Archive for the 'Stocks & Mutual Funds Information' Category

Historical Briefing: Stocks, Finance and Money

Monday, April 20th, 2009

The World Bank claims that some two billion of the world’scitizens live on $1 per day or less! That fact absolutelyshocked me. With this statistic in mind it becomes important tofocus on all of the things that have served as money over thehistory of civilization. Aztecs used Cocoa beans, Norwegiansused Butter and dried cod, many [...]

Trading Education: The Best of Both Worlds!

Monday, April 20th, 2009

I made my very first investment in the stock market when I wasten years old. Ever since then I have been hooked! Now I checkout hundreds of trades each year with the same excitement andenthusiasm, and each time try to find that one market at theright time that could dramatically create wealth.
If you would’ve been [...]

Planning Your Dive and Diving Your Plan - Trading!

Monday, April 20th, 2009

A colleague of mine just returned from a scuba diving trip inCozumel, which just happens to be one of my favorite places todive. Anyway, she was telling me about an unexpected difficultyshe encountered while swimming around the corral reef down about85 feet. It wasn’t anything serious but her story reminded me ofsomething my scuba instructor [...]

Basics of Stock Market

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Financial markets provide their participants with the most favorable conditions for purchase/sale of financial instruments they have inside. Their major functions are: guaranteeing liquidity, forming assets prices within establishing proposition and demand and decreasing of operational expenses, incurred by the participants of the market.
Financial market comprises variety of instruments, hence its functioning totally depends on [...]

Making Outsized Returns in the Stock Market - Using the Dow Theory

Monday, April 20th, 2009

The Dow Theory
Charles H. Dow
Robert Rhea
E. George Schaefer
Richard Russell
The Dow Theory Today
Charles H. Dow
It is interesting and amazing to note that not until Charles Dow started compiling the Dow Jones Industrial and Dow Jones Rail Index and started writing about the stock market a little over a hundred years ago, stock speculation was regarded merely [...]

9 Deadly Trading Mistakes!

Monday, April 20th, 2009

The following are a list of nine things you want to avoid at all costs. Anyone of them can literally destroy your financial dreams and goals!
1. Trading with money you can’t afford to lose.
One of the greatest obstacles to successful trading is using money that you really can’t afford to lose. Examples of this would [...]

Forces that Move Stock Prices

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Among the largest forces that affect stock prices are inflation, interest rates, bonds, commodities and currencies. At times the stock market suddenly reverses itself followed typically by published explanations phrased to suggest that the writer’s keen observation allowed him to predict the market turn. Such circumstances leave investors somewhat awed and amazed at the infinite [...]

High Price/Earnings Ratios and the Stock Market: a Personal Odyssey

Monday, April 20th, 2009

After some forty years of banking and investments, I retired in 2001. But since I do not golf, I soon found retirement to be very boring. So I decided to return to the investment world after ten months. However, those ten months were not a complete waste of time, for I had spent them in [...]

Investing in the Stock Market - When To!

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Is really not as important as to how you invest in the stock market. And how you invest in the stock market should take into consideration what goals you are setting for that stock market investment.
For example, are you investing for capital appreciation or for income through dividend paying stocks? Or is the investment in [...]

Dividend Paying Stocks

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

I would like to share with the reader an article printed in the financial section of U.S.A. Today on March 7, 2003 which exemplifies the awesome power of a stock dividend.
MICROSOFT TO ISSUE FIRST DIVIDEND TODAY:
Microsoft investors will get their first payday today,when the tech giant shells out its first dividend. At 8cents a share, [...]