Trading / Investing

The Zen of Trading
By Greg Hodges · 17 years ago
Being a day trader isn’t for everyone. Opening a scottrade account does not automatically qualify you as a trader. As a matter of fact, you have to be a little “special” to make your living ...
The Continued Success of Forex Currency Trading
By Andrew Daigle · 17 years ago
Forex trading is an unpredictable market that is followed closely by economists the world over. The forex market is absolutely enormous with some reports indicating that around 2 trillion dollars worth of trading is done ...
Six Crucial Mistakes All Stock Market Newbies Make
By Peter Woodhead · 17 years ago
Fed up with making mistakes in the Market? You don't have to. Of course, you'll never get it right all the time. In fact, you can be wrong more times than you are right, but ...
FOUR INVESTMENT LESSONS before you start trading
By Akbar Jiwani · 17 years ago
Mr. John was a 27-year-old Management student at an Usa university. Being from the well-off family , all he wanted was a professional job that paid good money. But just like any other student, Mr. ...
Buy to Let The Basics
By Tim Woz · 17 years ago
The industry experts and financial counselors predict a solid future for buy-to-let businesses. Of course, like any investment, there are risks to be taken. And the buy-to-let business makes no exception; this kind of investment ...
Dealing With Stock Market Corrections: Ten Do's and Don'ts
By Steve Selengut · 17 years ago
A correction is a beautiful thing, simply the flip side of a rally, big or small. Theoretically, even technically I'm told, corrections adjust equity prices to their actual value or "support levels". In reality, it's ...
The Concept of Saving versus Investing You Should Know
By Makabongwe Maseko · 17 years ago
Some people think the terms “saving” and “investing” mean the same thing - but they don’t. In truth, they represent two distinct ways of managing money. Understanding the difference may help you make informed choices ...
10 Forex Trading Essentials
By David Stevenson · 17 years ago
These 10 Forex trading essentials are a high-level peek at the pitfalls that catch many traders. Compare your trading style with these simple fixes and if you are not employing some or all of them, ...
Playing the Commodities Boom
By Darrell Jobman · 17 years ago
Commodities have become an attractive investment in recent years, even for those who may not know much about them but would like to participate in the profit potential from dramatic price advances posted by energy, ...
Futures Trading – Introduction and Types
By Praveen Ortec · 17 years ago
Futures trading involve the trading of futures contracts, which deal with underlying products. The futures contracts provide the holder power to buy the underlying commodity at a specific time for a specific price. This provides ...
Is Forex Trading for Everyone?
By David Stevenson · 17 years ago
Successfully trading the Forex market requires you to have the discipline to follow some rules. If you can "stay the course" and follow your system, regardless of what the market is doing, you can make ...
Forex Trader
By Jb Mills · 17 years ago
Before entering into Forex trading, make sure you have a clear trading technique that you will use. Actually, there is not even one set tactic for doing business in the forex currency markets and each ...
There's Always a Bull Market Somewhere
By John Ruppel · 17 years ago
Do you look at the mutual fund rankings that magazines publish every year? The performances can often be eye popping. Have your ever seen a year that the best performing mutual funds had a loss? ...
Tips for Forex Trading
By Jb Mills · 17 years ago
Some great tips for Forex Trading include recognizing the trends in foreign exchange trading that must be watched. When one recognizes a certain pattern of which each have been studied for decades and there is ...
Investor Psychology: Goals and Dreams vs. Day-to-Day Activities
By David Van Knapp · 17 years ago
Allow me to acknowledge first that much of this article is inspired by Dr. Bob Rotella's book, The Golfer's Mind (2004, Free Press), particularly Chapter Three, "Goals and Dreams." If you are not familiar with ...
The Onset of Any Investment
By William Tan · 17 years ago
If you want to be serious in trading, you must look at trading as a business. Before you set up any business, planning is essential. Although tempting, before you pour your hard-earned savings into this ...
Want To Know If Day Trading Is For You?
By Adam Heist · 17 years ago
Day trading can be a very dangerous form of financial speculation, but it is going on from PC all over the United States and the world. The idea is to sell a futures contract to ...
What is Forex Currency Trading?
By Andrew Daigle · 17 years ago
Everyone is talking about it. It's the newest get rich quick scheme on the block and you want a piece of the action. Who wouldn't? But before you go any further, it's good to spend ...
Dividends or Buybacks--Which Are Better for Shareholders?
By David Van Knapp · 17 years ago
Both dividends and share buybacks are often cited as ways for a company to ''give back some money'' to its shareholders, as if they were functional equivalents. But they are not equivalent at all. In ...
Hedge Mutual Funds - Manage your Portfolio Risk
By John Ruppel · 17 years ago
Today we take a look at mutual funds that are not structured like typical mutual funds, that is, funds that don't invest exclusively in stocks and bonds. These can be powerful additions to the risk ...