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By Alan McKnight
How Stock Screeners Can Help You Make Excellent Investment Choices

Stock screeners are extremely valuable tools that you absolutely should not be without if you are truly serious about your stock-trading deals. The stock market has become a goldmine of sorts for lots of people around the world. The thing is, however, only those who know where and how to find the treasure within the market are able to partake of it. If you want to be one of this exclusive set of profitable stock traders, then you definitely need to know how to use this valuab

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By Robert Cruz
Play Safe by Dealing with 25000 Iraqi Dinar While Making Investment

Making investment in the newly arrived Iraqi Dinar is indeed a lucrative investment. This dinar is novel entity obtainable in the foreign exchange market. If individuals are not fully sentient of the ongoing action in the Iraq, it is vital for them to be familiar with it as that may have peril consequences plus trading in the currency of Iraq has turned out to be an unsafe proposition. In case people desire for buying some Iraqi dinar safely, they indeed are required to have

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By Chris Sferatti
The Trader’s Psychology Is The Key To Win In The Stock Market

To become a successful trader, you must have a good and proper mental and physical state. Only studying entry signals, position sizing, money management is not enough; only by combining all this study and research with a good and decent mental preparation you shall be able to succeed as a trader. Unfortunately, most people do not realize this. The majority of aspiring traders focus far too much on getting the right entry signal that they end up forgetting all the rest that in

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Day Trading Advantages

Day trading can certainly have its advantages in the stock market. Here are a few reasons why it can be a good idea to day trade, if you know what you’re doing.nn1. Shorter Time FramennThe benefit of a shorter time frame is compound interest. The shorter your time frame is the greater compound interest will either work for you or against you. So for example if you could nmake .5% a day you would almost quadruple your account in 1 year.nnNow of course there are days when you

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By jon mathu
Gold, The precious thing for investing

Gold is a too much precious today. Today, this metal is an important part of any part of the world. Economists always give opinion to invest in gold because the price of the gold always rises up. The best thing about gold is that it is of low risk. Gold price rises every day. Gold is not only used in the form of jewelry but it is also used in industries like electronics and medicines. Gold is also used in clinical field that is in dentistry. Dentist use it for dental filling.

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Questions About Auctions: What You Need To Know! Part Two

Part Two: The Nitty-GrittynnSo you have decided to try your hand at an auction. We talked about the basics of an auction in part one. Mainly, you learned whether or not you should participate in an auction (as a seller) in terms of price for your property. Now we’ll dive a little deeper about the practice of the auction. nnLet’s look at a specific example. Say you have a house, a big house, 6500 square feet. In the particular area where it is at (at a country club

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By Marcella Grant
Trading With Investors Underground: Services Review

Founded by Nathan Michaud, Investors Underground offers premium chat room services to experienced traders. Nathan himself is a well-known trader in his own right, and he has many years of experience to prove it. Michaud used to be a trading guru with other popular trading platforms. However, unlike other traders, he already had a business under his belt before partnering with them. After he parted ways with his previous platform, he completely redesigned IU before relaunching

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What Are Covered Calls?

Selling covered calls allow you to make an income off of stocks you own and increase your profit in the long run. But what are they? nnWhen you sell a covered call what you are doing is selling the right for someone else to buy the stock from you at a given price sometime in the future. This could drastically lower your profit potential if the stock suddenly shoots up, but you do get a nice premium for selling that right. Let’s look at an example.nnSay you own stock XYZ, wh

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By Jeff Mark
Considering a Viatical Settlement

Growing older isn’t always easy, but you’ve done everything you can to prepare for your golden years. You’ve worked hard all your life, and you’ve saved as much as you could. You read the retirement advice and did your best to hit the recommended numbers before you called it quits. You’d done enough — you thought. But life isn’t fair. Many Americans just like you save carefully for retirement only to find that their plans are derailed by illness and medical expenses. The unf

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Questions About Auctions: What You Need To Know! Part One

Part One: The BasicsnnDo you have a home that you would like to get rid of but just aren’t sure how? Maybe an auction is right for you. Auctions are becoming increasingly important to talk about. The worst thing you can do is agree to an auction (not knowing a thing about them). We are going to talk about auctions (some of the pros and cons) and how it can apply to you.nnMost people wonder if there is there a minimum in terms of the price of the house that is recommende

