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SIPC Broker-Dealer Insurance Coverage
Congress first created the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) in 1970 to help protect consumers of member broker-dealers that fail and/or be liquidated. If securities or cash are missing...
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Systematic Investing Could Yield Greater Returns
Investing isn't a set it-and-forget it process. The first step in the process for you may be setting up an account and making the initial investment, but it certainly does not stop there. What you...
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Survival of a Down Market
To climb a markets peaks, you must first ride through the valleys. It can be tough to hold back your emotions and urges to sell while you think you can during market downturns. This is just "the nature...
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Tune Into the Markets and Become a Well Rounded Investor
The minute you purchase an investment, you are going to run out and get the first business magazine or financial newspaper and read all you can about your current investment and/or future investments....
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Investing in Individual Stocks
Picking the winning stock out of a line-up can be an exciting thrill ride that can yield great profits- two reasons why so many investors opt in to investing in individual stocks. You never know what...
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Stock Investing Basics
These basics of stock investing will provide a quick overview of what it takes to weed out good investments from the great investments. Investigate the company you're interested in. If you happen to...
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Is Health Care Really on its Way to Reform?
The problem: Simply put, the costs of health care services are on a continuous, seemingly unstoppable, upward spiral. Increasing at a rate more than twice as fast as the rate of inflation, health...
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Jim Cramer's Mad Money
Consider this a nuts and bolts guide to investing. If curiosity for understanding risk tolerance, defining investment objectives, and doing the basic homework on a stock strikes you, this is the...
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What to Look For In a Fund Prospectus
There is an abundance of fine print, and odd terminology in a prospectus, so knowing what to look for is essential to being able to weed the good investments out from the great investments. When you...
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The Monthly Financial Review
Jimmy Atkinson presents 13 Socially Responsible Careers in Finance posted at Forex Blog. Aaron Wakling presents Don?t Allow A Low Credit Score To Cost You Thousands Per Year posted at The Credit &...
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The Secret to Timing the Market
Investment decisions aren't always the best and there are definitely times when cutting your losses and selling is the best decision to make. However, don't act too quickly; make sure you don't simply...
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Investing Tax Tips
When considering tax consequences of investing, tears start to roll. This is precisely why you should be completely aware of tax consequences your investments might be subject to. Tax laws and...
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Options Basics
As well as trading bonds, stocks, an other investment types, more knowledgeable investors choose to buy or sell the option to trade securities at a specified date and at a specific price. Options are...
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7 Steps to Starting an Investment Portfolio
So you've finally made the decision to start saving for retirement and you want to experience the extraordinary growth of the world financial markets. Great decision! You may feel anxious as well as a...
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Choosing a Stock That Beats the Street
Many investors use many different approaches to pin pointing the stock that will out perform analysts expectations- of course that's the goal anyway. How do you choose the winning stock? Generally I...
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When is The Right Time to Sell an Investment?
Deciding when to sell individual stocks If you've done the research that it takes to weed out the good stocks from the out-performers, then you know that simply a drop in price is not a sufficient...
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Inside The World of Call Options
A call option gives the holder of the option the right to purchase a defined number of shares of the underlying stock/security at a fixed price. This type of option is labeled as "call" because a...
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Tips for Selling Short Against the Box
Selling short against the box is a very tempting yet a very tricky, and involving investing method. Often times, only the most experienced investors will be successful with a short sale. This technique...
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Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into...
The concept of this book is raising traders just like turtles are raised in Singapore. If that sounds a bit "off-the-rocker" as well as interesting, keep reading. Richard Dennis apparently said this to...
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The World of International Investing
International investing is and should be considered an integral part of any asset allocation strategy. With that said, all investors, regardless of asset allocation model (from aggressive to...
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Option Premium Valuation: Time and Intrinsic Value
An option premium is the amount that a holder of an option contract pays for the right to buy or sell a number of shares of a security at the strike price up until a predefined date. The premium can...
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The Curious Investor
This just in from the department of shameless self promotion. There are a few sites out in the wonderful world of websites and blogs that haven't quite made it to the front page of the Daily Journal....
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Analyzing a Company's Coverage Capability
Corporate coverage is essentially a company’s ability to meet the obligations of its preferred stock and bonds. This will greatly influence the company’s ability to obtain credit in the future. So when...
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Accept Responsibility for Your Financial Future
Before you start or continue on your way to your financial future, keep one thing in mind- investing is for the long term. The ups and downs of the market are considerably less risky than not investing...
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Financial Review - August 7, 2007
Below is the bi-monthly financial review covering topics from credit to investing- Many different writers with many opinions. Read. Learn. Succeed. Tracy Coenen presents Dateline NBC investigates...
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