Archive for October, 2008:

What You Need to Know Before Choosing Investment Advisers

{ Posted on Oct 31 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Learning
Many people questions about investment advisers—what they are and how to go about choosing one. This document answers some of the typical questions we receive from investors about investment advisers. This Q&A is for the benefit of investors. Q: What ...Read More »

Should I short sell now? Defining short selling….

{ Posted on Oct 30 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Learning
The term "short selling" or "going short" used as a blanket term for strategies that allow an investor to gain from the decline in price of a security. Those strategies include buying options known as puts. A put option consists ...Read More »

Long time, no see…

{ Posted on Oct 29 2008 by John }
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Categories : Update
Looks like it's been about 6 months since I've updated my blog. Long time, no see. A lot has happened in that span of time. Like I mentioned in my last post, we were trying to sell our condo and ...Read More »

Weekly Risk Report 10/27/2008

{ Posted on Oct 27 2008 by SignalPoint Blog }
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Categories : All, SignalPoint
While the new lows posted last week aren’t down that much from a couple of weeks ago, it is getting a bit monotonous seeing the markets decline. Our i-Wave risk indicator is again showing there’s little need for accumulated reserves ...Read More »

The Cost of Financial Distress And The Bubble

{ Posted on Oct 26 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Learning, Market 101, Results
Financial distress is a term that indicates a condition when promises to creditors of a company are broken or honored with difficulty. Financial distress typically leads to problems that can reduce the efficiency of management: As maximizing firm value and maximizing ...Read More »

Market 101:Why the market has circuit breakers

{ Posted on Oct 24 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Learning, Market 101
A trading curb, also known as a circuit breaker, is a point at which a stock market will stop trading for a period of time in response to substantial drops in value. The major securities and futures exchanges have procedures ...Read More »

Capital Asset Pricing Model [CAPM]

{ Posted on Oct 24 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Investing Ideas, Learning, Money, Results
The CAPM is a model for pricing an individual security or a portfolio. For individual securities, we made use of the security market line (SML) and its relation to expected return and systematic risk (beta) to show how the market ...Read More »

Measuring Portfolio Risk

{ Posted on Oct 23 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Investing Ideas, Learning
The risk of a portfolio comprises systematic risk, also known as undiversifiable risk, and unsystematic risk which is also known as idiosyncratic risk or diversifiable risk. Systematic risk refers to the risk common to all securities - i.e. market risk. ...Read More »

Investor Alerts

{ Posted on Oct 23 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Alerts, Learning
The first step in protecting yourself and your money from mishandling and theft is to know what form that abuse may take.There are few good place on internet where you find useful infomation regarding stocks, funds and other investing instrument. ...Read More »

Diversification

{ Posted on Oct 23 2008 by Ellen }
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Categories : Investing Ideas
Every possible asset combination can be plotted in risk-return space, and the collection of all such possible portfolios defines a region in this space. The line along the upper edge of this region is known as the efficient frontier (sometimes ...Read More »
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