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Why Do Stock Prices Go Up And Down?
What is a company's "fundamentals" or "book value"? What's the difference between a "buy and hold investor" and a "trader"?
Asset Allocation Management Without Mutual Funds
Investing is not a competitive event, ever. You don't need to beat the market. You need to accomplish a set of personalized goals. Avoid what the crowd is doing and shun investment products. Consumers buy products; Investors buy securities.
How to Increase Your Income, Lower Your Taxes and Help Your Favorite Charity
Are you a senior with an under-performing asset and a desire to benefit your favorite cause? Take a look at a simple planning option that could significantly boost your income and give you a warm feeling in your heart.
Smarter Money
HOW Invest smart money; either a few thousand dollars or resell and make a lot money, no money down, shares for free. Does that sound interesting? You cant get something for nothing, your time for free shares. Or a direct investment. Great opportunity.
What Six Dollars Can Do
When I was sixteen years old, I was invited to speak at a little country church in rural Denver Kentucky, not far from Paintsville.
Wall Street Outsiders Versus Hedge Funds
The investment world was convulsed last week when at least one hedge fund (Melvin Capital) lost billions of dollars. The sudden, massive losses happened when a tidal wave of independent individual investors, spearheaded by posts on reddit.com, triggered a short squeeze that torpedoed the hedge fund.
Retirement Brings With It Extra Time; How To Make The Best Of It
Singer Jim Croce longed to put time in a bottle.
When Cash Is Devalued, Where Should Investors Look For Salvation?
With a difficult 2020 receding into the past, investors are left to wonder what lies ahead for them, the economy, and their portfolios in 2021.
The Problem with Hedge Funds
Hedge funds are in the news again. (I wrote about the Melvin Capital hedge fund blow-up a couple of months ago.) A firm named Archegos Capital Management “blew up” (to use the common vivid metaphor), vaporizing tens of billions of dollars of paper wealth. What happened was that the prices of several highly leveraged investments made by Archegos turned against them, triggering margin calls from banks that had lent money to Archegos. The only way to raise the cash to meet the margin calls was to sell Archegos’ stocks, thereby flooding the market with sell orders and causing a rapid decline in stock prices.
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