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A Complete "How To" Guide for
investing in Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds
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Stock Market Investing - the Right Way
If you are new to investing, you might
have the idea that a rational person can
buy stock in some promising companies,
for the long term, and be happy with
their investment.
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More Stock Marketing Investing
This greed-fear cycle that can come from
investing is for real, and has drained
bank accounts, delayed retirements, and
caused many divorces.
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How to Pick Winning Stocks
You'll learn the basics of reading and
analyzing a company's financial
statements. This is part of what is
called "fundamental analysis".
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The Golden Rule of Investing
If there is a golden rule of investing,
it should be the discipline to cut your
losses when a stock drops 7-10%.
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Avoid Psychological Traps to Have
Successful Investing
From time to time, even the most
successful investors will hit a losing
streak. When this happens, people have a
tendency to fall into these
psychological traps.
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Changes in Stock Values Can Be Big
Numbers
If you only look at where the price of a
stock was and where it is now, you may
be misled about the return on
investment. This example should be an
eye-opener.
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How to Invest Smart
These suggestions are presented with the
assumption that you intend to remain a
casual investor.
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Stock Advice - Important Selling Rules
Sell if your stock drops 8-10% from the
price you paid. I can't repeat this
often enough. If the price begins
dropping on high volume, don't wait for
an 8% haircut - sell it now.
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Poor Stock Buying Decisions
Basic "what not to do" investment traps.
Don't a victim of these poor investing
decisions.
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Market Indicators
Stock market indicators, the simplest
being bull and bear markets, are numbers
that investors use to support various
investing theories. When certain numbers
are rising or falling or high or low,
these people believe that there is a
clear meaning attached.
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Stock Market Cycles
Are there market cycles that an investor
can take advantage of? You bet!
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When a bear stock market may not be a
bear market
The big losses of the biggest companies
can swing the market indexes to look
like the whole market is in trouble when
actually the true story is quite
different.
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Stock Index Futures
A “future” is a contract that requires
an investor to purchase a commodity at a
certain price on a given date – in the
future. These contracts can be bought
and sold up until that specified date.
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Four Things that Affect Stock Valuation
Learn about the four main aspects that
influence a stocks valuation.
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What is a P/E ratio?
In the simplest terms, the
price-to-earnings ratio is the dollars
that you pay for each one-dollar of
earnings.
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Value Investing
Value style investors don’t worry about
the market trend or the direction of the
economy, or interest rates. They don’t
study stock charts.
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Cheap Stocks
One way of categorizing stocks is by
their market capitalization, the total
number of shares multiplied by the price
per share. When their market cap is less
than $500 million, the company is
relatively small and maybe getting
smaller.
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What is a Financial Statement?
There are 3 statements that the SEC
requires corporations to file on a
quarterly basis: balance sheet, income
statement, and a statement of cash flow.
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Analyzing Financial Statements
A company’s financial statements tell
you what a company has (its assets),
what it owes (its liabilities), its
sales (revenue), and how much it made in
the accounting period being reported
(its profit or net earnings).
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Red Flags to Look For When Investing?
Watch out for sales growing slower than
accounts receivable or inventory. Look
at the balance sheet to see if there are
falling reserves for bad debt, or an
increase in deferred revenue.
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How to Read an Annual Report
A recent study has found that women are
twice as likely as men to study a
company’s annual report before investing
in a company. Why don’t most men bother
looking at it before they jump into a
stock? Maybe for the same reason they
hate to stop and ask for directions.
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Stock Market Analysts
There are currently about 4,100 stock
market analysts working for 250
brokerages and investment banks. These
experts do their homework and get the
inside scoop on the prospects of the
companies that they follow.
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