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A real life warrant trade explained posted on July 23, 2010 - 9:57am
I have done a few posts on warrants like warrants defined and how warrants work. I was reading through financial websites and I found a few press releases on companies offering warrants to investors. In the press releases, they use the terms used in the warrant markets to I figured that I should do a post walking through what they mean. This is because one of the major reasons for the existence of this website is to make investment lingo easy to understand and implement.
Rolling stock; definition and special uses posted on July 22, 2010 - 9:45am
When I first came across this term in an investing manual, my first thought was that it was some type of security or stock market investment but the thing is that my definition did not fit in with what the book was talking about. So I did a little research and this is what I found out about rolling stock.
Collateral trust bonds; functions and uses explained posted on July 21, 2010 - 9:45am
It has been a long time since I did a bond post. This is mainly that my fascination is mostly in the stock markets and not in the bond markets. Also another thing that is deterring me from really getting very much involved in the bond markets is the complication. I find the stock markets easier to navigate and the jargon easier to understand than those in the bond markets. Maybe I am just not interested in it or those bond people are intentionally making everything hard to understand so that we stay out of it? There’s something to think about.
The types of stock markets posted on July 20, 2010 - 9:45am
This site mainly looks at investments in the stock markets like stocks, bonds, warrants and the like. There are very few times that I have done a post describing for instance what a stock market is, the types of stock markets available, the different stock markets available in different parts of the world etc In this article, I will look into the types of stock markets, dividing it into the two major divisions; the primary stock market and the secondary stock market.
GREED IS GOOD!- or is it?? posted on July 19, 2010 - 10:31am
The above is a very popular Wall Street motto. Personally I came to hear of this phrase through Gekko (for those that do not know of this character, he is basically the personification of corporate greed; the doing what you have to do to maximize your profits even if it means stabbing your friends family and anyone around you in the chest) Let us look into this for phrase that most money people live by. Greed is good- for whom? post continues below —————————————————————————————- NEED A SCHOLARSHIP FOR SCHOOL? CLICK ON AND GET IT NOW!!!
Liar’s poker by Michael lewis- personal book review posted on July 16, 2010 - 11:20am
This is a book that came out many years ago but I just recently got my hands on a copy of one. You don’t normally review a book that has been in circulation for so long but after the experience I had with reading it, I decided to write a quick review on it. The book is some kind of biography of the author because it starts just when he is out of grad school and looking for a job. He finds one in Wall Street working for (the now infamous) Salomon Brothers as a bond salesman.
is this really success?? posted on July 14, 2010 - 12:10pm
For the longest time, i have liked reading other people’s financial success stories. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside when i read of a person coming from a poor to middle class family, dropping out of school for various reasons and going on to make mind boggling fortunes. Stories like these are everywhere; especially on the internet where there is always an ad saying that so and so made so much money after struggling for so long with poverty and personal issues. Case and point;
When and how to ask for help in your investing posted on July 12, 2010 - 7:22pm
I am getting the opinion that high octane active securities investing is not for everyone. Not everyone is suited pitting large amounts if their money against the mentally unstable stock market. There are those who can and those who plainly cannot. If you cannot, just ask for help from a reputable person or firm. But the thing with this seemingly simple advice is that Investing has long being a man dominated industry and that is where the problems come in. First of it is very hard for a man to ask for help even when he is visibly getting pummeled in the market. It hurts when you have failed in an area that men are supposed to succeed. I don’t know about other men but I would hate to have to ask for help from other people in an area where my peers seem to be making a killing from all sides. They have a term for it; it is called EGO.
dollar cost averaging and the college grad posted on July 9, 2010 - 2:57pm
(the title sounds like i got it from a movie right?- like harry potter and the goblet of fire ) It is the first thing that came to mind.
should you be concerned with market cycles? posted on July 8, 2010 - 2:36pm
One of the most important aspects of investing in the stock market is the ability to control your emotions. The most financially successful investors have had this ability and for the most part, it has paid of in form of mega returns. I mean look at Warren Buffett and John Paulson the hedge fund manager. The ability to control yourself in the face of life threatening crises is also important in other ways, like financial samurai showed with this post.