Archive for the ‘Beginner's Series’ Category
Friday, August 25th, 2006
Being a newbie investor is a lot like being a trainee sent to a war zone. One wrong move, and you're job is over before it gets started. Investors need to develop a sixth sense when it comes to putting their money down. Newbies make a lot ...
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
This comes from the "Old Advice That Probably Is True File". It's easy to become enamored of a stock's "story", especially if it's a compelling one. You can easily inflate the company's capabilities, at least in your own mind. Because there's one big problem when it comes ...
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Online people seem to want to follow the crowd when it comes to stocks. The problem is, much of the time you might end up following the crowd right off a cliff. Let's face it: the "crowd" doesn't know diddly. They never have and they never well. ...
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Warren Buffett is the most successful investor of all time, and for that reason alone he's attracted a lot of attention during his long and illustrious career. Buffett has always been a proponent of a discipline that's come to be described as "value investing." Value investing was originally ...
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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Growth stocks have a way of delivering returns that's almost unparalleled by any other class of investment. One caveat is, the company has to be experiencing super hot growth for it to matter. That's why lists like the BusinessWeek Top 100 list are worth checking out. If ...
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
The internet is probably the single greatest place to invest, provided you have good knowledge before making your trade. When it comes to information retrieval, the internet has it all. In fact, some might think the internet has too much information. For that reason, you need to ...
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Not only might it be a good idea to "do nothing", it might actually give you the highest return. Sure, there may be some sort of opportunity cost, but it's not likely to be life-shattering.
You don't want to fight the trend, and up swimming against the stream. The ...
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Fear, Uncertainy, and their best friend Doubt have settled in the minds and attitudes of many investors these days. It's no big surprise. The Dow has tanked and there's even worse news for 200 dead workers in the Oil industry, which threatens a beleaguered supply chain.
Adding ...
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
One type of stock that always receives a lot of attention is the so-called "penny stock". Penny stock was a term used to describe any stock under $10 at one time, and very few brokerages would even allow trading in them. Penny stock now refers to "sub-penny stock" ...
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
It can happen to any company. A former high-flyer starts stumbling. This is what seems to be happening to Dell Lately as the warn again on earnings. The global market is highly competitive, and no company can take market share for granted. As investors, a ...
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