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Stock market trading halts explained
Stock market trading halts explained tells investors about trading halts. Trading halts can be a sign of big trouble, opportunity, or not much at all. But most stock halts are news-related. That news can be about the company or stock, market-related, or be due to regulator action. In all cases, superior investors can quickly learn the reason for a trading halt. Then they can take any needed action to minimize or avoid problems. As well, investors can find money-making opportunities in a trading halt or simply do nothing. Many times, during and after a trading halt, doing nothing is the very best course of action.
Read More3 basic stock market strategies
3 basic stock market strategies include investing, trading, and speculating. These big money makers can make money work when used alone or in combination. When these strategies are used well, all can produce money-making stock market wins for you. But each approach needs different knowledge, skill, and time to deliver the best money-making results. New investors should know and understand the big differences between these strategies as well as how and when to use them to your money-making advantage.
Read More3 Yeses or no investment
3 Yeses or no investment! Superior investors say no to investing unless the economy, market, and company all say yes. Waiting for three yeses aligns the odds in their favor by avoiding the common error of missing the market and economic signals. By knowing the importance of the economic, market, and company facts, investors give themselves a huge advantage. And they play that advantage by waiting for the three yeses before investing.
Read MoreInvestment impatience destroys wealth
Investment danger impatience zaps wealth. Let rising stocks add to your wealth. Early selling takes away all your upside potential wealth.
Read MoreInvestors manage mortal and immortal debt
Investors manage mortal and immortal debt. They do that by using different rules for good or bad debt. By doing that they create wealth-building opportunities. And any investor can learn and apply these debt management rules of superior investors.
Read More5 Key finance checks
5 Key Personal Finance Checks, eliminate bad debt, keep only reasonable debt on appreciating assets, 6 month emergency fund, pay yourself 10% of paycheck. Anyone seeking financial security, independence or wanting to control of their future needs to have their financial house in order. Start where you are and set about making sure you are ready to build your future prosperity. The 5 Key Personal Finance Checks serve as a starting point. Right now, today, is the very best time to start.
Read MoreInvestors retirement saving dangers
Retirement saving dangers. Retirement saving dangers lurk in the financial industry annual retirement savings campaigns. The great annual rite of investor shearing has begun. Once our New Year celebrations pass each year, the financial industry begins their annual bombardment of retirement savings ads. Financial marketing blasts at full volume to summon you to the shearing shed for your spring clip. The financial industry lust for your retirement savings seems to know no bounds.
Read MoreInvesting confidence, taxes and learning
Investing confidence: At times choppy market behavior and volatility can worry a new investor. By watching three big factors economic growth, no tapering and no Fed tightening, investing looks good. Investors can be reassured and confident further gains are coming despite a dip due to tax loss selling and premature tapering talk.
Read MoreFED begins Quantitative Tightening grinding out a tapering decade
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke began “Taper Talk”. Part 1 of 3 Why does tapering matter? Today we discuss the pending Fed tapering as market reactions and the high volume of strydent commentary continue to confuse investors. The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank continues to pump massive amounts of money into the economy. This stimulus program will have an end. That will be when the economy picks up and shows progress without needing the continuing massive Fed funding.
Tapering describes the planned slow reduction of that programed Fed spending. The current phase of the Fed program has them deeply involved in funding virtually all the mortgage market. The Fed continues buying mortgages at the rate of $85 billion per month.
Speculation failures improve investing
6 Lessons From A Speculation Loser. Let this be a lesson for you! Speculations fail fast, courts kill money, never average down, sell losers, psych games cost, litigation is risky.
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