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By Sophia Pell
Tips for effective wealth management

It’s difficult to see your hard earned money going down the drain, what if you could put it to good use? Allow yourself to save the money and then grow it as well. Wealth management services can help you do all of this in an effective and systematic manner, read on to know how. You need to work hard to earn money. And once you’ve built up your fortune, you’re probably too busy working to spend time with your family and manage your money at the same time. But it can’t

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How to Invest in the Foreign Exchange Market

The Foreign Exchange Market known as FOREX Market or Currency Exchange Market is the largest market in the world in terms of finances and trades. It is where international banks, financial institutions and governments post trades for foreign currencies. The currency exchange is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, unlike in the Stock Exchange Market. Before, only large banks and financial institutions had access to the Forex Market but thanks to the development of the Internet

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By Clint Siegner
Northwest Territorial Mint Scandal: Investors Had Fair Warning on This Blowup As Well

Originally posted on Money Metals Exchange The news unfortunately just keeps getting worse for customers and creditors of Northwest Territorial Mint. The prominent bullion dealer located near Seattle, Washington filed for bankruptcy court protection at the end of March. The losses of customers who never received delivery of orders plus the losses of other creditors could be as high as $50 million, according to investigative reporting by the Federal Way Mirror. The U.S. Truste

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By John Gumienik
Hyip monitoring services, are they worth?

We have a plenty of monitors around and there's a big competition between them. I know about 600 services and it'd be waste of time to list all of them because most of them are inactive. They are on-line but no one manage them. Some on-line investment monitors are owned by hyip (High Yield Investment Program) administrators and some are paid by them. rn What is a hyip? A HYIP (High Yield Investment Program) is an on-line investment program that offers high returns with a corr

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Selling Covered Calls

Selling covered calls is a very effective strategy in the stock market. It lets you make continuous cash flow from a stock that you already own and can have a huge effect on your annual return. So how do you set up a covered call trade? There are three steps you have to take. 1. Find A Stock The first step to opening up a covered calls trade is to find a stock that you would not mind holding onto for a while. The stock should definitely be very strong when it comes to its fun

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The SEC –Patrolling the Domestic Penny Stock Shores

During the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, a little confidence can go a long way. It’s even better when the vote of confidence does what it’s actually suppose to do - - instill confidence. The Obama administration unveiled a sweeping regulatory overhaul aimed at restoring confidence in the U.S. financial system… and preventing a repeat of the worst crisis to hit Wall Street in seven decades. The plan gives new, far reaching powers, to the Federal Reser

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By Lena Burkut
Things You Need To Know About Debts, Loans, And Settlements

With the emergence of innovative technologies, industrial processes across industry verticals are getting executed in unique ways. Irrespective of the sector, companies and industries are taking up new projects thus taking their organizations to the highest peaks of success. It is right here that companies and enterprise need loans to kick-start innovative projects. While proper documentations and loan repayment guarantees are crucial for loan applications, it is also imperat

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By Christopher Lee
Top 3 Forex Strategy Trading Tips

This article will discuss the top 3 Forex strategy trading tips you can use to get an edge on the competition and make some money on a market designed to reward those with tenacity. While the Forex market is one that presents many ways to trade and invest, there may be some ways you can not only trade better, but smarter.nnChoose a currency pair that you are familiar and comfortable with. If you look on the Forex market, there is a whole host of currencies and currency pairs

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3 Ways To Make money From Your Stocks

There are 3 ways that you can make money from a stock that you own, or an investment that you want to get into. Ideally you want to be making money all 3 ways every time you enter an investment. nnThe 3 ways are:nn1. Dividends.nnSome stocks offer a dividend, which means they actually pay you for owning a share of the company. This makes sense because when you buy a stock you are buying a share of the company, so you should be entitled to a share of the profits that the compan

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By Murray Joe
The Nigerian Stock Market eBook

With recession investors became more cautious investing their money in their right sectors of the stock market. It happens more than hype and bells, the real "secret" stock market game are as many ups and trade market signals you rely on to decide how to choose stocks, as well as when to buy and when to sell them, or even when the short sell those that are ready to profit in the fall. So clear your windows set in the stock market, the quicker you can identify potential tradin

