Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Earn Online In Genuine Way
Let's Grow Together-Free Signup
Hello , | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If you have received this mail from a unknown source and want to unsubscribe due to personal reasons, please click below link as we also have 0% tolerance for SPAM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To unsubscribe and no longer receive emails from viewbestads.com, click here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If you received this email in Spam then Click Here |
Monday, September 26, 2011
A Trading Strategy That Consistently Beats All Major Indexes
Do You Hate Research? . . . I do!
I have always wanted to find an investment strategy that made sense. An investment strategy in which I do not need to know the intricacies of the market, predict market trends or follow specific stocks. How can I get the inside information of what is hot before the rest of the market knows? I can't. Nor do I need to.
Plus, I don't have that kind of time to commit to in-depth research. Like you, I have a regular job that I need to devote my time to. I am not a day trader; nor do I want to spend all of my free time on the computer doing research. Always following the stock market and getting stock quotes is not how I want to spend my free time.
I Avoid Individual Stocks . . . they are too unreliable!
Everybody wants to buy low and sell high. While millions of people do make money this way (and many millions loose money), I have found an easier and more effective way to use the market to my advantage. I do not trade in stocks. I do what I can to avoid individual stocks. And I consistently beat the market . . . month after month after month.
If not stocks, what's the alternative?
Like many people, I got heavily involved in the stock market in the mid to late Nineties. Tech stocks were going through the roof and I, like everybody else, wanted a part of the action. It seemed an easy way to make money. Everybody was getting rich. You did not need a special investment strategy to beat the market.
During this time, I engrossed myself in the financial markets. I wanted to learn as much as I could without giving up my day job. I was trying to find the next best tech stock, IPOs and the occasional pre-IPO offering. But it was not until I discovered options trading that I discovered an investment strategy (The Yager Trading Strategy) that can work in any kind of market . . . Bull, Bear or stagnant.
That's right...OPTION trading!
And I am not talking about stock options or writing covered calls. Options trading...I started selling options on S&P futures, using different methods and trading strategies. And I did well. VERY well.
Between July 1998 and January 2000 (a span of 18 months), from my option trading system, I turned an initial $25,000 investment into $167,615. That's over 670% increase. And this was not paper money where you buy a stock and it has a certain listed value. This was real, taxed income. Profits collected on a monthly basis.
Market fluctuations and volatility have diminished greatly since then...reducing the premiums. Those types of returns are no longer available, but the option trading strategy is still very sound. I still consistently beat the market. Even the years the DJIA, Nasdaq and S&P were all down, I posted more than a 22% gain.
Learn the option trading strategy or see how to make money with this strategy. I describe the strategy and show actual recent trades on YagerInvesting. The information is FREE. No subscription required. This is a method for risk capital only.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Investing in Stock Options - What You Need to Know About Options
Basic Terms:
Call Options- these give the owner the right to buy a stock at a specified price, within a specified amount of time. Investors who buy call options are hoping that the stock value increases before the option expiration date.
Put Options- these give the owner the right to sell a stock at a specified price, within a specified amount of time. Investors who buy put options are hoping that the stock value decreases before the option expiration date.
Strike Price- the price that the option can be bought or sold at.
Options Investor Types: Buyers of Call Options, Sellers of Call Options, Buyers of Put Options, Sellers of Put Options
There is an important difference between the investors who buy and investors who sell options. Investors who buy puts and calls have the choice to exercise their option contracts. Investors who sell puts or calls have the obligation to exercise their options contracts.
The price of a stock option must go above the strike price for investors to exercise and make a profit on call options and the price must go below the strike price for investors to make a profit on put options. When options fall into these ranges, they are called "in the money".
Options can be used for a wide range of trading scenarios, such as:
-Reducing your risk from stock ownership
-Generating an income from stock you already hold
-Speculative trading in an up or down market
-Multi leg option strategies to take advantage of specific market action
-Volatility based strategies to take advantage of market volatility even if you do not know which way the market will go.
While is it true that options take some time to understand and to master, most people agree that once they have spent the time to properly educate themselves about options, that they are much better off for doing so.
