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Forex Trading: Cracking the Trader's Code

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A Short-Seller's Survival Guide

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Another Market Head-Fake?

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The Real Truth Behind Wall Street's Economy

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It's Not Too Late to Adopt a Millionaire's Mindset

I was traveling last week, near an area where an old friend of mine lives.  So I called him to see if there was a c...
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Bollinger Bands - A Long Overdue Second Date!

90% of all traders using Bollinger band never go beyond the first date to discover the true power and predictability tha...
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Forex Trading Methods: Finding the Right One

A Special Note from The Tycoon Report: As a free investor-education newsletter, we are always on the lookout for opportu...
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2008- 09 Taxes question

I am very interested in knowing about my 2009 income tax return.This is a Canadian tax question. I don,t know if this ta...
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Could the U.S. Dollar be Headed for a Collapse?

Mixed messages can be baffling in personal relationships, but they can be paralyzing in financial markets. Case in poi...
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Bearish Stance Reversing? Here's What to Do Now...

Flip a coin 10 times, and see if it lands on tails 10 times in a row.  Can it happen?  Of course.  Anyth...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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Turn a Losing Trade into a Winner in One Easy Step

When we left off last week, we had been talking about the addition of the rolling technique to the stock-replacement str...
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Beware These 5 Caveats When Buying a Foreclosure

Thanks to the tax credit for first-time homebuyers along with low interest rates, home sales have been creeping up durin...
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Why Trading Forex Now Beats the Stock Market

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The Secret to Making Market-Beating Returns

As a trader or investor, you know that keeping a cool head whether the markets are on fire or flaming out is key to your...
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Institutions Dumping Stock! Markets Are Declining!

Hi folks, happy Tuesday!  Been feeling a little under the weather lately, but I'm back in the saddle and it's GRE...
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Here's a Technique to Help You Profit Like the Pros

When we left off last Monday, we were discussing a concern I had about the banks. I had recommended late the prior wee...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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How the Tortoise Prevented a Housing Market Collapse

Tycoon readers, Today I want to tell you about some cities in America that are bucking the overall national real estat...
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Stop Losing Money in the Markets. Here's How

Novice skydivers who don't jump solo have an instructor with whom they dive, strapped to their backs.  That...
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3 Ways to Play the Dollar's Next Move

As you learn about tapping into the wealthy world of currencies (see Part 1 and Part 2 of our ongoing series on profitin...
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Technicals vs. Fundamentals: What's the Winning Formula?

Happy Tuesday Tycoon Readers, Before we debate the merits of technical analysis vs. fundamental analysis, I just want t...
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Black Candlesticks in the Euro and Pound say the Dollar is Alive and Well

Don’t believe the predictions about the “Death of the Dollar.” It is doing just fine against the Canadian Dollar ...
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Find Portfolio Success in Banks Going Bust

Recently, I have become a little alarmed about the health of the banking sector. There are several reasons for this. F...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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How to Earn a 98.8% Return in One Year

Editor's note:  Thanks to everyone who participated in Ethan Roberts' survey about real estate investing -- you've ...
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Warning: You Have Too Many Stocks in Your Portfolio

According to a study done in the 1990s by a couple of British anthropologists, the size of the human brain is correlated...
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Are You Ready to Make Money With Currencies?

We got some great comments back from last week's article on trading currencies. It appears that many of you are already ...
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How to Know What the Market Will Do Next

After the recent launch of Options GPS, I've received a lot of questions about BASIC technical analysis.  Right n...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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The Way to Save Your Portfolio from a Sell-off

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Why Congress Must Extend the Home Buyer's Tax Credit!

Editor's note:  In an effort to give our real estate Tycoons the best information possible, we invite you to take a...
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Measuring Wealth in More Than Dollars

As an investor or a trader, your quest is simple: to keep your money, and make even more. Our investing goals, however,...
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Currencies: How to Tap Into This World of Wealth

These days it seems that, wherever you turn, you're hit in the face with another currencies commercial, promising quick ...
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It's Time to Put Your Profit System Into Place

No matter what your comfort level is, what your investing time horizon is, or whether you are a momentum trader or value...
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How to Play the Market's Next Move

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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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Understanding Volume - the Key to Unlocking Profits - Part 3

In our previous articles, we have discussed normal volume, abnormal volume and volume spikes. This week we are going to...
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Why 'Nice Guy' Landlords Finish Last

