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The Art of Investing: Working Capital Model based Asset Allocation
This method of looking at things will get you where you want to be without the hype that Wall Street uses to create unproductive transactions, foolish speculations, and incurable dissatisfaction. It provides a valid use for portfolio Market Value, but far from the judgmental nature Wall Street would like. It's use in this model, as both an expectation clarifier and an action indicator for the portfolio manager on a personal level, should illuminate your light bulb.
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What Do The Top 100 Newspaper Business Editors Have In Common, Besides Arrogance
Should the country's biggest newspaper business editors be interested in a better way to manage investment portfolios than mutual funds or Modern Portfolio Theory speculations about the future? Should they care about an old approach to investing that actually takes advantage of the market cycle? Should they be tired of promulgating the same old and tired Wall Street advice that always seems to take investors in the wrong direction. Yeah, they should.
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Strategic Investment Mixology - The Elusive Holy Grail Cocktail
Investment portfolio mixology doesn't take place in the smiley faced environment that brought us the Cosmo and the Kamikaze, but putting an investment cocktail together without the risk of addictive speculations, or bad aftertastes, is a valuable talent worth finding or developing for yourself.
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iShares and ETFs: Speculation To The 3rd Power
So, in addition to the normal risks associated with investing in general, we add: speculating in narrowly focused sectors, guessing on the prospects of unproven small cap companies, experimenting with securities in single countries, rolling the dice on commodities, and hoping for the eventual success of new technologies.
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Managed Asset Allocation - A Portfolio Mission Statement
The Asset Allocation formula is often abused in an effort to superimpose a valid investment planning tool on speculation strategies that have no real merits of their own. For example, annual portfolio repositioning, market timing adjustments, and shifting between Mutual Funds. To be effective, Asset Allocation must be implemented as an on-going process that is to be tended to with every investment decision.
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Trading The 401k Portfolio - Part I
Most 401k investment menus encourage speculation by providing varieties of capitalization, sector, commodity, and growth varietals with little emphasis on internal selection quality, diversification, or income generation.
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Your Income Portfolio
There are several reasonable explanations for recent Municipal Bond price weakness: Higher interest rates expected; equity portfolio window dressing; weakness of state government treasuries; profit taking in municipal CEFs; speculation about proposed tax code changes; illiquidity of individual bonds; irrational investor fear.
There are at least as many excellent reasons why investors should be viewing this weakness as a buying opportunity ---
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Portfolio Content Analysis
As more people choose to manage their own investments without professional advice, their buying/selling strategies can produce investment portfolios with asset allocations that are either inappropriate or dangerous. Similarly, the simplicity of investing the old fashioned way has been obscured by the seemingly limitless variety of packaged investment products with their one-size-fits-all investment and speculation ideas.
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Global Investors' Bill Of Rights May Prevent Economic Déjà Vu (February 2009)
The purpose of IBOR is to protect financial markets and to create self-sufficient investors who produce economic growth instead of government deficits. IBOR standards create transparent financial markets, regulate speculation, and protect retirement portfolios. Here's a Summary:
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SIBORAP: The Securities Investors' Bill Of Rights - Part Four
We the securities investors of the United States, in order to form more transparent financial markets, establish effective regulations, defend against destructive speculation and manipulation, promote financial well-being, preserve working capital, and protect retirement income...
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The Securities Investors' Bill Of Rights (SIBORAP): Part Three
We the securities investors of the United States, in order to form more transparent financial markets, establish effective regulations, defend against destructive speculation and manipulation, promote financial well-being, preserve working capital, and protect retirement income...
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The Securities Investors' Bill Of Rights (SIBORAP): Part Two
We the securities investors of the United States, in order to form more transparent financial markets, establish effective regulations, defend against destructive speculation and manipulation, promote financial well-being, preserve working capital, and protect retirement income...
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SIBORAP: The Securities Investors' Bill Of Rights - Part One
We the securities investors of the United States, in order to form more transparent financial markets, establish effective regulations, defend against destructive speculation and manipulation, promote financial well-being, preserve working capital, and protect retirement income...
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Compound Stock Earnings Programs - Caveat Investor
The CSE hucksters don't deny that their magic cash flow system is based on selling covered call options, but the come on includes a laundry list of misinformation, partial truths, and inaccuracies about the stock market and investing. Covered calls have been around forever, but this is the first time I've seen them touted as safe investment vehicles. Options are bets about the future price movement of exchange-traded securities--- it's just that simple.
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New Xbox 360 Sales Tactic?