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By Rajendra Bhatia
Mutual fund investment- A good investment option

Mutual fund investment includes the buying of the shares of stocks of the investment company by individual, institutional and corporate investors and the investing of the collective funds by the fund managers in a range of short and long term financial instruments and other kinds of securities. These collective funds from the purchase of shares of fund investments are also used and conceptualized to produce various securities like stocks or bonds. The portfolios of investment

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Planning Forex Trading - Part 1

The objective for this last portion is going to be introducing to you the whole idea of the planning process. You can get a review of this by going to the membership website and looking at the weekly wrap up. The weekly wrap up, I usually have some good intentions of trying to show you my twenty minute process without any commentary. Unfortunately, because my core I am a teacher; I love to teach. In fact, one of the reason why I do what I do; the question that I would get inv

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By Varun Sharma
Select the Right Share Market Broker for the Right Decision

When it comes to online stock trading, a brokerage firm or a broker plays a vital role. Brokers become absolutely indispensible when you do not possess enough time to study the stock market, or you are a novice and have inadequate knowledge of stock market trading. A broker’s role is important also because investing n share market is a serious business and involves huge amount of money and associated risks.rn rnBrokerage companies are very much licensed organizations having

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By Sumit Kumar
Start Planning for your Dream Home with the EMI Calculator

Buying a house is once in a lifetime process for many. It requires a lot of planning, research and investment. However, one big fact is that no savings can bear the surplus demand for money that one needs to buy their dream home. This is where a home loan comes into existence. It is an instant disbursal of money that is offered to the home buyers by banks and financial institutions at competitive interest rates.rn rnBuying your dream home on a loan has multiple benefits. It k

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By Aimee Pons
Tips To Successful Stock Trading

You could work against the trend of new investors or moderate investors. Instead of following in others footsteps only to lose more money than you are making, consider the opportunities you have for real investment. In other words, learn how to avoid the common pitfalls that affect so many traders. Here are a number of mistakes investors make, and how you can easily avoid making those mistakes as you invest in the stock market .nnThe Right BrokeragennThe biggest mistake many

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By John A old
What hours should you be ready for Trading?

As important it is to know how to trade, it is more important to know when to trade in terms of the forex market timing. Forex market is a worldwide online market with no time limits when you consider the whole world as your base. The markets are active through the week except for a Saturday giving you five and a half trading days every week; taking into consideration the time zones. You can trade anytime in any market! But, to maximize the yield of the trade, the hours you d

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How To Proceed In Land Trust Part III

Remember your great house? Remember the great deal with the potential to make an additional 20%? And lastly, remember the owner who is still living in your house?nnAs we said in part II, you need to get the owner out of there.nnIn case you cannot come up with the money to cash this thing out, if you have to, you need to be able to put it back on the market and find somebody you can flip this thing to. nnSo what I am saying is that you need to be on the move fast. If the owner

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By Robert Cruz
Take Precautionary Measures Prior to Dinar Investment

Are you looking for an additional investment policy that can make your future completely secured? If it is so, why don’t you make plans to purchase Iraqi dinars taking help of some professional Iraqi dinar dealer? As a matter of fact, Iraqi dinars presently have become cheaper since they hold an average value of 1,193 Dinars per $1USD. Investors looking for profitable schemes can now buy Iraqi currency from US citizens under Presidential Order 13303. Since the official orde

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By john a old
The Significance of Having a Forex Trading Plan

Most of us would have taken vacations and planned trips at least once in their lifetime. The one thing that is essential to have a good memorable vacation is the plan made before the start of the journey. Most of us are also aware that planning is very important in all aspects of life, may it be personal or professional. Then why would Forex trading be any different. rnA successful forex trader would tell you that one of the reasons of his/her success is a forex trading plan.

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By Nifty Trading Tips
How To Buy Stocks?

Basically, there are two ways of buying stock of any company: Primary Market Secondary Market Primary Market: Primary market is a market where a company issues its shares for the first time in front of public in the market. When a company issues shares for the first time it is known as IPO that is an Initial Public Offering. Any company in India who wants to acquire capital by selling its share to the public needs to bring IPO in the market. This IPO brings all the details ab

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By Fernando Brinkerhoff
How To Not Go All-In Alone In The Stock Market. Checking Out What The Experts Are Doing In The Stock Market.