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By Mohimenul Islam
Invest in Fusion Farms

Thank you for your interest and support. We are excited to announce that we are #3 on Startengine.com for MOST MOMENTUM and we have recently Over-Subscribed our Phase I of $107,000 and we are now into our Phase II to raise $1,070,000. Fusion Farms is a Title III - Regulation C Online Public Offering (OPO) with a Form C on file with the SEC and is actively accepting investments at the Fusion Farms Investment Campaign page (https://www.fusionfarmspr.com/invest/). One share equa

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By Harish Chandra Suyal
5 Reasons to Choose Instant Personal Loan by P2P lending Platforms

Are you looking for an instant personal loan? Apply with Peer to Peer lending platforms immediately to get the cash directly into your bank account in a hassle-free manner. Apply with a reliable and accredited P2P lending company that meets your loan requirement. rnAre you worried about how to get an instant personal loan? Are you tired of heavy documentation work and endless formalities for approval? It is time to explore Peer to Peer (P2P) lending platforms for Instant Pers

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By Max Ryan
Learn how to Invest in IPOs in the stock market today

Over the past 10 years and in the stock market today one of the best investment vehicles has been the IPO and secondary stock offering. Trading IPOs can be extremely lucrative if you find the right company in the right trend, but not every ipo stock and secondary stock offering is worthy of a trade. The Syndicate Trader will show you everything you need to know. Identifying the precise company, the one with the most potential starts off by looking at the initial public offeri

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Wall Street Won't Tell You It's a Bear Market

We are in a bear market, but Wall Street will never admit it. It is so emphatic in a bull market, but loath to address bad times. I know the market is only off 10-15% from its October 2007 peak, but just wait. I spent 32 years as a securities analyst on Wall Street, and unlike the current youthful generation of analysts, I experienced several major downward cycles. The current economic and financial backdrop is probably the worst since the 1930s depression. But it doesn&#8217

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By Steven Floyd
Investing For Profits, Part Two - The Easiest Way to Improve Your Results

Would you like a better return on your investments? Whether you have an IRA or a brokerage account, chances are that your money is mostly in mutual funds. Read on to learn more about why this is not the best place for it to be, and what to do instead. First of all, you should know that this is not the way the rich invest. Or even the large endowments that are tasked with funding universities and other large institutions. They know how important it is to play it safe -- and at

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Law & Order - The Id, Ego, and Superego – and Penny Stocks

I love watching Law & Order. I love it when the police and lawyers are a little shy of concrete evidence and the truth hinges on whom you chose to believe. It’s always a matter of ‘he said, she said’. Do you believe the well heeled philanthropist or the street person whose lineage is of a dubious nature? A number of differing views surfaced this week with regards to the economy. Like a Hollywood script penned by Freud, the opinions come from experts filling the void of

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By John Burrow
Three Important Investing Tips For Inexperienced Investors

Investing your hard eared money can be a mine field. Every day we read and hear about people who had their life savings wiped out by scrupulous investors. When Bernie Maddoff made the headlines the world was outraged by how much money he stole from uninformed investors. You don't want to be one of them and what you want to do is to tread carefully yet have enough trust in the right people to have your money work hard for you while its safe and secure. If you want to invest th

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By Angela Heasley
Why You Should Invest In Debt Funds

Investors looking for regular returns with low risk tend to be drawn to fixed deposits as a means of investment. This is not surprising, since preset interest rates and recurring annual returns can be a tempting option, especially when considering the volatility of equity market investments. However, a middle ground exists between the tools of equity mutual funds and fixed deposits, which is the chief concern of debt funds. Debt funds are capable of generating an income for t

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Blue Chip Investing Criteria

Criteria: nn1. Strong Brand name. nn• Reputation for quality. • High repeat purchase. nn2. Good Fundamentals. nn• EPS, Turnover, and Profit increasing steadily year by year. nn• Healthy Cash Flow – Cash Flow per Share greater than EPS, Cash Flow per Share greater than Capital Expenditure per Share. nn• Good management – a stable but ambitious CEO and Board. Forward-looking with an ability to embrace new technology. nn• Good fina

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Bullish Penny Stock Investing in 2010

