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Why Should You Purchase A Life Insurance Policy?

Life Insurance has become the indispensable part of modern life. Anything worst may happen in your life. Suppose you have a family, which is dependent on your income. Have you ever thought what would happen to your beloved wife, kids and other loved family members if you suddenly die? In this case, the thing that [...]

Looking For a Safe Investment? Try a Certificate of Deposit

If you are looking for a safe investment and you have between $100 -$1,000 to invest, you should consider a certificate of deposit or CD. When purchased through a bank, CD’s are federally insured up to $100,000.
When you invest in a certificate of deposit, you are lending your money to the bank for a [...]

Choosing A Financial Advisor

With so many financial advisors trying to woo you with their qualifications and experience, how do find one you can trust your finances with? ‘Trust’ is the keyword here, as you will depend on him/her for your future financial security. A good financial advisor can help you determine which investments are best suited for you, [...]

Copy Cat or How to Use a Successful Trading System

How many books have you read about successful traders? How they did this or that and made a fortune and are still doing it. You say to yourself, "I’m going to follow his method and get rich".
So you subscribe to his newsletter (they all have one, $250) and buy his course on CD Rom ($495)and [...]

Makin The Sauce

Let’s face it, you’re on a roll. After getting down to your attorney’s office to sign the new Living Trust and then diligently tracking down your assets to fund the trust, you should be congratulated. You’re one of the responsible ones – 70% of the people who die each year in the United States haven’t [...]

Guru Focused: Robert Olstein?s Short Sells

While it is rather rare that value gurus sell stocks short, Robert Olstein has been selling short in his Financial Alert Fund. The accountant-turned fund manager spots values by looking behind the numbers. In the second quarter of 2004, Robert Olstein sold short American Italian Pasta Co. (PLB) at $31. After about 6 months he [...]

HYIPs Investments or Scams?

High Yield Investment Programs (HYIPs) appear at first to be the secret to unlimited wealth and fortune, but as you can guess that quickly changes. However, I have found myself still using them in a very limited fashion as a generator for my digital currency exchange. I will discuss that in a later article. First, [...]

Building The Foundation For Wealth

You wouldn’t build your home on anything less than a solid foundation. Similarly, you can’t build wealth and financial independence without first having sound foundational principles to build upon.
I have found that many people are working on wealth building strategies such as maximizing their 401K returns, aggressive stock trading, and real estate investing without such [...]

Playing With Money – And Making More

Ready to start playing with your money? Not interested in complicated businesses or boring bank C.D.’s? Here are some methods that aren’t quite a business because you can do them once, or just whenever you feel like it. Start small and the risk is small.
Loan Sharking
Years ago a friend got a good job when I [...]

Success Trading: More Basic Terminology for New Traders

One important aspect of trading the markets is to understand how to feel it’s overall pulse. In the stock market, this is measured by measuring the movements of selected stocks across various sectors to let us know how the market is doing in general. A gentleman by the name of Dow came up [...]