When you start trading in the markets and investing in funds, there are so many different factors to balance that you might be overwhelmed at the beginning. But do not worry, that is a common feeling among traders and speculators and it definitely fades as the time goes by. A good starting point is to see what the pros are doing. That way, you will be better off than just making all the decisions on your own. There are plenty of resources all around the World Wide Web to help

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By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
Silver’s Price Psychology

People have a natural tendency to seek and understand value. The currently dominant baby boomer generation has a speculative mindset with regard to investment. The relatively frugal generation that lived through the first great depression is now fading in influence, along with their collective memory of harder times. Both professional and individual traders tend to chase momentum, with pros often using technical analysis to justify market movements and their positioning in th

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By John Cruzer
What If.....

This is a story i narrated to one of my friends, who just refused to believe the importance of compounding in investments and was considering himself quite happy to be investing in a traditional way. The story goes in this way : If Ramesh had invested only Rs. 4000.00 per month when his child, Suresh, was born and done the same for next 18 years. Thus Ramesh would have in total invested Rs. 8.64 lacs over a period of 18 years & we assume his growth on SIP investment at a very

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By Peter Markton
Best Forex Signal Software

Nowadays, you can find a lot of Forex signal tools on internet but there will only be a few which will really meet your requirements. If you will search for Forex signal tools on Google or on any other search engine then you will get thousands of results which will make it really difficult for you to select the best that may optimize your requirements. There are also many other questions in your mind like how expensive are these software services? Are these services accurate

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By Christopher Lee
Forex Trading Software with Real and Tangible Benefits

Some of the best Forex trading software with real benefits are those that are easy to use and designed to be universal for even the bottom line of retail and casual traders. There is no point in designing a Forex software that is complicated to use and in the end of the day, useless to the retail investor. Some of the best Forex software out there as you can see in many of the review sites are the ones which are the simplest to use. Simple in the sense, is that when you open

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Get Those Houses Sold! Part IV

Part IVnnIn part I, we talked about our situation. It boiled down to this-excess home, no buyers. And to top it off the market is flooded with excess homes. We left off in part one talking about what you needed to do. Part II talked about your strategies and identifying the problem of your processes. We talked about the potential gimmicks and strategies for selling your homes. What could you offer potential buyers to draw them in? In part three we dug deeper. We talked about

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By Sunil Verma
How Financial Planning Helps You Do Better Finance Management

Financial planning can be defined as a continuing process that will ‘reduce your stress about money, support your current needs and help you with your long-term goals like retirement. Financial planning is important since it allows you to make the most of your assets and assists you in meeting your future goals. rnYou can make a financial plan yourself or you can get help from online financial planning services that offer virtual access to human advisors. Financial advisors

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By David Rivera
Moving Averages And Their Uses In Commodity Trading

A key component of technical analysis and perhaps one of the oldest indicators around, moving averages are time-tested and affective indicators. There are many types of moving averages with varying indicators, but the primary purpose of all types of moving averages remains the same. Their purpose is to reduce or remove noise from the daily price movements and attracted trends of stocks, commodities or any thing you can plot or chart.nnMoving Averages: How Do We Use them?nnMov

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By Yulian Isakov / Isakov Planning Group
Real-Estate investing: Investing in REITs

Real-estate may provide investors with a high-yield and low risk investment combination for greater total return potential to a diversified long-term portfolio. For most people, investing in real estate begins and ends with the purchase of a home and any prospects of investing in office buildings, hotels, and shopping centers seems nearly impossible. However, these investments are more attainable than you may think thanks to real estate investment trusts (REITs). A REITs sole

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By Alyse Addis
Tips For Investing in Mutual Funds

When you are choosing opportunities to invest in, you must realize that there are disadvantages in mutual funds. Investing in mutual funds will require you to pay management fees which can eat away at your return. The fund is invested without regard to the fees paid by the investor. In fact, there are many disadvantages to managed funds that have been discussed in financial publications. While you consider all of the disadvantages to mutual funds, there are some advantages th

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Vacant House: What's My Move?

