Back in the old days, trading was handled by brokers who worked with their clients on ways to best improve their portfolios. But since the advent of the Internet, and more specifically online trading, the days of needing someone else to make your investments are quickly receding into the past. Online trading gives investors direct access to the market without…
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Better Trades Momentum Part 1
I love to trade options on stocks with a lot of momentum. What this means is that I want to trade those stocks, Exchange Traded Funds or Indexes, that are moving fast and far. The way I see it, if I am going to put my money in the market, I want to place it where it will work as…
Angel Investors Bring Big Ideas To Reality
If you’re an emerging company with the next great product, sometimes you need an angel on your side. A study by the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research showed that “angel investors” – high-net-worth individuals willing to invest in entrepreneurial companies at an early stage – shelled out more than $18 billion into early-stage companies last year alone,…
Why The Financial News Media Can Cost You Money
The communication innovations we have around us today like the internet, financial newspapers, and special interest television channels focused on investing like CNBC are a high speed pipeline of nonsensical chatter. All these sources of information mean that there is no shortage of media people trying to answer our questions about the stock market and specific stocks. You have to…
Trading Psychology Vs Trading Method
It is said that trading is 90% psychological and 10% methodological. Does this then imply that regardless of trading method, a trader that has control over their emotional issues will thus be a profitable trader, or will it be impossible to ever control emotions without the proficient implementation of method? The trading method viewpoint will suggest that not only are…
Trading Options
Option is a legal agreement between buyer and seller to buy or sell security at an agreed price in a certain period of time. It is quite similar to insurance that you pay an amount of money in order that your property is protected by the insurance company. The difference between these two is option can be traded whereas, insurance…
Lanzarote Villas Buying For Investment
Many people are buying property in Lanzarote purely as an investment, intending to rent out the property for as many weeks in the year as possible and also see good capital appreciation, as opposed to putting their money into pension schemes which have been performing very poorly. So how do you decide where and what properties are likely to give…
Future Of Oil
In recent days oil market has witnessed surge in global oil price. Crude oil went to a two-month high on concern that U.S. refiners will fail to produce enough gasoline to keep up with peak demand this summer. Short fall in supply of oil from Nigeria and uncertainty on Iranian nuclear issues are already keeping buyers of oil nervous. Delivery…
Learn About The Roth Ira And How You Can Invest It
A Roth IRA is another type of Individual Retirement Account (IRA). With a Roth IRA contributions to the account are not tax deductible, but “qualified” withdrawals from the account are not taxable either. A “qualified” distribution from a Roth IRA is a withdrawal made after the taxpayer attains age 59 What’s your Reaction? Love Love 0 Smile Smile 0 Haha…
Hyperspectral Imaging For Hydrocarbon Intensity No Ritalin Needed
I have heard in my travels across the midwest the word “Doodlebugger”, a quack who professes to be able to mysteriously find oil. As I research new methods to help find oil, I am always skeptical, but recently came across technology that seems very promising: Hyperspectral Imaging. So what is hyperspectral imaging? In layman’s terms it measures the elemental signature…