Investing Questions and Answers

Is nearby a place online where on earth a student close to me can start to build an investment portfolio?


Question:
The cash amounts aren't that considerable... a thousand to start and then hundreds periodically. But I can't afford to settle huge fees and keep minimum amounts that are beyond my get. Any advice?

Also, I earn some money online beside Paypal. Is there some instrument to dump that into online investments without have to have a check cut, sent to me, afterwards have me transport it somewhere else...?

Answer:
www.sharebuilder.com charges just $4.95 to buy, just about $15 to sell. Plus they allow free reinvestment of dividends which is a dutiful way to build up effectiveness. Scottrade does not allow reinvestment of dividends. Another way is to buy a very well diversified, low cost mutual fund. Vanguard Star fund only requires an initial investment of $1,000. American Funds own a $250 minimum.
Scottrade. You only necessitate $500 to open an description, and trades are $7.00. Their research site is pretty good, but I would also recommend reading the Wall Street Journal.




Is it unfair to inquire nearly span emails on the subject of stocks? Doesn't it nouns close to some sort of insider tradin


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It's not illegal, per speak.
Listed companies are not allowed to solicit investment wealth in this comportment, but nothing stops you or me or anyone from sending spam maxim buy this or that.
I once decided to try out the OTC souk and bought TINY positions in a two of those companies; PEYG and DMSI. the result is a loss of 81% and 92% respectively. Steer right clear.
it is not unfair but i wd delete it immediately - full of worms and virus
Not prohibited, just stupid. People who do spam similar to that are looking for the one person surrounded by millions who is stupid enough to respond to them so they can steal their money.

No lawful company would do that, or most others either.
spam is designed to scam you. Avoid it at adjectives costs.
There are laws against spam, but they are unenforceable. I don't guess there are law against telling everyone surrounded by the world to buy a certain stock, unless you are investment professional.




Stock marketplace ?


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Over a period of 2 years if one is using a stock broker would it be regular for your stock go up, stay impossible to tell apart or go down? Or is it mundane to follow the index?

Answer:
for the past 2 years, looking at the stock souk (DJIA, S&P), i say it is extremely "not normal" if your investment remains flat or even dance down
DJIA goes up almost by 20% from 10500 (Jan05) to 12500 (jan07)
S&P just about the same from 1180 to 1400
i would not expect your stock broker to know how to beat the souk, ie index , but i would expect your investment to follow the index trend, to say the lowest possible.
unless you are really a savy investor, using a stock broker usually gives a better return.
i would vote, it is expected to have your investment to be in motion up by as much as 10-20% for the past 2yrs.
the stock index is probably the best benchmark of your investment. it a moment ago doesnt make sense for your investment to remain flat times past 2 yrs when the stock market within general yield a very correct return over the same time interval. unless you are picking a negative beta portfolio since you are betting that the open market will go down (thus your portfolio to be in motion up).
so again, it depends. but in common, yes benchmark against the index is your best measurement.
If you just have one stock, it doesn't thing whether you're using a stock broker or not. One stock can't possibly have a "normal" condition. Some shift up, some go down, some follow the flea market. The reason we enjoy diversified portfolios is so that we can have somewhat predictable narration. A single stock could do just almost anything.
i have never used a stock broker - if they be any good they would be millionaires!
research some stocks on right to be heard yahoo or Schwab and make you own decision. check their rating over the past 5 yers
According to Dow idea market trends concluding for years, therefore 2 years contained by long term investment (assuming buy and hold) is not representative.

Market index is composed of oodles stocks (500 in luggage S&P500) to eliminate effect of open market price fluctuation. So one stock does not have to follow the index closely.

If you want to acquire prospective returns close to market index devise of:
1. Diversification over many stocks
2. Using ETFs resembling DIA or SPDRs




what's the best stock for 2007?


Question:
No scams or boiler rooms please -- simply real answers...

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No one can really answer this cross-examine. You can buy books, listen to the experts on T.V. and they will each make a contribution you a diffrent answer.

Go to borders there is a book out within called the "Best stocks for 2007" it would be a dutiful place to start.

If you want security consequently go for colossal cap stocks worth companies like GE, Bank of America, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, that extend growth and income (dividend).

If you want to make money and be for a time more risky then win into IPO's (intial public offerings). When Mastercard (MA) came out ending year I paid $41 a share for my 200 shares of stock, right presently the stock is about $98. I double my money within less than 12 months.

My favorite specualtive stock for 2007 is Level 3 Commuications (LVLT) I own 300 shares of stock and bought it at $5.00 a share most experts see it at $10-$12 contained by about 12 months.

