April 2009
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Safe Investing23 Apr 2009 11:22 am
Stumble Upon Great Investment Opportunities By Purchasing Real Estate In Another Country
More & more people are getting property in Europe as they see a great deal of uncertainties in the stock markets. Though not all investor has what is required to buy a real estate in a foreign land, its still a wonderful way of enhancing your wealth. When trying to find a real estate in a different country, it’s imperative to understand where to purchase. Individuals can receive the needed money for European property from countries that offer property tax motivations.
German is currently a brilliant country to buy. The key factor for this is that (according to leading financial papers) two thousand & eight it is the 1st time in the past 10 years or more that European property values have come down. For instance, prices of homes have slumped by 23% in the last quarter, and by thirty one percent in the preceding twelve months. Thus with property overseas prices reducing and loans being more & more tough to find, ready cash investors are benefiting from a win-win situation.
Whether obtaining locally or abroad, time is of the essence. Just like obtaining stocks & other assets, you must know when the foreign property can in fact be acquired. This is very important for the reason that the more time it takes to purchase; the more and more probably it will be that the fee of maintenance, improvements and repairs will climb.
In rental investment property, you must have a great credit status. This way, there is an excellent probability of getting lenders to supply loans to obtain the property abroad. Furthermore with good credit status, there is the possibility that the interest rate will likely be somewhat lower. If you are searching for a great investment opportunity then why not start looking at property for sale in Bulgaria.
Getting real estate overseas has the possibility to be an outstanding choice as an investment. What you are suggested to do is to make a plan starting with time frames and a first-rate credit level. With the whole thing in place, you ought to be able to get the investment you desire.
The Asian Poker Tour in Macau
The Asian Poker Tour has announced that it has been given approval by authorities to expand its popular Macau poker online event. The Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival will run from August 12-23, 2009 at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and casino in Macau. The success of the Asian Poker Tour sponsored poker room at the Starworld has led organizers to lay out these ambitious plans that represent another huge leap forward for poker in the region.
Last year, the event attracted some of the most famous names in the game including Doyle Brunson, Jack Binion, Johnny Chan, John Juanda, Huck Seed, Liz Lieu, Todd Brunson, Kenny Tran and Poker Pack members Nam Le, Quinn Do, JC Tran, Steve Sung, David “Chino” Rheem, and Kwang Soo Lee. The 2008 Asian Poker Tour Macau Main Event was won by 20-year-old US hotshot Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who scooped US$500,000 after emerging triumphant from the star-studded field that featured players from over 40 countries. This year’s Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival will feature 12 days of non-stop poker action and fun. The Main Event has been extended, with the first of three day ones getting underway on August 19 and the televised final table scheduled for August 23. Aside from the Main Event, the Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival will feature side events.
High-limit games and sit-n-go poker onlinetables will run throughout the duration of the festival. Last year’s event hosted a HK$1,000,000 (US$129,000) high rollers game and this will be repeated. As well as the action on the felt, the play off the felt promises to be extremely lively too with The Asian Poker Tour looking to top the legendary award winning party at the Macau event in 2008. The last Asian Poker Tour event was held in the Philippines in January 2009 and was won by Manila rounder Neil Arce, who scooped US$185,000 for first prize after overcoming a field of 262 players from over 40 countries. The runner-up was the Republic of Korea’s Steve Yea, who repeated his second place in the Asian Poker Tour Macau 2008.
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Safe Investing19 Apr 2009 11:07 am
3 Sure Ways to Trump Your Investing Fears
Often times when people here the word “invest” they become
frightened. It is probably one of the most misunderstood
words on the planet. As a result, many employees as well
as other individuals refuse to invest their money in anything
other than a passbook savings or money market account. That
includes those who have retirement accounts available through
their employer.
So, what is stopping you from starting to invest? The following are three of the most common reasons are I found after taking a poll:
1. I don’t have enough money to invest.
2. I have to pay off my bills first.
3. I have money to invest, but I am afraid.
What can you do to alleviate your fear of investing? There
are many inexpensive ways to start investing. You can open
an investment account with a broker that sells shares or
partial shares of stocks, this type of broker is usually
found online. You can open a mutual fund account with a
mutual fund company, that will allow you to start with a
small amount of money. You can start investing with your
company employee retirement plan. And finally, you will
have to shed some old baggage about investing, for example,
“I will start investing when I get my bills paid off,” or “I am
afraid to invest.” The main questions being, how do you shed
this baggage and allay all fears?