Where I live there’s a huge empty lot that while cleared for construction, never amounted to anything. There’s a flashy sign on the lot too, “New Auto Mall Coming in Spring 2009”. In 2007 the idea of a consolidated auto mall in the area seemed like a good idea. Not so now. The empty field and sign does make for a good picture though – a visual time capsule of unrealized optimism. Yes, hindsight is 20/20. And it could have helped out a lot of penny stock and large ca

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Going All in When Trading

I read an article that was saying one of the most important things to know about the stock market is when to go all in. Well I kind of agree, you got to know that there is never a good time to go all in. If you ever watch the world series of poker you will find that it is a very similar game to trading in the stock market. Each professional player has something that gives them the edge in the game. The only real reason many of the best players lose their chips is because of a

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Stock Market Predictions

There are a few ways to predict future stock market trend and directions. Most stockbrokers analysts use fundamental and economics to predict where the stock may go.nnQuestion is, how do you know if their recommendations are any good? Remember the dot com, boom and bust? And now the credit crunch?nnThe answer is simple, do your own research or learnt from experts in that field. There are a few methods, which seem to be quite reliable however brief or long term it may be.nn1.

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By Anusha Jain
Many benefits of opening a savings account

Opening a savings account By opening a savings account at a well-known bank, you make sure to save your money for the future. Imagine you lose your job and find it difficult to get the new job soon. Imagine you are a victim of a road accident where you have to pay lot of money towards treatment. If you have to plan your kids’ education, abroad studies or even a wedding, you will have to shell-out lot of money to get the dreams fulfilled. These events occur in everybody’s

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An Irrational Wall Street or Mislead Penny Stock Investors?

I read a banner ad online the other day; it was from a financial guru selling his trading techniques. Interestingly, his very witty tag line goes something like, “predicting the stock market before it goes up.” Clever I thought, he can predict the markets before they go up! I'd hate to think he could sway investors by being able to predict market moves after the fact. Mind you, it’s not really predicting then is it? And if you failed at predicting the markets after the

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By Ramalingam.K
7 Secrets of Investing the Warren Buffett way

Human beings always have a natural tendency to follow the crowd, but when it comes to share market investing, following the crowd can more often result in ending up with losses. Why do you copy the mediocrity of the masses when you can replicate the success of the World’s Greatest Investor? The investment secrets of warren buffet have got unveiled here. rn1) Look at quality businesses; not just the stocksrnWarren Buffett said, “When I buy a stock, I think of it in terms o

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By John Smith
Devising Your Own Stock Trading Strategy

There are many people who are quite into the stock market and invest here regularly with the hope of transforming their money into profit. They play the market – investing in companies they believe in. They expect these companies to stay strong and stable in the long run, with a corresponding reflection on the stock prices. A wise stock trading strategy is to invest in growing start-ups which are relatively unknown. You can see your money grow as the company picks up moment

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By Robert Cruz
1000000 Iraqi Dinar- Great Investments

Dinar is all time most wanted currency all across the globe of different individuals. However with the financial volatility in addition to the political state of affairs going out of control in Iraq, the currency of Iraq as well has lost its worth in the worldwide market. Slowly and steadily over the span of time, the dinar, the currency of Iraq has lost their appeal as well as appraisal plus populace no longer is showing their enthusiasm in buying this dinar any longer. Howe

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By Michael Lombardi
Carmakers: What They’re Doing in China Now

Napoleon once said, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.” We must appreciate Napoleon‘s wise foresight. China’s growth since 1979 is proving Napoleon’s every word. Today China has surpassed Japan as second largest economy and giving US the largest economy of the world run for their money. Though right now Chinese economy has slow down for a while, in long term perspective China will remain dream of investors across the globe due to their st

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By Dennis McGrew
Trading Systems – Becoming a Better Trader

If there was one set formula for success in the financial world, then everyone would be making millions off of the stock market. The best way to succeed is to take every piece of advice with a grain of salt, and then use the most current trading systems tools that are available, to try and achieve a higher level of accuracy with your strategy. If you are working from home or from a professional office, then you might want to take a look at the latest innovations in trading so

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By Luis Aureliano
Making Investment Decisions as an Amateur

