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By Anthony GreenJun 30, 20081 topic

Main Financial Hubs

The second type of exchange is the virtual sort called an over-the-counter (OTC) market, of which the Nasdaq is the most popular. These markets have no central location or floor brokers whatsoever. Trading is done through a computer and telecommunications network of dealers. It used to be that the largest companies were listed only on the NYSE while all other "second tier" stocks traded on the other exchanges.nnThe tech boom of the late 90s changed all this; now the Nasdaq is

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJun 30, 20081 topic

Shares Prices

Stock prices change everyday by market forces. By this we mean that share prices change because of supply and demand. If more people want to buy a stock (demand) than sell it (supply), then the price moves up. Conversely, if more people wanted to sell a stock than buy it, there would be greater supply than demand, and the price would fall. Understanding supply and demand is easy.nnWhat is difficult to comprehend is what makes people like a particular stock and dislike another

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJun 25, 20081 topic

The Bulls Market

On Wall Street, the bulls and bears are in a constant struggle. If you haven't heard of these terms already, you undoubtedly will as you begin to invest. nnThe BullsnnA bull market is when everything in the economy is great, people are finding jobs, GDP is growing, and stocks are rising. Things are just plain rosy! Picking stocks during a bull market is easier because everything is going up.nnBull markets cannot last forever though, and sometimes they can lead to dangerous si

Primary topic: Stock Trading

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By Anthony GreenJun 25, 20081 topic

What Stock Should I Buy

often, one of the first questions an investor asks is “What stock should I buy?” This question can involve a great deal of time and analysis. In many cases, the average investor will want to find out what the company does; review its financial statements; see if it pays a dividend, as well as how long that dividend has been paid and whether or not it will continue to be paid; discover whether the company’s earnings are rising or falling; analyze its products

Primary topic: Stock Trading

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By Anthony GreenMar 26, 20081 topic

Stock Market Trading Strategy

If you want to start with stock market trading , you must know some of the aspect related to stock market. With no knowledge of stock market and the careful planning, there is very little success for stock traders. To find success in the stock market, a person needs to know the attributes and have a stock trading system. They are crucial to your stock market trading business and making a profit could be extremely easy.nnTry to develop an edge and base your trade on technical

Primary topic: Stock Trading

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By Anthony GreenFeb 14, 20081 topic

Fast Markets

You've probably heard about "fast markets" in the news. But what does it really mean? What are the dangers of a fast market? How can you protect yourself as an investor? nnWe will discus the following topics related to fast markets: nnA Fast Market in Action nnA fast market is an event that's becoming increasingly common: A hot new technology company goes public. Within minutes of opening the Initial Public Offering (IPO) on secondary markets, investors from around the countr

Primary topic: Stock Trading

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By Anthony GreenFeb 9, 20081 topic

Return On Assets And Investment

The annual dividend is the total amount of dividends you could expect to receive if you held the stock for a year and there was no change in the company’s dividend payment. It is based on the current quarterly dividend payment rate projected forward for four quarters. nnThere was a time when a company not paying a dividend could expect to have its share price punished by virtue of the fact that many conservative funds looking for income rather than capital growth from t

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 9, 20081 topic

Useful Quotes About Fund Managers

1. Skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be hot, you can’t and neither can the legions of advisers and publications that claim they can. That’s why building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic. nn2. By day we write about Six Funds to Buy now. By night, we invest in sensible index funds. Unfortunately, pro-index fun

Primary topic: Stock Trading

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By Anthony GreenFeb 8, 20081 topic

Use Of Prior Day Highs And Lows

Each of the intraday trading techniques discussed so far have relied on reference levels arrived at by means of mathematical calculations. The technique iscussed in this section, in contrast, will deal with a set of support and resistance levels which are much more intuitively obvious. In short, we will discuss a technique for using the prior day's price extremes as a means of determining market-based valuation levels. nnIf market activity is thought of as an auction process,

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 8, 20081 topic

Pivot System Support

Judgements made about likely market behavior which are based on momentum analysis can be even more productive if we have predetermined levels available which can act as price templates in interpreting the day's trading activity. The Pivot System is one such approach.nnFloor traders and other professionals who do the actual buying and selling of futures contracts in the trading pits of the exchanges, generally employ very similar systems for valuing the price of these instrume

