Funding Your Retirement: The 401K and 403B Way Saving for your retirement doesn't have to be a nightmare as long as you are aware of your options. For now, we're focusing on 401K and 403B retirement plans. These two plans are essentially the same except that for-profit companies use 401Ks and ... Negotiate Your Way Out Of Debt Eliminating your debt is a daunting task. What can you do to get out of debt fast? Believe it or not, negotiation along with proper financial responsibility is your foothold out of the rat race. Learning how to eliminate your debt might be one of the most ... Top Investments and Stock Picks for 2006 If you read the headlines today you will hear everything from recession, decline, slow start, etc... Everyone is commenting on losses or very marginal gains. Yet there are some investors like me that did really well in the last few years and are ...
A Guide To Investing
Everyone seems to have their own secret or strategy or trick to making money in the stock market. Here are two strategies that have helped many people. 1. It's your time, how do you want to spend it? Some people suggest high risk investments and watch them all day. Others say that simply buying good quality mutual funds and hanging onto them for a long time is the best option. One of the deciding factors for you in developing your investment strategy should be the amount of time that you are willing to spend on monitoring your investments. There is nothing wrong with investing in high-risk investments if you have the time to spend researching, analyzing, and monitoring the price movement. There's also nothing wrong with the "buy and hold" method, if you do not have the time to spend on watching your investments. The people who have been very successful in investing are able to match their investment style with the amount of time they can spend on investing. 2. It's your money, how much can you risk? The people who have lost everything on the stock market were not careful at managing their money. The stock market is not a gamble, if you're careful. But you need to be careful in what you buy and how much you buy. You can decide what is right to buy based on the amount of time you want to spend in the market. Knowing how much to buy is another issue. Don't put more into your higher risk stocks than you're willing to lose! You may find greater safety in buying mutual funds or bonds and if you have money you don't want to see disappear, those are probably good options for you. If you are sitting on your children's education fund, you probably do not want to be sinking that in stocks that could potentially gain or lose as much as 50% in a day! Knowing how much time you have to spend on your portfolio and how much you are willing to risk are two strategies that can help you make wise financial decisions when it comes to investing.
Mutual Funds Promised Haven From Speedsters Wall Street Journal By SCOTT PATTERSON And KIRSTEN GRIND A small group of market wonks is planning a trading platform targeting a category of investors they say has been overlooked by traditional stock exchanges: mutual-fund managers. Led by Bradley Katsuyama, ...
BlackRock's Fink: Stocks Still Look Good, Even In Scary Times Wall Street Journal (blog) From the FT: Institutional investors, from pension funds to mutual funds sold directly to the public, have slashed holdings in the past decade. Stocks have not been so far out of favour for half a century. Many declare the “cult of the equity” dead.
7 Stocks Rising on Monster Volume TheStreet.com (Stockpickr) -- Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don't just look at a stock's price moves; they also track big changes in volume activity. Many times when above average volume moves into equity it precedes a large spike in ...
