Part 1: Mark Hebner explains the 12-Steps

ifa.com – An Interview with Mark Hebner. President of Index Funds Advisors.

Advice for Teen in Investing in Stock Market?

Hey, I’m 18 and I would like to begin investing in the stock market. I’ve been researching on Investopedia on the stock market and playing the simulator. I was trying to find the best place to invest in stocks online. The cheapest stock site I found was sharebuilder, but that’s only for investing once a week. Is that how most sites charge their fees? Which site has the best reputation, and what’s the best method for a teen to begin investing?
Thanks!

If I were to work with an investor can I still manage that property without a sales license?

in the State of Florida.

Suggest an investment strategy?

you have just made your first $4000 contribution to your retirement account. assuming you earn an 11 percent reate of return and make no additional contributions, what will your account be worth when you retire in 45years? what if you wait 10 years before contributing? (does this suggest an investment strategy?

Stock Market Technical Analysis: The Phantom Returns!: After visiting Wal-Mart (WMT)

Check out the potential long set-up in Walmart! Disclosure: We Are Long Walmart Calls!

Investors Should Avoid Groupon’s IPO

The following video is part of today’s MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill and advisors Jason Moser and Joe Magyer analyze the latest business news. On the eve of Groupon’s IPO, the guys look back at some of the other Internet IPOs of 2011 and share why they won’t be buying shares of Groupon’s stock any time soon. If you’re looking for other stock ideas, look no further than The Motley Fool’s new free report, “The Hottest IPO of 2011.” mot.ly The report lists one recent IPO set to take off thanks to its leadership in booming Latin American markets. Get instant access to the report. mot.ly

What is your investment strategy for 2007?

Please suggest & view suggestions at:

www.letsgobble.com

Thank you!

private investor???

what section of the local news paper do you find private investors?

Section 1, Part 2: Successful investing is 99.9% defense

Section 1, Part 2: Successful investing is 99.9% defense

Property Investor Show 2010 Preview Interview – John Corey -Chelsea Private Equity #propshow

Solid, long term investment strategy for a college student?

I have about 5,000 usd that I made on a summer job, and I am looking to grow this capital for my future, either for retirement, later in life when I want to go back to school, or when I want a family. Any case, I am looking for advice on where I can put this money so that it is maximized for when I need. Funds, stock market, CDs, or whatever…. any advice is helpful. Thanks!

How to Become a Successful Investor

Investing in the stock market is one of the most profitable and the riskiest kind of investments. Nowadays, in most cases, investment allocation is a result of flowing cash to the assets where the current return and risk are satisfied a certain investor expectation. There are some differences between such participants of the stock market as investors and traders. However, a classical investor and trader are both aim at gaining money. History evidences the different cases, when an investor started with a small amount of money and eventually became very rich, or on the contrary, when a millionaire lost all investments in the stock market and became poor. What is the most important quality that separates the winners from the losers in the stock investing? The answer is simple – it is knowledge in investing, either that is based on collected wisdom by other investors or gained through making own mistakes. Anyway, the following basic principles could be useful to remember:

 

Never invest all your money in the stock market, especially, if you are a beginner. Common recommended portion of invested money in stocks is from 25% to 50% of your total budget.

Never invest all money in one stock – always diversify among several stocks in different sectors.

Always watch closely general market conditions, especially, when bear market is about to start. Be prepared by selling most holdings in advance.

Never rush with investment solution. Carefully watch financial quarterly reports, news, and macroeconomics trends before making any decision.

Never let your emotions prevail over a rational disciplined approach.

To improve return/risk ratio, use reliable software tools that embody the investors’ concentrated wisdom.

All stocks are volatile without exception. There will be always a certain probability that something suddenly will go wrong with any stock. Even the best stocks can depreciate.

 

USA recent researches show that an average investor has around $250,000 investment assets and more than half investors uses brokerage advices. Investing is popular for both genders almost equally. For the last decades, the expectation of most investors decreased from about 30% to about 10% of annual return on investment. Most investors prefer a long-term type of investments with less than five transactions per year. Not everyone is able to succeed in investing. Most losses in investing happen because of lack of knowledge, over-confidence, impatience, greed, fear, and different delusions. An experienced investor knows that there is a direct proportion between time spent to increase investing skills and return on investment.

 

Self-education can help to improve investment skills. Usually, after reading tens of books about investing, investors come to conclusion about importance of fundamental analysis and interpretation of technical analysis indicators. Also investors need to read quarterly financial reports, watch market conditions, try to predict macroeconomics trends, etc. How much time all these take? Fortunately, there is an optimized approach that allows investing time effectively to give a maximum return. As an example, to reach excellence in driving it is enough to read one book, get driving training, and regularly practice. Something similar is possible with investing skills, except that a few books will be required. The following books could be good for improving the investment competence:

 

Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time by John Boik (good introduction in investing)

Stock Investing For Dummies by Paul Mladjenovic (very useful and important to read book)

 

The following books by William J. O’Neil:

 

How to Make Money in Stocks

24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success

The Successful Investor

 

These books are easy and enjoyable to read. Some experts opinion can be contradictory. For example, some authors offer using such method as “averaging down”. This is a method to reduce the cost of purchases. “Averaging down” means to buy more stock of a given issue at a price less than the last purchase successively as the price declines. However, other authors insist that such method is bad. They suggest sell any stock if the market price drops below around 8% – 10% of the purchase price. The problem of this contradiction is that averaging down works well in case if decreasing price is a temporal correction but not a sign of declining business and long-term dropping demand for the stocks. How to distinguish correction from alarming signal? The answer is – to evaluate exactly a real value of company and its stocks, as well as, understand current market condition and know macroeconomic trends.