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 8, 20081 topic

Resistance Levels For Intraday Trading

As helpful as Pivot System levels often are a significant drawback to their use lies in the fact that they are calculated from the prior day's price action, and may not accurately reflect recent changes in market psychology. Effective intraday trading also requires a means of identifying support and resistance which can more easily adapt and more accurately represent price activity under rapidly changing market conditions. The 20 period Exponential Moving Average (20EMA) can

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 7, 20081 topic

Overtrading - The Greatest Evil

Overtrading is the cause of more losses than anything else in Wall Street. The average man does not know how much capital is required to make a success and he buys or sells more than he should. Therefore he is forced to get out of the market when his capital is nearly exhausted and probably misses opportunities for making profits. Make up your mind how much loss you can afford before you make a trade and not afterward. nnStick to small quantities. Be conservative. Do not over

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 7, 20081 topic

Successful Stock Trading Rules

If you can not follow a rule, do not begin speculating or investing, as you are sure to lose. Learn to adhere strictly to a rule or do not follow it at all. nnThe following rules should be carefully studied and applied in your trading:nnCapital Required nnYou would not try to run an automobile and start out to travel several hundred miles unless you knew how much gasoline it required to run a given number of miles. Yet, you go into speculation without knowing one of the most

Primary topic: Stock Trading

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By Anthony GreenFeb 7, 20081 topic

How To Start With Stock Investing

Remove the looser and keep the winnernnFor many it is worse than having a tooth pulled to sell a stock for a price lower than what they paid for it. If you buy a stock for $20 and it drops to $10, so long as you don’t sell, then it can be referred to as an unrealized loss. In this case you can say to your spouse, Don’t worry, dear. It’s going to come back. Similarly, many can’t wait to sell as soon as they can see daylight between the purchase price an

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 5, 20081 topic

Secrets of Stock Investing

Invest in quality businesses, not stock symbolsnnFor most people investing in a stock is little more than watching the trail left by the stock symbol as its price wanders along some drunken path. They know that the symbol is associated with a company while not being too sure what is expected of this company to ensure that its share price will rise. It is a case of let’s sit back and hope for the best.nnThen there are others who deliberately do not want to know anything

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 4, 20081 topic

Blue Chip Investing Criteria

Criteria: nn1. Strong Brand name. nn• Reputation for quality. • High repeat purchase. nn2. Good Fundamentals. nn• EPS, Turnover, and Profit increasing steadily year by year. nn• Healthy Cash Flow – Cash Flow per Share greater than EPS, Cash Flow per Share greater than Capital Expenditure per Share. nn• Good management – a stable but ambitious CEO and Board. Forward-looking with an ability to embrace new technology. nn• Good fina

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 4, 20081 topic

Questions Considering Investment Opportunities

1. Is this a good business run by smart people? nnThis may include items such as quality of earnings, product lines, market sizes, management teams, and the sustainability of competitive positioning within the industry. nn2. What is this company worth? nnValue investors perform fair value assessments that allow them to establish a range of prices that would determine the fair value of the company, based on measures such as normalized free cash flow, break-up, takeout, and/or

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 2, 20081 topic

Short Trading Vs. Long Trading

Long trading is when you buy a stock with the intention of later selling it at a higher price. Shorting stock is when you sell stock with the intention of later buying it back at a lower price. Short trading appeals to many on the basis of market cycles, in which downtrends are virtually unavoidable, falling faster than they tend to rise on the uptrend. The disadvantage to short selling is the fact that the market will eventually always swing back up, which increases the pric

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 2, 20081 topic

About Core Trading

Unlike scalp and swing trading, core trading takes advantage of situations in the market that require longer lengths of time to develop. For these types of trades, market assessments and decisions are generally made after market hours due to the busy activities of the trading day. Both detailed fundamental and technical analysis are very important before executing core trades. The challenge of core trading tests a trader’s skills at stock picking and predicting the futu

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenFeb 1, 20081 topic

Day Trading Strategies

Only an immortal trader would be able to accurately predict the sway of the stock market and win every trade. Since this is highly unlikely, we are left to rely upon our experience, knowledge, risk management assessment, and strategies of various trading styles to survive and prosper in an ever-changing, unpredictable market. While consistency is very important to succeed in the stock market, it is just as detrimental to be flexible. Think of a tree with deep roots that is so