1. The first most common reason the poll respondents don’t start investing is because they think it is too expensive. They feel a lot of money is needed to start investing in stocks or mutual funds.
There are mutual fund companies that will allow you to start
an investment account for as little as one hundred dollars,
and add as little as twenty-five dollars a month. You can
do a search for mutual funds in any internet search engine
or research them in your local library. There are many companies
that will allow you to invest in a few shares or partial shares
of stock, starting with as little as eight dollars a month, and
adding eight dollars a month to your account to purchase additional shares or partial shares. Using your company retirement account is another way to invest with ease. In most cases, you will have the option to pick among investments already chosen by your company. The money is taken out of your check, so you don’t miss the funds and you receive tax advantages.
2. The second most common reason the respondents gave is that they are told to pay off bills before they start to invest.
It is a good idea to have your debt well under control
before you start to invest. The interest rates on
outstanding debts are sometimes in excess of the interest
rates on investments, coupled with compounded interest, debt
payments can be excessive. There is an easy way to invest
after you have your bills under control, that is to treat
your investment savings as “just another bill,” before you
know it, you will have a significant amount of money in your
savings account, you can invest.
3. Fear was the third most common reason the respondents don’t
invest. This fear can be easily conquered with education and
detailed information about investing.
Do you have plenty of money to invest, but you are simply
afraid? I think the term for that is, “fear of the unknown”.
That is probably the easiest investment stop addressed in
this article. The Internet has brought learning to our
fingertips, there are thousands of websites that teach
investing from a consumers perspective. Brokerage sites and
web portals provide research with detailed information about
stocks, mutual funds and other investments to protect your
interest and your money. If you are not Internet savvy, take
a trip to your local library, the librarian will show you how to use investment research catalogs such as Value Line reports for stocks research, and Morningstar Mutual Fund Reports for
Mutual Funds research. Doing your own research will teach
you how to choose low risk, low cost investments. Investment
research will also teach you how to analyze the investments
that your advisor chooses for you.
Lois Center-Shabazz, who is the author of the award winning
book, “Let’s Get Financial Savvy! From Debt-Free To
Investing With Ease” ISBN #0971979502, and the founder of
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http://www.MsFinancialSavvy.com
Safe Investing19 Apr 2009 08:48 am
The Man Who Turned a $15,000 Trading Account Into $3.3 Million and The Lessons I learned From It
I know a man who turned a $15,000 trading account into $3.3 Million. It was an amazing stroke of luck. He even admits this.
“MARK, I am no fool. I know I was just plain lucky. I don’t have magical system. I am not privy to insider information. I merely gambled BIG on the right stocks at the right time. It was no different than winning the lottery. I seriously doubt I could ever repeat it.”
Obviously my first question was:
“How did you manage this? What stocks did you trade and why?”
Here’s what floored me. But it shouldn’t have done so. His massive wealth creating principles are exactly what the big stock traders throughout history have been preaching for years.
Here’s how he did it:
1) In 1999 in the final leg of the run-away bull market “bubble” he opened a trading account with just over $15,000. Simply because all his co-workers/friends/family/neighbors kept telling him how much easy money was being made in the stock market. He had never read any books or bought any systems. Never attended a seminars. So he was lucky in that his head was not filled with the B*S* most spill out.
2) He attended a few stock market chat boards and everyone seemed to be excited about a stock called Microstrategy. It was trading at about $10 and he made his mind up that if it rose to $14 he would buy. “Made sense to buy a rising stock” he told me. The stock hit $14 in no time so he bought 1,000 shares at $14.50. He took a deep breath and held on.
3) The stock kept going up 15%,25%+ in a week hardly ever stopping. It made me laugh how much easy money I was making. People kept telling me to get out as the stock rose but I figured if it fell by XX% I would exit then. As the stock kept rising and rising way beyond what anyone ever thought possible I made a decision that if the stock made it to $290 I would exit. No question asked. A few weeks later it did and I sold out. I now had an account size of $290,000 from a starting capital of $15,000.
4) “I thought this was too easy” Boy was I right. I then made another 5 trades and lost on everyone. Qcom, YHOO, AMZN were some of the stocks people kept telling me were going to go up big. but I lost thousands of dollars on each one of them. My $290,000 account was whittled down to $245,000. I decided to withdraw$45,000 and leave the rest in until the general conditions improved. I took a long vacation to Hawaii with my profits. How sweet.
