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• Top Strategies for ETF Stocks (Part 1) - 30 October 2007

Anyone can buy or sell Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) stocks, but an almost secret club of very large and cash-rich individuals and institutions determine their values. Ask any circle of investor acquaintances and you will find that Mutual Funds are better understood than ETF stocks. Those with ring side seats on this exclusive trading ring tend to be reticent unless they are trying to shore up values of stocks in which they have just bought large blocks! The extremely large and relatively infrequent nature of trading in ETF stocks make small investors extremely wary about participating in them, which is really a pity because small fry should have level playing fields with the incredibly wealthy.

• Top Strategies for ETF Stocks (Part 2) - 30 October 2007

Top Strategies for ETF Stocks (Part 1)

Short selling of sector or commodity ETF stocks is an interesting way for professionals from various fields to make large amounts of money relatively quickly, and with very little at stake. However, employees have to ensure that the companies for which they work are not parts of such ETF baskets. Another important precaution is to set limits for bearable losses, so that investors can opt out if developments do not unfold as expected.

• Are You Ready for Nanotechnology Stocks? (Part 1) - 29 October 2007

Careful before you reply in the negative! Most of the world’s top corporations that depend on technologies have begun putting their stocks into nanotechnology, though they tend to do so out of the spot light for reasons of competitive intelligence. Miniaturization is so integral to electronics that a progression towards nanotechnology seems only logical, but it is in health care that some of the most revolutionary applications of molecular and atomic therapies at the cellular level are beginning to take place. It is now conceivable that all significant drugs in the future will involve nanotechnology.

• Are You Ready for Nanotechnology Stocks? (Part 2) - 29 October 2007

Are You Ready for Nanotechnology Stocks? (Part 1)

Consistency in meeting quarterly business forecasts is also an important quality that investors should seek from nanotechnology companies. The ones which make grandiose statements about the future, while glossing over present cash losses, may be great buys, but it is prudent to stay away from such stocks. Current losses can be forgiven provided they are planned during an earlier quarter, and are milestones on a determined journey to profitability.

• Customer Health as Bell Weather for Short Selling Stocks (Part 1) - 26 October 2007

Though lay investors may prefer to ask finance professionals about which stocks to buy and sell, marketing experts may be the first to know which way some securities are headed. Consider your own experiences as a customer: there must be brands which you love, but cannot afford to buy as often as you wish. Each of us takes periodic decisions to switch brands or to change other aspects of our regular purchasing decisions.

• Customer Health as Bell Weather for Short Selling Stocks (Part 2) - 26 October 2007

Cutting back on cellular telephone use is a threat which all network service providers must face. Some of the threats to market shares of such companies is obviously competitive, but the more difficult obstacles to profit and sales growths may be because people are loathe to spend the incremental amounts which can turn cellular telephones in to small computers.

• Has Internet Business Become Relevant for Stocks? (Part 1) - 25 October 2007

Marketing is at best a secondary matter for most investors, so the subject gets short shrift when decisions about stocks are made. Internet marketing and electronic commerce have not made the kinds of waves in the worlds of stocks, as they have done in many other sectors of human enterprise. Investors are relieved by electronic versions of shares, and by the facility to buy and sell stocks without physical presence on any trading ring, but the World Wide Web has been largely ignored by Exchanges otherwise.

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