Category: Stocks and Bonds

  • Saving For Retirement: What You Need to Know About 401(K), Traditional IRA and Roth IRA Plans

    10 Useful Resources for Investors who are Saving For Retirement WASHINGTON, D.C. September 30, 2015 – At a time when nearly one of three U.S. households have $0 saved for retirement, the nonprofit Alliance for Investor Education (AIE) is making available “Saving For Retirement: What You Need To Know About 401(k), Traditional IRA and Roth IRA…

  • Economic Law and Market Timing

    This is the most difficult of the many challenges a speculator or investor faces. If you think that you are not affected, think again. Your head is in the sand. The buy and hold for the long term does not insulate you from the effects of the cyclical nature of markets. It only camouflages the…

  • Road Map For How the Crash Will Play Out

    Q: Graham Summers, the Chief Market Strategist, at Phoenix Capital Research, has submitted an article: A Road Map For How the Crash Will Play Out (see: excerpt below). It has been republished by Zerohedge: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-01/road-map-how-crash-will-play-out [box]From the perspective of investor psychology, an entire generation of professional fund managers and investors have become pillars of the…

  • Dash for the Stash Investor Education and Protection Program

    2,000 PARTICIPATED IN “DASH FOR THE STASH” INVESTOR EDUCATION AND PROTECTION PROGRAM IN LIBRARIES IN FIVE STATES AND D.C. $1,000 Contributions Provided to Six Participants in “Scavenger Hunt”-Like Contest Organized by Investor Protection Institute and State Securities Agencies. WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 20, 2015 – A total of 230 public libraries and other locations in…

  • Conflicted Advice from Brokers According to Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association

    ATTORNEY REPRESENTING 500+ INVESTORS IN CONFLICTED ADVICE CASES: HOLD BROKERAGE FIRMS RESPONSIBLE FOR FIDUCIARY DUTY THEY ALREADY TELL INVESTORS THEY HAVE Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association President Cites Examples of Near Retirees Victimized by Industry Practices that Department of Labor Rule Would Bar WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 11, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Labor…

  • S&P 500 Foreign Sales Report

    NEW YORK, July 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI”), one of the world’s leading index providers, announced today that, for S&P 500® companies with full reporting information for 2014, the percentage of sales from foreign countries increased after five years of stagnation. According to S&P DJI’s annual S&P 500 Foreign Sales Report,…

  • Ladies: How Money Wise Are You?

    Investment Advisor Seeks To Debunk Myths About Women And Money It’s a perplexing situation. Women control half of the wealth in the United States, yet studies have shown that many of them are convinced they are lacking when it comes to understanding finances. Too often, in their eyes they aren’t capable of making prudent investment…

  • Stock Market Speculation with Inverse ETF’s

    An inverse exchange-traded fund is an exchange-traded fund (ETF), traded on a public stock market, which is designed to perform as the inverse of whatever index or benchmark it is designed to track. These funds work by using short selling, trading derivatives such as futures contracts, and other leveraged investment techniques. By providing, over short…

  • Great Bear of Wall Street – Jesse Livermore

    Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877 – 1940) was known as the “Great Bear of Wall Street”. He made and lost several fortunes in the stock market using a system he began to develop at age fourteen when he held an entry-level position at a brokerage in Boston. He analysed price and volume data and became expert…