Nowadays, online trading is about as prolific as online dating, social media interaction, and web surfing. Anyone can trade financial assets at the click of a button, with little or no experience required. Online trading platforms are a dime a dozen, and many of them are unregulated. However, before you dabble in the financial markets it’s important to get your bearings. How much money is available to you in the form of personal disposable income? In other words, once all y

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By Mahendra Rajput
Option Trading - A Free Style Of Trading in India

General traders don’t have much information about the derivative market; they generally got confused in future and option contracts. Future contract focused on both right and obligations for both the buy to buy and seller to sell at some point in time in future. Option contracts provide the rights but not the obligation of buying and selling of financial instruments at a fixed price or on or before a future date which is mutually fixed by both the parties. You buy the right t

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By Christopher Lee
The Characteristics of FX Trading

Trading in the Forex market is really a tricky business, and this is for one thing, due to the sheer size of the market. The daily turnover for the current Forex market is somewhere in the region of a few trillion dollars, and estimates from various financial powerhouses stated that this number is set to grow. Because of the size of the market, there are various ways to trade, and sometimes, you will not be able to see a market movement before it is too late. It is like putti

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Return On Assets And Investment

The annual dividend is the total amount of dividends you could expect to receive if you held the stock for a year and there was no change in the company’s dividend payment. It is based on the current quarterly dividend payment rate projected forward for four quarters. nnThere was a time when a company not paying a dividend could expect to have its share price punished by virtue of the fact that many conservative funds looking for income rather than capital growth from t

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Is Singapore Stocks Market on Bull Trend - Time to Invest ?

Singapore stocks ought to before long turn into a most loved for investors and traders That is on the grounds that valuations, profit development and profit yields are looking especially appealing, as indicated by strategists at Morgan Stanley Asia Singapore Pte. also, DBS Group Holdings' riches administration unit. Hit by worries over the effect of the US-China exchange war and Federal Reserve fiscal fixing, the benchmark Straits Times Index has drooped 15 percent since May

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By Fernando Brinkerhoff
To Become A Successful Technical Analyst, One Have To Study It For A Long Time

I don’t understand why on earth anyone that has followed a couple of tutorials, read one or two books, could proclaim themselves as “technical analysis experts”. If you compare to any other profession, you will see that most requires at least a five-year course in order to be recognized, by society, that you are a professional at what you have studied and that you are now, able to make money out of it. Many neophytes get in the market expecting to make a killing in the

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Buying In A Master-Planned Estate - (Part Three)

Inflexible design controls aim to guarantee a high standard of development. The design controls protect the asset because it means that you have a uniform approach across the entire development, with height scales, dimension, and style. Moreover, when you become an owner, the master-plan with its stringent regulations is actually protecting your asset.nnThe master plan allows for houses, apartments, aged-care accommodation, community facilities, shops, and existing environmen

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By Richard Burton
GCC Equity Research – The Upward Trends in GCC Stock and Equity Funds Growth

All Lipper equity categories ended the 3 months interim on a positive note, with the sole exception of funds invested in Kuwait that lost 0.39%. This was mainly due to the worst performance of the Kuwait Stock Exchange in the second last quarter of year 2009 with index decreasing 2.89%. On the other hand, investment in emerging markets remained the superlative performers of the same quarter. GCC Equity Indonesia gained 33.74%. GCC Equities research conducted in Russia showed

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By Darpana Sharma
Opening Demat Account for Share Trading Platform

Just think about the talk about industry having guests notifies at its various shares interacting gadgets for NSE shares, BSE shares, etc! Once you see the red lighting, you become conscious that shares interacting at that factor of your power and attempt can be dangerous; so, you wait until the organic sign is proven. You may still take risks by going along when the red sign is unveiled. And the guests workers are the stock organizations, helping your activities on road, esp

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By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
Silver Price History and "The Hunt Effect"

History remembers the last nominal high in the price of silver before the more recent high of $49.77 seen in April of 2011 as an anomaly that was largely induced by the Hunt brothers' purported attempt to corner the market by buying large quantities of silver and silver futures to the point where they held rights to over half the global amount of deliverable silver. This remarkable event began in the late seventies and led to a sharp rise in the price of silver to a then-all

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By Michael Kartel
Enjoy Assured Returns With Fixed Deposits

A fixed deposit is a money deposit at a banking institution that cannot be withdrawn for a certain period of time. Once the term is complete, it can either be withdrawn or held for another term. When an account holder chooses to save money in a fixed deposit, a specific amount of money is placed in a deposit in the name of the account holder. The money placed on deposit earns a fixed rate of interest, as per the terms and conditions of that account. One of the factors that in

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Do Stock Splits affect price movement?

