Free Investment Advice

Stocks or Annuities or Both?

In order to determine whether you should invest in stocks, annuities, or both, it is important to understand each component and how they compliment each other in an investment portfolio. With today’s stock market at an all-time low, some experts would recommend that this is a good opportunity to invest in stocks.  The “buy low, sell [...]

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Wait a Month before Buying

Maybe you’ve carefully crafted a budget that accounts for every penny that comes in each month. Or maybe budgeting seems like a waste of time to you. Either way, impulse buying can have a negative effect on your financial picture. There’s nothing wrong with buying something we want every now and then if we have the [...]

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What To Expect When Day Trading?

Source: tradethemarkets.com Day trading can be hard, all of the successful day traders we know blew out their account at least once before becoming consistently profitable online trading on an annual basis. (Or monthly, or weekly, depending on their goals and online trading style). These “bits” are not meant to make you a conservative or hesitant [...]

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The Inside Scoop on Mutual Fund Rip Offs

Source: Ulli G. Nieman, mutualfundtips.com The bear market that showed up at the end of 2000 has every brokerage house-as well as the entire mutual fund industry-scrambling to find creative ways to boost both their image and bottom line. Fund managers are ever on the lookout for ways to spin the stats to hide lousy [...]

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What is “Quote Massaging?”

Quote massaging is a system used in the UK whereby anyone who is seeking to reduce car insurance rates can change one’s job description in order to reduce the cost of insurance for the benefit of personal finance. While this system is not available in the US, it is widely used among the top five UK [...]

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