Archive for May, 2007

Carnival of Long Term Investing #5

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Greetings! Welcome to the 5th edition of the Carnival of Long Term Investing. We have received 11 entries for this edition. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

Cade Krueger presents Find People Who Are Looking To Help Financially posted at Make Money Business Opportunity @ Write To Right. So many entrepreneurs look to raise money to start a business. You want to find LLC Investors that will save your business. There are a couple avenues to take a look at as far as finding an angel investor, a large investing company, or a business loan of some kind through a bank.

FIRE Finance presents Firstrade Lowers Options Pricing & Receives #1 Ranking! posted at FIRE Finance. This lowering in option commissions clearly puts Firstrade at the forefront of low cost online brokers. Combined with the recent release of Complex Options Trading Platform makes Firstrade a super destination for options investors and traders.

Abdulrasool Sumar presents Differentiate Between Good Debt and Bad Debt posted at Debt Consolidation. "When you buy something that goes down in value immediately, that’s bad debt." He adds, "If it has no potential to increase in value, that’s bad debt." For example, buying a 21′ inch monitor for your computer for $1000 and putting it on your credit card is a form of bad debt.

Israeli Speculator presents How Much Can You Stand To Lose On a Given Day? Part I posted at Israeli Speculator. Hope you enjoy the article.

The Smart Trader presents Basic Money Management for Your Trading Portfolio posted at Smart Trading For Profits. A key part of becoming a successful trader is the knowledge of money management. Without a proper understanding of Money Management is and is not, a trader can have the best trading systems and still blow their account out of the water.

Tyler presents All Drugged Up posted at Dividend Money. Trying to tackle the law-suit machine that is the pharma industry is a daunting task for many investors, myself included. However, with our aging population, a prudent investor simply can’t ignore the upside potential that these companies have going forward.

Adventures in Money Making presents Kiyosaki’s Words of Wisdom posted at Adventures in Money Making. The real estate boom is over, but there’s always a bull market somewhere.

Joe Caterisano presents High Yield Investing - Hourly Updated News On High Yield Investing posted at Your Investing Guide. For openers, stock investors seem to have their own special language and it’s hard to understand what all those mysterious terms mean.

Charles H. Green presents Insurance Fraud, Short-Selling and Why You Can’t Trust Stock Analysts posted at Trust Matters. The few short-sellers on Wall-Street are often reviled, harassed, even sued — but a vibrant community of short-sellers would have seen Enron coming.

Babak presents Is the REIT Bull Run Over? posted at Trader’s Narrative. Don’t count out the REITs just yet.

George Courtney jr presents The Universal Law of Vision posted at The Authentic Bartender Blog. To find local planners, consumers should ask friends, family and colleagues if they can recommend someone they trust.

That concludes the 5th edition of the Carnival of Long Term Investing. Keep submitting your posts to the future editions of this carnival. Don’t forget to promote this carnival on your blogs.

Carnival of Long Term Investing #4

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Greetings! Welcome to the fourth edition of the Carnival of Long Term Investing. We have received 8 posts that are related to money and investing. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Michael Fowke presents Make money while you sleep posted at Money is the way. A rather bizarre way to invest.

WBL presents Profiting From Inflation and Dollar Devaluation posted at Wealth Building Lessons. where to invest in times of inflation and a devaluing dollar.

Steve Faber presents - How to Get Great Information for Investing Success posted at Getting Debt Free. Why should you care, other than the fact it indicates development of sorely needed manufacturing capacity in the U.S.?

Average Joe presents Screening for Quality Dividend Paying Stocks posted at Investment Jungle. Developing a stock screen for selecting quality dividend paying stocks.

Babak presents Want To See A Real Stock Market Bubble? posted at Trader’s Narrative. Rather than fretting whether the current recent rise in the US markets is a ‘bubble’, we needn’t look far to see a real stock market bubble developing. The Chinese market is rising on fumes and will ultimately cause negative repercussions for the US markets.