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 31, 20081 topic

Trading The World Stock Markets

Like so many other industries, the Internet has changed the market and the way we do business. The stock market is no longer a members only field game of stock brokers playing the market.With the click of a button, the average individual now has access to the same information and facts that only stock brokers were privy to a few years ago. Gone are the days when market traders and specialists had the advantage of profiting from the ignorant public.nnWith today’s technol

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 31, 20081 topic

Online Stock Income Strategy

So you want to make money on the Internet. Millions worldwide are trying to do so. The first hurdle they have to master is to filter all possible opportunities to find out that more than 80% of them are a hoax programs that appear to take your money and after 3-4 months they just disappear. The same could happen with short living products. They are in for the moment and out-fashioned very quickly. Be cautious to select the right program.nnAfter having checked a hundred busine

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 31, 20081 topic

Failure Of Share Market Investing

The vital component is the trading plan. This does not need to be overly complex. You just need to know what you will do if the share price goes up, down or sideways. If you can cover these three things then you have a contingency for anything the share price can throw at you. And more importantly you will prevent yourself from reacting to sudden market fluctuations that happen all of the time. nnThe trading plan should also incorporate an overall strategy for the share that

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 30, 20081 topic

Cause Of Stock Price To Rise

Typical events that can cause a stock’s price to rise:nn- Negative news reports about a company’s competitors: If they are in trouble, their customers may seek alternatives to buy from, including your company.nn- Positive news reports about a company: The news may report that a company is enjoying success with increased sales or a new product.nn- Positive news reports about a company’s customers: Maybe your company is in industry A, but its customers are in

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 29, 20081 topic

Behavior Of The Better-Quality Stocks

Leaders And DowntrendsnnWhen a severe correction hits the market, the biggest leaders tend to drop the most. For one, they have the most gains to lose. Many of the strongest stocks that drove the Nasdaq to a peak of 5132 in March of 2000 fell 90% below their highs. While the major averages were selling off in heavier volume, leading stocks were simultaneously breaking down, a clear sign some institutions were selling and the market was turning south. After a long market advan

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 28, 20081 topic

About Leaders And Downtrends

When a severe correction hits the market, the biggest leaders tend to drop the most.nnWhy?nnFor one, they have the most gains to lose. Many of the strongest stocks that drove the Nasdaq to a peak of 5132 in March of 2000 fell 90% below their highs. While the major averages were selling off in heavier volume, leading stocks were simultaneously breaking down, a clear sign some institutions were selling and the market was turning south. After a long market advance, you can be fa

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 28, 20081 topic

The Market Is As The Market Does

To be highly accurate in any pursuit, you have to carefully observe and analyze the object at hand. The stock market is no different. The idea may seem simple enough, but even with their hard-earned money on the line, you'd be surprised at how often people argue with the facts that are right in front of them. Many investors are sometimes misled by the shouting of opinions and prognostications. Listening to opinions about the market is one of the riskiest things you can do as

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 28, 20081 topic

Market Leaders

Relying on the primary market indexes and studying their daily price and volume interplay is one of the best possible methods for analyzing the market's behavior and determining its overall direction and health. The second best method is studying the current and recent action of market leaders. Remember that history shows three out of four stocks follow market downtrends. When you see the best and the strongest stocks unraveling one after the other on heavier-than-average vol

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 25, 20081 topic

Stock Option Costs And Accountability

The direct cost to shareholders of stockoption compensation is the dilution of their ownership interest. A common managerial response to the dilution is to buy back outstanding shares. The trouble with that solution is that it devours corporate funds that might be more profitably deployed. Shocking indirect costs are accounting rules that fail to require employee stockoptions to be recorded as an expense on the income statement. This translates into earnings per share figures

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 25, 20081 topic

Trader Volatility

Trader volatility arises when trades are made for purposes unrelated to the fundamental values of a business. These trades drive prices to points related more to the motives of the trader than to the business value of the company.nnThe wide range of trading decisions that cause price moves unrelated to business value includes trading for identifiable economic reasons of the trader, such as portfolio rebalancing selling shares to fund personal needs or desires, such as a child

