From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Commissions and Share Purchases

February 27, 2009

This post addresses the question of shares of stock. I touched on this briefly once before, but felt more clarification was needed. I talked about share price not being a true reflection on the value of the company and I will clarify that.
If you have one thousand dollars worth of stock in company XYZ it [...]

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A Paper Millionaire

February 26, 2009

Article Orginally Published 8/13/06
I have a few stocks in my portfolio that I am quite pleased with. I bought Northern Orion Resources about a year ago, and have seen the stock go from $2.64 to the current price of $4.67. That’s about a 75% gain, But I haven’t made a dime on that stock. (currently [...]

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“Shorting” a Stock

February 23, 2009

When most people think of investing they think in the traditional view of buying shares of stock, holding them, making money through dividends and selling the stock after seeing a gain in price per share. This is the most common way that people invest, but there are other strategies to consider.
One of them is known [...]

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Small Cap vs. Large Cap. What does that mean?

February 20, 2009

What do these terms mean? When listening to or reading reports from analysts the terms large and small cap are often mentioned in reference to a particular company. The terms refer to the capitalization of the company, which probably still has people scratching their heads. Capitalization is a word used to describe the worth of [...]

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Penny Stocks

February 19, 2009

Unsolicited investment faxes would have you believe that penny stocks seem to be part of the investment picture, and could really boost your returns. Is there anyone out there who has not received faxes of this nature (or e-mails, for that matter)? There is a breakthrough that has not yet become public information and someone [...]

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Investing Internationally

February 18, 2009

Portfolio diversity means having a variety of assets in your investment account. Diversity helps to balance your account as often one type of investment may be ‘up’ while another is ‘down.’ In addition to that, more conservative investing is often recommended as we get older. I don’t want to get too deeply into the whole [...]

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That’s not my name! What’s in a name? or title

February 17, 2009

When you are looking to do some Due Diligence on a company you may want to check out the history of the people in charge. Have they had success in past ventures? Do they have a history with the industry? What experience do they bring to the table? Can they take this company to a [...]

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Common Vs Preferred Stock

February 16, 2009

There are different kinds of stock available in some companies (not all.) I believe that all publicly held companies offer shares of common stock. This is what you normally would see traded on the open market on the various exchanges. As a general rule, as I stated last week, if a company is doing well, [...]

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Deflation and lower prices

February 13, 2009

January 2009 numbers are in and they may surprise you. Retail sales are up 1%. While 1% may not be a huge number, the surprising thing is that is it a positive number at all. In fact most economists would have been surprised at a 0%. So with everyone predicting gloom and doom, and people [...]

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Understanding Stock Dividends

February 12, 2009

Dividends are the payback you receive for owning stock in a company. In the simplest terms the company divides up the earnings by the number of shares and the stock holders get return on their investment. This generally would happen quarterly or annually depending on the company’s policy.
In the real world this is also impacted [...]

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