A Remedial Course in InvestingFor those of us who have participated in the investment arena for more than just the past couple of years, 2000 will likely go down as "not unprecedented and long overdue." For the investors who have come to the party more recently, it was a brutal, eye-opening, and sobering experience. Buying every dip didn't work. Dot-com IPOs didn't work. This year was truly a coming-of-age experience for millions of "adolescent" investors. [More] | Good Stock Market Tip; Good Return!So, to beat the ‘risk of no guarantees', and to reap the benefits of a better return, I diversify into other companies with the same historical performance. Through a systematic approach of dollar-cost averaging into my stock positions every quarter, along with my quarterly dividend reinvestment, I increase the amount of dividends paid to me each quarter, from every company that I own. My measurement for success in the stock market is not measured by the amount my portfolio is worth. It is measured by the amount of ever-increasing cash dividends received from every stock that I own. As a matter of fact, when my portfolio dips in net-worth, my dividend income accelerates. The reason for this is simple. The lower my port- folio's net-worth, the higher the dividend yields of the stocks in my portfolio. [More] | Which IRA Is Best For You?There are special techniques and strategies in creating and managing ANY IRA that create some huge benefits for the right person under the right circumstances. If you've ever been successful investing in things other than stocks and bonds, you've probably wished that these investments could be included in your IRA, 401(k) or other tax-deferred retirement plans. [More] |
EVEP - EV Energy Partners, L.P. IPO Opens for Trading
EVEP - EV Energy Partners, L.P. priced today (09/27/06) at $20 (middle of its initial $19-21 range) and opened at $20.10. Its shares closed at $19.75, down $0.21 (-1.05%). EV Energy Partners is a natural gas and oil production company which operates gas wells in the Appalachian Basin.
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5 Tips for Savvy Use of Your Home Equity Line of Credit
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Tapping your home's equity to pay college expenses, consolidate credit card debt or even to buy a new car or boat is common place. Many economists attribute the additional buying.
On a New High and an Old Price
One of the comments to my previous post, The Human Index, prompted this post.
As the Dow flirts with a new high (.
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