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Stock Investing For Dummies: A Wickedly Effective, Simple Plan For Profits

by on January 24, 2013 in investing for dummies

Stock Investing For Dummies:  A Wickedly Effective, Simple Plan For Profits This is how to create a stock investing for dummies trading plan.  It doesn’t require fancy tools or indicators.  Just make sure to have access to a daily price chart.  Your eyes will do the rest. The goal is to create a plan and [...]

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How To Understand The Stock Market In One, Easy Step

by on January 12, 2013 in investing for dummies

The quickest way to understand the stock market is to read.  I believe that reading current publications can provide a “feel” for the prevailing market and provide topics for further study. There are many magazines that deal with personal finance and investing.  Yet most of these periodicals are written from a specific perspective.  To understand [...]

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How To Invest In The Stock Market

by on December 3, 2012 in investing for dummies

There are likely hundreds of ways to invest in the stock market and make money.  Becoming proficient takes time and requires patience. Successful investing is about the constant rhythm of repetitious behaviors that make money.  It takes a bit of study to get started, but it’s well worth the time. New investors often get discouraged.  [...]

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Learn The Stock Market: What Everyone Should Know About Wall Street

by on November 30, 2012 in investing for dummies

There is much to be learned about the stock market by studying its history.  It’s important to know what happened and why.  Maybe most importantly, learning about the stock market will reveal how the history of the market occurred with the movement of the business cycle.  It’s a story of boom and bust, fear and [...]

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How To Make Money In The Stock Market And Increase Your Bank Roll

by on November 6, 2012 in investing for dummies

Everyone wants to know how to make money in the stock market.  I’m going to share with you the philosophy of successful traders.  Then I’ll offer a suggestion or two about what not to do.  The last piece of this article will offer a simple, but highly effective way to make money in the stock [...]

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The Secret To Investing In The Stock Market

by on October 16, 2012 in investing for dummies

The secret to investing in the stock market is recognizing that the lever that moves the market is human emotion.  The forces behind the movement in the market are fear and greed.  In an effort to find an edge, the fancy trading systems and exotic algorithms are trying to exploit these two human emotions. In [...]

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The Stock Market For Dummies: Participating In The Worlds Greatest Auction

by on August 29, 2012 in investing for dummies

When we teach the stock market for dummies course, we try to get everyone to understand that when they buy and sell stocks they are joining in an auction with thousands of other traders. And unlike most auctions that sell antiques, livestock, or farm equipment, the stock market sells fractional ownership in public companies. More [...]

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Commentary: January 10th, 2012

by on January 10, 2012 in Insights From Karen

The market traded flat at the end of the session.  It may signal some short-term weakness. There are layers of resistance on the S&P 500 in close proximity to each other: 1293, 1302, and 1310.  One of those levels may deter price from advancing.  That’s okay.  A brief pause would likely set-up some fresh long [...]

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Commentary: First Week 2012

by on January 4, 2012 in Insights From Karen

Happy New Year. The carefully watched benchmark index, the S&P 500, is looking strong.  The key high of 1269 was exceeded yesterday.  Today’s decline has not touched that level, yet. The next milestone that needs to fall if this rally continues is the 1292 price high made October 27th, 2011.  I think it may happen.  [...]

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Levels To Watch For The Week Beginning December 26th, 2011

by on December 26, 2011 in Insights From Karen

The market is in a bit of holiday mode as we thought may happen.   The major indexes could run out of steam around the first of January 2012.  That is when the major players will be back behind their desks.  Their reaction to this melt-up will be instructive. Here are some important levels to watch.  [...]

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