What! Me worry?

Many of you remember the cover of MAD magazine. It was one of my favorites. Alfred's only worry was about his front tooth. You and I have other problems.

The one big problem we all have is enough income to support our l(read entire article)
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What a great statement!

I just heard someone use it in the context of personal and financial success and it struck me as a brilliant summary of an issue we raise in the SMG Tutorials.

Fear is a huge issue with a lot of traders. And in(read entire article)
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What a great statement!

I just heard someone use it in the context of personal and financial success and it struck me as a brilliant summary of an issue we raise in the SMG Tutorials.

Fear is a huge issue with a lot of traders. And in(read entire article)
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News, good or bad, trumps all other market trends. Good news about a company, or about another company in the same sector if the sector is a hot one, can trigger sharp rises in stock prices. The key to taking advantage of price runs started by new(read entire article)
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Any trader on line needs to set stops. But there are no hard and fast rules to follow. You,need to develop a system that fits your trading style. This means you need to follow your trading plan. However, there are a few tips I can share with you a(read entire article)
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Why should you want to steal someone else's stock market lesson plans?

First, let me tell you that a trading plan is only useful if you follow it. Following your plan will make you successful, yet many traders circumvent the stock market les(read entire article)
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There are many important things you need to know to trade and invest successfully in the stock market or any other market. 12 of the most important things that I can share with you based on many years of trading experience are enumerated below.(read entire article)
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Time to look back

2004 is over, now we are in 2005. This is time to seriously look at performance of your personal investment, such as mutual fund, or individual stocks holdings, etc. Does your fund beat index last year? Does it beat inde(read entire article)
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AFTER THE SPLIT ANNOUNCEMENT - Often times, the stock will develop a pattern of dropping back three to ten days after the announcement. This provides you with an opportunity to take advantage of the split announcement. If you are playing calls t(read entire article)
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Do you know what the top tips are for picking stocks are? No one can tell the future, but we have compiled three of our top tips to getting your investment portfolio to make some real returns in the future. Just because a stock is hot, it doesn'(read entire article)
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Are you one of those many people who dread reading their 401K statements? You have been watching it decline for about 2 years and are wondering if will ever stop. Just about everyone says the market will come back. Brokers say you are in for the l(read entire article)
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We all know that opportunity does not come knocking every day. The phrase 'lightning never strike twice on the same place' illustrates the point. Investors are successful because they can identify opportunity as well as the courage to act on it. T(read entire article)
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It has occurred to me that many of the readers of this article may be interested in a career change. If so, I suggest that becoming a stock market guru may be worthy of your consideration. It's a job that -- if you follow my advice -- pays extreme(read entire article)
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Investing in penny stocks provides traders with the opportunity to dramatically increase their profits, however, it also provides an equal opportunity to lose your trading capital quickly. These 5 tips will help you lower the risk of one of the ri(read entire article)
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Exchange traded funds (or ETFs) are better for most investors than mutual funds. The mutual fund industry has experienced tremendous growth over that last twenty-five years or so. But it's a new era now. It's the era of the ETF.

What are ex(read entire article)
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The following are a list of nine things you want to avoid at all costs. Anyone of them can literally destroy your financial dreams and goals!

1. Trading with money you can’t afford to lose.

One of the greatest obstacles to successful(read entire article)
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Interviewer:
Before we talk about the potential of uranium shortages and the steep price rise in that energy source, could you explain how you got started with this idea, and what is the philosophy behind Strathmore’s acquisition program of u(read entire article)
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Over The Counter Bulletin Board stocks (OTCBB) and the Pink Sheets are the two types of penny stocks you will encounter. The main difference between the two is that OTCBB stocks are required to file with the SEC and the pink sheet stocks are not.(read entire article)
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I cringe every time I hear a novice investor tell me that they only purchase low priced stocks because they offer higher potential gains. A common phase I hear is “I like to buy $1 and $2 stocks because they can double easily and I will make a 10(read entire article)
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Value investing is the act of investors selecting stocks based upon a perceived value rather than solely looking at pricing trends in the stock’s history.