In a statement that surprised gamers and non-gamers alike, Peter Moore of Microsoft Xbox, endorsed Nintendo's new Wii console. Speculations circulated whether this statement by Moore was a genuine praise or a calculated move designed to offset the launch of Sony PlayStation 3. Moore even referred to himself as a big fan of the Nintendo console. He suggested that for the price of a PS3, gamers would be able to get a new Xbox 360 plus a Nintendo Wii, with some leftover for a fe...
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Stock Options
Stock options are a great way to leverage investment capital for speculation and to reduce the risk for existing stock positions in your portfolio or even to earn an extra riskless income.There are so many option strategies that whole books were written about this topic. Before you can think about mastering advanced option techniques, you must start exploring the basic option strategies first, the simple call and put option.What is a stock option, exactly? If you have...
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Djibouti Casinos
Djibouti is a small, dirt-poor country in the Horn of Africa and as such, you wouldn't expect the list of Djibouti's casinos to be very long. You would be right in such a speculation for the list of Djibouti's casinos is indeed short, totaling precisely one.It is the Grand Casino de Djibouti and Sheraton Hotel, in the capital of the country, also called Djibouti. As the city, the county (or administrative area perhaps), and country are all called Djibouti, this means that...
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Emini Futures S&P 500 And NASDAQ 100 : Basic Trading Info
What are Index Futures? Future contracts originate from commodity trading. A future contract is an obligation to buy/sell a certain quantity of commodity at a specific date for a specific price determined at the outset of the contract. Future contracts are frequently used for hedging risks and also for speculation. For example, with the recent hike in oil prices, an airline company which uses a lot of fuel might want to hedge it's exposure to oil prices through the purc...
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Indian Real Estate: NRI Housing Societies, Foreign Partners and Nature Resorts
Hot speculation about young and old NRI techies wanting to come home has led entrepreneur T.S. Dhillon to chalk out plans for a comfortable housing society for NRIs in Mohali. Inaugurating his NRI Services Centre in Sector 34, Chandigarh, Dhillon said his impetus for planning a housing society was the number of NRIs wishing to return home, or those that were on the verge of permanently severing ties with the homeland due to long pending property disputes.
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The Right Decoy Fools Those Ducks Every Time
The first use of decoys as a means of attracting ducks and geese is credited to the North American Aboriginal Indians who used crude decoys to help lure birds within net or spear range. The earliest confirmed decoys, found in a Nevada cave, date back to more than 2000 years ago. Speculation though among archeologists suggests that decoys may have been used as many as 8,000 years ago prior to that.While the materials and manufacturing methods have changed and evolved consi...
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Currency Trading: Understanding the Basics of Currency Trading
Investors and traders around the world are looking to the Forex market as a new speculation opportunity. But, how are transactions conducted in the Forex market? Or, what are the basics of Forex Trading? Before adventuring in the Forex market we need to make sure we understand the basics, otherwise we will find ourselves lost where we less expected. This is what this article is aimed to, to understand the basics of currency trading.
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How To Rate Your Favorite Uranium Company
Many investors invested in the Great Uranium Bull Market with little rationale behind their speculation. Through the robust rallies of the past two years, it was easy to play the momentum of a newsletter writers recommendation. Quite a few did so, often employing the greater fool strategy and hoping the last and dumbest investor would provide an exit strategy for the early and nimble speculator.We have created a 7-point ratings system to help you in determining which c...
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Speculators and Speculation
Speculators get a bad rap because the role of speculation in the economy isn't understood. Maybe we need more speculation, not less.
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Futures Trading
All futures contracts are generally made for the purpose of speculation or hedging. As such, the general procedure for settlement is the neutralization of the original contract by an opposite contract on settlement, so that only difference between the current and the contract price is paid or received. It is rare that actual delivery of the goods is taken, and the price paid in settlement of futures contracts.
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Google frowns on reciprocal linking
This is a subject that everyone seems to be arguing about at the moment. Everyone trying to second-guess Google's actions - which they will NEVER do - and wondering whether reciprocal linking is dead, dying or if it is something worth carrying on. 'Nuff of the speculation. Here's the proof.
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Affiliate Programs And Affiliate Marketing: A Wealth Of Opportunities
For as long as employment has been the mandatory way in which to make money, people have been looking for easy escapes. The dream of earning a huge salary without much work, has been the goal of many but has been realised by very few. The online revolution seemed to pry open many of the doors that had shut in the real world. However even now there is an air of disillusionment hanging around the Internet, following the dot com crash and rumours and speculation abound about sec...
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