A New Look at Diversifying All the best stock brokers touted loudly from on high to,"Diversify your portfolio." It was a smart concept. Spreading your investments across many levels of risk. This gives you a chance of big gains in high risk tech and medical, while some would be safe with all but guaranteed slow growth. They are salesmen getting paid whether you win or not. You'd have better odds playing basic strategy black jack. For day traders, there was a bubble, many of these investers... Read Full Story
Stock Market Analysis, Investment, Options and Candlesticks and so much more, begins Options University’s 2nd Annual Investor’s Superconference.
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Don’t you just love it! I’m talking about the stock option strategy of capturing premiums. It sounds so much less complicated and more logical. After all, most stocks spend much more time trading within ranges. All a trader needs to do is analyze if the underlying will stay within a defined range and look for a favorable spread between bid and ask. Right? Sounds so easy.
As I am fairly new to trading stock options, I have been spending time (has it become an obsession?) trying to do my... Read Full Story
I mentioned that I would continue to give more insights from my readings “Think and Grow Rich”. I have been feverishly writing down several topics in my writers notebook for future blogs. Now if I can just find the time to write it all down that would be fantastic! The life of a wife, mother and entrepreneur sure is pretty darn hectic. I love reading on the subject of leadership and learning where my personality fits into this world called life. Here are attributes that Napoleon... Read Full Story
How Far Will Your Money Go Today?
My family and I went to the Kidspace Children’s Museum this weekend. It was really a remarkable place. There was a photo that caught my attention and I just had to get a snapshot. How far will your money go these days? Whether we are in a recession or a depression this has been the topic of discussion amongst many of my friends as of late. There are several that believe that we are in a recession and others that believe we are already in a... Read Full Story
Butterflies are indeed beautiful. Some novice stock option traders consider the Butterfly a complex option strategy worthy of sidestepping but many, many use this stock option strategy and its derivative-the Iron Butterfly- on a daily basis.
As we all know, what makes up most successful trading systems-discipline and consistency-is even more important when using complex spreads. What I am referring to is taking the time to analyze profit potential and “punch-out¨ targets before... Read Full Story
Claude Monet ’s impressionist painting, Water Lily Pond , was sold at auction by Christie’s for a record $80 million on June 24. The large-scale impressionist painting is the most expensive work of art ever sold in Europe by Christie’s. Read more. Read Full Story
A Brazilian newspaper that trashed supermodel Karolina Kurkova for being “too fat” has unwittingly set off a media firestorm. Around the world, journalists and bloggers went on a rampage, trashing the thought that anyone in their right mind could call the leggy 5′11″ Kurkova “fat.” Read more. Read Full Story
Billionaire Donald Trump has reaped a massive windfall after selling one of his oceanfront Palm Beach properties for a record $100 million–one of the highest prices ever paid for a single home in the U.S. The 6.3-acre estate was just purchased by an investment firm linked to Dmitry Rybolovlev , a 42-year-old Russian billionaire who runs Uralkali , a fertilizer company. Find out how much Trump bought the property for here. Read Full Story
There’s no denying the U.S. is in a serious recession now. Record oil prices and plunging financial markets are taking its toll–even on the rich. While the wealthy generally don’t discuss money issues openly, people who provide services to them say their clients are feeling the squeeze of today’s uncertain economic climate. Lawyers, art advisers, personal trainers and hairstylists say they’re getting an earful about their clients’ money worries. Read more. Read Full Story