The late Leo Durocher (1905-'91), a Hall of Fame baseball player and manager, was often credited with a famous remark th...
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Why You Should Tread Carefully This Earnings Season

Last night, Dow Industrials component Alcoa (Symbol: AA) upheld the tradition of kicking off earnings season with t...
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Sector ETFs: Still the Most-Profitable Way to Invest

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal sang the praises of "managed" Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). Don'...
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How to Bet on 2 Sectors' Strength

Yesterday was a huge day, technically.  Why? Thursday's and Friday's action brought the market back down to its ...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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There's Still Time to Change Your Financial Fate

They say history repeats itself. Maybe so ... but not this time in the stock market! Today’s stock market is at ...
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Have a Healthy Retirement Without Social (In)Security!

The Associated Press carried a story last week that the Social Security system is now being heavily strained by Baby Boo...
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'Keeping Your Money' in Options

"Why didn't my option make me money when the stock did exactly what I thought it would?" If I had a dollar ...
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Beware of These Trader's Mind Traps

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -- Hamlet "It is difficult to get a ma...
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Profiting from Options

In your lead article of 10/01/09 You give an excellent desertation of what In The Money, At the Money and Out of the mon...
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Time to Cash Out?

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The Final Breaths of the Dying Stock Market Rally

The stock market High of 2000 was a repeat of the stock market high of 1929, except that in the scale of things it was o...
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The Secret of Successful Stock-Picking

Happy Tuesday, Tycoons! First, I want to congratulate everyone who made it into Options GPS school. I look forward...
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Earnings plays can be like "Falling on a Hand Grende

The fast money allure of high volatility one day an impending volatility collapse the next has drawn allot of traders i...
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The fast money allure of high volatility one day an impending volatility collapse the next has drawn allot of traders i...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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Rent to Own ? Use an Option

Ever had a feeling about the direction of a stock or the market and been looking for the most effective way to play. If ...
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What Everyone Ought to Know About Options

Options are the greatest way possible to invest in the stock market. There are a number of reasons why. My favorite ha...
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5 Rules to Sell Your Home in a 'Fugetaboutit' Real Estate Market

Tycoon readers, A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to buy a home at the best price.  Today I'm going to turn that ...
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Attention Stock Investors Looking to Make the Leap to Options

Yesterday, Teeka Tiwari talked with you about being patient and waiting get into potential options positions at a great ...
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Understanding Volume behaviors

In our last volume article, Understanding Volume - we discussed Normal Volume versus Abnormal Volume behavior s. This w...
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How to Make a Killing During Options 'Hunting Season'

He steadies his sights, feeling the beads of perspiration slowly trickling down his spine. His breath quickens and he ...
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10 Winners Ready To Jump!

Editor's Note: Today I'd like to let you into my life for a moment, with a story I believe can relate to your finan...
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How to Get the Kind of Lifestyle You Deserve

CAN SUCCESS BE PURCHASED? The answer is yes. And the cost is only a few minutes each day. Why? Because success can be ...
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A Stunning New Prediction: Get Ready to Be Upside-Down on your Mortgage!

Tycoon readers, As promised last month, I will be updating you on the national real estate market on each third Friday ...
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How to be 'Street' Smart About Expiring Positions

Happy expiration week, Tycoons! As you may know, the third Friday of every month is known as "expiration Friday.&q...
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The Unseen Danger of Too Many Options

This isn't an article about holding too many options contracts in your account, though that can be a real concern, and t...
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How to Turn a Smaller Portfolio into a Bigger Performer

This week I want to share another trading strategy with you that involves stop-losses. This strategy will show you how y...
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What to Do if the Crash Smashed Your Account

Editor's Note: Before I start, I want to say congratulations to Kelly P. out in Ohio!  She was last week's win...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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Once Again, We Bid A Not-So-Fond Farewell

Once again, we bid farewell to another Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.-insured bank ... this time, it's Corus Bank. ...
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A Realtor Reveals: How to Buy a Home at the Best Price

Editor's note: Today marks the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy that killed over 3,000 individuals.  Please take...
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Changing the Way We Think

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Impact of '08 Impairments on Year End '09 Perceived Value of Oil and Gas Producer Stock Prices

I nearly swallowed my dumb-dumb today when my favorite stock guru indicated that he was bearish on oil stocks. While I a...
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The Options Markets Want YOU!

