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- Quarterly Window Dressing - A Recurrent Wall Street Scam - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2008 from Steve Selengut"The time has come the walrus said, to talk of many things": Of corrections--portfolios--- and window dressing--- of market cycles--- wizards--- and reality. Quarterly portfolio window dressing is one of many immortal Jaberwock-like creatures that roam the granite canyons of the Manhattan ...
Views: 1911(1 vote) - Guaranteed Social Security Benefits: Make It So - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2008 from Steve SelengutThe comically complicated PSA (Personal Savings Account) legislation bouncing around Congress will raise taxes, increase investment risk, and expand the size of government. Let's stop applying Band-Aids to spouting arteries. We are looking for a guaranteed retirement benefit program, and ...
Views: 1431(1 vote) - Volatility Rocks The Investment Markets - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2008 from Steve SelengutGets your attention, doesn't it? The unfortunate thing though, is that most people will react negatively to this intentionally inflammatory, media-ready, title statement. Has some Wall Street virus attacked our financial experience memory chip? Bouncing around unpredictably is precisely what the ...
Views: 1412(16 votes) - Zero Overhead Real Estate Investing---Right Now - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2008 from Steve SelengutReal estate investing is not nearly as complicated, financially burdensome, or time consuming as you might think. In fact, it's easy to add raw land, shopping centers, apartment complexes, and private homes to your portfolio without brokers, bankers, attorneys, and handymen on your payroll. Even ...
Views: 1361(1 vote) - Strategic Investment Mixology – In Search Of The Holy Grail Cocktail - by Submitted on May 29, 2008 from Steve SelengutSo what do your Investment Manager and your neighborhood bartender have in common, other than the probability that you spend more time with the latter during market corrections? Antoine Tedesco, in his "The History of Cocktails" article, lists three things that mixologists consider important to ...
Views: 1629(2 votes) - Compound Stock Earnings Programs - Caveat Investor - by Submitted on May 29, 2008 from Steve SelengutThe caller seemed surprised that I had never heard about Compound Stock Earnings Programs, or CSEs. "People are earning three to six percent per month with little or no risk", she continued, "I'm thinking of attending a seminar". A wise man once said: "If it sounds too good to be true, it ...
Views: 2085(18 votes) - Your 401(k) Investments And The IGVSI - by Submitted on May 29, 2008 from Steve SelengutSmack, right up alongside the head. Your 401(k) investment program deteriorated rapidly as the stock market and the economy weakened. Who would have thought that there was so much risk of loss in those mutual funds, and ETFs? Fortunately, the pain is most often temporary, but the timing of the ...
Views: 1493(2 votes) - Predicting Stock Market Movements - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2008 from Steve SelengutI've been thinking about starting a stock market prediction business. Clearly, there is a huge market for timely and accurate information of this type, and just as clearly, predicting the future is much easier than dealing with the realities of whatever is actually happening at the moment. If ...
Views: 2974(1 vote) - Value Stock Crash Reaches 50 Per Cent - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2007 from Steve SelengutPerhaps this (totally ignored by the media) snippet will pique your attention: on December 18, 2007, nearly 50% of all Investment Grade Value Stocks were down an average of over 30% from their 52-week highs... the Dow and the S & P 500 had fallen just 7%! One would think that there would be a ...
Views: 1790(1 vote) - The Investor's Creed And Your Investment Portfolio - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2007 from Steve SelengutGrowing up at Lake Hopatcong in Northwest Jersey, the most popular entertainment around was the rickety old Roller Coaster at Bertrand Island Park. The excitement would build as you ascended the first peak, anticipating the breathtaking plunge; eyes wide open (or shut), screaming from the thrill ...
Views: 1554(2 votes) - The Dow, Your Portfolio, And Aliens - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2007 from Steve SelengutThere are two extremely good reasons why your portfolio may not be "performing" (whatever that means) either as well as you would like or as well as your buddies say that they have been doing... since last May anyway. But let's define our terms before digging any deeper. Most of the time, ...
Views: 1772(1 vote) - Stock and Bond Trading as a Conservative Investment Strategy - by Submitted on May 29, 2007 from Steve SelengutIt's likely that either curiosity or skepticism led you to this article, and I would agree that, for most individual investors, trading is approached in a totally speculative manner. Stock trading, in its more popular forms (Day Trading, Swing Trading, Penny Stock Speculating, etc.) includes ...
Views: 2543(1 vote) - An Investor's Eye View of the Corporate Income Tax - by Submitted on May 10, 2007 from Steve SelengutThe Investor's Eye view of politics is a simplistic, practical, "dot-connecting" approach to sorting things out so that positive (win/win) change can be considered. Real World politics is not concerned with such things, and that is one of the most serious problems facing investors today. As ...
Views: 1316(1 vote) - Investment Politics 2008: What's (left) In Your Wallet? - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2007 from Steve SelengutThe parade of promises is marching down Main Street. For too many months to come, politicians of all descriptions, parties, and ideologies will be courting our votes... they have the cure for all that is wrong in the world, they tell us. With crystal clear hindsight, every candidate criticizes ...
Views: 1822(3 votes) - Investment Management Strategy: Seven Principles for Success - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2006 from Steve SelengutMany Investment Gurus, with a straight face and a gleam in their eye, will insist that successful investing is a function of expansive research, skillful market timing, and detailed technical analysis. Others emphasize fundamental information about companies, industries, and markets. But trends ...
Views: 1809(2 votes) - Relax, A Volatile Stock Market Is Your Dearest Friend - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2006 from Steve SelengutMost people never forget their first love. I'll never forget my first trading profit! But the $600 (1970 dollars) I pocketed on Royal Dutch Petroleum was not nearly as significant as the conceptual realization it signaled! I was amazed that someone would pay me that much more for my stock than ...
Views: 2017(1 vote) - In Value Stock Investing, Quality is Job One - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2006 from Steve SelengutHow much financial bloodshed is necessary before we realize that there is no safe and easy shortcut to investment success? When do we learn that most of our mistakes involve greed, fear, or unrealistic expectations about what we own? Eventually, successful investors begin to allocate assets in a ...
Views: 1652(2 votes) - Ten Common Investment Errors: Stocks, Bonds, & Management - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2006 from Steve SelengutInvestment mistakes happen for a multitude of reasons, including the fact that decisions are made under conditions of uncertainty that are irresponsibly downplayed by market gurus and institutional spokespersons. Losing money on an investment may not be the result of a mistake, and not all ...
Views: 1830(2 votes) - An Investor's View of The Fair Tax: A Resolution - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2006 from Steve SelengutThe vast majority of Americans are investors, although many don't realize it. The vast majority of Americans are creative with their 1040 numbers, although most won't admit it. The majority of Americans would agree that investing, retirement planning, and estate preservation would be easier to ...
Views: 1456(1 vote) - Managing the Income Portfolio - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2005 from Steve SelengutThe reason people assume the risks of investing in the first place is the prospect of achieving a higher rate of return than is attainable in a risk free environment…i.e., an FDIC insured bank account. Risk comes in various forms, but the average investor’s primary concerns are “credit” and ...
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