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Domestic Vs. International: Why This Diversification Is Important
Friday, January 3, 2020 - 1:54pm | 1458Read More...Much has been written about the strength of the U.S. markets in 2019. U.S. large-cap stocks rose 31.5%, their best year since 2013. That’s a great year for domestic investors, but I fear it causes some to miss one of the key points of investing, which is that markets move in cycles....
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Top ETFs With Twitter Stock Exposure
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 1:29pm | 611Read More...The overwhelming transparency of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) allows for enhanced research capabilities of the underlying holdings. This can be particularly useful when trying to pinpoint a diversified fund with outsized exposure to a particular stock. For instance, in looking for a list of the...
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Nobel Prize Winners' Perfect Portfolio: The Secret Ingredient Revealed
Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 2:42pm | 917Read More...Wouldn’t it be nice to know how to use data to determine the perfect investment? In 1952, Harry Markowitz published an article titled “Portfolio Selection.” Prior to Markowitz, examination of investment alternatives had been primarily focused on individual assets. Markowitz...
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Pinpointing Fixed-Income Duration Using ETFs
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 8:55am | 473Read More...Investing in fixed-income using ETFs has evolved to include many sophisticated strategies. Investors can now choose among a variety of duration, sector, credit and global options. In addition, ETF providers are now focusing their efforts on target maturity funds to mimic the defined maturity...
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Inverse ETFs Offer Traders A Profitable Edge On The Downside
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 12:37pm | 445Read More...Volatility has returned in 2014 after consecutive months of relative calm that has many investors looking for ways to profit on the downside or hedge existing positions. Advanced traders may be seeking out options strategies or shorting individual stocks to great effect, but another...
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Getting Diversification Right -- The 90% Solution
Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 2:40pm | 460Read More...Many investors unwittingly ruin their chances at meeting their investment goals by owning too many stocks. Diversification is a great concept, but only when used correctly. Economics professors often teach the concept of "guns and butter." In times of peace, one wants to invest in butter. In...
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The Many Reasons to Swing Trade with Options
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 12:44pm | 538Read More...This article is the first of six on the topic of using options to swing trade. After laying out the reasons for using options in your swing trading program, the next five articles discuss: the long option method long and short calls or puts in combination short options only variable weighting on...
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Traders should think of themselves as entrepreneurs. Some may want to diversify by operating more than one business.
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 5:12pm | 1703Read More...By Robert A. Green, CPA and founder and CEO of Green & Company Inc. (GreenTraderTax.com and GreenTraderFunds.com) Traders may not realize it, but they are entrepreneurs. It's wise for traders to learn and follow entrepreneur business axioms. What counts most are bottom-line net profits and...
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Diversification Evolves?
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 7:17am | 871Read More...Jason Zweig had a column up over the weekend that included the following observation; It thus takes roughly 40 large stocks today to equal the diversification benefit investors got from just 20 stocks in the early 1990s, warns Mr. Sullivan of the Financial Analysts Journal. Anyone who doesn't use...
