I often play a little game with myself when I have to go shopping; to the post office or on other errands.

Sometimes I will just go about my business and make little comment or eye contact with the person serving me. Other times I will smil (read entire article)
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At this time of year, you need to be aware of the ex-dividend date of any mutual funds you plan on purchasing. If you heed this advice, you avoid some nasty tax and investment performance consequences.

To explain why, let me first define “e (read entire article)
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What a great statement!

I just heard someone use it in the context of personal and financial success and it struck me as a brilliant summary of an issue we raise in the SMG Tutorials.

Fear is a huge issue with a lot of traders. And in (read entire article)
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For weeks, no, months we have been bombarded with nothing but negative news about the economy in general and thousands of individual companies. The stock market has dropped thousands of points and more than $8 trillion in paper assets have disappe (read entire article)
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For better or worse, I watch the Antiques Roadshow religiously. While I love to see the appraisers enlighten someone’s day with an unexpected evaluation, I also like to watch people’s reactions when they find out the family heirloom wasn’t given (read entire article)
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Have you been listening to the talking heads on CNBC-TV? Or those talk radio stock experts? Getting all those good recommendations on what to buy now. Now?

Those guys keep telling me the market is oversold. It can't go any lower. (But it doe (read entire article)
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Stock trading is the commonly used term to refer to the practice of selling or buying equities or stocks or shares in corporate companies in stock exchanges or bourse operating venues.

Through the practice, investors can place money or inves (read entire article)
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Financial markets provide their participants with the most favorable conditions for purchase/sale of financial instruments they have inside. Their major functions are: guaranteeing liquidity, forming assets prices within establishing propositi (read entire article)
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Be very diligent around the open. Trades accumulate before the bell and once the market opens the market makers get to work on this stack of orders. Traders often do not know the quanity of orders out there waiting and whether or not they are buys (read entire article)
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I was watching Suze Orman with my wife today. A woman called in who is trying to reestablish credit after a prior bankruptcy. She told Suze that she had gone to a “restore your credit� seminar where the speaker taught the audience to get two sec (read entire article)
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