Good luck and stay AWAY from Penny Stocks!! There worthless.

Here is a site that I use :

Thestreet.com
I've be recommending JOSB, Jos. A. Bank Clothiers. But that's freshly me. ;-)
The truth is a throw of a dart! Another truth is that every "expert" is an expert in their own eyes.. A hot tip is a jape and if you hear any different you are following a popcorn trail..

You have asked such a unanimously specific question in attendance shouldn't be a right answer rather than more schooling..
You're only asking opinion, right?
I'm going with Southern Copper ( PCU) this year...copious markets are still growing and building...the metals required contained by building, auto making, general industrial expansion is monstrous...the demand will remain giant or grow
PLUS...PCU pays a 10% dividend ... that's a nice yearly gain lacking any growth!
Apple should knock your socks off by year wrapping up. People will be surprised by their new products.
This one would own been better a few months ago, but I'd still recommend it if you don't mind getting Japanese stocks: Nintendo. They're poised to become the video team game market pacesetter in a year's time.
They will database 1Q 2007
Research junkies and DD specialists

Put a couple of hours into PBLS @ .012 has more than most AMEX
stocks. Why is it @ a penny because they hold not filed contained by 8 years.
In the last shareholders update they said they would record 1st Q 2007.

Read it all and verify it adjectives: 206 million Revs 21 million profits
No debt 21 Million\815 mil OS = .0257 EPS for 2006

update link: http://www.pbls.biz/pressrelease_content...

8 hours minimum DD required on this Issue "PBLS"

Jockee
With the process GM, Ford, and Chrysler are losing market share and serious $$$, Toyota is hot and should verbs to stay that way for awhile
i focus and hope it will either be nintendo,bmw,G00GLE,microsoft, these are big companys and won't hold heavy losses




What's a pious immense growth mutual fund?


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I am looking for funds that have have growth of >12% over the last 15 years or over their entire existence. I'm not looking for short term investments. No single stocks. I already own one in my portfolio but would close to to research others.

Thanks.

Answer:
here you go courtesy of Yahoo.
i individually like the Spectrum Growth Fund from Troweprice, PRSGX , it let me get a variety of large growth funds that they own, some international,some smaller companies, a little,but its a massive blend fund

its rated 5 stars by morningstar and is over 10% for its time, and is in a no nouns company




what and why are countries switching to the euro.?


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this can start a war

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How the hell can it start a period of war.

It means it's easier to travel surrounded by Europe and means smaller number money is ripped off travellers by the bank and currency exchanges.

I'm all for it . As long as it's single for mainland Europe . I want to keep my pounds sterling for myself
so they can adjectives invade britain!
so that they are all contained by sync. see when traveling you had to convert your money at every border which is a discomfort in the *** and leaves you near a bunch of coins from a bunch of different countries. it makes much more sense this agency, and will probly prevent a war.
um because its worth more around 2 dollars is worth 1 euro thats why , and be on our way to a one currency world where on earth its all impossible to tell apart
To increase trade.

Imagine if each state have a different currency. 50 different currencies, trade between two states would be horrible complex. What the exchange rate today, can I get my money exchanged for this currency, I moved, and I own to transfer my money from one state to another.

But next to a single currency, you encourage trade. I don't verbs about what currency I enjoy when I go to pop in my family contained by a different state. Same thing for those countries, I own euros, I can buy gas, food, motel rooms, and not have to verbs about exchange rate, and own to pay someone to exchange from my currency to the local currency and rate again when I leave. With the euro I basically pay my bill and do the things I want to do.
The countries are not simply switching to the Euro that are joining the European Economic Community and adopting the Euro. The Euro is simply an monetary vehicle to allow trade between nations. Only the strongest currencies can stand on their own resembling the British Pound.

If this experiment works well near may be a North and South American currency adopted within the future. With free trade the cost of converting currencies and dealing next to different national banks can become to cumbersome.
This won't start a period of war..countries are buying more and more Euros while they are selling Dollars because the Euro is being adopt by all the east european countries: that mode that it's value will rise for the subsequent few years, that makes the euro a better investment than the dollar.
The previous posters are giving answers that I meditate aren't directly answering your question. "Thebillthatknow's" is the closest, but the exchange rate isn't 2:1 contained by the USD to EUR exchange rate, the exchange rate is about 1.33:1

First, why are they switching to Euro's? The USD is the world's reserve currency, the dollar is dwindling signficantly against the Euro as well as the other key world currencies. With the U.S. running such huge current, budget and trade deficits and within debt to the tune of $53 trillion (the $8 trillion you hear about is current debt, when you clutch into account adjectives fed debt, it's $53 trillion), the other nation are losing faith within the strength of the U.S. economy and the dollar.

