Performance Funds (21 Mar 2006) Mutual funds are doing more and more to discourage investors from leaving them and taking their money to a better performing fund. What does better performing mean? It has nothing to do with who the manager is, what the expense ratio is or how well they performed over the past 5 or 10 years.
Picking Mutual Funds to Outperform the Market (21 Mar 2006) With over 6,000 mutual funds available, it may be tempting to pick funds from a popular star or index rating system. Savvy investors, however, balance multiple factors in their selection process. Ratings represent only the historical performance of funds and cannot predict the future. Performance consistency, management skill, and expense limitations are among the many factors that influence a fund's prospects. Each must be carefully evaluated to improve your chances of finding a fund to outperform the market.
Piggy Banks for Grown-ups: How to help yourself save (23 Jul 2006) We encourage our kids to use piggy banks to save up for special purchases like bicycles and sneakers, but then we never consider taking our own good advice and employing the same means to save for ourselves as adults. But if anyone needs to save, it's the.......
Planning Your Dive and Diving Your Plan – Trading! (21 Mar 2006) A colleague of mine just returned from a scuba diving trip in
Cozumel, which just happens to be one of my favorite places to
dive. Anyway, she was telling me about an unexpected difficulty
she encountered while swimming around the corral reef down about
85 feet. It wasn't anything serious but her story reminded me of
something my scuba instructor used to say over and over again.
"Plan your dive, and dive your plan".
Play another Day (21 Mar 2006) This article teaches the reader how to manage their money with lower risk by using rules in Wall Street. Cutting losses may be the most important aspect to becoming successful in the stock market.
Poker and the Stock Market (21 Mar 2006) This article draws the parallel between poker and the stock market. I explain why rules, money management (capital preservation), odds (expectancy) and emotional control are key components to success in both entities.
Political Investing (21 Mar 2006) We have two candidates for president that have really different ideas on how to make the economy grow.
Precision Money Management (21 Mar 2006) A model of a natural relationship between trading system performance, trade position size, stop loss settings and profit goals. The model consists of algebraic equations that specify the trade size and stop loss settings needed to meet profit goals over a specified time period for any consistently used trading system for which historical performance data is available. Examples are provided.
Price Targets (21 Mar 2006) Every day in any financial publication you will find the Wall Street mavens giving their predictions on many stocks. It was issued here and should go there. It is now undervalued and is worth that much more. Really? Has anyone gone...
Price to Earnings Ratio - P/E (21 Mar 2006) After finding the price of a particular stock, usually the next number everyone looks at is the P/E ratio.
Forex Trading Explained. DrForex's top selling forex book Bird Watching in Lion Country - Forex Trading Explained in e-format.
