Controlling Impulses, Key To Market Timing Profitability

Winning market timers have learned to control their impulses. They can follow buy and sell market timing signals effortlessly. They show extreme self-control.

Investing Tips for Beginners

As you begin your investing journey, you will hear many conflicting opinions on what you should or should not do in regards to investing in stocks.

Investing - An Advisor Reveals His True Color

The vast majority of the financial services industry does not have your best interests at heart. It is more concerned about the money it makes, not the returns investors receive. Read on to hear what an agent himself has to say—it may shock you.

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 - A Guarding Your Wealth Exclusive The Biggest Financial Risk Retirees Face

As the life expectancy continues to increase, the need for long-term custodial care has become the biggest financial risk today's retirees face. There are ways to protect your lifestyle and the inheritance you leave your children if you act before it’s too late.

Investing - Buy and Hold Hammers Retirees

It's time someone stands up and says it: The Buy and Hold philosophy of investing is inherently dangerous for those who are retired or near retirement. It is responsible for literally millions of retirees being forced to go back to work. Yet the Financial Services industry, whose profits are built on the Buy and Hold philosophy, refuses to make changes necessary to better serve these investors.

Investing - Bum Or Shining Star

Is your financial advisor a bum or a shining star? Read on and I'll show you a simple way to find out!

Investing - The ABCs Of EFTS

Are you afraid of 'spiders?' No, I'm not talking about those hairy, eight-legged creatures. I'm talking about Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). It is important you understand this investment vehicle because they offer several advantages over mutual funds. Read on to find out how 'spiders' and other Exchange-Traded Funds can be a valuable part of your portfolio.

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.

Insurance for Cars and Pets - Who Knew

The most popular insured risks are: home insurance - to protect against risks of fire; car insurance ' to hedge against risk of accidents; and, medical insurance ' to help safeguard the health of you and your family in times of medical need. In the event of, for example, a home fire, the monthly insurance premium paid for home insurance (and in particular fire insurance) becomes insignificant to the cost of buying a new home.

Facts About Business Credit - Can It Benefit You?

Created for supporting any business, the business credit card is in deed a solution that gives you the guarantee of separating your business expenses from your personal ones.

The Business Cycle

The business cycle is a long-term pattern of changes in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that follows four stages: expansion, prosperity, contraction, and recession. After a recessionary phase, the expansionary phase can start again. The phases of the business cycle are characterized by changing employment, industrial productivity, and interest rates. Some economists believe that stock price trends precede business cycle stages.

Debunking 3 Common Myths About Bad Credit Credit Cards

Bad credit credit cards are some of the most misunderstood financial tools of all time. To make matters worse, the lines in the world of these credit cards aren't always cut and dry and not all things are as they seem. If you really want to understand bad credit credit cards and how they can work for you, follow along as we debunk the three most-common bad credit credit card myths.