Stock Tips - Why You Should Avoid Them

History of Stock Tips Stock tips are as old as the market itself. I guarantee you during the tulip bubble during the 1600's there was some guy passing out leaflets in every market he could find pushing tulips. Stock tips are...

By: Alton Hill

Penny Stocks - are they worth trading?

Penny stocks are low-priced securities that are currently trading below $5 per share. Often times these stocks have fallen from much higher prices and now trade thinly with low volume. Penny stocks are no longer listed on the...

By: Al Hill

Mutual Fund Ratings And How We Benefit

Most people these days know the definition of a mutual fund, however many do not know what mutual fund ratings are. Mutual fund ratings are the numerical scale that is placed on funds to determine the history of their performance....

By: Christopher W Smith

The Hows and Whys of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown

During this past month the nation learned of the collapse-in-progress of the sub-prime mortgage market, which it appears will be promoted as this seasons spectator sport. Each day we view another victim in this saga: a former sub-prime loan processor...

By: Al Jacobs

Why I Don't Invest in Mutual Funds

For more than four decades Ive involved myself in investments, including stocks and bonds, real estate, mortgage lending, and variety of enterprises, some of them hard to describe. However, there is one endeavor that Ive systematically avoided. It is the...

By: Al Jacobs

Creating Wealth With Mutual Funds

For ten years or more, U.S. investors in increasing numbers have depended on mutual funds to save for their retirement plans, creating wealth and other financial objectives. Mutual funds offer the benefit of diversification along with professional management. Diversification is...

By: Craig Sipe

Learn Stock Trading From Playing Poker

Picking good stocks is only the first step to become a consistently profitable trader. Those of you that track the performances of stock picks I post on http://www.cisiova.com/analysis.asp know that it is impossible to determine if a stock is good...

By: Zheng Fang

3 Steps To Low Risk Stock Picking

Stock picking is a very complicated process and investors have different approaches. However, it is wise to follow general steps to minimize the risk of the investments. This article will outline these basic steps for picking high performance stocks. Step 1....

By: Zheng Fang

Stock Trading Systems - The Lexicon

Charts are visual representations of stock prices over time, and you can familiarize yourself with them in the financial pages of your local news paper. Think back to algebra, and plotting curves the vertical axis is the price, and...

By: Mark Crisp

Stock Market

A crowded and clumsy market full of people, running and writing some scores on sheets, yelling on phones and carrying the unusual gestures on their faces - that's the way a stock market looks like. A stock exchange has always...

By: Amit Malhotra