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Author :: Michael Saville  |
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| Article Title :: What are mutual funds? |
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| Copyright 2006 Michael Saville
Mutual funds are very popular. In fact, they are the one of the most popular investments on the market today. What does that mean in numbers? There are over 10,000 different funds with over $4 trillion in investments!!
Why are they so popular? For some, it is because of their great returns. Others like funds because they are easy to buy and sell. Still others like them because they are diversified and less risky.
A mutual fund raises money from investors to invest in stocks, bonds, and other securities. It is a package made up of several individual investments. When those investments gain or lose value, you gain or lose as (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: Larry Potter |
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| Article Title :: It's Not Always An Easy Choice |
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| We place "consider buys" on stocks for several reasons. If the chip sector is moving higher and we see a chip maker approaching a near term resistance, that gets our blood moving! Why? Because if it "gets through" that resistance, it can squeeze a bit and really break out. But when the
market is nervous, and whippy, too many times a stock crosses above the resistance, they get cold feet and down it comes. At that point you have to make a decision. do you hold it "under" where you paid or do you bail out? It's not an easy choice.Many are the times you will bail out and the darned thing will reverse back up and blast higher. Then again there are the times it will simply keep fallin (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: Peter Lim |
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| Article Title :: Trading In Stocks - Time and Price Analysis To Nail The Explosive Moves In The Markets |
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| When it comes to Time and Price Analysis of stocks, the legendary trader WD Gann is always remembered as the trader who mesmerized and impressed the trading world during his time with his uncanny time price forecasts.He would be able to pick a stock or a commodity such as cotton, and would be able to forecast its price at a certain time, and get it correct most times.Easily his most popular and important teaching on time and price is this principle:"When time and price square, change is inevitable".It used to puzzle me during my early days as a stock trader to understand how time and price could be squared.It did not help that WD Gann did not use simple (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: David Gass |
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| Article Title :: Dividends -The Different Types |
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| Dividend is a portion of the company’s earnings to be distributed to its shareholders, based board of directors’ decision. Dividends are quoted as Dividend Per Share (DPS) or dividend yield. Most companies having stable and secure growth offer dividends when their share prices become stagnant. However several companies do not offer dividends as all profits are reinvested to ensure faster, better-than-average growth.The board of directors decides the percentage of the profit to be distributed as dividends. Dividends are issued quarterly or annually, and companies are not under any obligation to pay dividends every quarter and the company may stop paying dividends at any point of (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: David Gass |
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| Article Title :: Corporate Stock - Common, Preferred |
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| Choosing a stock while taking an investment decision depends upon your financial goals. Corporations issue different types of stocks, the basic two types being common stock and preferred stock. Another type of classification which is commonly used is to classify stocks as growth, value or blue chip stocks, amongst others. It is important to understand the various terms clearly so that you can make a wise investment decision.Common StockThis is the basic stock issued by a corporation and represents the fraction of the company owned by you. Common stockholders bear the most risks associated with the company. Common stockholders get dividends only after preferred stockholders h (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: Arthur Eckart |
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| Article Title :: Profit Taking in May? |
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| The first chart is a NYSE Oscillator (NYMO) daily one-year chart (red line and right scale) with NYMO's 50-day MA (blue line) and daily SPX (green line and left scale). On Fri, SPX closed above 1,325, while the daily NYMO rose above 30, and the NYMO 50-day MA closed at roughly negative nine. The daily indicators above and below the price chart show NYMO is short-term severely overbought, which indicate little SPX upside and a SPX pullback.The second chart is an eight-year daily chart of the NYMO 20-day MA (gray line) and NYMO 50-day MA (red line), which includes all historical data. The chart shows each time the NYMO 50-day MA rose to or above 20, it fell to negative 20 or lower, a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: Kent Pinkerton |
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| Article Title :: Online Stock Trading |
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| Among the many revolutionary changes brought about by the advent of the Internet is online stock trading. Once the exclusive preserve of the rich and the wealthy, the stock market has now become a place where even the common man can play a part. Investors today can use Internet client-server technology to trade stocks anywhere, anytime they like. Just a couple of mouse clicks and the client is through with a thousand-dollar transaction!There are several ways in which one can participate in online stock trading. One can use an online broker, or do it himself.There are two types of online brokers: discount and full-service. The former are licensed individuals who have direct (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: Glenn Dahlke |
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| Article Title :: Stock Buyback Plans: Sometimes They're Not What they Appear To Be |
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| Delta Widget, Inc. has just made you a tender offer to buy back its shares of stock, which you bought from your broker a few years ago. The stock price hasn’t grown as expected and the tender offer is just slightly over market value. It's tempting to take the offer. On the other hand, when Delta Widget buys its own stock back, there will be less stock outstanding, and that could help boost its price.The dilemmas of investing - will they never cease?To weave our way through this problem, let’s first examine the two ways a company can initiate a buyback program, or "stock repurchase agreement" as it's often called. The first way is to make a tender offer to its shareholder (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: Hari Wibowo |
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| Article Title :: Value Stock At Techland |
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| When you look at stocks trading at a P/E ratio of 15, you will think of stodgy food companies or steel companies at its peak, not the technology sector. The technology sector, used to be stocks with the highest valuation and growth rate. These days, you can find ample companies in the techland that fits the criteria of value play. This is defined as companies with slower growth and thus lower P/E ratio. Furthermore, they are solid companies with long history of profitability, not some funky google-style outfit.Prepare your notepad and take note. This won't take long.Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). Microsoft is the stock investors love to own during the 1990s. Two Harvard scho (read full article) |
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| Category :: Mutual Funds Articles |
Author :: Matt Fox |
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| Article Title :: What is a Stock Market Shake Out? Find Out Here |
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| Have you ever been in a position in a stock and found the market dip for two or three days so you sold and then the stock rebounded even higher than before the dip? Ever wonder what was happening? You were a victim of the shake out.The big players drive the stock down for various reasons, sometimes simply profit taking, then jump back in and drive the stock back higher and higher since the fundamentals of the stock hasn't changed, a good stock is a good stock. This dip only takes place for two to three days, which is usually enough to get the people who are unfamiliar with it to jump out of the stock position and sell their shares. Now the big players buy this cheap stock at a bett (read full article) |
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