Many stock traders I know, once learning about options have never traded a single stock again. They can make more money, and take less risk by using a properly structured option strategy.
So if anyone is still on the fence, it's definitely worth taking the time to learn about options.
Active Fund Investment Management – Do You REALLY Know the Costs?
Investing for your future
The reason I say very important is that in our experience some investors have either limited knowledge on the subject or a lack of access to enough information to help with their decision making.
When dealing with clients' money, we are very clear about the way in which we recommend they invest. This is based on a concept known as Modern Portfolio Theory, which uses passive not active funds.
NOTE: Passive funds do not employ the services of a fund manager, whereas active funds do.
Our clients are then rewarded by accepting the market return based on the risk they wish to take at a lower cost than many actively managed funds.
When meeting new clients they are often not aware of the historical failure (in terms of consistent performance) of many actively managed funds and the associated high costs.
As costs are the one thing we can control, we would normally illustrate these costs and how they eat into the real return they could expect.
Let's look a little further at these costs.
Ignoring trading costs for now (which is a cost based on how many shares the fund manager buys and sells in a year), below is an example of fixed costs of both passive and active funds.
James has existing investments made up of existing PEPs/ISAs/Unit Trusts totalling £100,000.
The advertise costs would typically be:
• Existing active annual management charge – 1.5%
• Equivalent passive annual management charge – 0.9%
What we can deduct from this is that the active manager has to grow his fund by 0.6% per annum to equal the passive fund.
However, what is missing here and what fund management companies have to show (introduced recently), are the costs to trade the shares that are incurred in any one year.
Example
The average actively managed fund trades 75% of its holdings every year, and the average passive fund trades 15%.
Taking into account the annual fixed charges above, the effect of this takes the typical charges to:
• Existing active annual total charges – 2.85%
• Equivalent passive total charges – 1.17%
This is a massive 1.68% difference!
Other Considerations
We need also to bear in mind that a lot of funds trade more than this. For example, it is not uncommon for some funds to trade 100-300% rather than the 75% average.
This takes the costs to something like 3.3% - 6.9% per annum! (some 2.1% to 5.7% above the costs of a passive fund).
Exceptions
There are exceptions to the debate though.
There are a number of actively managed funds that have delivered consistent returns over the long term. Examples are Fidelity Special Situations run by Anthony Bolton and Neil Woodford who runs the Invesco Perpetual Income and High Income funds.
However, we cannot be sure that these funds will continue to prosper in the way they have, but we can be sure they will carry the extra expenses highlighted above.
The Financial Tips Bottom Line
Actively managed funds can be expensive, especially when you take ALL costs into account. As we can see, if a fund has a high 'trading percentage' the overall costs increase significantly.
If you use active funds make sure you request this information from your fund manager(s) and review your portfolio.
Recommended Reading
There is an excellent (readable) book that has recently been released on how to invest your money. "Smarter Investing" by Tim Hale, paperback, is available at amazon for £10.99.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Learn The Basics Of Stock Day Trading
Stock Day trading simply means that a stock transaction is completed during market hours. This means that no positions are held overnight. Some traders consider not holding stock overnight to be less risky.
So what are some of the criteria that day traders might look for in the stock? Right off the bat I'd say that they'd look for a certain amount of volatility and also a certain amount of liquidity.
Day traders typically look for stocks that fit into a number of criteria, that criteria might include stocks, which move a certain amount or have a certain amount of volatility throughout the day as well as stocks that are highly liquid allowing daytrader to get in and out of a transaction with ease.
The SEC cautions traders who were interested in Stock Day trading. I completely agree that we should all exercise caution no matter what type trading we are doing. Fortunately there are numerous things that can be done to minimize your risk and maximize your profits in day trading.
Successful day trading is not about flying by the seat of your pants or throwing a bunch of things up against the wall to see what sticks. Successful day trading, like most successful trading is about discipline. Having the discipline to stick to your rules and pull the trigger when necessary and control your risks at all times are essentials to successful day trading.