In fact, value investing may seem to go against convention investment wisdom in many c(read entire article)
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Now that the fundamentals are over I want to tell you a few things that will make you or anyone some money. A company worth investing in must have earnings. The company must earn a profit every quarter to be worth a quarter. If the company is losi(read entire article)
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Every Wall Street analyst, financial planner and broker will tell you that the right way to pick a mutual fund is find a good money manager of a fund that has a long time record.

Yes, I believe that too, but it is amazing that when you go ba(read entire article)
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According to Investopedia Inc. the penny stock market has seen phenomenal growth this past decade. From ’94 to ’03, the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board trading volume increased an astounding 8900%, equaling a total of 63% of the NASDAQ and 78& of(read entire article)
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It is called "dividend capture". This strategy is executed when a trader buys a stock just before the ex-dividend date, so that he or she will be a shareholder of record on the record date, and will receive the dividend. Because the stock falls(read entire article)
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Information about the stock market and stocks are everywhere. Unfortunately, it isn’t really easy for the average person to understand. It is best to have a professional handle your stocks if you are going to seriously get involved in buying, trad(read entire article)
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The excitement Paladin Resources Limited (TSE: PDN) has been quietly generating through the uranium mining sector puts African uranium mining squarely into the spotlight. The country of Namibia, bordering South Africa, Botswana, Angola and the Sou(read entire article)
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This is a rather simple strategy with which I am sure a lot of seasoned traders are very familiar, possibly under some other name with which I am not familiar. I wanted to write about it because I don’t see anyone talking about it anymore. Since t(read entire article)
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Nobody is perfect and therefore no portfolio is perfect. They say that the market is always right, so there will always be something wrong with your portfolio. Or to put it more positive - there is always something to improve.

And therefore(read entire article)
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There is a famous cliff on the ocean in Acapulco where experienced divers jump into the sea. It is very dangerous because the water at the base of the cliff surges from a depth of 2 feet to 12 feet. The diver must time his leap so the water is at(read entire article)
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Someday you may want to retire and continue to live in the life style to which you have become accustomed. According to conventional wisdom you will need less money because you will have fewer expenses than when you had to go to the office every d(read entire article)
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Choosing new investments can be hard… especially if you're not a full-time trader and don't have the time that it takes to investigate several different investment opportunities while they're still hot. It would be so much easier if you could simp(read entire article)
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Outlined below are some of the advantages and disadvantages of mutual funds. Every investment has advantages and disadvantages. But it's important to remember that features that matter to one investor may not be important to you. Whether any parti(read entire article)
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Several times each month I am solicited by various market touts who have a newsletter service, faxes or emails they are willing to send me to make me rich. That sure is nice of them.

The first thing that pops into my head is if this system i(read entire article)
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It depends on your level of understanding of the market and the amount of money you have.

If you a sophisticated investor with a substantial amount invested you are probably already receiving more than one. If you have very little market sav(read entire article)
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A few years back – it seems like an eternity today – the U.S. stock market experienced a severe bubble burst. Legitimate stocks rose beyond reasonable valuations and ideas merely in the germination stage sold for prices far beyond those of real pr(read entire article)
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If you have heard fund managers talk about the way they invest, you know a great many employ a top down approach. First, they decide how much of their portfolio to allocate to stocks and how much to allocate to bonds. At this point, they may also(read entire article)
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When investors look ahead to what may be great investments for the next year, they much too often focus on what were big winners from the previous year. For example, shares of Google (GOOG) more than doubled in price during 2005. So, quite natural(read entire article)
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

This very much applies to the your retirement plans especially if you are investing in the stock market. The proverb clearly states you need to know where you are going an(read entire article)
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The stock Market appears again, often to wrong, as a world apart and often a reserved universe to the initiated. Some think even that if one does not do left the warn, one risks doing more bad deals than of good ones. Nevertheless the potentiali(read entire article)
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When you are interested in investing in the stock market one of the first things you will need is a reliable and affordable stockbroker. At one point in time, a stockbroker was seen as a very high priced person that was extremely hard to understan(read entire article)
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When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund you can call your broker and he will send you reports on how the company is doing, what their management is like and what might be the projected earnings for the company and how the industry is(read entire article)
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When you become interested in a stock or mutual fund you can call your broker and he will send you reports on how the company is doing, what their management is like and what might be the projected earnings for the company and how the industry is(read entire article)
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