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Portfolio Diversification – Are All Your Eggs in One Basket?

Diversification is a way of looking at your investments and not putting all your eggs into one basket. This is generally done to balance your portfolio, so that when one section is not doing particularly well, your overall balance is maintained by other sections bolstering it. This can further be broken down into the sections of your portfolio, meaning that your stocks are not all in one sector, and bonds are not all a certain grade or from the same industry.

Portfolio Goals – Setting Expectations For Your Investment Plan

You need to really think about the purpose of your portfolio before searching for your investment options or sitting down with a financial advisor. (Choosing to use an advisor, or going it on your own is a whole different topic) What do you want out of your portfolio? Do you want dividends, royalties or increasing net worth?

Stocks – Buying and Selling Basics – Or What the Heck am I doing in the Stock Market?

There are many ways to buy and sell stocks. Do you want to use a “Market” order, “limit” order or a just a “buy”? And when you sell, how do you really do that and make sure you are selling at the price you set?

Analyzing Company Stock Holdings – Wagner Investment Management

Today, I’ll break down Wagner Investment Management Inc and show you their biggest holdings. This is a great way to get investment ideas and to see where the market is leaning.

How To Succeed In The Stock Market?

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Financial Spread Betting – 10 Strategies To Help Create Success

Financial spread betting is a daunting prospect to under take. It is though a lot easier to understand than you would imagine. This article offers tips that explain in plain English how to approach spread betting. It offers simple advice to make help you end up in profit.

Reducing The Risks Of Investing In Penny Stocks

You’re no stranger to the claims that enormous fortunes are there for the taking in the penny stock market. Your curiosity has been piqued, and you are going to take the plunge. But you’re not so new to investing that you think you can simply buy a few stocks, sit back any wait for them to double in price, and take your profits to the bank. You know there has to be more to it than that, and you are right.

How to Pick and Track Stocks In The International Markets

With global markets increasingly open to investors, and electronic media capable of providing up-to-the minute reports on what’s happening around the world, investors appetites are being meet with a steady stream of information. The performances of 16 of the worlds major global stock exchanges are reported daily in the wall street journal. The daily numbers on a particular exchange have meaning only in relation to what has happened on the exchange in the past.

How to Determine The Worth of a Bond

A bonds interest rate will never change even though other interest rates do. If the bond happens to be paying more interest than is available elsewhere, investors are willing to pay more to own it. If the bond is paying less the reverse happens.

Trading On Borrowed Time? Part 1

When traders misinterpret luck for skill, they are unknowingly trading on borrowed time. The inevitable account blow out looms around the corner. How you can spot this before it’s too late.