Build Wealth Slowly

Jack Benson asked:


In days past, stock market information was limited and often buyers depended on stockbrokers to try to get the facts about investments. Today there are a variety of stock investment tools to assist modern investors and maximize the amount of information they can find about potential investments and trading activities.

The widespread use of the Internet puts a wealth of information at your fingertips right away. The Internet has facts about many publicly listed companies in the United States. Certain websites provide free research information, which may be rather general in nature but still useful to beginners. Other companies publish in-depth research reports outlining the activities of listed companies. These detailed reports may only be offered through a subscription, which may be an expensive choice for retail based investors. Based on the quality of the research provided about the company, such detailed reports may wind up costing hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

For simple background facts, stock investors can peruse news articles, analyst reviews and research reports intended to supply fundamental company information. This basic information can come from analyzing previously published financial reports or catching up on current news events regarding the company’s activities. This fundamental research can be a place to start to obtain more information so investors can adequately analyze the data to make educated investment decisions.

Investors can also take advantage of a variety of stock investment tools that offer management or raw data including current stock quotes, index performances or historical price data. Such tools may be purchased from a software company and then installed in computers. These tools assist in gathering, processing and analyzing raw data so the information is more useful to the investor.

For example, an investor can take raw data of the historical closing prices of certain companies and run it through investment software to find out additional information such as the volume of stocks traded on a particular company for a said period of time or the historical price trend of one company compared to an index of other companies. These stock investment tools generate reports that assist investors in developing more effective trading strategies from the raw data they originally had.

Certain stock investment tools purchased from various software companies may cost hundreds of dollars. This type of pricey investment may not be practical for small scale investors looking to make a profit right away. Individual or beginning investors can take advantage of analysis tools on the Internet made available from stock market companies for free to their clients. These tools are also made available for free to online investment clients to help them develop their trading strategies to try to achieve profits.

Efficient stock investment tools, research products and information are readily accessible on the Internet for your convenience. However, it still requires data gathering, interpretation of analysis and careful planning to ensure successful trading. By using some online tools and careful analysis of the data, investors can develop viable trades for long term investment growth.

la mai’ tuya asked:


I’m wondering how well this company will do in the long term. I havent heard many people complain about their service and the number of subscriber continues to grow, which makes me wonder if this is something that will catch on or die trying. Any ideas?

Andrew Charleson asked:


 

Forget about Getting Rich Quick. Getting Rich Slow is better! If you want successful long term Internet Business Income here are 5 Essential Secrets you really need to know.

 

1. Yo! Keep It Real!

Long term financial success online is based on fulfilling a genuine need. You must be providing a value for money product or service and delivering on your marketing promises. You cannot develop long-term success online with the various pyramids, get-rich-quick schemes and Scams that are all over the Internet. Your online business must be grounded in selling something that people genuinely want. As Zig Ziglar Said… you can have everything you want in life if you will just help enough other people get what they want!

 

2. Do It For Yourself!

You must create your own online presence. You really need to have your own web site or blog so you can capture subscribers and your own autoresponder so you can make contact with your leads. I haven’t yet found a system that promised something for nothing that actually worked. Well, not one that worked for me… but of course, it worked just fine for the scamster selling the system!

 

3. Be Committed

You must work at it. It can be 30 minutes a day or 10 hours a week or whatever, but it must be a genuine commitment. If you are not consistent and committed, then when things get tough or you go through a sticky sales patch, you’ll just take a few days off. Before you know it, you aren’t making enough money, but it is not because you haven’t started right… it’s because you’ve given up. Dont!

 

4. Keep keeping on!

You must commit. Internet marketing success doesn’t come quickly, but if you stick with it and work at it consistently, your chances will certainly improve. Momentum build sup slowly on the web, but once you discover what works for you, the long term income can be very very rewarding.

 

5. Educate yourself.

Many entrepreneurs learn through trial and error, which is a great way to get an education but can be very, very expensive if your errors exceed your successes. There are people who’ve learned the hard way what does and doesn’t work in online business and have written books and tutorial programmes to teach you what to do and how to do it. Learn from their mistakes and their triumphs. Spend some money on finding out what you need to know to make your own business work.

 

When you’re in the middle of the latest Internet Scheme, or when you’re caught up in a fabulous enterprise that promises instant wealth with no work and no investment, it’s easy to forget that persistence, effort and commitment are 90% of any successful business whether it’s online or in bricks and mortar! You CAN succeed… many ordinary people are making a great living online… but it takes a little time and effort to ***** the code!