Also consider this, grease sales are denominated surrounded by U.S. dollars, thus countries hold dollars for oil purchases. As the dollar loses merit, the value of the dollar reserves losses importance. As the dollar declines, the price of grease with thus be in motion up. For instance, the Middle East countries are not what I would consider "agricultural mecca's". They have to introduction much of their food, and they import their food from Europe. Back when the Euro be worth $0.84, if a middle east nation bought 100 million Euro in food, that be $84 million. But, not that the Euro is worth $1.33, the same 100 million Euro within food is now $133 million. Thus, as the dollar erodes, the cost of middle east nation importing food go up, thus they must raise the price of grease.

Also, take into consideration China as another example; China have $1 trillion in forex reserves, of which $700 billion is U.S. Dollar reserves. For every penny the dollar loses within value, China loses $7 billion surrounded by value within the dollar reserves.

The US Dollar Index broke a very strong support nouns recently at 83.00. The 80.00 even on the USDX is the demarcation line, a break below 80 and look for the world to start wholesale dumping the dollar. With the world holding trillions contained by dollars and dollar denominated assets, every time the dollar drops in pro, billions of dollars of value are lost contained by their holds. China has $700 billion surrounded by dollar reserves and $300 billion in U.S. treasuries. Japan have about $750 billion surrounded by U.S. treasuries and $680 billion in dollar reserves. Those two countries alone who over $2 trillion contained by dollars and dollar denominated assets.

They're switching to the Euro because the Euro is quickly becoming the one currency that can unseat the dollar as the world's reserve currency. The 2005 GDP of the Eurozone be larger than the U.S. The Eurozone is the world's largest economy. And beside the Euro strengthening against the dollar, people/countries are moving out of dollars into Euro's.

Which countries? Russia, Venezuela, Switzerland, the UAE. Peter Costello, Treasurer of Australia has call for the Asian Nations to move out of dollars. China is looking at diversifying out of it dollar reserves into Euro's and gold. Iran prefers to be remunerated in Euro's as challenging dollars. As a matter of reality, OPEC has be looking to denominate their oil sale in Euro's instead of dollars. The Iranian Oil Bourse, when it ultimately open, will be trading oil surrounded by Euro's, not dollars.

The world is losing faith surrounded by the U.S. economy. The feed has to borrow $2.4 billion per morning in command to function. By the way, that $53 trillion that I mentioned above isn't a number I pulled out of meagre air. On Dec. 15, 2006, the treasury dept. released the report of the financial position of U.S. About a year ago, Congress mandate that the Treasury release the financials of the U.S. based on GAAP instead of bread basis. The $8 trillion you hear roughly is based on brass basis and is individual current debt. The report, showed all debt (current, long possession, unfunded liabilities, etc.) and that number is $53 trillion. Two things you must know:

1) That $53 trillion is lattice present value, description that if we wanted to retribution it off, we requirement $53 trillion in the guard TODAY. But, it's still accruing interest and we're still borrowing.

2) The $53 trillion is ONLY federal debt. If you cart into consideration all gov't debt (federal, state, local,) and corporate debt, the number is pushing upward of $80 trillion. Now, if you be a foreigner looking at the numbers; the U.S. makes in the region of
$11-$12 trillion per year (GDP), but owes in excess of $53 trillion (just feed debt) and growing, how keen would you to invest within the U.S.? Wouldn't you be looking to move your investments out into other areas/countries that are more fiscally stable and responsible?




Is this Stock Trading or Mutual Funds?


Question:
My mother is a real estate broker for an extremely life-size brokerage company. It's actually the 4th largest surrounded by the World. She told me that just approaching Microsoft along time ago, her company is getting ready to go within 2 years because the CEO and Founder is retiring. She said that they are offering 1000 Free shares to adjectives the employees, and any friends and family of employees who become member free shares also before going PUBLIC WITH THIS. And they predict it will be worth atleast $20-$30 a share.

SHE wishes ME to sign up as a member so I will attain 1000 free shares, because if I sign up as a member below her, she will get an extra free 1000 shares lying on the 1000 free shares shes already getting. Now my mom has sign up my dad, and 22 others population already.
I heard mutual funds are better than stock trading. Which one is this? Should I sign up? I own by tonight 7pm PST to sign anyone I know up under me to gain 1000 free shares per a creature I sign up ,so please tell me asap.