5) I never traded for over 2 1/2 years…. I only wanted another exciting stock like Microstrategy. Going for small 15%- 20% profits seemed like a waste of time to me. I wanted a big, huge, winner or nothing. then in July 2003 a stock called TASR seemed to fit this bill. There was a lot of excitement. The stock was flying up. People were buying in and the market conditions seemed much more positive. I decided if the stock rose to $12 I was going to buy with all my account. I was only playing with “house money now” and I was prepared to risk it big to win big. I bought 16,600 TASR at $12….boy was a nervous wreck for a few days as the stock “gyrated”. THEN it took off. Just like Microstrategy did. It seemed everyone wanted in and it was the talk of the stock market over the next 8 months.. Can you imagine how I felt when the price rose to $60? I was a paper millionaire. I decided not to be too greedy and took some of my profits off the table….. I sold 6,600 at $60 ($396,000) so I still had 10,000 in TASR and the pressure was off. It now became a game. How high could TASR go? Could it defy gravity?
6) I simply trailed my exit behind the closing price. Giving it enough leeway to avoid being exited through natural gyrations. In April 2004 I was exited at $290. I sold 10,000 shares at $290 for $2.9 MILLION. Coupled with my 6,600 I sold for $396,000 it meant my account was now at: $3,296,000 Million And that’s how I did it.
It’s an amazing story. But here are the points you can really take home in the hope of achieving something similar one day:
1) He went for the truly big moves with big capital. there was no “diversification” here.
2) Luckily, he got into the truly biggest movers of that market cycle.
3) He held on for big profits. Most people make a quick 20% (+/-) profit and exit… Imagine missing out on these huge gains because you took a small, quick profit?
4) He made his money during bull markets. Lost it during bear markets. But at least he kept away from the worst of the bear markets.
5) He traded without fear. Scared money can’t make big money in the stock market.
6) Absolutely no fancy computer driven trading system that costs thousands of dollars needed.
7) His exit strategy was simply driven by PRICE…No-one opinion was followed.
It’s better to be lucky than smart.
What he actually did was exactly what Jesse Livermore/Darvas etc.. have preached for many years.
Mark Crisp
The Stress Free Momentum Stock Trader
http://www.stressfreetrading.com
Patio Gazebos Cool the Hot St. Louis Summers
A sprawling lawn with a patio gazebo can have a number of benefits, both aesthetic and practical, during the summer months in St. Louis, Missouri. First, let’s define what patios and gazebos are. “Patio” is a Spanish word that refers to an open space, usually found at the back of the house. Most of them are paved while some are not, but are typically landscaped. A gazebo, on the other hand, is a roofed structure mostly found in parks, gardens, and other open spaces. This structure usually comes without any wall, comprised mainly of 4 columns to support the roof.
Such structures can be made of metal, concrete, wood or fabric. Among those made of metal, an aluminum structure is the cheapest option although steel is the most preferred due to its durability and stability. With steel, you can also craft elaborate designs to give it a more stylish look.
A concrete patio gazebo is arguably the most expensive in the Gateway to the West. However, the designs are mostly more eye-catching since you can fashion columns with classical themes such as the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, or even Solomonic orders, giving them a more elaborate appearance.
Those made of wood and vinyl are the least expensive with vinyl being the cheapest of all. They are much easier to install but are more vulnerable to wear and tear. The crevices in wooden gazebos, for example, are susceptible to mold especially in very humid regions. Termites can also attack the wood if it is not treated properly before installation.
These gazebos are ideal for outdoor parties or simple fellowships since it can be relatively cool under its shade. Your fellowship will be left uninterrupted even if it rains. Most of all, a patio gazebo will add life to your open space since you will be enticed to use it whenever you have the chance.
Travel Hall17 Apr 2009 02:20 am
Enjoy a Colorful Vacation in Hong Kong
If you fancy a long distance vacation why not look for hotels in Hong Kong ? If you’re looking for variety you can’t go wrong here with so many things to see and do, and the only problem you’ll face is choosing the best time to visit.
As far as the weather is concerned you’d be well advised to book your vacation for any time between September and February, rather than during the humid summer months. Even the locals find the humidity unbearable at times, and it’s not really surprising with temperatures rising to 32 C / 89 F during the summer months. Another advantage of avoiding the hot summer period is you’ll not only avoid the humidity, but you also get the chance to enjoy some great autumn and spring festivals in the city.