With the Labor Day holiday behind us, traders and investors have wrapped up their summer vacations and returned to their...
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How to Find the Best Place to Set Your Sell Stops

I've been receiving a lot of e-mails lately from people who are interested in trading options, and the most frequently a...
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As Promised: A Free, Life-Changing Gift For You

It's finally ready for you! Thanks for your patience.  I know it took a while, but I wanted to be sure we got it r...
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Another Major Scandal

Much of the financial turmoil could have been avoided or at least minimized if the major CPA firms who audit all the lar...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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The Market's Labor Day Sale May Be Over

For the past two weeks, those of us trading futures, and those trading stocks and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), have ex...
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Announcing 'Cash for Congress Clunkers'!

Last week, the controversial "Cash for Clunkers" automobile sales program came to an end.  Clearly, des...
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Everything You Think You Know is Wrong

"Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts." -- Nelson Mandela "The free man is...
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Own Stocks for 70% Off ... and Create Your Own Dividend!

Special Note from Chris Rowe: I am pleased to introduce one of the best options educators in the business to The Tycoon ...
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The Breakdown on How to Play Breakouts, Pullbacks

During the last few weeks (albeit with a few editorial detours on the way), I've been sharing an investor education seri...
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The Most Important Article I'll Ever Send You, Right Here

Dear Tycoons, This really is what I believe to be the most important article I'll ever send you.  Today, is a ve...
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Another Better Way To Buy Stocks!

You’ve read in these pages about the advantages of using options as an alternative to buying stocks outright, and with...
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Hail Bernanke: Those in Foreclosure Salute You!

This week, we saw Ben Bernanke "re-anointed" for another four years.  President Barack "Change&quo...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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How I Learned to Profit from Options the Hard Way!

Tycoon readers, When my editor told me that this week we were going to have a special "Options Week" theme, ...
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The Party is Over and Candlestick Reversal Patterns Are On The Charts

It has been quite a party since March 10. Since then, the Dow Industrials Average has risen 2702 points (39%) to what m...
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How I Elevated My Options Trading Game

When you're long a stock (i.e., holding the shares in your account), having it go up is the only way you'll make a gain....
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2 Powerful Ways to Profit With Options

Over the last few weeks, I've been sharing an investor education series with you. Given that it's "Options Week&quo...
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Art of Taking Profits

Most traders have experienced the anguish of being in a profitable trade, only to allow the trade to go against them. T...
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Options: What Your Broker Doesn't Want You to Know

Right off the bat, I want to say this isn't about "that dirty rotten stinkin' bad old broker."  Brokers a...
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Don't Get Caught Trading Options Naked

Editor's Note: It's "Options Week" here at The Tycoon Report. For the next five days, we've asked our columnis...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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Is the Real Estate Market Turning the Corner?

Tycoon readers, It's been a while since I've updated you on the conditions in the national real estate market, so I th...
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The Joy of Looking: Unearthing New Japanese Candlestick Reversal Patterns

Everybody’s different, but everybody enjoys the satisfaction of finding something of perceived value while on a treasu...
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Everything's Relative: How Not to Get Suckered Into Anything

"Tom had discovered a great law of human action; namely that, in order to make a man covet a thing, it is only nec...
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Have a Portfolio You Can Be Proud Of

There are times in life when you do everything you’re supposed to do, but things still don’t work out. Becau...
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Read This, and Never Trade Stocks/ETFs Again! (Delta, Part 5)

Remember this e-mail? Dear Mr. Rowe, "Just like your other reader, you saved my financial life -- free of charge...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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The Market 'Everyone' Wants to Trade: What's Stopping You?

This past Thursday, I held a webinar, "Futures Trading: An Insider's Guide to E-Minis,"  for several...
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Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

The Candlestick price bar in the NASDAQ Composite on Thursday was double-barreled bearish, in that it was a combination...
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A Wall Street Saga: A 'Goldman' Oportunity (Part 2)

  "With the right hand out begging for bailout money, the left is hiding it offshore." -- Rep. Lloyd Dogg...
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The Financial Sector Surges ... What's Next?

The financial sector continues to rally strongly, just after the Fed announced on Wednesday afternoon that it would not ...
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The World's General Store Doesn't Sell Candlesticks Like This One

Today was a crazy day at the races for Wal-Mart shares. They gapped up $1.35 or on opening, promptly descended almost b...
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How to Rehab Your Way Into Big Profits!

