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The Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Buying Stocks

The Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Buying Stocks

The following is a guest post from Ben Carlson at A Wealth of Common Sense. Ben writes about personal finance, investments, investor psychology and building wealth using your common sense.     “There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you Continue reading →

Mr. Market’s bad mood seisure

The stock market is in a selling mood. But the selling isn’t that bad yet. It can get worse, although today the DOW was losing a triple digit loss. When I woke up this morning – and I heck didn’t want to – I saw my account completely in red. The biggest losers were REITs Continue reading →

Posted by Martin February 26, 2013

How to Buy More Shares With Timing Buy Points

How to Buy More Shares With Timing Buy Points

As I wrote yesterday how I enter stock positions, today Lorillard once again shows the example of why I like to time the entry into a stock. It is not necessarily timing the market, just timing the entry point, or buy point. Once I decide to to buy more shares I watch the stock carefully Continue reading →

Posted by Martin November 15, 2012

A great opportunity to add more stocks to my dividend paying portfolio

Recent sell off in the stock market created excellent opportunity to buy more shares to my existing portfolio. At this point I am not adding new holdings to my portfolio, but adding to the existing shares only. I made a rule on how many shares to hold in a portfolio. I searched the internet to Continue reading →

Posted by Martin October 28, 2012

Sell the rip, buy the dip – gold ETF (GLD)

In my portfolio I wish to have some exposure to gold (GLD). I read several articles in the past about buying gold and reasons behind it and when you are watching what the US government is doing to our currency, you definitely get an itching for gold. Bernanke’s moves and the entire FED devastating policy Continue reading →

Picks 10/19 – 10/23

New [tag]stock picks[/tag] this week: [tag]LJ International, Inc.[/tag] (JADE) Existing & new [tag]holdings[/tag]:

Is the US market heading up tomorrow?

The European stock markets opened strong on Monday morning so we may expect the US markets rise higher too. By Steve Goldstein (MarketWatch.com) UK:NEX UK:SGC CH:NESN LONDON — European stocks opened higher on Monday, with every sector rising after two straight weeks of gains and advances for ten out of the last 14 weeks. Movers Continue reading →

STEC sold, DFS added

I do not like how (STEC) is acting, struggling to move higher, so I decided to sell it. Instead I have bought some shares of Discover Financial Services (DFS) 10/08/2009   15:25:50   Sold  3  STEC  @  27.441 10/08/2009   15:26:10   Bought  6  DFS  @  17.0394 However, I still keep STEC in my watch list and buy it back after it becomes clear which direction the stock will go. I Continue reading →