Answer:
It depends on whether the "brokerage company" is incorporated as a trust or a company. Judging from what you enjoy written, it sounds like a company. If it be incorporated as a trust, then it would hold units a bit than shares and it may or may not be listed on the stock exchange.

"Going public" mostly means fact list on a stock exchange - both companies and trusts can list (depends on the country). Many Mutual Funds are not tabled because they hold a portfolio of listed stocks - since the merit of the portfolio can be calculated, the value of the unit can easily be calculated too.

Mutual Funds and Unit Trusts are vitally the same entity (although there may be subtle differences contained by some countries). The reason why Mutual Funds are better than stocks is because they own a yawning range of investments - adjectives your eggs are not in one picnic basket.

In your case, you should pocket up the shares if they are free. You have nil to lose. The whole job sounds a bit dodgy though. As you have described it, they could be giving away millions of free shares. Why would the owner do that?
Something does not nouns right. Why are they giving away shares for free. I might understand giving it to team, but spreading to relatives and friends. Something does not sound right.
Agreeded I would stay away from this foolproof target for an SEC investigation.
Free stocks for everybody that signs up? That sounds more than unbelievable. The company probably isn't into charity for everybody, and that's what it is when they are giving it away for free. What's the confine?




is this stock trading or mutual funds? Hurry involve support!?


Question:
My mother is a real estate broker for an extremely sizeable brokerage company. It's actually the 4th largest surrounded by the World. She told me that just resembling Microsoft along time ago, her company is getting ready to provide within 2 years because the CEO and Founder is retiring. She said that they are offering 1000 Free shares to adjectives the employees, and any friends and family of employees who become member free shares also before going PUBLIC WITH THIS. And they predict it will be worth atleast $20-$30 a share.

SHE requests ME to sign up as a member so I will return with 1000 free shares, because if I sign up as a member lower than her, she will get an extra free 1000 shares higher than the 1000 free shares shes already getting. Now my mom has sign up my dad, and 22 others general public already.
I heard mutual funds are better than stock trading. Which one is this? Should I sign up? I hold by tonight to sign anyone I know up under me,so please notify me asap.

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Stephan is right that mutual funds have middle-men and professional manager but he is incorrect in truism that stocks are better. The true is answer is: it depends.

Most individual investors won't come close to beating the bazaar and most won't outperform mutual funds. Also, it is very expensive to carry the same spread on your money contained by individual stocks as you do in mutual funds. In a mutual fund, you'll typically go and get 50-150 different stocks and bonds.

Most stocks worth having trade at $10 and up. So, if you own $100 you can get, at most, 1 share of 10 different companies. A mutual fund may trade at $20 per share but inwardly that fund you have a great deal of different stocks and bonds. You'll only win 5 shares of that fund, but you'll have fractional shares within many more companies. This is key because it helps your portfolio (again HELPS, does not PREVENT) from falling subject to an Enron or a Worldcom. One of your mutual funds may have have one of these companies in it at the time of the fall down, but it was solely a small percentage. However, the inverse is true too -- in most cases you won't see mile-high returns close to G00GLE.

Many financial advisors (and there is a difference between a financial ADVISOR and a stock broker -- an advisor have more licenses and can lawfully give written advice) recommend mutual funds unless you hold $250,000 - $500,000 to play with.

However, specifically only a rule of thumb. Your best bet is to sermon to a professional about your own situation and desires.

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That is a stock as mutual funds are a group of stocks of just about 500 companys.
This is stock trading.

I'd personally do it and procure as many ethnic group as I can to sign up as well. If this is what it sounds close to and this is an IPO kind of accord, it's VERY rare for an IPO to not formulate money. Hell if you're only within it for a day and your FREE $20 shares step down to $15, you can make $15,000.
at hand is no way the shareholders would agree to a company just dispense 1000 shares worth 30 bucks to all the personnel,their family,and their friends, it purely wouldnt happen
Extremely Large Brokerage Companies ARE NOT PRIVATE.

Shares are NOT FREE.

Employees can be given the likelihood to buy as much as 1,000 shares if they wish to do so. However, giving them the shares for FREE is not sage for a company.

Why would a Company will give away itself to an unkown and unrelated entity like your friends or relatives?

Let me relate what's really happenning.

Someone smarter than you is going public with a Dummy Corporation (They don't build anything, they don't vend anything, they don't buy anything) and they need abundant current shareholders.

They will sell 10,000,000 shares to nice outdated ladies and greedy idiots for $2.00 and they will promise them the stock will rise all the passageway up to $30.00 in the adjectives and when the stock hits $10.00 they will dump all their shares (They bought them at $1.00) and they will manufacture millions and millions of shareholders will lose their money.

