I was reading a story in USA Today about the different ways investors are reacting to the past two years of stock crashes and rebounds.

I was happy to read that I fell into the most favored of the three categories. The agressive investor who bought more stocks as the market bottomed out and then enjoying the near record rebound.

For a lot of investors, the market volatility scared them out of the market. Some got completely out of investing and some are only investing in very safe vehicles suc… Continue

In an article in the New York Times, Burton G. Malkiel, a professor of economics at Princeton University, argues that everyone (including the wealthy) have the best chance of investing success with index funds.

He says that the wealthy sometimes think they need to get more agressive with hedge funds, r

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Lots of people have savings accounts. I have a question:

Why?

I was reading an article about maximizing your account and while it was obviously talking about savings in the general sense, rather than a savings account there's an assumption that that's where you're going to put your money. Banks are full of savings accounts, but I can't even get any money on a CD.… Continue

Penny stocks are widely supposed to be risky investment instruments among investors because of the many drawbacks associated with them. One those usually cited is that penny stocks hardly change hands due to lack of market support and so selling them might not be that easy for investors.
Since a confidence investor wants to be sure about the liquidity of his potential investment, he thinks twice before buying penny stocks. This is precisely because many penny stocks with good growth potential al… Continue

When you start penny stocks trading career you first need to decide how much you are wiling to invest. You need to remember that this is not a “sure-fire” income opportunity and that it is possible that you may lose everything, so be sure not to invest more than you can afford to lose.
If you have invested all of you cash and your present collection is flat, the only way to buy into rising penny stocks market and get a piece of the action is to either. Use “your own money”, for example money tha… Continue

Probably the first thing I've ever learned in investing was to invest every month. Dollar cost averaging seemed like a great way to avoid bad luck and get an average return, which was all I really wanted. So many people do worse than the average because they try to outperform. Many people even view the stock market as a scam.

That being said I've never really had a broad… Continue

This has been a great time for those of us who didn't stop investing every month. The market has run up a great deal and I've felt really good about buying at the bottom. That being said, everything I have read about investing in the stock market suggests that you don't stop now either. Just as it would have been foolish to stop at the bottom, it would be equally fo… Continue

If you haven't heard about the powerful new investing strategy of sector rotation they your portfolio is at risk. Imagine a powerful tool that will always keep you invested in the top performing segments of the stock market. Not only that, sector rotation investing has the ability to protect your investment portfolio during bear markets, and keeping you in the investment game for the long-run. Tapping i… Continue

Flash orders allow some traders to see what other traders are doing befor the trades are placed. With high powered computers, these traders can then make trades within milliseconds to capitalize on the other investor's trade.

Why are these types of orders allowed?

Isn't this a new version of insider trading?

I don't mind traders having an advantage by using computers to execute trades very quickly, but this type of flash order trading goes into an area that is closert to cheating. Not all tra… Continue

I have always considered myself unwilling to try to time the market. I simply don't try to get things at the bottom I Invest Every Month and try to get a good average price. I am intrigued however about the idea of trying ot invest on technical analysis.

I was reading this article on… Continue