Stock splits occur when the price of the stock lowers and investors get more shares to make up for the lowered price. So do they actually affect how strong a stock will be in the future?nnMost investors and traders believe that splits will in fact cause a stock to outperform the rest of the market for these two reasons.nn1. It Shows GrowthnnIf a stock has already split it shows that the company is already growing and that can have an enormous positive affect on a stock. It ma

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By James D. Burbank
Is Europe Still Reeling From the 2008 Financial Crisis

“No man is an island” said the poet, and neither is any continent, or for that matter, even any island. While some actions and events reverberate farther than the other, there’s no talking about a country’s economy without having to consider its impact on the rest of the world. When the country in question is as large, influential and as ubiquitously involved as the United States of America, the ripples easily turn into tsunamis, often causing more dev

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Private Lenders

Say you have a subject to. How can you give a first mortgage to a private lender if you are going to be making the mortgage payments? nnFirst things first! That is kind of a trick question because you can borrow both first and seconds from private lenders. Did you know this?nnNow private lenders come in handy when you're borrowing a second behind the subject-to loan. In fact, it will always be a second if it's behind a subject-to loan, and that is commonly used when you are b

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By David Rivera
Momentum Trading In Commodity Futures Markets

Momentum traders are those who focus on commodities that are moving in one direction with a substantial increase in traded volumes with an aim to attain profits. Momentum traders, when trading the commodity markets, can hold a trade anywhere from a few minutes to a few days. They will try to hold a trade till the momentum of the trend they are trying to ride lasts. They will square off the trade when the momentum for the commodity concerned fizzles out.nnMomentum Day Tradingn

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By Robert Rubin
Safe Money - How To Spot Stocks To Earn Safe Money

What is a safe money investment? Safe money investments have two characteristics -rn1. Value that will last. Real, significant, durable value.rn* No trendy stocks whose price is built on hype and hope.rn* You want companies whose assets can be turned into cash.rn2. A price well below the stock's value.rn* Buy bargains. If a great company is down, that's when to buy.rn* Great companies bounce back from a down market or a temporary slip. What is value in a company? True safe mo

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By Melchi Razato is a designer and freelance writer talking about digital currencies. You can have a look at my writings at www.centregold.info
What is a Digital Currency

This is money in an electronic form, based either on ounces of gold or on fiat currencies.rnA truly global and borderless world currency system, it allows instant transfers between accounts; payments are instantaneous and non-refundable. This kind of currency is issued independently by several companies. Some of the most popular of them are Liberty Reserve, Pecunix and WebMoney.rnThese digital value units are being used on online stores, point of service sales, business to bu

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By Epic Research Singapore
SGX Market: Money with Contra Day (T+3) Trading Strategy

Financial specialists must be watchful that they don't purchase a greater number of offers than they can bear, as misfortunes can be overwhelming if the market moves against them. So contra can be a perilous action when there is a sudden, startling business sector development and you don't have adequate assets to pay for your exchange. Contra exchanging includes purchasing and offering similar offers without paying for them. In Singapore, after an exchange is executed, you ha

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Two Targets When Trading

Whenever you enter the stock market it is a good idea to have two targets. Each one of these is critical to being successful in a given trade. The first target someone should have is where you believe the stock will go. You do not want to just blindly buy a stock and hope that it works out ok somehow. Instead buying is only half the trade. The other half is selling. Having some point where you will sell if you make money can help you actually see your profits as well as getti

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When to Trade 3x ETFs

3x ETFs can be a great way to either increase your profits or increase your losses in the stock market. Before you trade them make sure you are prepared.nnIf you trade them consider the following.nn1. Not for long termnnTipple leveraged ETFs are not for long term investing no matter which way you look at it. There has been some talk that leveraged ETFs favor the downside, and that would mean triple leveraged ETFs really favor the downside, going up in the long run may not nec

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