I strongly suggest you to invest a few hundreds of dollars and buy the Entire Six Seasons of "The Sopranos" on DVD and watch them from the germ.

You will understand the stock flea market a lot better if you do that.

You are helping the Italian Mafia to steal millions from others.
If the shares are free, what are you waiting for? Can you bring some for me as well?

Even if they are not free, BUY them. Your mother have a responsible job and "inside information" which is invaluable. Are you still sitting down? Run, man, run!
Actually, stocks are better than mutual funds. Mutual funds enjoy managers and workers who all hold to get remunerated out of your earnings, which reduce your returns. If the fund's managers are thoroughly good, this might be worth it, but most can't slaughter the market substantially adequate. Buy stocks, it cuts out the middlemen in the mutual fund who return with paid in the past you do, and so you'll make more money.




Is this stock trading or mutual fund?Dont fathom out.?


Question:
My mother is a real estate broker for an extremely life-size brokerage company. It's actually the 4th largest within the World. She told me that just close to Microsoft along time ago, her company is getting ready to get rid of within 2 years because the CEO and Founder is retiring. She said that they are offering 1000 Free shares to adjectives the employees, and any friends and family of employees who become member free shares also before going PUBLIC WITH THIS. And they predict it will be worth atleast $20-$30 a share.

SHE requirements ME to sign up as a member so I will take 1000 free shares, because if I sign up as a member lower than her, she will get an extra free 1000 shares higher than the 1000 free shares shes already getting. Now my mom has sign up my dad, and 22 others ethnic group already.
I heard mutual funds are better than stock trading. Which one is this? Should I sign up? I hold by tonight to sign anyone I know up under me,so please explain to me asap.

Answer:
Bewarned, and this can hurt you if you are working paycheck to paycheck.

When you go through an IPO, you are automatically tax at the worth of the product at the first price when it becomes a adjectives share. So let's say the orifice price was $30 a share, so you would hold to pay taxes on $30,000. You might enjoy to hold on to the shares for a length of time, which means you might no know how to sell the shares to earnings your taxes. Not only that, the shares may drop surrounded by price by the time you get to go them (and therefore the shares woould be a liability and not an investment). If you do wish to get the shares, own $8,400 in dosh on stand by to pay the taxes.
LOOKS LIKE I AM TOO LATE !!

If you would gain 1000 shares for nothing consequently it is truly better than a mutual fund. Sounds pretty dirty though, to get FREE shares for nought but just for signing up...signing up for WHAT ??

I would be leary of what I sign, but if it costs you nought then walk for it!

:)




Why do mutual funds other drop surrounded by significance surrounded by deferred december or precipitate January?


Question:
It's happened the ending few years, and it seems to seize a bit earlier contained by the winter season each year. Does anyone time this effect to trade their funds at their Thanksgiving high and buy them at the New Years low?

Answer:
It's greatly hard to craft this sort of generalization: if it other happens exactly close to this, we'd all be rich. Funds sometimes drop this time of year because they bring in a dividend payment and maybe a capital gain distribution in December. If this is the source why your mutual fund dropped, then you would finale up in in the region of the same place whether you held Nov-Jan or sold in the past the dividend and rebought afterwards. You would also have to consider transaction costs (fees and commissions).
That's the time they payout a distrubtion of any ordinary income and/or property gains. Check next to your mutual fund company to see the amount and type of year-end distrubtion on your fund.
I don't know what kind of funds you are investing surrounded by.but most funds are not going downat least not this year. I know within are many times wherewithal gains given which brings down the price of the share, but in actuality increases your shares held. And if you're selling around Thanksgiving and then buying them backbone later, you are paying more sale chargeunless of course you are using no loads. But from what I can put in the picture, I'm not sure you have the understanding to be managing your own investments. Good luck.
Usually there's a distribution of capital gain and dividends around that time. You don't actually cessation up with more importance right after the distribution than just beforehand - you just hold more shares assuming you reinvest gains, next to the same total helpfulness as before the distribution, if not you get that amount as a check.




RE: Best stock of 2007 ?


Question:
PBLS is No pump and dump.
did a i ask anyone to buy ?
Thats why I put in the Question that unless you put some time into DD and researching the company dont answer the put somebody through the mill.
Put a little bit of tme surrounded by and then answer the grill I am not asking anyone to buy.
The question is base on its price, the anticipation of the 10 filing and what the company have ??

http://www.pbls.biz/pressrelease_content...

Thats the question?

Do you own an answer?

