A Day In The Life Of A Day Trader

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I am a day trader, I love the thrill of the trade, every day presents a new opportunity. I don’t believe that there is any better teacher than experience, so much of what I know is learned from my trading successes and failures. I stick with what works for me and that is shorting. For [...]

5 Things You Can Buy Cheap to Start the Year

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The new year is underway and Christmas shopping is behind us. You may have noticed that many stores have sales in January. You can think of it as the New Year’s slump. They want to do everything possible to encourage shoppers to come out to the stores and spend money. As you have probably noticed [...]

Stock Analysts – Does Anyone Really Care

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If you’re an investor, you probably know that Wall Street is full of analysts who study and report on what they believe is the health and stability of stocks as well as commodities and other investment products. Their primary duty is to give investors unbiased, tradable advice based on careful study of industry analytics as [...]

Stock Market Decisions – Forget the Noise

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The more information we can get our hands on, the better, right? Not necessarily and here’s why. Speaking personally, I have to admit that I’m a bit of a hypochondriac. A stomach ache might be cancer, a small pain in my chest could be a heart attack and a common cold could be the beginning [...]

Long Term Bonds and S&P Divergence – What Does it Mean

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If at the beginning of 2011, anyone had forecast long term bonds returning more than 20% by year end you might expect that stocks got pummeled. Oh contrar, the S&P closed at 1,267.50 on December 30th down .04 points or 0.0%, the Dow was up a few percent and the Nasdaq was down a few [...]

Simple Ways of Going Green and Saving Your Green – Money

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The desire to change the world and do the environment good are very admirable and show a sense of responsibility for the planet as well as a great deal of awareness. There is another reason why going green is such a great idea- are you ready for this? – it can help to save you [...]

Simple Energy Saving Tips for Your Home that Will Save You Money

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There are lots of ways to save money and one of those has to do with energy. Perhaps you have made some energy saving decisions in your home that have allowed you to keep more of your money where you want it to be- in your wallet or your bank account- or maybe you just [...]

Should You Pay More than the Minimum on Your Credit Cards ?

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When you receive your credit card bill every month you may notice on the statement that it shows what your minimum payment for the month is. The minimum payment represents a percentage of your total balance.  That is then deemed the minimum that you must pay per month. It is a small percentage of your [...]

4 Tips for Setting New Year’s Financial Resolutions – And Making Them Stick

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It is a new year and with it comes the need to make some financial resolutions. Most importantly you need to stick to the resolutions that you make once you make them. This may be the year that you have finally decided to start saving money or you want to eliminate debt or start investing. [...]

Big Changes for Consumers Following Debit Card Regulation?

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This article was written by Odysseas Papadimitriou, CEO of Card Hub, a leading online marketplace for prepaid cards, discounted gift cards, and the best credit card deals. “Interchange fee” is a term that became a greater part of the mainstream American lexicon during 2011. “Prepaid card” is one that will certainly become more commonplace in [...]

9 Exchange Traded Funds Worth a Second Look

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There are so many ETFs on the market that the landscape looks like the mutual fund world. In order to find the quality funds you have to sift through the hundreds of others that probably aren’t a good fit for you. I, like most investors, have a short list of funds that I use to [...]

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