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Book Summary: Why trade Forex? 1) A market that is open 24 hours with only Sunday as a non-trading day 2) Highest trading volume market in the world = high liquidity 3) Only need to monitor 4 major currency pairs closely instead of numerous companies 4) Considerably large daily trading range 5) Shorting is allowed 6) High leverage 7) Convenient trading service, …
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Cum-dividend (CD) comes before Ex-dividend (XD). A stock is said to be CD indicates that the company is paying out dividend in the near future which serves like a preempt notice to investors. The company would have announced the amount of dividend to be paid out but has yet to. If the shareholder sells a CD stock, he/she is not entitled to the dividend. There has to be a cut …
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There have been many investment courses appearing in advertisements lately and gaining a lot of exposure. Are these courses useful? I would like to quote Derek Bok (again) - "If education is expensive, try ignorance." One should try to invest in yourself so as to be better prepared and increase your chance of winning in the market. I have spotted the following courses and …
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Photo credit - *MarSBarclays Capital has just made available its Global Agriculture Delta Fund available in Singapore and Hong Kong following their press release on 8th May 08. The fund is managed by Celsius Fund PLC and its objective - "The Fund aims to provide a unique yet transparent agriculture investment opportunity for investors to gain exposure to the …
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You may be a strong believer of the buy-and-hold strategy and an admirer of the world's richest investor, Warren Buffett. If you ask him when it is a good time to sell a stock, he will tell you almost never!So, what is the real reason that you should hold stocks for a long time rather than trading in the short term?John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard Funds, studied the …
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Mark TwainFrom his novel, Pudd’nhead Wilson - “October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”Haha, yet another witty phrase from Mark Twain. Given the recent thumping in the stock market (Oct 08), I bet ...
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Technical Analyst plays a game of diceBurton Malkiel is an economics professor at Princeton University and in his book, “A Random Walk Down Wall Street“, he strongly criticized the chartists (or known as the technical analysts who look at charts to make investment decisions).Past results cannot predict future prices (hence you cannot time the market)“The ... …
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The best selling author of “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind”, T. Harv Eker, is coming to Singapore to deliver his popular seminar, “The Millionaire Mind Intensive”.T. Harv Eker's Popular SeminarEvent Details3 Days: 7 Nov 2008 - 9 Nov 2008Day 1 & 2 - Approx 12 hrsDay 3 - Approx 13 hrsVenue: Singapore Expo Hall 2 ...
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Following the marketing success of “The Secret”, many people became aware of the law of attraction. Thereafter, it inspired many other authors and experts to step out and began talking about law of attraction. Did you get bought in by the idea? Do you believe that by having the correct thoughts, you can attract whatever ...
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Following the marketing success of "The Secret", many people became aware of the law of attraction. Thereafter, it inspired many other authors and experts to step out and began talking about law of attraction. Did you get bought in by the idea? Do you believe that by having the correct thoughts, you can attract whatever you want in life (yes, including loads of …
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