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While many investors see mutual funds as a good long term
investment, there is a better investment that not only has
higher returns, but lower downside volatility.What is the investment? It may surpr (read
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Last week, the yield curve inverted, when the 10-year Treasury bond yield fell below the two-year Treasury bond yield. An inverted yield curve has always predicted a profits recession. Moreover, yield (read
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The ADX indicator measures the strength of a trend and can be useful to determine if a trend is strong or weak. High readings indicate a strong trend and low readings indicate a weak trend. When this (read
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When investors look ahead to what may be great investments for the next year, they much too often focus on what were big winners from the previous year. For example, shares of Google (GOOG) more than (read
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As I mentioned in my last message, if the support line of your mutual fund or your stock is broken, beware! This is a very clear signal you should be hedging your position, and perhaps consider selli (read
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What is you investment approach? Let me explain why I ask you.
Most people start by buying a mutual fund. If you want to know more about investing you can start by investing yourself.
Then there are (read
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We want to look at shorting for a moment because here we have something that is quite profitable if done right, but can hang you out to dry if not. As you know, one of the problems with shorting is th (read
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An article of 919 words describing what types of Mutual Funds are available and how to best use the funds to maximize your return with lowest risk (read
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While you might assume any mutual fund investor should use Quicken’s mutual fund record-keeping tools, that isn’t the case. Because investment record keeping, including mutual fund record keeping, req (read
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About this time every year, the personal finance magazines will perform an annual ritual: Looking at how mutual funds have performed over the past year—and then using that information to suggest which (read
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While you might assume any mutual fund investor should use Money’s mutual fund record-keeping tools, that isn’t the case. Because investment record keeping, including mutual fund record keeping, requi (read
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If you are the average American investor it means you have no idea what or when you should be buying and selling. Stocks? Bonds? Mutual Funds? Limited partnerships? ETFs (Exchange Trader Funds)? Money (read
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SPX rallied over 100 points from mid-October to late-November. Many, if not most, expected the beginning of a cyclical bear market last month. Consequently, heavy short-positions were taken, in Octobe (read
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What if the average American could not invest in the stock market or buy mutual funds? What if only the wealthy could do this? Well, as more and more regulations are put on the financial investment in (read
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Stock vs Mutual fundsAre you looking for something that you want to commit to? Something that provides a real business engagement, than you should invest in stock.Mutual funds are great. They help you (read
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Mutual Fund Investments are safe always. You may know that
all the profits shared to the investors by the mutual funds are
coming out of the profits from the investments in the stock
market.Norm (read
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Let's take the NASDAQ composite. It is made up of a basket of shares, the largest and most well traded stocks and an average of these stocks figures go into making the NASDAQ composite. Remember that (read
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The mutual fund industry has staked its claim to the confidence of investors by establishing a tradition of plain dealing, honest accounting and overall trustworthiness. If there were sharks on Wall S (read
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The first thing you have to decide when you are going to buy a stock is "what price are you comfy with buying it at?" In other words, let's say you like the idea of buying XYZ and with XYZ trading at (read
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Years ago before all the electronic sensors
miners would take a canary down into the shaft.