Tycoon readers, I always enjoy the comments that I get each week after I write my articles.  Sometimes a few may ...
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True Equity vs. Market Equity

Everybody has a different level of expectations and commitment when it comes to managing their own money. If you are a r...
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How to Profit from this Explosive Chart Formation

I have been writing a series on "Delta" (not the airlines, but the "Greek" variable relating to opti...
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Momentum—Advantage of utilizing the right way in your trading

Momentum -- what is it and how is it used for trading? Most traders hear about momentum in their studies of the markets,...
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The timely stock with the greatest potential I've ever seen and low risk.

I'm not an analyst....just a personal investor with a knack and some knowledge of what to look for in a great investment...
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How to Be a 12-Minute Trader ... Details Revealed

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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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These Renters Have Gone to the Dogs!

I recently returned from a seven-day trip to the Gulf Coast of Florida, where I own two rental properties.  The ten...
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A Wall Street Saga: A 'Goldman' Oportunity (Part 1)

"If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale." -- John Kenneth Galbraith,...
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How to Sharpen Your ETF Options Trading Edge

Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) options traders have always been faced with the additional work of not only correctly predict...
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Newly Discovered Candlestick Reversal Pattern Pops Up Again

I believe that it was early in January 2009 when we first took notice of a Candlestick pattern at the top of an uptrend ...
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Bearish Engulfing Outside-Down Day Candlestick Pattern May Signal End of the Rally

The eminent Philosopher-General of the Baseball Diamond, Yogi Berra, has been quoted often as saying that “It ain’t ...
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The Difference Between Winning and Losing Traders

No doubt you know the difference between winning and losing trades -- we've all experienced both and know the pain of th...
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What is Delta? This Answer Changed My Trading Life Forever (Part 4)

Here's some advice that I have given that has made hundreds of people millions of dollars:  You probably shouldn'...
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Forex ... Hasta La Vista Baby

If you're like me and spend any time watching financial news networks, you have been subjected to thousands of forex (FX...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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Understanding Volume - the Key to Unlocking Profits

Volume in the market is as important as fuel to your car. Prices do not move without buyers and/or sellers. This serie...
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How to 'Land' the Best Deal on Real Estate

Tycoon readers, ever wonder where writers get their article ideas from?  Sometimes they come in unexpected ways! I...
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Target: Net Fuel Cost of Zero

This little treatise was prompted, in the beginning, by recurrent published stories having to do with the airlines’ di...
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The Way to Kickstart Your Economic Recovery

The recent market volatility has been nice to see happening on the upside for a change. However, don't get lulled to sle...
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Start Cutting Risk RIGHT NOW!

During the last several weeks, I’ve been tackling various investor-education subjects as part of a multi-part seri...
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What is Delta? This Answer Changed My Trading Life Forever (Part 3)

For those of you who don’t know (shame on you), for the last two weeks (Tuesdays) we have been talking about unde...
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Here's One for the Little Guy

Ever wonder how so many Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) were able to get their footing? Of course, the banks are...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

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How to Buy an Investment Property in Just 5 Minutes

This week, I realized just how many bad ideas are being offered in the online media (outside of The Tycoon Report, where...
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Read This Before You Trade Your Next ETF...

Whether it's soaring or slumping -- and it often does both during the course of a week -- the financial sector never fal...
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How Much Money Should You Risk? (Part 2)

We're in the midst of an ongoing series on ways to boost your profits, and in last week's Tycoon Report, I explained exa...
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What is Delta? This Answer Changed My Trading Life Forever (Part 2)

Hello, Tycoons! Before getting into Part 2 of the three-part series I started last Tuesday, first I want to tell ...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Who Really Owns Your Stocks? Hint: It's Not You

So, do you think you own the stocks you've bought? Think again.  For those of you who have not heard of the Dep...
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Another Well-Intentioned Program? No Thanks!

There is an old saying that goes back hundreds of years, that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."...
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A Solar-Powered Look at Big ETF Movers

The broader market made an impressive showing Wednesday, but that's yesterday's news, literally. To find out where we ...
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Candle Charts Confirm Discovery of Powerful New Candlestick Reversal Pattern

One of the outstanding attributes of Candlestick analysis is its utilization of candle charts in order to ferret out re...
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INDEPENDENCE DAY: CELEBRATION OR WAKE?