Answer:
ura ramper and will be reported
G00GLE!
If anybody knew that one would be a trillionair...
VALU- the company that produce value-line research
exxon mobil symbol xom, give me over 34 percent in 2006 and expecting over 20 percent contained by 07 big blue chip stock made my portfolio this year grow so much
Stop trying to get race to buy that worthless stock so you can get your money posterior out of it.




Should I invest within Chevron?


Question:


Answer:
I would
Yes, CVX is a good choice, strong 1y chart.

Wait a bit for the flea market and oil to cool rotten a little.

Between $72 and 74 it is a dutiful buy.

If it drops to 74 get organized to buy it.

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unlike the copious professional solicitors-suckers that are plaguing this category
if it fits your budget and your needs
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If you are seriously considering stocks close to Chevron, then I ruminate (suggest) the better choice would be: owning a portfolio of stocks in that sector and have a fund manager run it for you, for instance, PEO. Petroleum & Resources Corporation.
Yes...

Chevron has a low P/E and looks perfect with Oil on the rise again.

However near any stock, make sure you are diversified. Don't put to much into Chevron.
Let me recognize. You want to invest your hard earn money via a suggestion by strangers. You don't know their qualifications. You don't know their motives.

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Consider yourself warned!
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You have lots of time beforehand retirement which means the illusion of compound interest will just save building and building. It really works and if you keep investing every year, within 10 or 15 years you will be surprised at how it mounts up. In 30 years you could be a millionaire which probably won't amount to much in 30 year owing the the ravages of inflation.

And that's the primary source to keep investing within small cap growth stocks - they will flog inflation to annihilation.

When investing in mutual funds, select the no-load funds simply. Do not invest in mutual funds next to a "load", an up front commission that you have to settle up before when they flog you the mutual fund. Some charge as much as 10% which is a rrip-off. Many studies have shown that the no-load funds do as all right as the load funds and sometimes a great deal better.

Look at the AAI Shadow Stock Portfolio. I would try and emulate that portfolio if you want to invest in stocks. It be up 25% as of November 2006. The Vanguard Index fund is only up 14%.

AAII have some of the best financial advisers and the cost is hugely low. They have excellent guides and suggestion.

You may need a broker so step to e-Trade or Scottsdale who have low commission rates.

Do your own due diligence. Your own planning are the best. Do not depend on someone else to select investments for you. Learn about investing so you don't hold to ask what stocks to invest in.

Be self reliant.

Remember what Emerson said: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul have simply nothing to do.

Find stocks that enjoy steadily rising net profits (earnings), low debt, and well brought-up P/Es, lots of cash, companies buying wager on their stock..

What interests you? Find stocks that pique your interest and passion.

You necessitate fast growing righteous stocks with accurate earnings and contained by good sector. You need to swot up more about the stock marketplace before you even judge about investing surrounded by it.

The stocks world is divided into 12 sectors such as dynamism which chevron belongs to. It is next to finishing in the sector list today.

Technology is numero uno, but things can loose change in a unsullied york minute, but within the sector, the fastest growing are computer services, not Microsoft. Then, Electronic Instruments and controls. Next is computer storage devices.

The subsequent hot sector is Healthcare, but heed the warning below. Go here for sector: (http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/i...

The best software is Vector Vest if you can afford it. It has sector investing.

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First of adjectives, stay away from "professional brokers" and tips coming to you via e-mail or friends and acquaintances. And tips at RunEye.com. And e-mail tips. Do your own due diligence - don't rely on someone else. Read Emerson's essay "Self Reliance.

Hey! They will say anything to acquire you to buy their junk. If it's too fitting to be true, it is.

Remember this, they are just sale people trying to put on the market you what their firm is pushing. They are not security analysts or financial planners, not even financial adviser. Trust me, I know from experience that they cannot be trusted especially with a million dollars. You risk losing it adjectives. A million dollar account is specified as a "whale" and they would love to get their greedy little paw on it and suck it dry. They just want to trade name commissions on what they buy and sell for the suckers, err...clients..

Risk avoidance is the christen of the game.

Remember, the harder I work, the luckier I achieve.

Penny stocks are highly speculative. I would avoid the ones below a dollar a share. For example, Best Buy started at less than $5. So near are some good companies, but it take a lot of digging to find the fitting ones. You are looking for companies with biddable earnings, little debt, low capitalization, and right P/Es. For stocks under $5, completely few will meet these requirements.

Stay away from the pharms unless they own patented drugs - do not invest in generic pharms, no growth at hand.