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 24, 20081 topic

Return On Assets

Return on assets is the amount a business earns on all its resources not only shareholder equity and long-term borrowing but short-term resources generated by effective management of working capital. A business may seek short-term, low-rate loans or buy goods on credit that it resells for cash, thus increasing the assets available for deployment at low or no cost. Those assets contribute to incremental increases in earnings, boosting both return on equity andnreturn on assets

Primary topic: Stock Trading

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By Anthony GreenJan 24, 20081 topic

Strategies For The Stock Market

You might ask whether it is worth your time to do hardheaded analysis of business or whether you would be better off letting other people do the work and then free riding on their effort. Economists illustrate this free rider strategy by positing a country that taxes its citizens in order to build a good military. Everyone agrees that this is desirable to defend against foreign enemies. A tax dodger free rides on the public good of a strong military while not contributing to

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 21, 20081 topic

Stock Market Trading Rules

Despite the widespread agreement, some participants in the debate remained skeptical. Indeed, prescient commentators of that era ocProzac Market ocasionally expressed the fear that the interrelationships of stockprice changes are so complex that standard tools like these cannot reveal them. That fear led to efforts to dispute the model by designing trading rules that could achieve above-normal returns by uncovering and exploiting these greater complexities.nnAmong the most pr

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 20, 20081 topic

Profitability And Solvency

As dull or cumbersome as the topic sounds, financial ratios are indeed the “meat” of analyzing stocks. Sadly, most investors don’t exercise their due diligence when it comes to doing some relatively easy things to make sure that the company they’re investing in is a good place for their hard-earned investment dollars. A solid company doesn’t have to pass all these ratio tests with flying colors, but at a minimum, it should comfortably pass the on

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 18, 20081 topic

Stock Market Traits

Bull markets tend to start at the depths of pessimism the same way that dawn starts at the edge of darkness.nnPeople have probably just been beaten up by a bear market. The phrase I m into stock investing is about as welcome in polite conversation as “I have a contagious disease.” If investors are avoiding stocks like the plague (or selling stocks they already have), share prices drop to the point that much of the risk is wrung out of them. Value-oriented investor

Primary topic: Future Trends

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By Anthony GreenJan 18, 20081 topic

Investing Tactics For Growth

What’s the number one reason people invest in stocks? To grow their wealth. Yes, some people invest for income (in the form of dividends), but that’s a different matter. Investors seeking growth would rather see the money that could have been distributed as dividends be reinvested in the company so that (hopefully) a greater gain is achieved by seeing the stock’s price rise or appreciate. People interested in growing their wealth see stocks as one of the con

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 17, 20081 topic

Market Risk And Inflation Risk

Market risknnPeople talk about the market and how it goes up or down, making it sound like a monolithic entity instead of what it really is a group of millions of individuals making daily decisions to buy or sell stock. No matter how modern our society and economic system, you can’t escape the laws of supply and demand. When masses of people want to buy a particular stock, it becomes in demand, and its price rises. That price rises higher if the supply is limited. Conve

Primary topic: Stock Trading

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By Anthony GreenJan 17, 20081 topic

Market Order And Stop Order

When you buy stock, the simplest type of order is a market order an order to buy or sell a stock at the market’s current best available price. It doesn’t get any more basic than that. Here’s an example-nnKowalski, Inc., is available at the market price of $10. When you call up your broker and instruct him to buy 100 shares “at the market,” the broker will implement the order for your account, and you pay $1,000 plus commission.nnI say current bes

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 16, 20081 topic

Types Of Brokerage Accounts

When you decide to start investing in the stock market, you have to somehow actually pay for the stocks you buy. Most brokerage firms offer investors several different types of accounts, each serving a different purpose. Three of the most common types in the following sections.nnThe basic difference boils down to how particular brokers view your “creditworthiness” when it comes to buying and selling securities. If your credit isn’t great, your only choice is

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 14, 20081 topic

Beware Of The Pump-and-Dump

The pump and dump is a classic scam that usually shows up in bull markets. The scam works best with small-cap or (even better) microcap stocks in other words, small companies that have relatively few shares or small capitalization. Scams are at their most effective when they can play on the two most overworked emotions in the financial markets: greed and fear. In the pumpand dump, greed is the operative emotion. In this example, the investor to be plucked is called Walter Pid

