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This is category for personal finance advice, tools & investing tips and combining business news, stock quotes & financial market etc.
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 Anonymous writes: "The half year report card for global stock markets was not one to be proud of. The first half of 2008 was the worst first half to a year for the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1970, when the index was down 14.60%. The 14.44% decline of 2008 is actually the tenth worse performance since 1900. July hasn’t exactly started off with a bang and US traders may be thankful for the long weekend last week. The S&P 500 closed the week down 1.19%, registering its lowest daily close for almost two years. June was especially hard for US markets with a drop of 8.55% for the S&P 500, and a 10.19% collapse on the Dow, making up most of the years losses to date."
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Anonymous writes: "The advent of the Internet has provided easier access to a valuable source of information insider buying and selling. Combining the activity of company officials with the point and figure chart can give you an extra edge in the analysis of that issue."
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Mac X writes: "One of the things that especially rookie traders miss is that the market is driven really by the big money players. The big money players are going to look at a chart like this and back here and I am pointing to February, March and April, 2006. They are going to think to themselves based on fundamental research; based on quant research, based on talking to bankers, based on inside information, based on corporate mergers and acquisitions information, based on money flow that the British pound is going to be significantly higher inside of six to eight months."
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Anonymous writes: "Mutual Funds are a long term investment. Period. Nothing short-term about them, no day trading. They are meant for the serious investor that is willing to take the time needed to grow their wealth over a long period of time. Why are mutual funds like that?"
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Anonymous writes: ""Practice makes perfect," my mother used to say. It's as true of futures trading as of anything else. Before you put your hard-earned cash on the line, you need to practice trading if you want to succeed as a futures trader."
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Mac X writes: "Here is the most important part and this is something I don’t want you to feel nervous about; just give it a try. Just trust me on this. The last thing is, take a complete break for at least one day, preferably two days. The ideal thing is of course, is we’re talking about going through five discs, would be to go through just one, two, three, four and five Monday through Friday, one disc per day and then take the weekend off. Go play with the kids, go to a movie, go out with your wife, go on a two day cruise, fly to Vegas; whatever you are going to do for two days, don’t even think about it."
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Mac X writes: "I want to learn how to do things right now. I am going to go to a two day seminar and I am going to learn everything there is to know about knitting to basket weaving and I am going to walk out of there next week. It just doesn’t happen that way. So here’s how you can cut 30 to 80% off the learning curve. Why such a big range? Some people just have an easier time with it. They can follow these few things and they can hack major chunks off of their learning curve. Other people are just a little bit less."
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Mac X writes: "I am going to take right now, and give you probably the biggest shortcut in learning in your entire life. In fact, you probably would have a much more pleasant time in school if they had just shared these few things with you. It deals with the actual physical way that our brains learn. If you want to learn something quickly. I mean literally, if you want to take something and virtually put it into your mind, there are very few things that you have to avoid and just a few things you have to do. Okay?"
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Steve Selengut writes: "Value stocks are those that tend to trade at lower prices relative to their fundamental characteristics than their more speculative cousins, the growth stocks; they have higher than usual dividend yields and lower P/E and P/B ratios. So when all stock prices are down significantly, have they all become value stocks? Or, based on the panicky fear that tends to overwhelm media and financial experts alike, haven't they all taken on the speculative characteristics of growth stocks? "
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Kris Nickerson writes: "A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting the man, Ron Pollack (http://www.ronpollack.net), who had set up what was at one time one of the largest hedge funds in the US, peaking at over a billion dollars. We met in a Florida office in early summer. He was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and if you had passed him walking down the street you wouldn't guess the amount of finances that this man can control. During the interview, Pollack talked about his career as a short seller and hedge fund manger, the charity groups he helps, his family, and why he's decided to return to short selling after a six-year hiatus. "Short selling is what I do and I need to get back to doing it," states Pollack."
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Anonymous writes: "It sounds truly great, but not many people actually believe it can be done. There is a way that you can generate tons of leads and actually make money doing it without sponsoring any of them."
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Christopher West writes: "Workers at the lower end of the spectrum gained the most: manufacturing workers enjoyed about a quarter more real income in 1945 than in 1940 (Kennedy, 641). These rising incomes were part of a wartime "great compression" of wages which equalized the distribution of incomes across the American population (Goldin and Margo, 1992). Workers are overextended and can't buy the things they make. They barely have enough to feed the kids and fill the tank for work."
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Anonymous writes: "Financial markets were a sea of red numbers last week as the classic ‘Fade the Fed’ trade played out. The initial reaction to Wednesday’s US interest rate decision was neutral to positive, then the selling set in and hardly stopped. Thursday’s mini rally did a very poor job of papering over the cracks in the global economy. On Friday those cracks were wide open for all to see with housing and financial stocks hit the hardest. Barclays in particular was back to square one, erasing all gains from the start of the week, as investors took a second look at their fund raising plans in light of Goldman’s predictions of further write downs for major western banks. Citi Group was also floored on similar sentiment, falling to its lowest level since 1998.
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Mac X writes: "How do you world class trading powers in 32 seconds? First things first. Is it possible to get those trading powers in 32 seconds? It really is but let me hopefully give you a little bit of perspective before we really dive into how exactly to get these trading powers. I want to make a little bit of comment first. The reality of life is most everybody would like to go to sleep and wake up rich. I would to. Let’s face it. "
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Anonymous writes: "I remember a TV show. I think it was called a Man with a Million Faces and this guy could download stuff in his brain and do it. I remember one episode, he downloaded the ability to drive a Formula One racecar and he had some mission he was on and had to learn how to do this very quickly."
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Anonymous writes: "It is also important to know what stadium you are playing in and what time the game starts. For instance, a football player would not show up at the swimming pool, nor would a golfer tee up the ball on a baseball field. In other words, each sport has its own playing field. The same is true in investing. The following tips will educate you on some of the intricacies of market index composition and weighting, sector timing, and sector-relative strength. Or said another way, they will let you know what stadium your game is in and if the playing field is level."
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Mac X writes: "On that tape, was an introduction to the world of trading. Prior to that, I had been what you would call an investor. In the military they would talk to us about how to save your money and bonds, stocks, mutual funds and things like that. We had different people to come into our company and present information on how to invest our money."
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Mac X writes: "In 1991-1992, I was a graduate also of what many consider to be the world’s most demanding military trading that’s the U.S. Army Specials Forces selection. I was only in the Army for four years and nine months. Quite frankly, being a trainer and having trainer’ mentality, I didn’t exactly fit in with the Army culture, if you can imagine it. "
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Anonymous writes: "1 Be arrogant.
The market teaches humility. As soon as you believe you know why the market acts, you will be proven wrong. Arrogance can kill a portfolio. You must be able to admit defeat and preserve enough capital to fight again. Following the point and figure charts, which depict the battle between supply and demand, helps keep you out of the �I know why� attitude of investing."
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Mike Sweeney writes: "U.S. Cost of Living Increases in 2008, Economy Teetering on Recession"
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