The Mid-Autumn festival (or Moon Festival as it is also known) takes place in late September and it’s a lively and colorful celebration where people share moon cakes and walk to the top of The Peak with lanterns lighting up the night sky. It’s a great celebration for all the family, and children are allowed to stay up late for this special occasion.
If you’re a golf lover you might want to visit during November because that’s when the Open Golf Tournament takes place. It’s a major event attracting famous name players like Bernhard Langer, Colin Montgomerie, and Nick Faldo, so if that’s definitely one you’ll not want to miss. If you’d rather take your vacation earlier in the year you can keep an eye out for the Spring Lantern Festival in February. It’s more commonly known as Chinese Valentine’s Day when singles are encouraged to play matchmaking games during the festival to try and find a new lover.
If any of these celebrations sound like your idea of fun then I suggest you book yourself some cheap airline tickets and pay a visit during the autumn or spring. You never know, if you’re single the Spring Lantern Festival may have a few surprises in store for you.
Assistance15 Apr 2009 03:12 am
Find The Hottest Fashion Clothes and Find Out How You Are Capable Of Dressing This Great By Yourself
Bold outlines, exquisite colours, the excitement of the Capitals’ Spring and Summer fashion seasons are fortunately now on its way at last. Ladies and Gentlemen, its the most suitable time to start to begin buying a bit of your spring / summer favourite designer collections and there is no greater etailer to look on than Matches Fashion. Don’t worry yourself if you can’t tell what is going to be all the rage & what’s absolutely not this coming season. Matches will be available to lead you every step of the journey in the exact same valuable way they always do with everything from bikinis & simple spring dresses to shirts & shades. For Christian Louboutin hot off the catwalk visit Matches Fashion.
From the start of February shoppers shall have one extra advantage to assist them get into the first rate fashion and that is the launch of London Fashion Week. This can often lend a hand to anybody who requires a drive in the right direction. Throughout the 20-24th of February the biggest occasion in fashion will commence and last nearly 1 unbelievable week. This great event lets every one of the “designers” or “houses” as a great deal of them prefer to be called, to parade their brands most newest collection on the walkway & for buyers to have a glance at the very latest lines. This superb event is great for all fashion buyers as it lets them to have a little sneak look of what’s “hot” & also what is “out” for the imminent seasons. So shoppers ought to be able to completely trust that Matches Fashion will be there in the 1st row taking notes of what they will need to get to keep their existing clients dressing in this season’s fashion. The year’s well-known fashion affairs are located in a small number of locations around the world like Milan, Paris, London and also NYC.
Several crucial items this year are said to be by the well-known designers like that of Marc Jacobs, Christian Louboutin and Stella McCartney, all of whom consumers should know as being big in the fashion world. These specific designers always turn out collections after collections of eye-opening trousers for any given event. However because of this, clothes fabricated by these designers will most likely not come with an affordable price tag. However items purchased from them are going to be cherished on the fashion rack for a great number of years to come.
Safe Investing14 Apr 2009 11:12 am
Money Management Guide
When the prices of commodities are booming and expenditure is increasing in every manner, it becomes essential to make some planning for your income.
• The best way to take care of your money is to plan a budget. A budget should keep a track of all your expenses. The indispensable expenses like education fee of the kids, the bills, the fuel, taxes etc. should be estimated and subtracted from the monthly salary. Then monitor the other likely expenses like gifts on friend’s birthday in that month, your anniversary, weekend outing and the like. The amount that is left after reducing the essentials should be planned in such a manner that you end up with little, at times even negligible savings.
‘A Penny saved is a Penny earned’. Savings are very crucial in today’s life. But many people do not understand the relevance of savings. An individual, who develops the habit of saving money, never falls short of it especially in exigency situations.
If the outlay outweighs the income, situation is called a negative cash flow. In this case you ought to be extra vigilant while spending money. Try to reduce the weekend trips, partying at home or outside, purchasing needless items etc. If possible make a new budget where you have optimized the costs. It then becomes your duty to abide by this budget in order to avoid pitfalls. While if the case is other way round i.e. the cash inflow is more than its outflow, its time to cheer and of course make some savings for the future.
• Next good thing you can do to manage your money is to make investments. Investments can be of different types. You can invest in a property or land, in banks, in stocks etc. The investments you make not only keep your money secure but also give you good returns. Like money that is kept in a fixed deposit in a bank is supplemented with interest amount, the cash invested in purchasing shares of an eminent and successful company, always give a great output etc.