In day trading, as with any trading, one should only risk capital that one can afford to lose... In other words, day trading with the mortgage payment money is completely out of the question.
Take your time when getting involved in the exciting and profitable world of day trading. Remember that even thought day trading may be short-term in nature, your overall objective should be to profit and prosper over the long haul.
Why People Lose Money In The Stock Market
Obviously, everyone wants to be on the winning side. But unfortunately, most people lose their hard earned money when investing in the stock market. There are many reasons why these people lose money. Here are some of the more common reasons:
1) Following the crowd - Some investors just follow blindly because they are unsure of what to do. So they buy stocks based on half-truths and rumors and end up losing a lot of money.
2) Making investments based on emotions - This is a big mistake. Some investors simply do not know when to cut their losses. They let their emotions get the better of them. As a result, they pour more money into the stock market when they should have cut losses and moved on. This is tantamount to gambling, and should be avoided at all cost.
3) Incomplete due diligence - Some investors are just plain lazy. Even with detailed prospectus and documentation lying in front of them, they just refuse to pick them up and digest the information. The outcome is predictable.
4) Lack of trading knowledge - Some investors want to make money, but they want to make fast money. So they take short cuts and refuse to improve on their trading knowledge. Instead, they depend more on hearsay and their luck when it comes to investing.
The sophisticated investor knows how to make money regardless of whether it's a bear or a bull market. Most investors just know how to make money during the bull market. For example, a trader can short sell during a bear market. Short selling is a blanket term used to describe trades that allow the investor to gain while the prices are falling.
Making money from the stock market is not impossible. Many people have done it, and they continue to do it to this day. Some even make a full income trading on the stock market. But from the reasons cited above, you see that to be a successful trader, you need these four qualities:
1) Discernment - Never follow the crowd blindly or believe rumors without investigating.
2) Sound investment philosophy - This is important because your decisions should always be based on your investment philosophy, and not your emotions.
3) Hard work - Complete your due diligence. No one else will work harder than you as it's your own money you are investing.
4) Investment knowledge - You don't have to be a guru but you do need adequate investment knowledge to know what are the investment tools that you can make use of.
Finally, if you have to learn, make small trades but always practice with real money. With real money, you feel the pinch when you lose, and you tend to learn the lessons faster. Learn quick, be savvy, and in time to come, you will profit handsomely from your past investment mistakes.
Why People Lose Money In The Stock Market
Obviously, everyone wants to be on the winning side. But unfortunately, most people lose their hard earned money when investing in the stock market. There are many reasons why these people lose money. Here are some of the more common reasons:
1) Following the crowd - Some investors just follow blindly because they are unsure of what to do. So they buy stocks based on half-truths and rumors and end up losing a lot of money.
2) Making investments based on emotions - This is a big mistake. Some investors simply do not know when to cut their losses. They let their emotions get the better of them. As a result, they pour more money into the stock market when they should have cut losses and moved on. This is tantamount to gambling, and should be avoided at all cost.
3) Incomplete due diligence - Some investors are just plain lazy. Even with detailed prospectus and documentation lying in front of them, they just refuse to pick them up and digest the information. The outcome is predictable.
4) Lack of trading knowledge - Some investors want to make money, but they want to make fast money. So they take short cuts and refuse to improve on their trading knowledge. Instead, they depend more on hearsay and their luck when it comes to investing.
The sophisticated investor knows how to make money regardless of whether it's a bear or a bull market. Most investors just know how to make money during the bull market. For example, a trader can short sell during a bear market. Short selling is a blanket term used to describe trades that allow the investor to gain while the prices are falling.
Making money from the stock market is not impossible. Many people have done it, and they continue to do it to this day. Some even make a full income trading on the stock market. But from the reasons cited above, you see that to be a successful trader, you need these four qualities:
1) Discernment - Never follow the crowd blindly or believe rumors without investigating.
2) Sound investment philosophy - This is important because your decisions should always be based on your investment philosophy, and not your emotions.
3) Hard work - Complete your due diligence. No one else will work harder than you as it's your own money you are investing.
