What is a market order?
Suppose you are holding shares of stocks that already have climbed 10%, 20% or more. How do you protect your gains? The last thing you like to see is your preciously earned gains evaporate under the sun or disappear as a result of a major market ... [... more]
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Investing requires focus, discipline, patience and ...
Why is investing so difficult? Actually it is not, but most people are considering investing to be a skill that can be mastered only by professionals, brokers investment managers, analysts, or some exceptional individuals. This assumption is ... [... more]
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Read This Before You Buy a Mutual Fund - Investing
I have had a decent number of questions sent my way about mutual funds so I felt I should do a follow-up to my prior article, How to Choose Mutual Funds. The typical mutual fund turns over its portfolio at least once a year and owns on average ... [... more]
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Investing versus Saving -- The Difference - Investing
Investing goes hand in hand with setting a personal financial plan whether it is retirement, college education, a bigger home, or a combination of these. The second step would involve tracking your personal cash flow. This step is tricky because ... [... more]
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Spring Fever. Before you start investing - Investing
Spring is here! Temperatures are increasing; the sun is out more; and with it comes spring fever, an urge to start cleaning! Your house, garage, or even your office could benefit from some serious cleaning (at least mine do). So do your home ... [... more]
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BellaOnline Investing Newsletter Sign-Up - Investing
Investing is a skill that can be learned by anyone! Many financial professionals like to make investing look extremely complicated and that a person needs to be an Einstein to figure it out. This is what allows them to keep collecting juicy fees ... [... more]
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Time is not Money! - Investing
Time is Time and Money is Money. The key to success in investing is not speed. It is patience, patience, and more patience. This quote is from Jessie Livermore, one of the world's greatest stock traders. Jesse Livermore was born in 1877. He ran ... [... more]
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Some Investment Predictions for 2009 - Investing
The year 2008 is coming to a close and none too soon. 2008 will long be remembered as the year when the chickens came home to roost for America's brand of "extreme" capitalism. What follows are a few of the things I believe we will see in the .. [... more]
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Setbacks can breed Success - Investing
Lance Armstrong was on Larry King the other night talking about the death of Mrs. Reeves and his own setback when he was first diagnosed with cancer. Lance as many of you know is the cyclist who won seven times the Tour de France, the biggest ... [... more]
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More Investment Predictions for 2009 - Investing
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope this new year is good for everyone and everything that you wish for comes true. In this week's article, I wanted to conclude my look at what I expect to happen in the financial world in 2009. In last week's ... [... more]
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Predictions and Psychology - Investing
I myself look to history quite often, searching for parallels to what is happening today. However, I always keep in mind that famous quote by Mark Twain - "History doesn't repeat itself, at best it sometimes rhymes". For instance, Wall Street [... more]
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Are ETFs Better Than Mutual Funds? - Investing
There is a fairly new type of investment vehicle which can be extremely useful for the small individual investor. Yet many investors are unaware of it. It is called an Exchange Traded Fund or ETF. This new product is giving individual investors a ... [... more]
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