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INDEPENDENCE DAY: CELEBRATION OR WAKE?

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Timing the Opportunity that Most Will Miss

Happy Thursday to you all. Just to let you know, next Thursday I’ll be taking my first week off since I started wr...
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How Much Money Should You Risk?

During the next several weeks, be sure to tune into this space every Wednesday to learn eight tips aimed at making you a...
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A New Candlestick Pattern Just Rode Into Town

Everyone who is familiar with Japanese Candlesticks knows about the “Morning Star,” because it is one of the most fa...
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What is Delta? This Answer Changed My Trading Life Forever (Part 1)

Happy Tuesday, Tycoons! Given the current market environment, where an overbought market has begun to sell off and peop...
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A New Definition of Slippage?

Last week, we witnessed the creation of an entirely new definition for the concept of "slippage." If we look ...
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Would You Rent to This Tenant?

There's an old relationship adage of "I'd rather be alone than wish I were." When you own rental properties, t...
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Building Your ETF Portfolio, BRIC by BRIC

By now, in the search for portfolio opportunities globally, you've likely heard the term "BRIC" used to d...
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Write Your Own Investment Success Story

It's earnings season (again), as Alcoa (AA) got the party started last night by issuing the inaugural report of the...
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8 Easy Ways to Boost Your Profits, Part 1

During the next several weeks, be sure to tune into this space every Wednesday to learn eight tips aimed at making you a...
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Low gasoline prices were a nice Christmas present seven months ago, but – like some Christmas presents – they didn�...
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How to Sell at the Right Time

When you're entering a stock or option position, not only is it a challenge to find the right one to trade, but also the...
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How to Trade for the Rest of the Year

Half the trading year is over, so it's a great time to stop and do a reality check on what's working (and what isn't) in...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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This Black Candlestick Has Evil Intent

The Dow Jones Industrials Index fell out of bed on July 2 on the basis of a terrible unemployment report. In so doing, ...
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What Will Your Home Be Worth in 2017?

In the real estate news this week, the pace of the monthly price decline in homes "moderated," according to th...
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HEALTH CARE REFORM

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As we head into the long July 4th holiday weekend (remember, the markets are closed on Friday), I'm reminded of what it ...
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Taming the Emotional Tiger in Your Trading

"In free markets, sentiment refers to the feelings and emotions of market participants.... Every change in price re...
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How to Trade Today's Top ETFs

With the first half of the year behind us, the Dow Industrials (INDU) are down almost 4% since January, even though...
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The Forgotten "Fundamental"

Here we go again.Economists and other observers of many persuasions are dead-on certain that the price of Gold is headed...
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Everybody Knows The Dice Are Loaded

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It's the Strongest Market in a Global Meltdown: Hedging China, Selling the Rest. Here's Why...

First, things first.  Rest in peace to all four megastars who passed away in the last week: 1. Michael Jackson (I ...
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How I Make My Mortgage Money in 30 Seconds

One of the benefits of daytrading futures is that we have the fun of pre-market trading (before 9:30 a.m.).  It's m...
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For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Buying the Older Dream Home: Blessing or Just a Money Pit?

This past week, I had the interesting experience of showing a young couple some very old homes in an area of town that h...
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5 Reasons ETFs are Superior to Mutual Funds

I remember when I first started actively investing back in 1990, particularly how frustrated I used to get that mut...
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Last week, I read a rather disturbing story about a 13 year old British boy who has just fathered a child!  Alfie P...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

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Who's Gonna Bail YOU Out?

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Can The News Help ?

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Would you Buy a Home if you had Paraskavedekatriaphobia?

Tycoon readers, as you probably realize, today is Friday the 13th.  If you are afraid of this date, Wikipedia says ...
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Further Confessions of a Sector Hunter

I just got off the phone with Ben Schott, The Tycoon Report's esteemed editor, and I was asking about the new Sector Hun...
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My ETF portfolio is up 3.5% while my other portfolio is down 3.03%

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The Cure for Your Financial Pain

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Emotions and how not to trade

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Gold Is Entering An Accelerated Trend Channel

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Oh No! Did You Hear What the Economists are Saying?

