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• A Value Stock Investing Tutorial from WAG - Editor, 5 March 2008 - No Comments yet

Value has always been manna from heaven for stock investing. Value investing is especially popular today. Everyone searches NYSE listings for stocks with more inherent value than current prices suggest. It is easier to converse about value investing than to practice it. Seeing stock value that others cannot needs X-Ray like vision. How can you penetrate stock market barriers to see stocks in proper light? Here is a live example:

• Can We Ever Be Certain of Day Trading Gains? - Editor, 4 March 2008 - 1 Comment

Well we can come close. Stock brokers have built empires out of day trading by clients. Misconceptions rule the business of short-term stock trades. It is not necessarily akin to gambling. Neither must it involve peering endlessly at charts on computer screens. Classic technical analysis means less to day trading in this age. Present stock market conditions are far too different from the past. Stochastic modeling is the best way to deal with random stock price movements. However, you have to be a math wizard to figure out Markov Chains. Do not let that latter term scare you away for there are easier ways to win at stock trades.

• What Do Women Want from the Stock Market? - Editor, 3 March 2008 - 1 Comment

Personal preferences will color most answers to this question. There is no requirement that every female must have exactly the same investment objectives. May such individuality rule the stock market! The only matter on which we can all agree is that Bernanke should hit the interest rate reduction button as often as possible.

• Why Private Investors Put Risk First in Building Stock Market Assets - Editor, 29 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Risk management is not new to the stock market, but it has become more popular with investors of late. One of the reasons could be that so much of our familiar business has moved to an emerging market such as China. Values of assets in an exotic market can swing wildly, as terms of trade and regulations vary so much in foreign countries.

• Start a Hedge Fund in Currencies Now! - Editor, 28 February 2008 - 1 Comment

You need not indulge in any unduly aggressive investing to deal with dollar, Euro, and RMB market conditions of 2008. A bank would typically employ an army of specialists to decide on short-selling, leverage, swaps, and other derivatives. The risks are not worthwhile from your individual stand-point because the market could take turns very differently from what people predict at this point of time.

• Back to Business Management Basics to Survive in Today’s Stock Market - Editor, 27 February 2008 - 1 Comment

Does Ambac deserve a bail-out? Are assurances of dollars enough to prevent writedowns? How much exposure can stock or a bond take based on credit ratings anyway? Why do regulators allow Insurance industry players to take such massive risks? What should small stock investors make of the rumors in stock market circles?

• Use the 3B=ADM Formula for Stock Market Success - Editor, 26 February 2008 - 1 Comment

Could there be more than what skeptic observers make of Richard Branson flying one of his Virgin aircraft on a bio-fuel blend? The flamboyant entrepreneur from across the Atlantic has defended his venture to reduce the fossil fuel effects of his airline stoutly. He insists that his passion is about more than just his stock value!

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