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***Managed Closed End Funds --- Solid Income Investments in Liquid Form

A Closed End Fund (CEF) is a publicly traded investment company that invests in a variety of securities such as stocks, bonds, preferred stocks, real estate, mortgages, oil and gas royalties, etc. The variety of sectors, classifications, and geographical representation is every bit as confusing as it is with traditional funds, but the advantages are easy to understand.

Primary topic: Investing

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In Value Stock Investing, Quality is Job One

How much financial bloodshed is necessary before we realize that there is no safe and easy shortcut to investment success? When do we learn that most of our mistakes involve greed, fear, or unrealistic expectations about what we own? Eventually, successful investors begin to allocate assets in a ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

Who Created The Financial Crisis - How And Why

"The Big Takeover" by Matt Taibbi is probably the best article written to date explaining the financial crisis and how we got to where we are now. Taibbi's necessarily lengthy article explains the problems, names the "poipetrators", and exposes all of the conflicts of interest--- absolutely a ...

Primary topic: Investing

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Stock Market Corrections Are Beautiful--- And Necessary

Every correction is the same, a normal downtu in one or more of the markets where we invest. There has never been a correction that has not proven to be an investment opportunity. You can be confident that governments around the world are not going to allow another Great Depression "on their ...

Primary topic: Investing

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The Securities Investors' Bill Of Rights (SIBORAP): Part Three

SIBORAP includes these ten specific sections: (1) Product Transparency, (2) Regulation and Education, (3) Protection from Speculators (4) Control of Hedge Funds, (5) Brokerage Account Statements, (6) Retirement Account Investments, (7) Executive Compensation, (8) Corporate Financial Statements, ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

Golf and Investing Lessons: Fundamentals

Is it luck or skill that gets us to the goals and objectives we set for ourselves--- gimmicks and software programs or practice and understanding? How many golfers are still using the putter they started with decades ago at a nine-hole cow pasture? How many of you are still bouncing between ...

Primary topic: Investing

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***Making A Volatile Stock Market Your VBF

Most people never forget their first love. I'll never forget my first trading profit --- but the 600 (1970) dollars I pocketed on Royal Dutch Petroleum was not nearly as significant as the conceptual realization it signaled. I was amazed that someone would pay me that much more for my stock than the newspaper said it was worth just weeks ago. What had changed? What had happened to make the stock go up, and why had it been down in the first place? Without ever needing to know the answers, I've been trading RDSA for over 40 years!

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

An Investor's View of The Fair Tax: A Resolution

The vast majority of Americans are investors, although many don't realize it. The vast majority of Americans are creative with their 1040 numbers, although most won't admit it. The majority of Americans would agree that investing, retirement planning, and estate preservation would be easier to ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

Guaranteed Social Security Benefits: Make It So

The comically complicated PSA (Personal Savings Account) legislation bouncing around Congress will raise taxes, increase investment risk, and expand the size of government. Let's stop applying Band-Aids to spouting arteries. We are looking for a guaranteed retirement benefit program, and ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

Predicting Stock Market Movements

I've been thinking about starting a stock market prediction business. Clearly, there is a huge market for timely and accurate information of this type, and just as clearly, predicting the future is much easier than dealing with the realities of whatever is actually happening at the moment. If ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

The Dow, Your Portfolio, And Aliens

There are two extremely good reasons why your portfolio may not be "performing" (whatever that means) either as well as you would like or as well as your buddies say that they have been doing... since last May anyway. But let's define our terms before digging any deeper. Most of the time, ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

Compound Stock Earnings Programs - Caveat Investor

The caller seemed surprised that I had never heard about Compound Stock Earnings Programs, or CSEs. "People are earning three to six percent per month with little or no risk", she continued, "I'm thinking of attending a seminar". A wise man once said: "If it sounds too good to be true, it ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

Amazon.com Investment Book Reviews: Have You Been Brainwashed?

Most popular investment books are published for the already rich and famous, by an industry that has become just too good at the business of selling books. Rarely will a publisher take a chance with the work of an unknown author. Certainly, it's a no brainer to sell a Jim Cramer, Peter Lynch, ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

***Investment Grade Value Stock (IGVS) Expectation Analyzer

No investor should ever be surprised by the changes in market value that appear on his or her monthly account statements. In general, media noise throughout the month should lead to a feel for what has been going on and investors should understand that the prices of investment securities, particularly equities, are constantly changing.

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

The Securities Investors' Bill Of Rights (SIBORAP): Part One

We the securities investors of the United States, in order to form more transparent financial markets, establish effective regulations, defend against destructive speculation and manipulation, promote financial well-being, preserve working capital, and protect retirement income, do establish ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

Value Stock Crash Reaches 50 Per Cent

Perhaps this (totally ignored by the media) snippet will pique your attention: on December 18, 2007, nearly 50% of all Investment Grade Value Stocks were down an average of over 30% from their 52-week highs... the Dow and the S & P 500 had fallen just 7%! One would think that there would be a ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

Hedge Funds: An Under the Radar Wall Street Con

The other day, with the market giving up about a third of its March gain in DJIA points, I went looking through my favorite market stats to see if any remaining profits could be pounced upon. Typically, profit possibilities can be identified quickly on NYSE lists of the largest dollar and ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

Last Bank Standing - The Wall Street Mega-Crash

Dateline Washington, October 19th (get it?) 2010: the Peoples Bank & Trust of America has now established itself as the only bank of any kind in the USA, totally owned and managed by the US House of Representatives. A 2/3 majority must now approve all investment banking transactions; your ...

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

***Modern Portfolio Theory Assumptions --- The Root Of All Evil

Rumor has it that a group of economists were sitting around their super-computers one day, smoking a "pot-pourri" of perfect statistics, when they came to the fairly-easy-to-support conclusion that not too many professional investment managers were able to "beat the market averages" consistently.

Primary topic: Investing

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By Steve SelengutRecently published1 topic

***Harnessing Stock Market Volatility

If you were to Google "Stock Market Volatility", you would find a wide range of observations, conversations, reports, analyses, recipes, critiques, predictions, alarms, and causal confusion. Books have been written; indices and measuring tools have been created; rationales and conclusions have been proffered. Yet, the volatility remains.

Primary topic: Investing

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