FIRE Finance presents Firstrade’s Triple Sign-Up Bonus Of 100 FREE Trades! posted at FIRE Finance. If you wish to get five free trades by funding your new firstrade brokerage account with a minimum of $1000 you may request a referral from us. We will be more than happy to provide you with a referral so that you can get started with 5 free trades.

Edithyeung presents 7 Habits of Highly Effective Money Managers posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. Learn more about 7 Habits of Highly Effective Money Managers.

WBL presents Is Gold a Good Investment posted at Wealth Building Lessons. WBL talks about whether its a good time to invest in Gold.

That concludes the fourth edition of the Carnival of Long Term Investing. Keep submitting your posts to the future editions of this carnival. Thank you for your participation.

Carnival of Long Term Investing #3

Monday, May 7th, 2007

www–By Sagar Satapathy

Greetings! The third edition of the Carnival of Long Term Investing has promised some good posts. I am sure that you will find all the 14 posts interesting and useful. The featured posts are listed below.

FIRE Finance presents Firstrade Launches Complex Options Trading Platform posted at FIRE Finance. Options are extremely versatile securities that can be used in many different ways such as generating income, hedging positions, or speculating. Having the ability to enter Spread and Straddle orders online greatly increases an investor’s flexibility while reducing cost.

Tracy Coenen presents Today’s earnings call for Overstock (OSTK) posted at FRAUDfiles. Sam Antar raises some really good questions about Overstock’s third and fourth quarters of 2006, and in particular, questions about inventories and gross margins.

Tushar Mathur presents US Treasury Savings Bonds posted at Life of a Resident Alien…. Residents of the United States and its territories (as well as U.S. citizens living abroad) can buy savings bonds. Canadian and Mexican residents who work in the United States, have social security numbers and who can participate in the Payroll Savings Plan through work also can buy savings bonds.

Katie presents 3 Steps Toward Solid Financial Freedom Planning posted at Aridni. The path toward financial freedom requires some pretty heavy planning.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Investor, Know Thyself! posted at The Digerati Life. The first thing about learning how to invest is to know what kind of investor profile you have. In so doing, you will determine how best to asset allocate your savings among various asset classes. Not knowing what kind of profile you have or what you are investing in may cost you financially.

Bill presents Taking Away The PunchBowl–Why The Stock Market Could Go Down "Big Time" posted at Ask Uncle Bill. True enough but the market is a discounter of future events. The market deals with events before they happen.

The Skilled Investor presents Can you really get free and objective investment advice, when you pay investment sales loads? (Part 1 of 2) posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog. Excessive investment expenses are one of the most significant barriers to lifelong family financial security. While financial services industry sales people tell you that you need to pay more to get more, the correct answer is the opposite. If you pay less, you are likely to get more.

Average Joe presents Screening for Rule #1 Businesses posted at Investment Jungle. You calculate the PEG ratio by dividing a stock’s price/earnings ratio by its growth rate. The book suggests that you use the forward P/E ratio and the expected earnings growth.

Darius presents How much worse can housing get? posted at Related to Mortgage. The slow drift downward in long-term rates stopped this week, the 10-year T-note at 4.69 percent, mortgages settling just above 6.25 percent.

Jacqueline Lloyd presents Can Gold And Uranium Survive The Pullback? posted at Precious Metal Investment. For centuries economic booms have been followed by a corresponding downturn, the higher the peaks, the lower the troughs, the longer the up cycle the longer the down cycle.

Chris B. presents How 3% Can Make a 2 Million Dollar Difference in Your Portfolio posted at Project Stocks. Index funds have been the craze for investors in recent years. Studies have shown that the majority of active fund managers do not beat the market, so investors have gone to lower fee index funds.

Vause presents Mutual Funds posted at Active Duty Military Money and Matters. What are mutual funds and what do you look for?

