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Your Portfolio and ?Old Ironsides?
The USS Constitution first ventured into the waters in 1798. From there she became an icon of durability and success.
In battle, the ship became known as "Old Ironsides" because the shots fired from enemy ships seemed to bounce off her hull. She may be best remembered for her service in the War of [...]
Trading Tips No 7: Developing a Casino Mentality for the Day Trader
I submit that the successful day trader would profit well to adopt a casino mentality. At first glance, this sounds reckless and nothing more than a gambling attitude – but it’s not. Why? Because everyone knows that it’s the casinos that profit and take in all the money on a consistent basis. And, of course, [...]
June 2005: Weather Forecasts for Weather Traders
If Johannes Kepler, the renowned 17th century astronomer and discoverer of the planetary laws of motion, could speak from the heavenlies, he might have a few words of wisdom to share with the National Weather Service. Although Kepler’s name is not normally associated with meteorology, he was quite the weather forecaster in his day. His [...]
How to Calculate the Value of Your U.S. Savings Bonds
If you’re like many Americans over the age of 55, you’ve probably had money taken out of your paychecks for years and years in order to purchase U. S. savings bonds. Those bonds are probably sitting in a safe deposit box at your local bank or in a drawer safely tucked away at home. [...]
Invest or be Pink Slipped
Firing an employee seems to be easier and easier for corporations. Up until now you allowed them to set your clocks. Now its time to fight back! Beat them at their own game. They had your future pegged. Now your certainty is in your own hands.
Corporations attempt to make the best use of their resources [...]
Day Traders and Swing Traders and Options? Maybe!
Typical day traders and swing traders look for stocks with quick,short term movements, and are not in the business of holdingpositions overnight let alone a week or two. So the use ofoptions has not usually been a component of their tradingstrategies.
Now however, some new opportunities for profit are availablesince many day trading firms are [...]
Retirement or Financial Freedom?
In the past most people never retired. They died. The average life expectancy was much less than it is these days, and there were no financial planners around to help people save up enough to quit work. As recently as the 1960’s, if you did manage to save up enough money to retire, you’d be [...]
Powerful Options Basics Lessons Improving your trading in 180 days.
An option is a traded security that is a derivative product.
By derivative product we mean that it is a product whose value is based upon or derived from the price of something else. Since we are talking about stocks, a stock option is based upon, among other things, the price of the underlying stock.
There are [...]
Volatile Range
The stock market fell sharply Thu and Fri before and after the employment reports Fri morning. The Nonfarm Payrolls report showed 207,000 net jobs were added in July, which were 27,000 more than the market expected. Also, Hourly Earnings in July rose 0.4%, which was twice what the market expected. There’s a strong inverse relationship [...]
Chinas Great Missed Opportunity
While a U.S. Representative to the Asian Development Bank Executive Board of Directors during the first Bush Administration, I consistently called for China to "bite the bullet" and privatize its state-owned companies as soon as possible. Representatives from European and other Asian countries would just shake their heads and mutter about impatient Americans while counseling [...]
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