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 11, 20081 topic

Steadily Making Money - Income Investing

Not all investors want to take on the risk that comes with making a killing. Some people just want to invest in the stock market as a means of providing a steady income. They don’t need stock values to go through the ceiling. Instead, they need stocks that perform well consistently.nnIf your purpose for investing in stocks is to create income, you need to choose stocks that pay dividends. Dividends are typically paid quarterly to stockholders on record.nnDistinguishing

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 10, 20081 topic

Knowing How Indexes Are Measured

An index is a statistical measure that represents the value of a batch of stocks. Investors use this measure like a barometer to track the overall progress of the market (or a segment of it). The oldest stock market index is the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA or simply “The Dow”). In 1896, Charles Dow (of Dow Jones fame) created the Dow Jones Industrial Average; it covered only 12 stocks then (the number increased to 30 stocks in 1928, and it remains the same

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 10, 20081 topic

Ordinary Income And Capital Gains

Profit you make from your stock investments can be taxed in one of two ways, depending on the type of profit:nnOrdinary incomennIf the profit you make from stock investments is taxed, your profit is taxed at the same rate as wages at your full, regular tax rate. If your tax bracket is 28 percent, then that’s the rate your ordinary income investment profits will be taxed at. nnTwo types of investment profits get taxed as ordinary income:nn• Dividends - When you rec

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 8, 20081 topic

Defining The Broker's Role

When you’re ready to dive in and start investing in stocks, you first have to choose a broker. It’s kind of like buying a car. You can do all the research in the world and know exactly what kind of car you want to buy, still, you need a venue to do the actual transaction. Similarly, when you want to buy stock, your task is to do all the research you can to select the company you want to invest in. Still, you need a broker to actually buy the stock, whether you buy

Primary topic: Stock Trading

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By Anthony GreenJan 7, 20081 topic

Listing Your Liabilities

Liabilities are simply the bills that you’re obligated to pay. Whether it’s a credit card bill or a mortgage payment, a liability is an amount of money you have to pay back eventually (with interest). If you don’t keep track of your liabilities, you may end up thinking that you have more money than you really do.nnYou should list the liabilities according to how soon you need to pay them. Credit card balances tend to be short-term obligations, while mortgage

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 6, 20081 topic

Adverse Effects Of Rising Interest Rates

Rising and falling interest rates offer a special risk to stock investors. Historically, rising interest rates have had an adverse effect on stock prices. Hurting a company’s financial condition. Rising interest rates have a negative impact on companies that carry a large current debt load or that need to take on more debt because when interest rates rise, the cost of borrowing money rises, too. Ultimately, the company’s profitability and ability to grow are reduc

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 4, 20081 topic

Learn How Economics Affects Stocks

Economics. Double ugh! No, you aren’t required to understand “the inelasticity of demand aggregates” or “marginal utility”. But a working knowledge of basic economics is crucial to your success and proficiency as a stock investor. The stock market and the economy are joined at the hip. The good (or bad) things that happen to one have a direct effect on the other.nnGetting the hang of the basic conceptsnnAlas, many investors get lost on basic econ

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 3, 20081 topic

Most General Investment Styles

Your investing style isn’t a blue-jeans-versus-three-piece-suit debate. It refers to your approach to stock investing. Do you want to be conservative or aggressive? Would you rather be the tortoise or the hare? Your investment personality greatly depends on your purpose and the term over which you’re planning to invest. The following sections outline the two most general investment styles.nnConservative investingnnConservative investing means that you put your mon

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenJan 1, 20081 topic

Sharpening Your Investment Skills

Investors who analyze the company can better judge the value of the stock and profit from buying and selling it. Your greatest asset in stock investing is knowledge (and a little common sense). To succeed in the world of stock investing, keep in mind these key success factors:nn- Analyze yourself. What do you want to accomplish with your stock investing? What are your investment goals? nn- Know where to get information. The decisions you make about your money and what stocks

Primary topic: Investing

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By Anthony GreenDec 30, 20071 topic

Knowing How To Pick Winners

Once you get past the basics, you can get to the “meat” of stock picking. Successful stock picking is not mysterious, but it does take some time, effort, and analysis. It’s worth it since stocks are a convenient and important part of most investors’ portfolios. nnRecognizing stock valuennImagine that you like eggs and you’re willing to buy them at the grocery store. In this example, the eggs are like companies, and the prices represent the prices

Primary topic: Investing

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