Babak presents Jeremy Grantham: World?s a Bubble Except for Trees posted at Trader’s Narrative. Very few know that timber is the best performing asset class for the past 30 years. Maybe the venerable value investor, Jeremy Grantham, (investment manager for both Kerry and Cheney!) will be proven right again.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Trading psychology and Trader Performance posted at Brain Fitness. How do traders learn how to make good decisions under pressure?

That concludes the 3rd edition of the Carnival of Long Term Investing. Thank for your continued support and contribution. Feel free to submit your posts to the future editions of this carnival.

Carnival of Economics and Global Trade #4

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

–By Sagar Satapathy

Greetings! Welcome to the 4th edition of the Carnival of Economics and Global Trade. We have received a good number of posts for this week’s carnival out of which 12 posts finally made the cut. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

David presents UK & Ireland Linen Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Hire (short list) posted at The Alexander Report. UK and Ireland List of Linen Traders and Wholesalers.

Reb Chaim HaQoton presents Wisdom in Money posted at Reb HaQoton. Monetary laws require the most amount of mental agility, for in other situations of halacha, such as the disqualifying blemishes on a ritual sacrifices, previous rulings which are similar to a situation at hand bear no relevance to the situation at hand, and one cannot use such an established precedent.

Murad Ali presents 5 Steps to Preventing Workplace Violence posted at The New Business World. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 95% of the 7.1 million U.S. employers reported at least one act of some type of workplace violence in 2006. These acts may include anything from assault, armed robbery to even homicide.

Donald Latumahina presents 5 Practical Steps to Start Learning Finance and Business posted at Personal Growth and Effectiveness at Life Optimizer. Starting with personal finance is a good way to learn finance and business. It is from personal finance that you get the most applicable ideas for your life. Isn’t it ironic if you know a lot about finance and business but have your own personal finance in a mess?

Michael Cook presents What are Mortgage REITs posted at Suite101: Mortgages/Loans articles. Mortgage REITs have proven to be great investments, but have hit a bumpy road today. With the subprime lending fallout, many investors wonder where they are headed next.

Bryan Moore presents The Turkish Lira Carry Trade: High Interest Rate, Stable Currency posted at TheFinancialWhiz.Com. For the past few years, probably the most popular currency trading strategy is that known as the Carry Trade. Traders feel they are acting as banks, keeping the interest rate differentials by paying out lower interest rates (Borrowing) and bringing in money through higher interest rates (Lending).

David presents Children?s Clothing Trade Shows posted at The Alexander Report. List of children’s Tradeshows for Retailers, Wholesalers and Designers.

Abdulla Yasir presents Is the US dollar still relevant? posted at Abdulla Yasir’s Blog. Another issue is the question as to how relevant is US dollar for todays’ Maldives tourism? Americans visiting Maldives for tourism are less than a percentage while the biggest source market is Europe.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents 5 Ways To Survive A Volatile Stock Market » Silicon Valley Blog About Money posted at The Digerati Life. With all the tossing and tumbling the stock market is doing these days, we’re becoming more vigilant, and more excited. At home, we’ve been having more debates about what should we be doing as things appear more and more uncertain in the various financial markets.

Murad Ali presents Avoid the Middle Class Decline posted at The New Business World. The middle class is slowly deteriorating into either the “haves” or the “have nots”. That means a two-tiered system is just over the horizon.

CA presents The Atlantic Gateway Challenge for Atlantic Canada posted at Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog. Will the Atlantic Gateway Initiative succeed?

Darius presents How much worse can housing get? posted at Related to Mortgage. Once again, good economic news dampened recession hopes in the bond market: orders for durable goods were very strong in March, up 3.4 percent, double the forecast, and February’s orders were revised up half-again the initial report.

That concludes the fourth edition of the Carnival of Economics and Global Trade. Thank you for participation. Keep submitting your posts to the future editions of this carnival.