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Investment Strategy For Stock Market Declines

By Small Cap Trader On October 9, 2009 NO COMMENTS

Asset Allocation during the declines of a stock market is the only way to preserve wealth in a retirement account. Avoiding a bear market and having an investment strategy is necessary for 2009.

This is  an update in the stock market for the short term and long term. From January 1 through today the market is up a positive 6% and the one year rate is down a negative 22%. The stock market is currently above its 1 year average which is the average price over the past 12 months.

The short term direction of the stock market trend is positive. The 1 year average of the stock market is the trend setter for how the market is doing at any present time. It gives investors of mutual funds the update by knowing if the market is going down or up. It is a cross between the short and long term direction of the market

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Creating Your Own Investment Strategy

By Small Cap Trader On September 5, 2009 NO COMMENTS

When considering jumping into the stock game, you may be tempted to just turn over your money to a so called expert. After all, they do this for a living and they’ll take care of your portfolio and give you good advice, right? But think about it, brokers and money mangers will make money whether you do or not. So how could their priority be to you.

But there is another way. You could mange your own investment strategy. You will obviously take great care to protect your assets.

You do need to be conscious of a number of things to make sure this happens.

First, you’ve likely heard people talk about a bear or bull market, but may not really understand what that means.

The stock market is tracked on a monthly and annual basis. Each year, the graph is marked at the low point of the year and the high point

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Setting Up Your Own Investment Strategy

By Small Cap Trader On September 5, 2009 NO COMMENTS

When considering leaping into the stock game, you may be tempted to just turn over your money to a so called expert. Since this is their job, no doubt they will protect your money and give you the best advice, right? However, the fact is that stock managers make a profit whether you are losing or not, so their main priority really isn’t to protect you.

Being aware and managing your own investment strategy is the best way to make sure that your funds are actually making you money.

There’s several things to pay attention to to make sure that this is happening.

First, you’ve likely heard people talk about a bear or bull market, but may not really understand what that means.

The stock market is monitored on a monthly and annual basis. And on the yearly graph, we can both the high point and low point that the market has reached.

A bull market

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Put Options Used In The Collar Strategy Can Protect Your Stocks

By Small Cap Trader On September 1, 2009 NO COMMENTS

Hoping and praying that the stocks that you just bought will go up is not the best strategy to use, however it is the one very often used by the average Joe stock trader who is stock trading internet. The only salvation they have is that in bull markets most stocks will go up.

Statistics show that in a bull market about 75% of the stocks will follow the general trend and go up, and in a bear market 75% will also go down. Trading with the trend is the best way to trade as 9 out of 12 stocks will follow the trend and give you the best chance of making gains on your stock purchases.

But what if you own some nice stocks and don't want to sell when the market is clearly going down, or about to go down?. There are a few tactics that you can consider, both

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Collar Strategy Can Protect Your Stocks

By Small Cap Trader On September 1, 2009 NO COMMENTS

Hoping and praying that the stocks that you just bought will go up is not the best strategy to use, however it is the one very often used by the average Joe stock trader who is stock trading internet. The only good point they have is that in bull markets most stocks will go up.

Statistics show that in a bull market about 75% of the stocks will follow the general trend and go up, and in a bear market 75% will also go down. Trading with the trend is the best way to trade as 8 out of 12 stocks will follow the trend and give you the best chance of making gains on your stock purchases.

But what if you own some good stocks and don't want to sell when the market is clearly going down, or about to go down?. There are a few tactics that you can consider,

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Put Options Used In The Collar Strategy Can Protect Your Stocks

By Small Cap Trader On June 22, 2009 NO COMMENTS

Hoping and praying that the stocks that you just bought will go up is not the best strategy to use, however it is the one very often used by the average Joe stock trader who is stock trading internet. The only good point they have is that in bull markets most stocks will go up.

Statistics show that in a bull market about 75% of the stocks will follow the general trend and go up, and in a bear market 75% will also go down. Trading with the trend is the best way to trade as 9 out of 12 stocks will follow the trend and give you the best chance of making gains on your stock purchases.

But what if you own some good stocks and don’t want to sell when the market is clearly going down, or about to go down?. There are a couple of tactics that you can

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