Okay, okay, just calm down.  Take a deep breath.  This is a quick intervention for those addicted to the emoti...
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Income Strategies: An Update on My In-the-Money Naked Put Portfolio

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What a Life: Bill Gates Sells $160 Million in Stock

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The Hidden Arctic Secret

Fifty-five million years ago, the Arctic was riotous with life. With average temperatures in the mid-70s, it had palm tr...
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Is This the Best You Got?

You may recall an article that I wrote last September in which I mentioned a little league pitcher who was so good, they...
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Killing three birds with one stone - how to work on recapitalizing banks

The government should grant a one-year reduction in gift tax rates - say down to 20% as long as the gifts dispensed at ...
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Can the Government Save Us?

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more ...
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One Idea to Implement Part of the Stimulus Package to Benefit Main Street

Listening to the many ideas, on how the President and a host of other backseat driver financial experts propose to imple...
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Why Dow 6,586 is "Fair Value" (or very overvalued!)

The market will most likely break new lows and scare the daylights out of most of us once again.  Today I'll give y...
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Insiders Selling Apollo Group, IBM

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Savings and the New World Order

I just had to laugh! I read an article the other day about  how 2009 will be a year in which the American consumer...
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Relationship between Gold and Oil

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The Only Thing We Have To Fear

Fear of missing the next winner is a killer. The quote above is from a recent article by one of my all-time favorite fi...
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Is Gold Ready for a Comeback?

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more ...
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How a Pro Avoids Crushing Losses

I just hung up the phone with Teeka Tiwari (I'm writing this Monday night at 8:45pm), because I wanted to ask his permis...
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Jamie Dimon's $11 Million Bet on JP Morgan

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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How to Profit from Rampant Incompetence

Last week a participant on Tickerhound.com made an extremely astute observation.  Basically he said that when you h...
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Corporate Heroes

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Where's the Bottom?

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Inauguration Marks Doomsday for the Stock Market

Happy inauguration day! Don't worry, this article is about how to make big profits in the stock market and avoid any fu...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

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Coulda, woulda, shoulda

The answer was in the sealed envelope. The return address in the upper left corner revealed the name of the brokerage h...
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Flipping Out: Has "Flip That Home" Returned?

Despite the American Government's best attempts to stick its nose where it doesn't belong, the entrepreneurial spirit is...
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Creating a Watch List Part 2: Choosing an ETF

In my example from last week we did a relative strength analysis and chose a sector to invest in, The Consumer Staples s...
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The Alchemy of Deceit

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more ...
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Baby Boomer Economy after retirement...

I have recently retired early with a modest but decent pension from a reliable company. My wife is also collecting...
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Gone with the wind

Hurrican is over.Alert--" wind is still 150 mph.hanging overDo not waste time to find the reasons for this usa financial...
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How to Lock In Today's Low Gas Prices

Happy Tuesday! As I see the price of crude oil dropping again, I'm also watching the prices as I pass every gas station...
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Longer Term Retirees

We are in our upper 70's, and require withdrawals from our IRA's to supplement Social Security in order to live a modest...
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A Strategy That Produces Greater Returns: Writing Naked Puts

In today’s economic times, six-month CDs return 2.9%, six-month treasuries 0.3%, ten-year treasuries 2.5% and triple ...
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Effect on My Retirement and Life Planning of the Financial Crisis

For 25 years I have run a succesful media company in the UK. I have always been prudent focusing on profitabilty and cas...
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Financial Crisis and its affects on me!

First, a little background, I'm 47 with a wife and four children, age 20, 19, 17 and 14. There is probably no need to go...
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How Has the Financial Crisis Affected YOU?

As investors, we pay attention to numbers like unemployment, housing starts, retail sales and consumer confidence. But ...
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Insider Sales Far Outweigh Buys on the Week

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Retirement Struggle

As a fully retired senior citizen. I live off of a small pension from Verizon, Social Security, and my IRA account. As o...
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Taking good advice pays off!

Well I took your advice. I bought double inverse ETFs and that was a good move. My portfolio is in better condition ...
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The death of capitalism

January 1, 2009UNCOMMON COMMON SENSEFor People who thinkTHE DEATH OF CAPITALISM"If you don't use your eyes for seeing, l...
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The Knock at the Door!

