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How to Be a Contrarian Investor

Contrarian investors believe that following the crowd leads to losses and missed opportunities. When the crowd reacts to news or speculation about a stock or the market, the price can rise of fall so far, that has mis-priced the value of the company or the market.

A Beginner’s Guide to Growth Investing

I love it when something does what it says on the tin. Growth investing is one such case. What does it mean?

Behavioural Investing

We like to think of ourselves as clever, logical, rational investors. We like to think we’re smart. Unfortunately, we are often driven by pride, fear, greed, shamed, or contrariness.

Where Have Investors Gone?

As Pete Seeger might have written it and the Kingston Trio might have sung it in the sixties, ‘Where have stock investors gone, long time passing? Gone to bond funds every one, long time ago.’ Will the last lines to that great folk song also become part of the picture? “When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?”

Net Present Value Analysis and When to Use It

Net Present Value analysis is a useful tool. If you bear in mind the problems and pitfalls, using NPVs can be a useful way to value growth stocks, as well as at long term investments such as refineries, chemical plants and power stations.

Exploring a Stock Market Investment Strategy

There are many different stock market investment strategies that can be employed in order to make your money work for you. Find out what some of these are to boost your profitability.

The Problems With Stock Options As Employee Compensation

Stock options are a horrible method of compensating employees because there is a high cost of dilution, a lack of pay for individual performance which ruins incentives, difficulty in valuing options, a tendency towards wretched excess compensation, a giveaway to management because fixed exercise prices ignore the earnings that are retained by a company every year and because GAAP accounting can minimize the apparent dilution. In contrast, cash compensation tied to business results which an executive or employee has control over, remedy and correct these problems.

Stock Market Investing – What Sectors Should You Buy Stocks In?

Everyone over 18 can easily open an online stock investing account, but what do you do after? What stocks do you buy? I will briefly state what sector to find profitable stocks in and what sector to stay away from right now.

Pros and Cons of Online Newsletter For Stock Trading

Do you give a damn care to what the brokers say? Well, you are not the only person who adheres to this step. In fact, in present times, you will find more and more people going in for an online newsletter when it comes to stock trading.

How You Can Make Great Returns With Very Low Risk

In trading it doesn’t have to be an all or nothing affair. You can control your downside risk. Before you place a trade do these three things first. Plan the entry point for your trade, plan the price where you’ll exit the trade if you’re wrong (some traders use a stop loss), and plan the price where you’ll take your profits.