Investing - Learning From Other's Mistakes

When it comes to investing your money, it costs a lot less to learn from mistakes others have made than repeating the same mistakes yourself. This week, I will share one reader's horror story and their mistakes so you can avoid these costly pitfalls.

Investing - Let Financial Freedom Ring

As our nation recently celebrated its freedom, we are reminded of the 'unalienable rights' our Founding Fathers appreciated: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Sounds like the ideal retirement, doesn't it? But unless investors are careful, they'll never achieve their own financial freedom...

Investing - In Life... With No Regrets

At the start of this New Year, I'm often asked what I think the best investment for 2005 will be. Investors are always looking for financial guidance to steer them through the uncertainty of the future. While it's important to keep up with trends and cycles in the markets, there's one very important investment that most people fail to make – investing in life.

Investing - Take My Advice And Stop Being A Loser

You’ve won a new car! Who wouldn't like to hear those words, be it from Bob Barker or Pat Sajek, or like over 200 lucky audience members, from Oprah Winfrey? Mega-instant winners are raking in the goodies with monster home re-models, complete body makeovers and million dollar prizes. But when the bright lights fade and the TV cameras are gone, the winner can feel like a loser with an enormous tax bill.

Investing - Seniors - Beware of Buy and Hold Investing

If you are retired or near retirement, you need to understand a major weakness of the popular Buy and Hold strategy of investing. Read on to learn what it is and how you can protect yourself.

Investing - Beware The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing

Could your financial advisor sheep really be a wolf? Read on to find out. I’ll also share practical steps you can take to keep from getting fleeced.

Investing - What To Do When An Investment Goes Bad

We always hope for the best when we enter into an investment, but what happens when things don’t work out as planned? Follow this simple advice to make the most out of a bad situation.

Common Equity Sharing Arrangement

The common equity sharing arrangement involves one party income in the property and the other putting up cash and/or financing. Both the inhabitant and the non-occupant take pleasure in tax benefits and share the profit, as described later in this chapter. First time home buyers make the best occupant partners while family members, sellers and real estate investors plug the non-resident partner role.

Leverage In Trading Emini Futures

This article explains the concept of leverage in emini futures. Eminis are very popular day trading instruments.

False Sell Signals - Don't Get Out Too Early

Being prepared to act is an important part of stock trading. Evaluating sell signals and determining the difference between real and false ones can make the difference between making a good or bad decision.

What Does the Market Want After February's Mini-Crash?

The aftermath of February's mini-crash was relatively mild. The market meandered for the first half of March and then produced a modest gain over the last two weeks of the month. Value stocks easily outpaced growth stocks in all four market caps. This flight to quality is not necessarily long-term, but it is the norm after such a drop. Among market cap performance there was very little difference, with large-caps and small-caps gaining nearly 1%, mid-caps and micro-caps, a little more than .5% -- not much on which to base a prognosis.

The Foreclosure Information You Don't Want to Miss

This article provides readers with a general overview of foreclosures and how to avoid these legal proceeding.

Investing From Boone Hall to Iron Duke

During a recent trip with my family to Georgia and South Carolina, I had a very interesting day that highlights booth the massive changes and the continuities in our economy as wealth is created and destroyed. What lessons can we learn that will make us better investors?

Pros and Cons of Futures Investing

Futures trading relies on the future, which is often unpredictable. For instance, if you were to acquire gold, you would need to cost of gold to increase in the future, to make a profit from it. If, by chance, the cost of gold decreased, you may have lost money or make a bad futures investing choice.