Do you find you spend too much time watching the forex charts with too little results? Don’t you wish you could be enjoying your life instead of getting stressed out by price movements? What if you could make money trading forex in less than 10 minutes a day? Trading the forex markets for profit can be very lucrative. Unfortunately, there is a huge learning curve before you can really get a decent grasp of what it takes to be a…
Hundreds of brokers and system developers are enticing new traders into trading the Forex market with claims of double digit or higher returns in a short space of time by using MetaTrader4 automatic trading systems, called Expert Advisors. The reality is that 95% of new traders lose their trading bank in the first couple of months. How can you ensure that you are part of the successful 5%? 1. Get familiar with the Forex market. You can’t possibly hope to…
I started investing without really bothering looking at the financial reports. When I started looking at stocks, I looked at the company’s name and evaluate whether the products that the company is selling are popular. My rationale is simple: As long as the product is popular, profit streams will be continuous. What I failed to realize is that a good product does not really translate to profits. There are many companies who have good products but still end up losing…
How a special combination and setting of proven indicators, can alert you on significant Stock Market tops and bottoms. RSI – Relative Strength Index is a well known and much used momentum indicator. It was invented by J. Welles Wilder Jr., a great technical analyst. RSI compares the magnitude of a stock or index’s recent gains to the magnitude of it’s recent losses and that information is turned into a number that ranges from 0 to 100. A single parameter…
Small commercial business investors frequently do not take advantage of things that the larger investment pros do. The small investor does not have a team of attorneys or other professionals to make him aware of many of advantageous strategies available if you just implement them. As a small commercial property investor, you can make big plays by utalizing the savvy real estate strategies used by the pros. One of thoese strategies is OPTIONS…Using Option-Contracts to gain control or ownership interest in the company……
Hi folks, I see that a guide to sell options is requested and i’m writing one for you guys.We are gonna need some things: A stock to buy/sell An option Broker The Fantastic tool you guys have on ItalianDividends (:)) The idea here is simple. If we don’t possess the stock we would like to own, we can sell puts in order to 1) collect the premium and 2) buy the stock at a lower price than the spot one. If…
Stock picking is a very personal thing. That’s why nearly every different portfolio manager favors different stocks. Furthermore, people pick stocks based on not just on the merits of an individual stock, but based on what they feel will happen to their local and global economy in the future. For example, if I thought the end of the world was coming, I’d sell all of my stock and keep my money under my mattress. But if I thought that the…
Investing has taken on a more complicated side to it over the past 10 to 20 years due to the fact that a selection of different kinds of derivative instruments has been designed. Derivatives themselves have been around even longer than that and in years gone by were used in the farming industry. The way it works is that one party agrees to sell a particular good while another party agrees to purchase the good at a specific price on…
In a previous post, we discussed four simple steps to help you create your own investment strategy. The first step is to select the stock screen you want to follow. The second is to choose how many stocks you will own. The third step is to determine how much you will invest in each stock. Finally, you need to set “buy” and “sell” rules. Establishing proper buy and sell rules is arguably the most critical step in creating an investment…
In a way, investing can be viewed as a metaphor for life. Success or failure depend on your approach to the topic. We began this blog almost five years ago (anniversary coming up!) to address a situation that had bothered us for several years. IFO has wonderful, intelligent, witty, hardworking friends. Most have some assets, including financial assets: cash, land, livestock, stocks, bonds, mutual funds. Many were recent widows. Several do not take responsibility for their own wealth, but are content…