 

 

nottyAngel asked:


Can anyone tell me the investing strategies applied by the world market now…help me to get the answers…

Mansi Gupta asked:


Hedge funds have become a new craze among the investors who are looking for higher net returns and to diversify their investment portfolio. However, before investing one should first have a basic idea of what hedge funds are all about. A hedge fund is characteristically a privately organized joint investment fund, predominantly invested in public traded securities. It is a pool of invested capital, used mainly by wealthy or financially experienced individuals and institutions. Usually, law to just 50 to 100 investors per fund restricts hedge funds. Thus, most hedge funds set very high standards for an individual to be a qualified purchaser. Most often, an investor with a net worth of above one million dollars and an annual income exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is only considered as a qualified customer. Hedge funds are very similar to mutual funds. The difference between the two is of strategies they use. Hedge funds use a set of strategies other than investing long in bonds, equity, mutual funds and money markets. Thus, its strategies can generate positive returns irrespective of the rise and fall in the equity and bond markets.

One way to invest in hedge funds is to invest in a company just before a major merger, as shares go up significantly once the merger occurs. This technique is called ‘Risk Arbitrage’. However one should have a prior knowledge of the merger before buying large amounts of shares in a company, as it is a very high-risk investment strategy since some mergers may not occur at all. Another technique, which one may adopt while investing in hedge funds, is ‘Leverage’. This means using borrowed capital in to own capital for investment. ‘Selling Short’ is also a popular strategy where one invests in apparently undervalued securities, trading commodities and FX contracts, and takes advantage of the difference between current market price and the highest purchase price in events such as mergers.

Even though most hedge funds promise higher net returns, they are accompanied by some limitations. For instance, in case of many hedge funds, there are certain restrictions on one’s right to redeem his shares. Often, there is a lock-in period that can extend to over a year. During this period one cannot redeem his shares. Hence, one should reconsider his options and take into consideration a long-term perspective before investing in hedge funds. Moreover, hedge funds also have a higher failure rate than traditional funds. Many of them fail by the second or third year of operation. It has been estimated that about 5.7% of the existing 8500 hedge funds closed in 2005. Also, because of their non-regulation there are no official hedge funds statistics. Besides, hedge funds are more suited for large businesses because they have a price tag.

However, hedge fund is a very helpful tool for the diversification of one’s investment portfolio. It reduces the overall portfolio risk and volatility, as it is not related with the broad stock market indices. Thus it is a smart choice for those who are willing to take the risk.

MTnews asked:


Daily Market Commentary for October 1, 2008 from Millennium-Traders.Com

Warren Buffet invested $3 Billion in General Electric (NYSE: GE), actually appears as though he initiated his own rescue plan on GE and we saw slight gains on the stock. (read more)

http://www.millennium-traders.com/news/newscommentary.aspx

Economic data released today:

ADP Employment Report:

ADP Sees September U.S. Private Sector Jobs lower by 8,000;

ADP September U.S. Private Sector Jobs expected to fall by 55,000.

Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Index:

U.S. ISM September Inventories Index came in at 43.4 versus August reading at 49.3; U.S. ISM September Production Index came in at 40.8 versus August reading at 52.1; U.S. ISM September New Orders Index came in at 38.8 versus August reading at 48.3; U.S. ISM September Employment Index came in at 41.8 versus August reading at 49.7; U.S. ISM September Prices Index came in at 53.5 versus August reading at 77.0; U.S. ISM September Manufacturing Business Index came in at 43.5 versus August reading at 49.9; U.S. ISM September Manufacturing Business Index expected to come in at 49.5; U.S. ISM September Manufacturing Business Index came in at 43.5.

Construction Spending:

July Construction Spending revised to a drop by 1.4 percent from a drop by 0.6 percent; U.S. Construction Spending unchanged in August as compared to consensus of a drop by 0.5 percent.

At the NYSE closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange, here is how the major world indices and major U.S. stock indices ended the session on the world market as well as the emerging markets including the stock market closing bell price:

DOW (Dow Jones Industrial Average) loss of 19.59 points on the day to end the trading session at 10,831.07

NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) loss of 12.85 points to end the trading session at 7,519.95

National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) loss of 22.48 points to end the trading session at 2,069.40

S&P 500 loss of 3.68 points to end the trading session at 1,161.06

FTSE All-World excluding U.S. gain of 0.08 points to end the trading session at 193.37

FTSE RAFI 1000 gain of 10.86 points to end the trading session at 4,644.67

BEL 20 (BEL20) gain of 44.28 points to end the trading session at 2,716.48

CAC 40 (CAC40) gain of 22.44 points to end the trading session at 4,054.54

FTSE100 (UKX100) gain of 57.14 points to end the trading session at 4,959.59

NIKKEI 225 (NIK/O) triple digit gain of 108.4 points to end the trading session at 11,368.26

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stock market indicators for the day:

Advanced stock prices 1,518; declined stock prices 1,694; unchanged stock prices 61; stock prices hitting new highs 11 and stock prices hitting new lows 197.