Check out which business sectors are the most popular and invest contained by the companies in those sector. The number one, two and three are: technology, health exactness, and cyclicals (retail). These change periodically so hang on to current.

Go here for a list of growth stocks: http://www.thestreet.com/_G00GLEn/newsan...

There are these list all over the Web - you pays your money and take your chances.

Watch CNBC, but don't pay cheque too much attention to the talking head, except for Jim Cramer, the wild man - but he tries to educate you how to invest and has some great guidance.

Get Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World by James J. Cramer

Listen to Jim Cramer on CNBC.com

Go to Clearstation for quotes and tutorials on investing at (http://clearstation.etrade.com/) Sign up is free. Look up a few stocks. Do their tutorials. Check out the sector.

Get this book: Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond (Wiley Finance) by Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, and Michael van Biema.

Another good book: The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens: 8 Steps to Having More Money Than Your Parents Ever Dreamed Of (Motley Fool) by David Gardner, Tom Gardner, and Selena Maranjian

Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich by James J. Cramer and Cliff Mason

I Want to Make Money within the Stock Market: Learn to Begin Investing Without Losing Your Life Savings! by Chris M. Hart\

Sensible Stock Investing: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks by David P. Van Knapp

Stock Investing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) by Paul Mladjenovic

All About Stock Market Strategies : The Easy Way To Get Started by David Brown and Kassandra Bentley

The Motley Fool Investment Guide and their Web site (http://www.fool.com/).

The Little Black Book of Microcap Investing: Beat the Market with NASDAQ/AMEX Microcap Stocks, OTCBB Penny Stocks, and Pink Sheet Stocks by Dan Holtzclaw

How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System contained by Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition by William J. O'Neil

Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management by Alexander Elder

Big Trends in Trading: Strategies to Master Major Market Moves (A Marketplace Book) by Price Headley

Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (Paperback)
by Charles Mackay (Author), Andrew Tobias (Foreword) This book conference about the Tulip craze contained by Holland where ancestors would mortgage their homes to buy Tulip bulbs. Same thing happen in 2001 - 2002 near the Internet bubble that brought the stock market to its knees. The dot com companies be the Tulip bulbs.

Buy Investors Business Daily. It has lots of tutorials and I close to it better than the stodgy Wall St Journal.

Money Game by Adam Smith

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Wiley Investment Classics) (Hardcover)
by Philip A. Fisher. Recommended by Warren Buffet who took $100,000 and grew it to $34 billion!

Value Investing with the Masters by Kirk Kazanjian

Valuegrowth Investing by Glen Arnold

The 5 Keys to Value Investing by J. Dennis Jean-Jacques

The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed. (Collins Business Essentials) by Benjamin Graham. Warren Buffet be his student at Columbia.

The Money Masters by John Train

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore

Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor by John C. Bogle

Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky

Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week! by Phil Town . See his Web site at (http://www.ruleoneinvestor.com/) Free sign-up. I get the book at the library.

Listen. You don't have to spend seriously of money on these books - most can be found at your library and those that your library doesn't have they can usually seize from other libraries in your state.

Most of these books address about stock and mutual fund investing, but for a polite introduction to other forms of investing Gerald Appel has a great book call Opportunity Investing - How to Profit When Stock Advance, Stocks decline, Inflation Run Rampant, Prices fall, Oil Prices Hit the Roof and Every Time In Between.

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman Not a book on investing, but it's a nice segue into the subsequent book.

Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Marcus Buckingham

Finding your strengths is important when investing. These books school you to build on your strengths, what you a good at. Everyone is correct or passionate roughly something. Why not get better at what you are honest at?

Another good book is: Opportunity Investing: How To Profit When Stocks Advance, Stocks Decline, Inflation Runs Rampant, Prices Fall, Oil Prices Hit the Roof, ... and Every Time within Between (Hardcover)
by Gerald Appel

Most mutual funds do not even keep up the the return on the S&P. That's close to 99% of them.

Vanguard Index funds are a no brainer.

A CD is better than a money account. They selection from six months to several years. You cannot touch your money tho until the time limit is up.

Check out this Web site on Direct Investment Plans where on earth you can buy shares directly from companies: (http://www.fool.com/school/drips.htm) Usually no fees and you can buy one share at a time.

Bonds are probably the safest. But they are not for the young. You might try a bond fund. They might return 5 or 6 percent. At 5% a million would return $50,000 a year - not a discouraging income. Remember, you have to settle up taxes on the $50,000.

There are also municipal bonds and the income from them is taxfree especially if you buy them in a state that offer them, but they only payment about 3%, but it's mostly taxfree.