How could have this happened to me? I worked hard but worked on a commission basis. Then the real estate market crashed ...
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What Your Financial Adviser Has Probably Not Told You

Most of you have had different versions of this conversation with your financial advisor.You say " Well,as the market do...
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Globalisation Boom to follow Bust

There is no doubt that the world economy has been dealt a severe blow by the banking crisis which fuelled the property c...
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Treasuries, Inflation, Gold

Last Week I opened a swing trade against the 20-year treasuries (TBT). I had been watching it since Dec 18 when I first...
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Why is Investing so Confusing?

Every morning one of the first things that I do, of course, is to read The Tycoon Report.  But after that I read va...
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Creating a Watch List Part 1: Choosing a Sector

So you’ve been receiving The Tycoon Report in your inbox for a while now and you’ve been hearing Chris, Teek...
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America: The End of an Era?

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more ...
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WARNING: Sober Up in '09 - Be Prepared For Decline!

This article might make you filthy rich, or depress you.  But you have GOT TO think about this like the s...
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Farming, Ranching in great crisis.

Where is the bail out money, banks who force farmers to sell there wheat at 4.00 dollars now don't want to talk to them....
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Merrill Lynch Sells Blackrock Stock

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Special Note on Chris' Videos

 Dear Tycoon, In March 2008, after the collapse of Bear Sterns, I realized that although the market had declined 1...
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4 Great Real Estate Recipes for 2009!

"Hey Ethan, what's the outlook for Real Estate in 2009?" After a couple of dismal years, many people have rec...
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Peak Oil Discussion

I have used the term ‘Peak Oil’ a few times, sometimes incorrectly. Today let us discuss this term and what it mean...
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Editor's Picks: Tycoon's Best of '08

It’s the last day of 2008, and I’m sure the investing community is only too happy to close the door on this ...
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Survive 2009: Bypass the B.S.

Today I'm going to hypnotize you so that, after a few months of exercise, you will have a gift.  However, the gift,...
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Director Dumps $25M in Auto Parts Stock Copart

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and fut...
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2008: A Year for Patience and Thanks

The week between Christmas and New Year's is always a time for reflecting back on the year as a whole.  When I thin...
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Why You Must Start Trading Options Now

Options are the greatest way possible to invest in the stock market. There are a number of reasons why. (My favorite hap...
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Sears Insider Dumps $67 Million in Shares

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Tired of Doom and Gloom?

About a week ago, a buddy of mine sent me an article from another financial website, called "8 Really Scary Predict...
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Scrooge's Penny-Pinching Tips

In this season of gift-giving and pausing to reflect on the year past, I’m going to take a little break from writi...
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How Democrats Accidently invented Supbrime Mortgages

In 1977 Congress passed a bill entitled the "Community Reinvestment Act". This bill put pressure on banks and other fina...
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In defence of Bankers

When Lehman brothers went bankrupt in September the media began to vilify any banker they thought was responsible for th...
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Your Future Has Been Looted

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more ...
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Why Cash is a Trade Too

The most successful investors in the stock market aren’t always invested in stock. They’re only invested whe...
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Analog stocks will lead semi recovery

Given all the gadgets(cell phones,ipods etc.)and the younger generations need for them.They are not going away and even ...
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Blue Christmas? Ralph Lauren Sells Polo Stock

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Market Wrap Up December 15, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Bailout or Bankruptcy

The auto manufacturers are wanting a bailout by the government of $15M or they may go bankrupt. Some congressmen are wa...
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Did Congress Sell Out the U.S. Economy?

Tycoon readers, there is a stink in the air, and it's coming from Washington!         No...
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Sector Timing: When to Pull the Trigger

Note: This is the final installment in a three-part series introducing you to sector investing. In case you missed the o...
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U.S. Dollar Bubble Inflating?

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more ...
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Bear Rally: Is it for Real?

For the last six weeks I've been showing you how to make incredible profits in China. But I think it's time to bring it ...
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Hedge Fund Fortress Liquidates BKD Stake

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and fut...
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Market Wrap Up December 8, 2008

There will not be a Market Wrap-Up today as I am deep in market research for tomorrow's Tycoon Report article. Be sure t...
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Is Greed Still Going to Save the USA?

Several years ago, I awoke about 5 AM on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and coffee in hand, drove over to my local Wal-M...
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Mastering Sector Rotation

Last article I introduced you to sectors and how to begin to choose a sector to invest in. Today we will take a more in-...
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Worst Recession Since The Great Depression?

