving Averages: Determining Trend and Avoiding Whipsaws

The moving average is a simple tool designed to help you easily determine the underlying financial trend of a stock, bond, commodity, mutual fund, or any other financial instrument. According to Wikipedia a moving average is “commonly used with time series data to smooth out short-term fluctuations and highlight longer-term trends or cycles. The threshold between short-term

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Where (and When) to Place Your Investment Bets?

By Jeff Clark, Casey Research Let’s explore the advantages of saving in gold and silver over dollars. Here’s a hypothetical look at what could occur over the remainder of this decade. The charts below compare saving $100/month in gold and silver vs. an interest-bearing money-market account. For our projections, we assumed gold’s average annual gain

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Capital Safety: Is There Such a Thing as “TOO Safe”?

We all know that the stock market has been rising for 3 years. Many economic measures — unemployment, consumer spending and confidence, etc. — also show strong improvement. Yet is that a good reason to stay bullish on stocks? What a silly question, some people might say. But before you give a reply, please take

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R.N. Elliott Discovered the Wave Principle Over 70 Years Ago

This is your opportunity to learn the method that has stood the test of time In the 1930s, Ralph N. Elliott discovered that stock market prices tend to move in recurring patterns. He defined these patterns (or “waves”) and explained how they combine to create larger versions of themselves. He called his discovery the Wave

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Forex Market Insight: EUR/USD Rallies…Why?

Elliott wave patterns suggested a bullish reversal a day before the rally On February 16, EUR/USD, the euro-dollar exchange rate and the most actively traded forex pair, surged over 170 pips, from below $1.30 to above $1.3150. The explanations for the strong rally boiled down to “hopes” that the Greek bond-swap deal would be reached.

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