If you are investing in some trust or insurance policies, your wealth will not just be beneficial for you till the time you live; it will also be a financial security for your children and grandchildren in future. So investments generally are rewarding, they do not go futile. But before making any investment, you must enquire about the pros and cons of it. For instance, high risk is involved in investing money in the stock market as the economy is fluctuating unbelievably. Here, you should acquire complete information that when to purchase the stocks and for which company that will never let you down etc. The case is not different with investing in property, but the risk factor is not so high here. The rates for property are never stagnant. So it is better to purchase the land when the market is down and sell it when the prices take a flight. In any case, first acquaint yourself with all the facts and basics, and then only invest. Remember your purpose is to make money from money not to lose with whatever you have.
• Are you a credit card bug? If you are and your expenses do not meet the income, forget the credit cards. The credit card money is charged with high rate of interest. Though it is the easiest form of money, yet it can be very troubling later. People keep on withdrawing the money from the bank’s or company’s credit and the interest simultaneously keeps on accumulating. Finally, the credit card bill comes as a nightmare to many. So it is better to avoid using credit card wherever possible. Try to use it only in case of an urgent situation.
• Keep an accountant if you yourself are not able to keep a track of all your transactions.
Money Management is simple, if you become a little judicious.
Mansi aggarwal writes about money management guide. Learn more at http://www.learntomanagemoney.com .
Safe Investing14 Apr 2009 04:36 am
The Advance/Decline Line
“Every day I hear about the “advance/decline” line and more times than not its negative even if the market is up. How can that be?” Great question and its a bizarre situation. Let’s look:
The advance/decline line is very simple, it is the difference between the number of stocks moving higher on a day versus the number moving lower. So naturally if all things were equal, and the “AD” line was negative you would have to think the market was lower right? Absolutely, except there is a problem. All things are NOT equal!
When the NASDAQ as a whole was in a full blown bear market, there were about 70 or so stocks that moved the index higher on a daily basis, but overall the decliners won out almost every day. How can that be? Because of this: Stocks are “weighted”. Okay, so what does that mean? It means some stocks carry more weight as far as their impact on the index.
Let’s look at a tech heavyweight like MicroSoft. They are a major league “market cap” weighted stock, meaning they are so huge, when they make a move higher, even if they just gain a point, it will add several points to the NASDAQ. On the other hand little outfits like XYZ, have no weight. So, four no name XYZ’s can fall on the day if one Microsoft gains! This is why you may have been baffled, watching stock after stock make a new low on the year, and yet the NASDAQ may have been up 50 points that day. But if you look at who moved higher it was the MSFT’s, IBM, INTC’s of the world, that are so weighted, they carried the index higher even though two times as many that went up, actually went down.
Most market technicians will tell you we are in a heap of trouble if the AD line is negative for too long and in a way we agree with that, but this is a different market than just a few years ago. Fund managers have so much power that they move the markets on a daily basis. When you are the manager of a billion dollar fund, you aren’t buying XYZ for your fund, you are buying the big names. So it’s no wonder only 70+ stocks go higher while 1000 fall on the day. So in a twisted way, the AD line is not a very clear description of the health of the market. A year or so ago if you had watched the AD line you probably would not have bought stocks in Oct, Nov, Dec, and January. But during that time, the NASDAQ made the biggest advances of its history. Over on the NYSE it was even worse, with the AD line in poor shape almost every day. So we cannot simply look at the AD line and come to the conclusion that the market is not going to move higher. Certainly we would enjoy seeing more of the secondary players join in any market moves, but to sit on your hands simply because the small guys are falling while the big guys are flying, won’t put any money in your account.
Don’t forget folks, that until the advent of the “401K” plan, fund managers didn’t have the power they have today. Sure an analyst could come out and upgrade or downgrade a stock, but there wasn’t enough big concentrated money to make much happen because of it. But when 401K plans became popular, stock funds found themselves with huge cash inflows 4 times a week, or once a month depending on the plan. That relates to literally billions of dollars for them to spend, so naturally they all tend to “clump together” and buy the same “leaders”. That is why when a stock was hot like JDSU once was, it could go from 150 to 300, split, run back to 300 and split again like clockwork. While JDSU was doing that, what do you think XYZ was doing? Not a whole lot! So, fund managers are really one of the basic reasons the AD line can stink and yet the market gains 100 points on the day.
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