Archive for the ‘Money and Investing’ Category
Expand Your Pool of Investors for Your Company
If you own a company that sells complicated products and you want more investors, consider having topics on your web site that discuss the background needed to understand your products and your company. For example, if your company specializes in producing and researching monoclonal antibodies, post ...
Exciting New Commodity ETFs May Come Up Short
Every investor knows it’s important to diversify their portfolios. However, just diversifying into various market sectors that trend in the same direction doesn’t accomplish very much. Doing so may just add to transaction expenses and give investors a false sense of accomplishment. Most ...
Exchange Traded Funds
They call ‘em ETFs. There are hundreds of them. The mutual funds don’t want you to find out about them. Why? Because they beat the socks off mutual funds in so many categories. The expense ratios of most mutual funds runs about 1.5% and many are much higher. To buy a mutual fund you must ...
Evaluating A Money Manager
Scams and frauds are designed to take your money through false promises and phony ...
Everybody Wants to Know How to Invest
Those unfamiliar with the process of making and managing investments often have more than a few trepidations about investing in general. They figure that, since they do not know how to invest, they will never learn. Of course the horror stories of investors who lost their life savings on some bad ...
Emotions: A Traders Worst Enemy; Get Rid of Fear and Greed – Youll be Glad You Did
You hear it over and over and over in books, forums, and chatrooms. Fear and greed, fear and greed, fear and greed. Emotions are a trader’s worst enemy. What are we supposed to do about it? We are human after all. Human beings have emotions. We can’t just throw a switch and suddenly beha ...
Eight Steps to Building a Solid Stock Portfolio
Easy access to investing information and the availability of online trading has made life much more enjoyable and less costly for do-it-yourself investors. The Internet has brought the "trading" desk to millions of households and it is now possible to buy and sell shares, options, warrants, interest ...
Emotion In Investing
Humans are all emotional being. We do not always make decisions rationally. Emotion is part of us as investors. Investors might feel better towards stocks at certain point or they might feel that owning stocks are risky and avoid it at all cost. Investors may also feel attached towards a specific co ...
Effective Advice For A New Generation of Investors
CATCHING A FALLING KNIFE One of the most common mistakes made by inexperienced investors is trying to “catch a falling knife”. This is a habit, common among new investors, of buying stocks that are in “freefall”, and it’s a bad idea for an investment strategy. Unfortun ...
Eight Questions to Ask Your Financial Advisor
You may like your financial advisor, but is he really looking out for you? All advisors are not created equal, and you have a right to know what makes them different! You also have a right to ask yours if he compares! (1) Do you use a holistic approach to financial planning by determining my value ...
ETFs Unplugged
Is your financial advisor missing a critical piece to the ETF? Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are great investment tools but most have a flaw that investors and advisors usually miss. Let’s take a look under the hood and introduce some new and innovative ETF products. Essentially, ETFs are nothi ...
Easily Finding A Good Stock
There is a tremendous amount of software, complicated high priced newsletters, radio and TV stock pickers and Internet web sites that will help you find a stock that is going to make you rich. The problem is you don’t know if this is talk or are these gurus putting their own money where their ...
Dude Stop The Whining… Get the Capital To Fund Your Business
Raising capital to start a new business may seem like a daunting task, but it need not be overwhelming if you follow a few basic business practices. If you have a viable idea that will net a return for your investors and prepare a compelling business plan the chances are good that you can find inves ...
Dumb Money
Many people have, at one time or another, taken some of their hard-earned funds, and decided to put them in the stock market. These well-meaning individuals either acted on a tip they saw on CNBC, or actually believed one of those crazy faxes/emails that said XBXB @ $0.17/share was the next Microsof ...
Dogs of the Dow: A Nifty Strategy for Potentially Increasing Yield in Your Living Trust
Increasing yield - while maintaining an appropriate allocation - is often a difficult trick for trustees of living trusts. But one tool you can pull out of your kit is the “Dogs of the Dow,” a contrarian strategy designed to potentially increase yield and growth. First put forth by Micha ...