If you are in the market for a used car loan, be prepared to negotiate a good deal. Initially, car salesmen try and convince prospective buyers to agree to a huge sales price and interest rate. Of course, this maneuver does not serve to your advantage. Instead, it boosts the dealerships profit margin. If you [...]
Posts on ‘May 13th, 2006’
3 Ways to Curb a Money Spending Problem
Nobody likes to talk about it, but a lot of people have a serious problem with their money. They spend more than they make. Use these three steps to stop your money spending problem before it gets you into too much trouble!
Symptoms of a money spending problem:
You feel guilty when you spend money - even [...]
Stock and Bond Trading as a Conservative Investment Strategy
It’s likely that either curiosity or skepticism led you to this article, and I would agree that, for most individual investors, trading is approached in a totally speculative manner. Stock trading, in its more popular forms (Day Trading, Swing Trading, Penny Stock Speculating, etc.) includes none of the elements that a conservative investment strategy would [...]
Shorting Strategy and Value Investing
How does shorting work?
Shorting strategy has been very popular since the bubble
burst of technology stocks in 2000. Shorting a stock is
simply a bet that the stock price will drop.
An investor can sell a stock he/she does not own by
borrowing shares from brokers. The investor can sell the
stock first and then buy back the shares at [...]