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Are You Coachable?
I will admit that I am happy that the San Antonio Spurs won the NBA title this year. I have been a Spurs and Tim Duncan fan for many years. Now that I have made all the Heat fans mad, I will explain what a lead in like this had to do with investing? After…
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Is it Safe?
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges that investors face is determining if “right now” is a SAFE time to invest (meaning not just the present, but any time). What makes it difficult for investors is a twofold issue: first, is a lack of historical knowledge and perspective, and second, their own emotions. Actually, if one…
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Tax Time IRA Answers
Let’s take down the age old question of “Should I invest in a Roth IRA or a Traditional IRA?” Before I jump into this, you must know that neither one is a bad choice, and it all depends on your situation and goals. Both accounts are considered “Qualified Accounts”, meaning they have tax advantages over…
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Second Quarter Market Returns
There have actually been complaints in the media and news about how “boring” the stock market has been so far this year. Boring is bad in sports, but in the stock market it is usually a good thing. There has been slow but steady growth in every single sector and sub sector of the market…
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What is a Hedge Fund?
Are you missing out on the supposedly huge amount of profits to be made by investing with a “Guru” in his Hedge Fund? Hedge funds are like mutual funds, but they are managed by self titled experts who charge an enormous fee to try and beat the market. Hedge funds and Investing Guru’s are built…
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Market Timing: The Myth
So what is market timing and are you losing returns because your money manager is doing it? Or even worse, have you been caught doing it all on your own. According to Investopedia, market timing is “The act of attempting to predict the future direction of the market, typically through the use of technical indicators…
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Equities in the Last 30 Years: A Retrospective
Looking at a chart http://bit.ly/qSHuve covering the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last century is a lot like looking at a chart of profitable business earnings at a cartoon enterprise meeting–it’s almost a caricature of itself, a steady upward slope punctuated by regular but far-between drops, always ending higher than it…
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Should you Buy Gold as an Investment?
We have all seen the advertisements and headlines that keep telling us that investors need to flee to safety and buy gold. They will tell us that the stock market is going to crash worse than last time, and that investors need a hedge to inflation with gold. They will say it with charisma and…
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Is the Stock Market Rigged?
Investors everywhere are panicking and fearful after a very interesting topic on 60 minutes this past Sunday. The headlines read, “The Stock Market is Rigged, and you are the victim”. So I am going to break down exactly why they are saying that the stock market is rigged, and whether you should panic or not.…
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When Stockpickers Realize Their Flaw
Stock Picking is and has been a very popular topic for years. We look at examples like Warren Buffet and see how much success he had “stock picking”. Well I learned today that Warren Buffet doesn’t believe that stock picking works. Here are pieces of a great article called, “Why the World’s Greatest Stock Picker…