NYSE quotes for volatile stocks and market trends, as well as stock quotes, stock prices and stock symbols of Day Trading Stock Picks on the New York Stock Exchange stock market for Day Trading online and active Day Trading for those who are or would like to be Day Trading for a living: Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) stock price shed 0.18 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $65.25, low on the trading session $62.39 with a closing stock price at $63.00; Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR) stock price shed 0.47 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $43.48, low on the trading session $40.69 with a closing stock price at $43.48; Teck Cominco Limited (NYSE: TCK) stock price shed 2.69 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $28.02, low on the trading session $25.81 with a closing stock price at $26.43; Diebold Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) stock price gained 0.23 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $34.52, low on the trading session $32.71 with a closing stock price at $33.34; Pediatrix Medical Group Incorporated (NYSE: PDX) stock price shed 6.27 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $49.00, low on the trading session $44.46 with a closing stock price at $47.65; Hartford Financial Services (NYSE: HIG) stock price shed 2.39 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $40.01, low on the trading session $34.72 with a closing stock price at $38.60; MetLife Incorporated (NYSE: MET) stock price shed 6.14 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $54.22, low on the trading session $46.07 with a closing stock price at $49.85; Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) stock price gained 3.13 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $38.50, low on the trading session $34.22 with a closing stock price at $38.13; Consol Energy Incorporated (NYSE: CNX) stock price shed 4.14 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $44.95, low on the trading session $39.61 with a closing stock price at $41.75.

National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) stock market indicators today:

Advanced stock prices 1,052; declined stock prices 1,840; unchanged stock prices 114; stock prices hitting new highs 7; stock prices hitting new lows 155.

NASDAQ quotes, volatile stocks and market trends, as well as stock quotes, stock prices and stock symbols of Day Trading Stock Picks on the NASDAQ stock market for Day Trading online and active Day Trading for those who are or would like to be Day Trading for a living: Bucyrus International Incorporated (NasdaqGS: BUCY) stock price shed 2.82 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $44.50, low on the trading session $40.58 with a closing stock price at $41.85; Fastenal Company (NasdaqGS: FAST) stock price shed 3.04 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $49.29, low on the trading session $45.06 with a closing stock price at $46.34;  Xyratex Limited (NasdaqGS: XRTX) stock price shed 1.10 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $10.42, low on the trading session $9.90 with a closing stock price at $10.02; Energy Conversion Devices Incorporated (NasdaqGS: ENER) stock price gained 3.60 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $62.89, low on the trading session $56.60 with a closing stock price at $61.85; First Solar Incorporated (NasdaqGS: FSLR) stock price gained 9.59 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $202.93, low on the trading session $188.66 with a closing stock price at $198.50; Google Incorporated (NasdaqGS: GOOG) stock price gained 11.48 points on the trading session, high on the trading session $416.98, low on the trading session $403.10 with a closing stock price at $412.00.

Market trends on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and stock market indicators for today:

Advanced stock prices 517; declined stock prices 661; unchanged stock prices 67; stock prices hitting new highs 8; stock prices hitting new lows 115.

Chicago Board of Trade Futures Market activity for the day, at time of this posting for December 2008 Contracts:

E-mini S&P 500 (ES) end of day price 1,167.50 change -1.50

E-mini NASDAQ-100 (NQ) end of day price 1,577.00, change -27.50

E-mini S&P SmallCap 600 (SMP) end of day price 360.40, change -1.20

$5 DJIA (YM) end of day price 10,874 change 13

World Currencies for the Forex Market, for Forex Trading by active Forex Traders, at time of this posting:

Euro 0.7136 to U.S. Dollars 1.4014

Japanese Yen 105.89 to U.S. Dollars 0.0094

British Pound 0.5647 to U.S. Dollars 1.7707

Canadian Dollar 1.605 to U.S. Dollars 0.9430

Swiss Franc 1.1252 to U.S. Dollars 0.8887

Commodity Markets:

Energy Sector: Light Crude (NYMEX: NYM) shed $2.11 on the day for a closing price of $98.53 a barrel ($US per barrel)

Heating Oil (NYMEX: NYM) shed $0.05 on the day for a closing price of $2.85 a gallon ($US per gallon)

Natural Gas (NYMEX: NYM) gained $0.29 on the day for a closing price of $7.73 per million BTU ($US per mmbtu.)

