When you’re investing for your future, the one thing that many ( dare I say most? ) people forget to consider is the effects of inflation. Inflation has an incredibly powerful effect on the value of your money, and if you ignore it, your standard of living will be much, much lower than you [...]
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One of the oldest and simplest financial strategies is to let your money work for you. If you’ve never heard it before, then you may not really follow. Let me try to put it another way. Would you rather put in a hard day of 10 hours work to get paid, or would you rather [...]
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If you have any amount of money, small or large, invested in the stock market right now, then the title of this post will hit home right away. One of the biggest benchmarks , the DOW Jones Industrial Average, is off quite a bit already this year. That means that those who invested money on [...]
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Not too long ago I started investing in a few mutual funds. This was my first venture into the world of non-retirement investing. For awhile though, I’ve been wanting to invest in individual stocks. My aversion to risk has kept me out so far, even with the possibility of high rewards.
So I’ve decided to do [...]
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A question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately is should I pay down my debt or invest my extra money each month? For folks with high interest credit-card debt, the choice is simple - pay off the debt. But here’s the debts that I current have:
Mortgage at 5.55%
Two car loans, each at 5.29%
Credit card [...]
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Anytime you talk about investing money, the topic of "when to sell" always comes up. After all, there are two parts to an investment - buying, and selling to take your earnings. New investors ( like myself ) commonly make one mistake:
They have an itchy trigger finger
The biggest problem that newbies have is that we [...]
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Normally when you buy stocks, you pay a commission fee for each trade. Not so with Zecco. As long as you have at least $2500 invested with them, you get your first 10 trades per month for free. If you’re a trade-a-holic, then you will pay $4.50 after the 10th trade. For most smart investors [...]
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I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a couple mutual funds for awhile. I hadn’t acted on the impulse for a few reasons - risk and retirement. The risk factor will always be there, but I think mutual funds are a safer bet than individual stocks anyday. I suppose I’ve [...]
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