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Author :: Ulli G. Niemann  |
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| Article Title :: Lies, Damn Lies and Mutual Fund Returns |
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| How many times has this happened to you? You're at a social function and the conversation turns to investing. Pretty soon, people are comparing how well their investments are doing. As you might imagine, being an investment advisor this happens to me a lot. However, I recently had an experience with it that startled me.Bob, one of the guys I was chatting with at a party, asked what kind of returns I had made for my clients with my methodical no load mutual fund strategy during the past year. I replied that they had unrealized gains of slightly over 29%, after management fees, for the 8 months that we were invested.Bob countered with a smirk that he had made a 40% return. I r (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: David Jenyns |
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| Article Title :: Psychology – How to Reduce Negative Thoughts Relating to Trading? |
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| The thinking process of the brain relating to the psychology of trading involves:-- Beliefs
-- Feelings
-- Values
-- Dispositions and
-- FaithThe positive or negative energy brings power to a person's actions, which ultimately determines whether a person is a winner or a loser. You can change for the better or for the worst. The old saying goes: For as a man thinks in his heart so he is. -- Trading is the most difficult money making skill to master, because the market represents the aspects of people and life. It is necessary to scratch the surface and e (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: David Jenyns |
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| Article Title :: The Secret Method to Selecting a Winning Trading System |
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| Every successful trader has a winning system. There are of course, as many systems out there, as there are traders. Some systems get you to buy on strength and sell on weakness others do the opposite.Some investors succeed as value investors , a la Warren Buffet ; others make their millions in momentum trading . I have even heard of an astrologist who uses the stars to trade profitably. Although, there are a variety of methods, the point I am trying to illustrate here is this: there are many ways to profit from the markets, but you ultimately must devise a system that is your own, because the personalization will act as a motivationa (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: Ulli G. Niemann |
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| Article Title :: How To Beat The Mutual Fund Companies At Their Own Game |
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| You'd have had to be living on a desert island with no TV, newspaper or internet connection to have missed hearing about the great mutual fund scandal of 2003.The issue was that some mutual fund companies allowed certain hedge funds to engage in after-hours trading, sometimes incorrectly referred to as market timing. Unfortunately, some companies have used the confusion about the term "market timing" to further their own cause. How?They have used this issue to pretty much ban all forms of trading their funds, and some companies are imposing hefty short-term redemption fees—penalties for all intents and purposes—in the name of avoiding impropriety. But the real idea behin (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: Jeanette Castelli |
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| Article Title :: Money, Insanity and Wall Street |
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| Money: the most charged word in the planet. It means something to everyone. For some, money means a blessing, for others it means a disaster.We all have heard stories of people who have lost their fortunes or their life savings trading in the stock market; but, we don’t hear much of people who are currently trading and how their lives are turning upside down.For some, the process of trading is like the development of an addiction, it starts with expectations, with hopes of a relief, with desire to control money or acquire more of it. Soon, it starts turning into an obsession. Then, it controls the thoughts, emotions and feelings. Next, there is no longer consciousness abou (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: David Jenyns |
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| Article Title :: What is a Trading Plan – and Why You Need One? |
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| How do you make money without picking tops and bottoms?I am glad you asked...Successful trading is similar to a successful business. You see, every successful business has a business plan so do successful traders. The astute reader knows that, successful traders have a systematic way they approach the market.The definition of a trading system is a trader's business plan; it defines your approach to trading...1. A properly constructed trading system will leave no room for human judgment
2. It will define your actions given any circumstances that may arise.
3. It is a distinct set of rules
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: David Jenyns |
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| Article Title :: The Secret Art of Backtesting |
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| If you have not back tested your trading system, you might as well trade with your eyes close. In fact, whatever technical analysis criterion you use to trade with, be it moving averages, candle sticks, volatility breakouts, fibonacci retracements or any other trading system you have devised you're going to need to back test your trading system thoroughly and objectively in order to remove any possible doubt about it's capability.To remove any self-doubt you need to thoroughly back test or simulate your trading system in such away that it matches the conditions under which it will be traded. Once you have established that you have a reliable and robust trading (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: David Jenyns |
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| Article Title :: Losses, Not Profits, Will Stop You from Trading in the Market |
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| Should the market turn against you, it is important that you design a system that will produce as much loss as you are prepared to take. This loss, known as drawdown, is the maximum amount by which your trading float will temporarily drop at anytime. Doing this in advance, will help you avoid nasty surprises in the future. This gives you the confidence to continue trading when the good times start once more.It is very unlikely that you will stop trading if your system is trading profitably. However, if you are in a trading year that takes too big a loss, you are likely to stop trading, even if your system has been tested and shown to make a profit over a longer time period. Th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: David Jenyns |
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| Article Title :: Tips to Finding Other People's Simple Trading Plans |
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| Did you know you can make money (and a lot of it) by simply modeling someone else's trading plan? Yes, it is true. Unbelievably, there are many of trading gurus doing it RIGHT NOW.All you do is model your system on an
already tested and proven trading plan.If you are new to trading, or even if you have been trading a while, this is a secret very few successful traders talk about. You see, many successful traders diversify their trading float by trading other peoples tested systems - because it is so easy to do.There are several reasons to start construction of your own trading system by stealing or borrowing another t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: James Andrews |
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| Article Title :: Precision Money Management |
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| This article describes the model of a natural relationship between trading system performance, trade position size, stop loss settings and profit goals. The model consists of algebraic equations that specify the trade size and stop loss settings needed to meet profit goals over a specified time period for any consistently used trading system for which historical performance data is available.Most of us think of a trailing stop loss when the term money management is mentioned. William O’Neil in his book, “How to Make Money in Stocks”, used a value from 7 to 8%. Many stock advisories, including Stansberry and Associates, Outstanding Investments and the Oxford Club, typically (read full article) |
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