Look into Fidelity sector funds. Buy the top three, consequently in six months look how they are doing and if so hot, select the next three that are best. Do this for a few years and you will manufacture lots of money.

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P.S. This is a life-long learning process. Reading these books and applying the rules to analyzing stocks that may be honest It takes time. Be merciful and keep reading and listen. Don't be a sucker and follow someone elses advice. Be your own man or woman. Depend on not a soul except yourself. You can only receive smarter and stronger that way.

P.P.S. Internet have lots of good stuff, for example (http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?i...
Stockcharts.com is terribly good and their discussion of MACD is one of the best, barring its originator, Gerald Apple, but in a minute we are getting into Technical Analysis and that is not for beginners. But it is an big factor in finding virtuous stocks that are going up and growing. Remember, tiny acorns grow into mighty oaks.




If you deposit money today into an statement that pays 6.5 percent interest, how long will it thieve?


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Answer:
The two previous responses do not take compounding interest into statement.

There are calculators to help answer such question at http://www.bankrate.com.

6.5 percent is likely an annual percentage rate, and contrary to what someone else said, it's not impossible for a no-risk savings statement.

There is a factor associated with a 6.5 APR that must be multiplied by the principle deposit/investment to determine the amount of the quarterly interest accrued/ROI. Each quarter, the factor is applied to the accumulate product. Because of this, $100 is not NECESSARILY worth exactly $106.50 after a year's time.
how long will what take, they repay 6.5% annualy so lets articulate you depost 100 dollars, after one year you would have 106.50 surrounded by your account
years and years its not much
That request for information makes abosolutely no sense.

But what I meditate you are asking is how long will it take that explanation to pay you put a bet on 6.5% of you money in interest. An example self a savings side or a CD.

It would steal a year.
How long will it take to do what?
It will hold a long time.
Depositing money in a nest egg account one and only takes a few second
This is the RULE OF 72: With the know interest divide it into 72 and you will have the number of years the principal will pilfer to double. 72/ 6.5% = 11.07 years.

Is this what you wanted to know?
It would depend on the old age date of the account. Maturity date are not all like peas in a pod - that depends on which you choose. Most give option like 6 mos, 12 mos, 24 mos, 36 mos, etc. Usually , the a reduced amount of the months, the less interest.




How does mutual funds and others alike pool so much money ?


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how do mutual funds pool tremendous amount of money? is it simply from marketing, with a few marketers from the company goign around and recounting ppl to put there money.

is mutual funds basically purely marketing thing ? singular 8% of fund managers within the world are said to have returning above average returns

what give or take a few hedge funds? do they a moment ago track down rich guys and tell them that htey nee dto put nearby money here.

Is it possible for one to start his own mutual funds, provided he had the start up costs, and experience and know-how.

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Mutual funds were duly important 20 years and elder. The majority of the people basically didn't have the access or the resources to build real time decision.

Now it's because people only don't want to learn or want to spend the time and trust somebody to backing them.

This money came from gain in the investments and the amount of populace in the mutual funds (I'm chitchat several thousands if not millions) even from merging mutual funds. Remember, nation have theri retirement money within these things.

Rich people don't own much money in the stock open market. They have their money surrounded by mostly bonds and real estate because they are at a point where on earth they want tp preserve wealth a bit than make up to date money.
Average is a mid-point. So 50% of fund managers are above average.
From a document of mutual funds, pick a no-load one you have never hear of, seen no media hype for and check the amount under advisement. Then look at Money, Smart Money, Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine and check the ads. Vanguard, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, are big buyers of ad. Check how much they have lower than management.
Advertising works.
Hedge funds, the rich guys come to the investment bankers who invite the rich guys to a round of golf at the local exclusive country club where on earth they go into a fund room at the 19th hole. Over brandy and cigars the good outmoded boys talk.
Yes it possible for one to start his own mutual fund. Start up costs will be $100,000. plus.




When do U.S. Savings Bonds matured?


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U.S. Savings Bonds, both the I-series and the EE-series have a parenthood of 30 years from their dates of issue. Both bonds enjoy a redemption feature which allows investors to change in their bonds after five years short penalty. If the bonds are cashed within prior to the investor having have held the bonds for five years, then 3 month of interest is forfeited as a redemption cost.

After 30 years, the bonds no longer accrue interest and are deemed to enjoy "matured".

More information is available at the U.S. Treasury Department's website for the public (see link below):
It depends when you bought the funds bond. Here is a link that will explain to you how long before they seasoned:

https://www.washington.edu/admin/payroll...
it really depends when you bought the thing i know they hold 1 m 6 m so on so on




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