4) Investment knowledge - You don't have to be a guru but you do need adequate investment knowledge to know what are the investment tools that you can make use of.
Finally, if you have to learn, make small trades but always practice with real money. With real money, you feel the pinch when you lose, and you tend to learn the lessons faster. Learn quick, be savvy, and in time to come, you will profit handsomely from your past investment mistakes.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Benefits of Annuity Investment
There are two main reasons for choosing annuities:
• The guaranteed income stream is important.
• Saving money over the long-term.
These two reasons are why many investors chose annuities to fund their retirements. Some investors also chose annuities to meet other long-term investment goals, such as funding educational costs for their dependents.
Annuities offer earnings that are tax-deferred. Another advantage when compared to other investment vehicles is that annuities do not have contribution or income limits. Additionally, investment swaps, within the annuity's contract, can be made without incurring tax penalties. The insurance component of an annuity offers a premium to investors if they outlive their life expectancy.
To understand the benefits of annuity investments in more detail, it is important to understand the difference between the main types of annuities. There are three fundamental different annuity types: fixed, variable, and indexed annuities.
Fixed annuities have an interest rate that starts out as a fixed percentage. The rate can vary over time. However, the way in which the rate is change is stipulated in the initial contract. Fixed annuities also guarantee investors a certain minimum rate of interest for the annuity's contract period. With a variable annuity, the investor uses their contributions to invest in mutual funds. The annuities payouts are then based on the mutual funds' performance.
The final and newest type of annuity is an indexed annuity. These investments are designed to mirror the performance of a financial index, such as the S&P 500. Investors can chose how closely their annuity follows the index's performance, by selecting a participation rate for the annuity.
Fixed annuities are considered a low-risk investment because of the fixed interest rate component of the investment. Fixed annuity investors benefit if interest rates fall, but not if they rise. Variable annuities do not offer a guarantee as with fixed annuities. However, investors in variable annuities have the ability to choose how to allocate their money amongst different mutual funds.
Finally, indexed annuities allow investors to track the performance of a financial index. The annuity will usually track the index in a bull market; however, the issuers of the annuity also guarantee a minimum annual interest rate to avoid losses when the index is in a downturn.
In summary, annuities can offer many benefits to the individual investor to meet their long-term investment needs, such as retirement planning. The basic insurance feature embedded into annuities offers a measure of protection for investors against market downturns. Returns can also grow in a tax-sheltered environment until the money is withdrawn. The three basic different types of annuities offer slightly different benefits depending on what is required and what the risk level is of the individual annuity investor.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Why Friendship and what is need of friendship
Why Friendship and what is need of friendship
Why we need friendships when we have a lovely life in this world.
Why we need friends in our life.
Well friends, this is a tedious question to answer. Lets see each questions.
Why we need friendships?
Friendships are the gift to the man kind. The relation which we get in this world are blood related. But the only relationships which doesnot related to blood is friendship. Friendship has many forms and shapes. It is like water. If we pour the water into a jug it takes the shape of jug. if you pour the same water into a bowl it takes the shape o bowl. Sameway friendships will take a different shapes and sizes according to our heart. Friendship gives pleasure to human beings. Where there is friendship then there will not be any sorrow. When you see a child laughing you will forget your sorrows for a second, sameway when you are with a friend you forget your sorrows.
Friendships crosses boundries
The world is rotating smoothly because of the friendly hearts in the world. it crosses boundries and share a mutual bonding of love. Friendships will take care of this entire world from problems. If we are friends then our countries will, when our countries are friends then there is not need of weapons. So take weapon named friendship and love and conqure the world with love.
Friendships saves life
Trusted true friendships never makes others down. it helps a lot to make friends to comeup from the situation. Friendships never expect anything in return for all its offering. It saves life without looking into situation.
Lets get friendship and lets be friends.
Why we need friends & friendships?
Friends comes with friendships, They are the channel of love and affection. Friends are like child's heart which doesn't know wrong thinkings. When there is a friend with us we feel secure, happy, huge support, and comfortable which you can't get from others.