Here’s a scenario for you. Say you have an option on a house for sale and it is out of state. It has been on the market (off and on) for over five years. The house is vacant as the owner lives out of state. What do you do?nnThe answer to your problem is to auction it. Many people have been told that they will need to come up with a certain amount of dollars up front to pay for advertising for the auction. There are some auction companies who may require a nominal fee to

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By Royal Curling
How Foreign Investment Shapes Mexico's Economy

For over a decade now, Mexico is concentrating on bringing in new foreign investors, a policy which is steadily generating good outcome and which has allowed particular places of the country to grow as it starts to produce merchandise for the Western world. Mexico isn't simply getting foreign investment from the United States, but also has friends in many other parts of the Westernized world, all of whom are keen to begin making their merchandise in factories of Mexico and ar

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By Robert Cruz
Secure a Profitable Investment with 25000 Dinar

Investing in Iraqi Dinars have come up as a potential source of investment among people who are looking forward to making quick money or reap profitable returns. However, before you Buy Iraqi Currency, always make sure that you are striking a deal of profitable investment. With the increasing rise of frauds and fake notes in the market, you might get into the tangle of buying false currency notes. Proper knowledge about the differences between the false and currency notes wil

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By Derek Shetrer
Useful Information Of A Broadening Bottom Pattern For The Stock Market - Part 2

How Long Should It Take To Make A Valid FormationrnUnusually, it takes from one to four months to make a valid formation. Less than that and it is not a valid pattern, more than that, than it has lost its predictability. The market does have a memory, but it is not that long. Formation end to breakoutrnIt can take from three to five weeks for the stock to break and close above the trend line after the last time it touched. As a rule, the downward breakout happens way faster a

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Over Leverage Or Short Sale?

An over leverage home is one that you want to stay away from… meaning that the amount owed is more than what the house is worth, even more than the AVR. About the only thing you can do with these homes is list them.nnAn exception might be if there is significant damage to the home, for example if there is fire damage. Under these circumstances, selling the home by traditional means may not be an option. The average buyer does not want to buy a house that needs repairs,

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By Brad Wozny
Real Estate Investing Seminar Tips - Part 2

Attending real estate investing seminars can provide the prospective investors with an excellent opportunity to meet other real estate investors and start to build the list of contacts, which is vital for the success in the industry. There are basically two different types of seminars:nn- Free real estate investing seminars: These are real estate investing seminars, which anyone can attend without paying any money. Free real estate investing seminars are preferred by small ti

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Stock Options and Risk Management

Stock options allow you to make huge returns in the market. When they are winning it is easy to get carried away with them and risk too much, but if you are going to survive as a trader you must make risk management your number 1 concern.nnSo how do you manage your risk with options, especially considering when you buy options you can already lose 100% of your investment? Here two different things you can do to help manage your risk when dealing with options. nn1. Use small p

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A Plan For Calculating Discounts On A Real Estate Investment

Property investment is a numbers business. As a real estate investor you’ll need to pay close attention to your numbers when purchasing a property in order to make money. Every investor develops their own basic plan for purchasing property to make a profit. nnThose just starting out can get confused with all the suggested rates of return that you need to aim for, but each property purchase needs its own specific discount for you to make a good profit. nnStart with the Minim

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By Epic Research
How trading is done in Indian commodity market ?

Commodity trading is another way of making investment by buying and selling of different useful commodities.Most of the investors who invest in commodities generally consider commodities as a useful resource. Online commodity trading is very popular and successful as it offers different benefits. Traders can earn better while trading in commodities by using MCX Tips as suggested by experts who are having good knowledge of commodity market. Commodities which are traded on exch

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The size of the company matters while purchasing stocks

The stock market is certainly not a gamble place and certainly not youre like your superstore where you get the exact price of each commodity. The stock market is a vast ocean of stocks and you should learn about stocks, funds, buying and selling of stocks thoroughly before taking a plunge into this vast ocean. You can succeed only if you do proper research and learn the tricks of the trade in the stock market. This will come through experience and learning. rn rnWhile inves

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By Dishika Baheti
Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund (G): A Secure Plan for a Secure Future

Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund was launched on January 13th, 2006 by Franklin Templeton Investments. The primary objective of the scheme is to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing in mid and small cap companies. The Franklin Smaller Companies Fund is a plan devised by exhaustive market research by expert fund managers. Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund growth was a closed-ended equity scheme that has been converted into an open-ended scheme with effe

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Problems With The Simultaneous Close? Instead, try the 'Assignment Of Contract'

Many new real estate investors can run into problems when they attempt a ‘simultaneous close’ on a property they are interested in. The simultaneous close basically involves you purchasing a property with an investor’s money and immediately selling that property to the investor for your profits. It’s a nifty little deal that works well, when you pay close attention to the percentage of returns on each sale. However, many title companies have initiated

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Low Probability Trades

Trading some low probability trades isn’t always a bad thing. It can help you to make a huge return if you are right and you can always manage your risk when you are wrong.nnBy a low probability trade I am talking about trades that will probably not be profitable. Even so it can be a good idea to take a few of these trades now and then if you consider the following.nn1. What You are riskingnnYou don’t want to be risking a lot of money on any one trade. But, this is even m

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By Fernando Brinkerhoff
Options Versus Investments – No Reason To Avoid Derivatives

An option is derived from a security One important point to remember is that options are not investments unto themselves. They all derive from the underlying security. Therefore we call options as derivative investments. And do not be afraid of saying that word, “derivatives”. It is much frowned upon but make no mistake; it is only feared by those who do not understand it. An options value is derived from other sources and one of these sources is the prediction of the dir

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By Money Maker Research
The Stock Market Is Smarter Than You Think

The stock market’s volatility and the erratic pricing of some companies’ shares have raised questions about whether stock prices are linked to economic fundamentals. Some specialists even assert that stock markets lead lives of their own. Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller writes, “Fundamentally, stock markets are driven by popular narratives, which don’t need basis in solid facts.” 1 Bill Gross, co-founder, and former chief investment officer of PIMCO, one of the wo

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By Fernando Brinkerhoff
When Trading In The Markets, Trust Your Instincts More Than Gurus

“There is no free lunch” is a common saying all around and it fits really well in the financial markets. You should be always aware of what the other person might earn, gain or have an advantage when presenting something to you. He might just be giving you a piece of advice or telling you a hot-tip, but he probably will earn something out of it. It can be as small as only an email. That might be enough for him since then, with it, he will be able to keep in touch with you

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By Epic Research
Golden rules to follow in commodity market.

Every trader wants to earn profitable returns consistently however they are not able to do so. Indisciplined trading practice used by traders is one the biggest reason why they are not able to earn desired returns. Indian commodity market has two major exchange namely mcx and ncdex. This market offers various good opportunities to traders, with good knowledge and trading experience traders can perform well. Financial advisory services like mcx tips can be used to get positive

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By Thomas Phillipson
Research: Older people using savings accounts for grandchildren

Many grandparents are storing away cash for their grandchildren, it has been revealed. New research has shown that many older people in the UK are putting money in savings accounts such as ISAs or fixed rate bonds for their grandchildren. According to a study conducted by the Cheltenham & Gloucester building society, these so-called "silver savers" store away an average of £1,000 every year for their young relations in order to provide them with a nest egg of savings at

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By Robert Cruz
The dinar investment is the next big thing

If you are planning to make money quickly and in less time, then the ideal thing that you can do is make some dinar investment. Buying dinar has become a fad as it offers you quick money in less time. Although there are many ifs and buts in terms of foreign currency investments, most investors have become rich with such investment. Many people wonder whether such foreign currency investments can be the scam designed by fraudsters. Yes, it’s partly true that there are some b

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By El Dora
Brazilian Gold Mine Update: Eldora Gold Resources Canada News

Brazilian Gold Mine Update: Eldora Gold Resources Canada News - Ensurge Announces Progress on Engineering Scoping Study of Brazilian Gold MinernBrazilian Gold Mine Update: Eldora Gold Resources Canada News - SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Ensurge, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ESGI.OB) is pleased that the Engineering Scoping Study of the Nova Esparanza Mineraco (NME) project is underway. Jordan Estra, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ensurge, Inc. reported on the

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