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How To Trade In Penny Stocks For Profits – a Reality

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Penny stocks are shares of companies trading below $5. They have market caps of under $200 M and compared to typical stock, come with their higher share of risk. But that is not to say that they don’t have an allure. Penny stocks promise a big return for a small amount of investment. That’s why experienced traders and investors have penny stock trading in their portfolio.

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Penny stocks, like any other business venture, demands the know-how. To make your penny stocks venture a profitable one, you need the wisdom of the trade. It will crucify you if you don’t. Here’s a good guide to picking and trading a potential penny stock.

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Building Wealth with Ownership Investments

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Yesterday it was a pleasant surprise for me to find an email from Eric Tyson’s PA, requesting a guest contribution on Eric’s behalf. I felt privileged and important. One of those bloggers’ satisfaction days. I read Eric’s books and always have been an admirer. This post is excerpt from his book. I am sure you’d get a lot of insight in to investing from this post. Enjoy the post!

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If you want your money to grow faster than the rate of inflation over the long term and you don’t mind a bit of a roller-coaster ride from time to time in your investments’ values, ownership investments are for you. Ownership investments are those investments where you own a piece of some company or other asset (such as stock, real estate, or a small business) that has the ability to generate revenue and profits.

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10 best practices for dividend investing

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At this point of time, in mid thirties and, having a stable job, I do not look for income from my shares. I rather re-invest the dividend I receive each quarter. I own almost 20 different stocks right now and more than 80% of those stocks are dividend paying.   Dividend Investing

If you are aiming for higher return from your investment, stock and dividend investing is probably in your list already. But stock investment inherit greater risk compared to other form of investment. You should have some clear strategy and game plan to secure higher return with lower risk. These are some of the best practices that I tend to learn and adapt over last few years.

Let’s see them, very briefly.

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Taking Investment Beyond ETFs and Making it Social, the Case of Motif Investing

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Updated in 2018 – I won’t advise or suggest readers invest through Motif. There are a lot of customer complaints about their investing practices and lack of proper customer support. The scariest of complaints is that getting your investment out of motif is not easy. I’d rather want you to stay away from Motif!

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Investing is one of the most celebrated theme here at One Cent at a Time. Where we discuss everything about investing, including where to invest my money, real estate investment, Gold and silver investment, etc.

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How to Control Stock Trading Impulses

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Hope you haven’t frowned seeing the title. There are many who invest in stocks out of compulsion or impulses. This article is for those. I generally tend to write about people who are like me, middle class, having some money to enjoy life but, mostly trying hard to maximize money’s worth.

People like us, do not usually have money for buying stocks on impulse. Still, it almost happened to me last week. I was on the verge of buying into Facebook on the opening day.

In the end, I did resist myself against buying the Facebook stock. Not that Facebook is a bad investment but, the whole affair was nothing else than impulse buying. I didn’t study the valuation, I wasn’t reading analyst reports. I was just buying it, for the sake of it. Giving in to the hype and hoopla.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Spread Betting

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Tired of traditional trading on the stock or commodity market? Welcome to the world of spread betting. While having the same risk as with the stocks, it’s tax-free and offers the opportunity to take profit whether the market is in green or red.

It covers a wide range of alternatives to bet on; Indices, individual shares, commodities and currency rates.

So, what is the Bet? Unlike traditional share trading, you never own the actual share or commodity. You only make a call on whether you think it will go up or down in value. You stake a certain amount of money per point movement; the more it moves in your favour the more money you make, the more it moves against your prediction, the more you lose.

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Get Excited By Red and Depressed By Green

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I am not talking about traffic signals – I mean the stock market and its movement upward or downward. I get excited when I have money to invest in a market and it goes into the red. I worry about my investable income when I see the market in the green for an extended period.

In plain language, I am just in my mid 30’s so now, I am not bothered at all about the market being low. I don’t buy and sell frequently on every ups and downs, I don’t care by how much stock market goes up or down every day. I hate frequent stock trading.

“Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.” – Warren Buffett

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How Can I Time Stock Market Correctly?

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Millions of investors ask the same question over and over again: ‘How can I time the stock market?’ You have seen a stock or fund’s 52-week high and 52-week low, and if you are like me, you’ve probably wondered why you didn’t buy at the lowest and sell at the highest.

Every stock I see on Yahoo! finance makes me sigh… If only I could have bought the stock at such-and-such date and sold on such-and-such date. I could have been a multimillionaire by now had I timed the market correctly.

Various fools and alphas have written tons of articles on timing the market.

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Every Day Investment Questions and Answers

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There are only a handful of financial questions that we ask our self every day.  Finance is not  a cloth where one size does fit all, what needs to be done at any particular time vary widely from person to person.

Even the answer we supposed to have known already does not remain valid for long. Our financial priorities keep on changing along with the circumstances. It’s to your best interest that you seek answers to these questions regularly.

Below are the most basic financial questions on investing and how I do feel about them.

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