Peer-to-Peer Financing

A few months back I decided to invest a little money through Prosper.com. If you haven’t heard of this site, or a similar one out of the UK called Zopa, it’s set up so that a group of individuals pool their money together and loan out money to other individuals.
The people looking to borrow [...]

TreasuryDirect

TreasuryDirect is a government owned website that allows you to purchase electronic securities directly from the United States Treasury. You can buy bonds, treasury bills, notes and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS).
The TreasuryDirect website was set-up a few years ago by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt in order to streamline [...]

What Is A Certificate Of Deposit?

A Certificate of Deposit is a special type of deposit account which is usually held with a commercial bank for a fixed term. These certificate of deposit accounts typically offer considerably higher interest rates than normal bank accounts combined with low investment risk due to federal deposit insurance on amounts upto $100,000.

Annuity Help

Many people today are looking for annuity help. The biggest challenge seems to be that most of the help is biased. What exactly do I mean? I mean that there is always a vested interest for the person who is helping you with your annuities. They are out to sell you something so you don’t [...]

Parachute Investing

Ever jumped out of an airplane? It’s OK if you have on a parachute. Pretty dumb if you don’t. Every buy any stocks, mutual funds or Exchange Traded Funds? It’s OK if you know how much you are willing to risk. Pretty dumb if you don’t. Parachute investing is buying an equity with a parachute [...]

Choosing A Financial Advisor

A perfect financial advisor is ideally one who helps you make the right investment decisions, manages your finances and who imparts all the financial advices you may need from time to time.

What Is Personal Financial Planning?

Personal financial planning focuses on you as an individual – bringing together all the financial and psychological factors that have an impact on your life. Many people call themselves financial planners, but the true professional financial planning practitioner uses The Total Financial Planning Process, which is made up of six distinct steps.

Four Reasons Why Most Online Investors & Traders Go Broke

Are you attracted to the idea of being in control of your financial future, but confused about how to start investing in the stock or share market, while avoiding costly mistakes? Or maybe you’re disappointed with your performance so far? Does it sometimes feel like every time you take the plunge and buy into the [...]

Offshore Investing Information

The world’s economies still dance to different tunes and have different boom and bust cycles that tend to offset each other, even though the differences are getting smaller. As a result, international stocks can provide diversification for a portfolio heavy in U.S. stocks.

Distressed Assets: Profiting From The Mistakes Of Others

Distressed asset investing can cover a wide range of scenarios from foreclosures on private homes, to buying and selling assets in failed companies, to stocks and bonds in companies entering or leaving bankruptcy protection or under other financial pressure. It’s about making money from other people’s problems or mismanagement. There are bargains to be had [...]

Keep Your Investment Profits

Have you had one of those huge investment winners – a stock that went from $2.00 to $80.00? Or any other numbers you want that gave you a gigantic percent profit?

How To Start An Investment Club

Your investment club will need to decide what type of entity you’re going to adopt for business purposes. You’ll have to decide whether you’re going to be a corporation, a general partnership, or limited liability partnership. Each of these business models has their own advantages and disadvantages.

Straddle Strategies In Option Trading

The straddle strategy is an option strategy that’s based on buying both a call and put of a stock. Note that there are various forms of straddles, but we will only be covering the basic straddle strategy. To initiate a Straddle, we would buy a Call and Put of a stock with the same expiration [...]

Professional Help Making Intial Investment Decisions

Finance and investment decisions have to be made at some point, but most of us avoid this aspect of our personal lives until it reaches a crucial point. While there are many reasons for this, the main one is that it’s hard to decide what you want to do with your money. There are so [...]

Is Day Trading Right For You?

Do you have the tolerance for the risk involved with day trading? Day trading is not a get rich quick business. It is not technically even investing. This competitive game of day trading is speculation at its core and the odds are against you in favor of failure. But for those who crave this type [...]

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