 

Nevertheless, all books about investing are useful to a certain extent. The next important step is training. It can be done without money, in a simulation mode. Then it will be naturally to use real money for learning lessons more effectively. A regular practicing is important. However, it is hard to acquire good investing skills fast. One of the reasons is that the market is not always the same. It can be bull or bear market with different corrections. Some market cycles can be very long. For example, a real bear market happens seldom, around once in 12-14 years. Even so, it would be useful to experience a bear market, at least once.

 

The first step in investment analysis has to be fundamental analysis. The fundamental analysis allows predicting a long-term stock performance. It depends on many factors: company profitability and its growth, assets liquidity, market stock value relatively to earning, book value, and sales, etc. Stock price also depends on news, analysts opinions, and different ratings. Such factors can be many and it is clear that each of them differently exerts influence on stock performance. For example, statistical research of hundreds of companies for period of several years reveals that the more number of bad parameters belong to the company and its stock, the riskier investing in it. In general, any company and its stock can be considered as a system and the best model of such system quality is a combination of all influential factors with different weights.

 

Using technical analysis additionally to fundamental analysis can increase chances of successful investing. One of the best software tools to perform technical analysis is MetaStock www.metastock.com. However, since there are hundreds of technical indicators with different interpretations for each of them, it is not easy to complete a full-scale technical analysis. Some investors use only some of indicators that are good from their point of view. In general, each indicator has its own ability to predict stock price. Ideally, it would be good to allow computer software to define the current ability of indicators in prediction of stocks prices and assign each of indicators corresponding weight. Then logically, to maximize accuracy of prediction it would be good to combine all signals from all indicators. Besides fundamental and technical analyses, it should be taken into consideration that price of any stock goes up and down depending on other many factors, including general market and sectors conditions. That means there should be an optimal time for buying stock (as well as for selling). Therefore, timing analysis is also important.

 

To summarize, it is better to use the software that takes into consideration fundamental, technical, and timing analyses together. One of the computer programs on the market with such capabilities is InvAn by Addaptron Software www.addaptron.com. It combines the results of fundamental, technical, and timing analyses into a single composite rating using a special algorithm. InvAn defines prediction ability of each technical indicator and then combines signals from all of them into technical analysis rating using Artificial Neural Networks. The main output is the composite rating, i.e., the list of stocks from the worst to the best. Due to a fast and automatic data processing, InvAn enables watching hundreds of stocks. It also has other useful features, such as, calculating optimal cash reserve depending on the market condition and forecasting stock price on the basis of Fourier spectrum analysis. You can find other software tools; the best way to choose the right one is to try their demo versions and read software descriptions (what data used and how they are processed).

 

If you have never invested in stocks before, consider this. Nowadays of technical progress, buying and selling stocks become very simple. To use the Internet for stock investing, all you need to do is to open account with some Internet stock investing brokerage. The recommended minimum amount to invest in one stock can be $2000..3000. Using smaller amount may be unreasonable because of the commission to buy and then sell. Good luck!

Do dividends matter for investors

3 Aug 2011 CNBC Where can I go for income these days? Some say look for the top dividend yield payers. But like with bonds, you can’t buy Greek debt at 18% yield because they might default. You still have to do your homework. Some companies are at their lows but are offering high dividends: Does high yield equal high risk? Some companies are at their highs but are offering low dividends. Does low yield equal low risk? How are we supposed to balance risk versus reward? That is the dilemma for the investor. There is no formula. Maybe you can look at the solid fundamentals. The dividend would then be a bonus or ‘extra’ money. You need to want to own a company regardless of the dividend [I agree with this]. [The nice lady makes an excellent point: "Is there also the feeling that perhaps they're giving you a high dividend either to attract investors or to retain investors because they can't give you growth or gains in the stock prices?"...This is the extremely important 'value versus growth' debate: Do you want to own stocks because they are undervalued or because they will grow in the future?]

What’s a sound investing advice?

Hi Folks,

I am 24 years old and I am making around $200K a year. I have my own business and I am hoping to make more than a million per year in a couple of years due to growth in my business.

I own a house, have a car fully paid. Any idea where should I put this stream of money coming to me every week? Sometimes I get more than 20K/week and I want to become rich twice. Any idea?? Suggestion?? Question??

Indian market sinks for second day – 22 Jan 08

Stocks have taken a tumble in India as well for the second day in a row. Within minutes of the opening there the main Sensex stock fell nearly 10 per cent forcing an automatic one-hour halt in trading. Although it made a slight recovery it still closed 5% down.

Taking my 401K and putting it in an IRA is this a good investment strategy?

bahrain bussiness news bulletins 20-09-2011

Investment 360: Investment Strategies with Paul Stewart

(www.abndigital.com) ABN’s Bronwyn Nielsen speaks with Paul Stewart, from Plexus Asset Management, talking investment strategies.

REIM introduction

Intro to our Investor Breakfast

Property Investor Nathan Birch tour of Australia’s CHEAPEST house for $8500 in NSW.

Nathan Birch takes us on the road via car cam to visit what could well be Australia’s CHEAPEST house, which he has just negotiated for $8500 after a $30000 renovation market value will be $150000 or rent for $220pw. On the road with successful property investor Nathan Birch to get a grip of some of the deals he is currently doing in todays market place. Follow the journey at www.nathanbirch.com.au, www.binvested.com.au or www.binvested.com.au /forums