Unleaded Gas (NYMEX: NYM) shed $0.10 on the day for a closing price of $2.36 a gallon ($US per gallon)

Metals Markets:

Gold Market Price (COMEX: CMX) gained $6.50 on the day for a closing price of $887.30 ($US per Troy ounce)

Silver (COMEX: CMX) gained $0.50 on the day for a closing price of $12.77 ($US per Troy ounce)

Platinum (NYMEX: NYM) gained $14.60 on the day for a closing price of $1,043.10 ($US per Troy ounce)

Copper (COMEX: CMX) shed $0.09 on the day for a closing price of $2.73 ($US per pound)

Livestock and Meat Markets (cents per lb.):

Lean Hogs (Chicago Mercantile Exchange: CME) shed 0.85 on the day for a closing price of 67.73

Pork Bellies (Chicago Mercantile Exchange: CME) shed 1.60 on the day for a closing price of 92.15

Live Cattle (Chicago Mercantile Exchange: CME) gained 0.10 on the day for a closing price of 100.48

Feeder Cattle (Chicago Mercantile Exchange: CME) shed 1.13 on the day for a closing price of 103.60

Other Commodities (cents per bushel):

Corn (Chicago Board of Trade: CBT) shed 3.50 on the day for a closing price of 484.00

Soybeans (Chicago Board of Trade: CBT) gained 8.00 on the day for a closing price of 1,056.00

Bond Market:

2 year bond gained 7/32 on the day for a closing price of 100 9/32 with a Yield of 1.84, Yield Change -0.12

5 year bond gained 14/32 on the day for a closing price of 101 4/32 with a Yield of 2.88, Yield Change -0.08

10 year bond gained 21/32 on the day for a closing price of 102 3/32 with a Yield of 3.74, Yield Change -0.08

30 year bond gained 1 20/32 on the day for a closing price of 104 25/32 with a Yield of 4.21, Yield Change -0.10

Thanks for reading

Millennium-Traders.Com

http://www.millennium-traders.com

Ashley V asked:


Strange but Real

1) Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.

2) 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

3) 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

4) On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

5) Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

6) Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as a medicine.

7) Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

9) There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

10) Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

11) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.

12) The original name for the butterfly was flutterby!

13) By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.

14) Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

15) Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

16) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

17) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

18) Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

19) Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

20) The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

21) To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, ***** your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

22) The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

23) The pound (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

24) The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

25) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

26) The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

27) Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in mt.

28) It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29) In Chinese, the KFC slogan finger lickin’ good comes out as eat your fingers off.

30) A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

31) We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

32) Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

33) Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

34) Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

35) Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

36) When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying yes in Sri Lanka.

37) There are more chickens than people in the world.

38) The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

39) There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

40) The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

41) The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.

42) The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

43) The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

44) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

45) The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

46) Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.

47) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

48) A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

49) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

50) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

51) When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

52) Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

53) A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded

54) I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

55) Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command go hang Yourself.

56) Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

57) Bookkeeper is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

58) Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.

59) The sentence the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every Letter in the English language.

60) If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction

61) China has more English speakers than the United States.

62) Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

63) Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

64) An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

65) Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.

66) Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.

67) According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

68) The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.

69) If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

70) Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.

71) Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.

72) More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.

73) Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.

74) Coca-Cola was originally green.

75) The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

76) The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

77) There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

78) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

79) Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

80) You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

81) It is impossible to lick your elbow.

82) People say Bless you when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

83) It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

84) The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

85) If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

86) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

87) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

88) If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

89) If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

90) If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

91) Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey

92) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

93) A snail can sleep for three years.

94) All polar bears are left handed.

95) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

96) Butterflies taste with their feet.

97) Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

98) In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

99) On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

100) Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.

101) Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

102) The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

103) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

104) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to ****** blood 30 feet.

105) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

106) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

107) Most lipstick contains fish scales.
108) And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

♥♡ Aввч ♡♥ asked:


And what are some other companies that he invest in?

(This is part of my Gifted class that i am in right now, so please answer quick!!)
please answer!! just give a guess!! the bell rings in like three minutes!!

brave new world asked:


Any fool knows if you live high on the hog on credit cards, someday you will have to pay the bill and/or ALL your things will be taken away.
Isn’t it better to live within your means and build your wealth up slowly?
Can’t people see this is the most dangerous fiscal policy our country has ever had? When did a huge Debt and Deficit become a Republican speaking point?

Sparkey asked:


I figure it’s Sunday and more people are in RS today.