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Three Peaks and a Dome House

12 June 2008

Is the Dow going to dip under 10,000 and are we looking at a dip in the stock market? A simultaneous housing market bubble burst? There are good things today on Wall Street as Oil is retreating, but doesn’t it always after a three-day weekend? Don’t they always have some great excuse for high prices […]

Stock Market 101: Lesson 2 - Becoming a Publicly Traded Company

25 May 2008

Introduction: Trading stocks is basically trading ownership in companies. However, not all companies are traded on the stock market. In order to become a traded company, there are steps that must first be taken.
1) Private vs. Public Companies
When a company first forms, it is a private company and is not traded on the stock market. […]

Options Trading Strategies - Rolling

21 May 2008

Rolling is defined in options as moving a position from one
strike to another either vertically in the same month,
horizontally to another month or some combination thereof.
Other times, you may have to buy your short call back so that
you will not lose your stock. Sometimes, you may even want to
allow the stock […]

It’s High Time for Lifetime Savings Accounts

12 May 2008

I’m constantly reading articles on the internet and in financial magazines in which so-called financial planning experts express perplexity as to why about 30% of employees do not participate in their employers’ 401(k) plans. These writers don’t seem to have clue. Well, allow me to enlighten them a bit. For the most part, it’s because […]

Classic Wall Street Wisdom

4 May 2008

A classic story told to new investor is the one in which a young investor seeks help from an old investor. The young investor had a serious problem. He had invested in extremely expensive stocks and the market was turning on him. The market was overvalued and he thought perhaps had invested […]

Forex Trading an Overlooked but Very Lucrative Market

9 April 2008

One of the most appealing ways to attain wealth is to play the stock market. With the advent of the Internet and on line brokers traders have seemingly unrestricted access to various trading products that just 10 years ago were reserved for big financial institutions. A trading product that has been overlooked by many traders […]

Retirement - Can You Afford It?

6 April 2008

Every day you work is one day closer to your retirement. But can you afford to stop work? If you were unable to go to work for 6 months due to illness or injury, would you still have enough income to support yourself and your family? Even if you kept working, would […]