He was a very pampered bird as he represented
life or death. If he dropped off his perch
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The other day, there was a guy on CNBC hyping his style of investing. He seems like a nice guy, but his theory was a bit hard to swallow. He said that if you have money, you should just buy the market (read
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At this time of year, you need to be aware of the ex-dividend date of any mutual funds you plan on purchasing. If you heed this advice, you avoid some nasty tax and investment performance consequence (read
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Metrics such as price/earnings ratio and dividend yield on the S&P 500 index, a commonly used proxy for the U.S. stock market, are hardly at bargain levels. This has lead several market pundits to pre (read
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Ever wanted to know a proven method to track the trends and make the trend of the market your personal friend?Here’s how you can do so:1. Find a short term moving average. Use 20 days simple moving av (read
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Exchange traded funds (or ETFs) are better for most investors than mutual funds. The mutual fund industry has experienced tremendous growth over that last twenty-five years or so. But it's a new era (read
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If I could put my finger on the one solitary thing I dislike the most, it's getting whipsawed. Nothing in this wild game we play bugs me as much as being up 50 cents or a buck one day, only to have to (read
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Think about this one. Has your broker EVER recommended that you place a stop-loss order on a stock after you have bought it? Ninety-nine percent of the brokers never think about helping you protect yo (read
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No, not the money you have in your brokerage account, but mutual funds. This year so far more than 600 mutual funds have vanished. Where did they go and what happened to the money in those funds that (read
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I have recently been contacted by a gentleman who has a large financial Internet web site devoted to mutual funds and he has asked me to act as an editor. He sent me a list of mutual funds and asked m (read
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AFTER THE SPLIT ANNOUNCEMENT - Often times, the stock will develop a pattern of dropping back three to ten days after the announcement. This provides you with an opportunity to take advantage of the (read
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The stock market is driven solely by human emotion. Nothing else really matters. Human emotion is driven by perception, and perception is jaded by expectations. If your expectations are not met, th (read
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We all know that emotions control every decision that an investor makes in any type of money related vehicle. Whether is be the stock market, real estate, art work or antiques, emotions ultimately se (read
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‘Sector funds are too risky.’ ‘I doubled my money with Fidelity Select Technology in 12 months!’ ‘Avoid sector funds.’ If all of this sounds confusing, you are not alone. Sector funds are among the mo (read
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Please note that I do not necessarily purchase, own, or partake of any of the securities or other financial instruments mentioned in this article. I also do not take any responsibility for (read
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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 t (read
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If you go to Haiti or other places in the Caribbean you may run into the Voodoo tradition of magic. There are long and mostly noisy rituals with the medicine man spouting words that bring great power (read
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In November of 2000 when the NASDAQ was trading at 3000 I wrote in this column that the NASDAQ Index would fall to 1500 and I got lots of heat for saying it. Microsoft had fallen from $129 to $60 per (read
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One of the big advertising kicks today from mutual funds is to tell how low their expense ratio is and that you will make a great deal more money if you buy and hold with them. Partly true, but that i (read
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When it comes to buying a stock or mutual fund most people act pretty quickly. There are some who will take the time to get a report from Morningstar (it is worthless) or get reports from their broker (read
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At some time in your life you have been on a river in a canoe and hopefully you had a paddle. You know about being up the creek without one.You quickly learned that paddling up stream is much harder t (read
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Mutual funds and brokers are always preaching not to buy any fund with a high expense ratio. That is the annual costs of the fund to pay for trading of stocks within their portfolio, salaries, rent, t (read
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Mutual funds are doing more and more to discourage investors from leaving them and taking their money to a better performing fund. What does better performing mean? It has nothing to do with who the m (read
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You remember the story about the frog that
was put into a pot of cold water on the stove. He
was not concerned. Someone lit the burner and
the water began getting warm, the frog was very
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There is so much involved in developing peak performance, that I recommend that all traders have a business plan. We recommend that the business plan cover all of the following areas.• Your vision.• Y (read
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What can I expect to make my first year of trading?We get questions like this one quite often. We find that most aspiring traders don’t have a clue as to what to expect from the market. Yet here the (read
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The Bollinger Band theory is designed to depict the volatility of a stock. It is quite simple, being composed of a simple moving average, and its upper and lower "bands" that are 2 standard deviations (read
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People are constantly asking me why is the stock market going down. What is causing this bear market? It is relatively simple so don't ask an economist. He will give you a 200-page answer that is unde (read
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Before you buy another car you walk around the lot, kick the tires, slam the doors and look at the mileage indicator. That's an odometer. I know. That is about all the "research" you can do other than (read
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Ever turn down a street, get half way and suddenly realize it is one way and you are going the wrong way? Is that the way you feel when you look at your stock brokerage statement?In either case don't (read
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Mutual funds by definition are a mixed bag of stocks, bonds and a little cash. Their price per share is the NAV, Net Asset Value of the total amount of money in the mutual fund divided by the number o (read
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