Guest post today by Troy Bryant. (See here if you're interested in guest blogging at this site.) Troy's gaming obsession gives him some investment ideas... I once read that you should invest...
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If you've ever traded stocks through an online broker, you may have decided to purchase (or sell) a stock based on the latest stock quote, only to see your purchase or sale transaction completed...
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I'm sure you're not hearing it here first, that JPMorgan Chase (JPM) bought Bear Stearns for just $2 per share, or about $236 million. Bear Stearns was seemingly about to go bankrupt but...
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Visa is looking to shatter all IPO records by offering its stock to the public at a volume and price that could mean raising almost $19 billion. The biggest IPO to date was AT&T Wireless' IPO...
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I'm generally an optimist, in terms of thinking things are going to go well. However, when it comes to paying anyone money for anything, I am skeptical to the extreme. I think everyone is out to...
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You might not be working today, but I am. And when I'm working, I want the stock market open. While I'm sitting at my computer as a rat in the race, I want to know there is the possibility......
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If you trade individual stocks or think you might like to try, one important lesson to learn is that the future matters a lot more than the past. From the market's perspective, it's not even...
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Over the years there have been many investing formulas invented that are supposed to be market beaters. One of the more interesting is the "Dogs of the Dow". The Dogs of the Dow theory says...
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Last year I wrote a few times about Zecco, the startup offering free stock market trades. I was hesitant to put any money there and I didn't know anyone else who quite trusted it, either. But now,...
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Some chatter today about AOL upgrading its finance portal made me wonder: where's the best place for financial news? What are the one or two sites you go to when you want to check stocks, or want...
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Woke up today to find a note from E-Trade telling me that they can weather the financial storm even though they warned of disastrous sub-prime writedowns and Citi said the company could potentially go...
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Last week I reviewed the new book Invest Like A Shark, which advocates an in-and-out, take-a-bite-and-swim-away sort of approach to investing over a buy-and-hold philosophy, the point being that buy...
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(Photo from ExtremePumpkins.com, check them out, there's plenty more where this came from) Noted investing blogger Charles Kirk has busted out his latest list of "Spooky Stocks"-stocks...
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If you want to make money in the stock market, conventional wisdom says to buy/hold/wait and eventually you'll make some money. Some of us don't want to wait that long. James...
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We're getting closer to the end of our 30-part series in which we pick through Warren Buffett's Letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders for clues on how we can be as rich as the man. Part...
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Here's a good article by Motley Fool's Dan Caplinger about the problem many people have of paying twice for money management. It happens very easily and it blows people's returns without...
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I have not always been the best investor, but one strategy I have used to much monetary success is buying bigger companies when the market is tanking. There are always at least a handful of large...
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With this installment of our never-ending 30-part series on the Sage of Omaha, we finally enter into the 2000s. Hopefully we'll be done before we get to the 2010s. Today we look at Warren...
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If you're an individual stock investor, you may at times buy a stock because it has a fat dividend. After all, that's guaranteed money (although there's no guarantee that the price of the...
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Time once again for another installment in our 30-part series dissecting Warren Buffett's Letters to Berskshire Hathaway shareholders. In Part 23, we look at the year 1999... 1999 was the worst...
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Back on April 23, I jumped out of the market, at least in terms of my actively-traded portfolio that I like to mess with. I'd made over 10 percent this year, and decided to wait until the market...
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Holy cow I'm finally up to part 22 of the 30-part series highlighting the very best of Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. This time I'll look at the year...
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