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WEAPONS THAT HEDGE FUND MANAGERS USE posted on January 6, 2010 - 4:34pm
Some time ago, I did a post about hedge funds and why they are so attractive to the aggressive and conservative investor alike I happened to mention that there are some tricks that they use that most other investors cannot do because of the risk involved, equipment and expertise required or because they are just not [...]
THE SIMPLICITY OF INDEX FUND INVESTING posted on January 4, 2010 - 3:34pm
I wrote about index funds some time back and since then I have come across more information about then so I thought that instead of re-editing the former one. I should just make another index fund post. Basically the index fund is a passive investment where the money that you as an investor puts in is [...]
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TAX AVOIDANCE AND TAX EVASION posted on December 15, 2009 - 11:06am
We have all heard of those stories about high fliers, CEOs and movie stars facing a very long time in prison because of failing to pay their taxes. Most of the time, it is normally tax evasion but there is a legal way of paying less taxes and it is called tax avoidance. This post [...]
HOW A BEGINNER ANALYSES A STOCK posted on December 14, 2009 - 8:20am
The previous post was about the types of stock analysis and I briefly explained the difference between fundamental and technical stock analysis. Knowing this, let’s look at how to analyze a stock before buying it. The first thing that you have to consider is what type of analysis you will base your investments on; technical or [...]
TIME TO RE CHECK YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO?? posted on December 12, 2009 - 10:50am
In the financial papers many a finance guru are advising people to move from bonds and into dividend paying income stock but the intelligent investor from the wall street journal has other thoughts. He says that income from bonds to stocks isn’t as interchangeable in  real life as it seems on paper because at a certain [...]
TYPES OF STOCK ANALYSIS posted on December 11, 2009 - 9:00am
We all know that when we want to go buy anything, be it groceries, clothing, cars and so on, there are procedures that are always followed like looking for the best quality at the right price from certain producers or manufacturers etc. It is just basic logic that before buying stocks, a similar pre-buy procedure must [...]
SELF HOSTED BLOGGING HERE I COME- UPDATED posted on December 7, 2009 - 3:40pm
This is the deal so far…. i have got a webhost that has all the necessities a self hosted wordpress blog needs and the prices are good but with the paperchase involved it will take sometime before the domain is registered and made active. Also i have been trying without success to redirect my incoming links [...]
SORRY FOR NOT POSTING CONSISTENTLY posted on December 1, 2009 - 8:32am
This post is to apologize for my inconsistent posting in the past week. This is because i am overhauling the blog like looking for a domain host and better templates which will suite the financial talk better. This is proving to be more hectic than i thought seeing that i am in a strange country. Regular posting [...]
STOCK OPTIONS; USES AND MISUSES posted on November 24, 2009 - 12:22pm
Yesterday, I did a post on stock options where I briefly explained what they are and how they are used. I also wanted to include their uses and misuses but I decided not to because it was getting too long (I don’t like monstrosities of posts). So in this post, I do just that. An advantage [...]
UNDERSTANDING THE STOCK OPTION posted on November 23, 2009 - 9:58am
Most of us have heard of this provision but how many know what it really is? If you don’t know, this post may enlighten you. This is a provision that gives the holder/buyer of the stock option the right to buy or sell the stock of a company he works in at a specified price or [...]