So Lets get some real friends in this world. and lets Be Friends.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
August Economic Data Defies Double-Dip Consensus - Wall Street
Did the failed strike by Verizon employees help contribute to a massive outburst of economic pessimism? The nice, round, pathetic "0″ of net payroll job creation in last Friday's August jobs report added fuel to the argument that the U.S. is headed for another recession — if it's not in one already.
But the jobs report, while awful, wasn't quite as pathetic as it seemed. The 45,000 Verizon workers who went out on strike in early August were counted as job losses, even though they came back on the job in late August. Factoring them in, the private sector created 62,000 jobs in August, not 17,000. That's still terrible, but it does not, in and of itself, suggest an imminent return to recession. You can have economic expansion without jobs growth, but it's extremely rare to have private sector jobs growth without economic expansion.*
But surely things were so awful in August—what with the debt ceiling debacle, the S&P downgrade, the Europe-inspired market volatility and the natural disasters — that the economy ground to a halt. It sure felt that way. But, as Henry Blodget and I discuss in the accompanying video, the numbers we have to work with indicate that the economy was growing in July and August, and at a faster rate than it was in the spring
coal scam unearthed in Chhattisgarh, MP
New Delhi: CNN-IBN unravels a Bellary-like coal scam in Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, where Prakash Industries, a heavyweight in the mining and steel sector, forged documents to get coal mines allocated in both the states and diverted nearly 50 per cent of coal to the black market.
For the Reddy brother's in Karnataka, the modus operandi was simple - extract more than stipulated iron ore from the mines in Bellary and sell them off in the black market. Now, Prakash Industries has indulged into a similar scam in Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
Prakash Industries Limited, the company under the scanner, is owned by Ved Prakash Agarwal, brother of jai Prakash Agarwal who runs a BJP-backed NGO Surya Foundation.
An ongoing investigation by CBI shows that Prakash Industries, a heavyweight in the mining and steel sector, was allotted coal blocks in Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh in connivance with officials from Coal and Steel ministries after submitting forged and fabricated documents
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Investing in Cyclical Stocks
What are cyclical stocks?
The building blocks of stock market are individual stocks so cyclical nature of stock market is inherently generated from cyclical movements of individual stocks. So what is a cyclical stock? In simple words, stocks which follow the economic cycle i.e. grows in price rapidly with expanding economy and falls with the same speed when economy is contracting are called cyclical stocks.
Let's add one more angle to this generic definition as we all aim to extract some more drops of gains out of our investment. We define one more dimension for cyclic behaviour based on demand generated for a particular type of goods or service in a particular month of financial year.
Few examples of above proposition is increased sales figure of auto companies at the time of Diwali, decreased sales figure of cement stocks in rainy months etc. Year on year we witness the same behaviour for few sectors of the economy which should prompt us to act.
Rationale for investing in cyclical stocks
An investor may argue, as he is a long term investor so why should he bother about cyclical stocks. Economy is growing so he should be immune to short term movements. True, but the rationale behind investing in cyclical stocks is extracting some extra benefit out of same investment.
Let's take an example to analyze it better. Say, I am a long term investor and I have an investment in anAuto stock. It's a good company with bright future. I bought this stock at the beginning of the year. As we are now aware that if the economic situation remains positive this company will showcase bright sales figure round Diwali. In anticipation of this enhanced earning, the stock price will start to peak round September because of demand pull. If you are a believer of cyclical philosophy you should sell this stock at this point of time and re-enter the stock round November as all the good news is priced in and profitbooking will depreciate the stock reasonably.
So following this philosophy you are not only holding the stock but also have squeezed some profit out of it.
The Trick to find cyclical stocks
Even if you don't want to research the whole lot of companies to find there cyclical nature with respect to financial year, you can at least analyze the stocks which you are holding in your portfolio. Try to find out what kind of product or services they offer and in which part of the financial year, demand for those products is high/low.
Conclusion
We should focus on financial year cyclical movements as it provides an opportunity to generate profit. Having said that, one should not ignore the implication of short term capital gain tax on such investment decisions.