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), we have been in a recession since December 2007. Normally ...
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1000% Profits with Two Asia ETFs

Yesterday, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) said its Business Cycle Dating Committee determined that the ...
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Icahn, Gates, Slim Make Major Moves

Carl Icahn, Bill Gates, and Carlos Slim Helu have made significant purchases this week, according to filings with the Se...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Market Wrap Up December 1, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST, he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Fed's Latest $800B Plan: Will it Work?

[Editor's Note: All of us in the Tycoon family are taking some time off for the Thanksgiving holiday. We'll be back on M...
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Two Chinese Stocks Set to Multiply 20 Times Over

Today I'll be brief and to the point, and I'll give you two Chinese stocks that can make you rich over the long-term. P...
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Buffett Sold Bank of America Prior to Crash

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold nearly half of its Bank of America (BAC) holdings prior to the market&rsq...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and fut...
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Market Wrap Up November 24, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Trickle-down Theory- Why it will no longer Work

I am an investor of over 30 years, and my passion during these years has been to deal with a lot of numbers, watch chang...
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Bailouts and Short Sales: Where Will it End?

A very strange thing happened this past week. I received a call from a former customer asking for a consultation on sett...
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Confessions of a Wild Sector Hunter

[Editor’s Note: Congratulations to Bob De Dea, who has just been officially certified by Teeka Tiwari on the ETF M...
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The Greatest Opportunity Since the Great Depression (III)

HOW MANY PEOPLE READING TODAY'S TYCOON REPORT OWN THEIR OWN BUSINESS? I ask that question because I, as a fellow busine...
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Retail Sector Death Spiral: How to Profit

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more ...
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More Sleeping Giants: 2 Chinese Stocks to Buy

People have been counting China out lately in this economic slowdown (world-wide recession in the making). But China has...
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Citigroup Insiders Vote of Confidence: $17 Million in Buys

Citigroup Inc. (C) insiders are scrambling to assure investors and employees that the bank is A-OK amid reports that its...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and fut...
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Market Wrap Up November 17, 2008

Since I'm having computer issues right now, I will give you a quick market wrap up in text and pictures instead of the u...
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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions 1.   Goldman looks like it's going lower - when would you be a b...
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Will the Obama Policies Help or Hurt the Real Estate Market?

Now that a new President has been elected, the question becomes what kind of changes are we likely to see and how will t...
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What This Year's Holiday Party Can Teach You About Market Bubbles

GOSH, I LOVE A GOOD PARTY. In my 20s I used to live for them. Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night my friends and...
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5 Bank Panic Mega-Trends

[Editor's Note: Teeka is appearing on Fox Business News today, but will return to his regular schedule next week. This ...
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Sleeping Giants Cont.: How to Get Rich in China

Two weeks ago I wrote an article titled, "Sleeping Giants: Three Chinese Stocks to Buy," and I said I would be...
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Bill Gates Dumps $183.5 Million in Microsoft Stock

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and fut...
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Market Wrap Up November 10, 2008

Chris is feeling rather under the weather today, so there will be no Market Wrap Up.  Be sure to check back this ti...
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How To Buy a Home for a Third of the Original Price!

About four months ago, I wrote an article for The Tycoon Report called, Would you journey 300 miles to buy an investment...
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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

This Week's Most Popular Finance & Investing Questions: 1.  What are your post-election thoughts on energy? 2...
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What a Democrat in the White House Means to Your Wallet

Okay, so your preferred presidential candidate may or may not have won the election on Tuesday, but you have to admit th...
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This Is The Kind of Market Buffett Got Rich In

I get the honor of publishing my article today without knowing who won the election. I’ve written at length as to...
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Know What You're Really Voting For

[Editor's Note: Thanks to your feedback, we've added some new features to The Tycoon Report. In the right-hand column, y...
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Buffett Rides the Rails

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and fut...
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No Video Today

Here's why - I'm in the middle of writing a whopper of a Tycoon Report for tomorrow's publishing.  You MUST read it...
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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions 1.  Is Apple a safe bet? 2.  Why didn't the OPEC cuts shore up ...
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Trick or REITs: Is it Time to Buy?

Since today is Halloween and since the ghosts of 1929 have been haunting the stock market for the last few weeks, I thou...
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The Hardest Mile

Ugly market, no doubt. We had a nice rally this week, but the odds are good it will get uglier in the short-term. When g...
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Investing Playbook: How to Play Today's Market

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more ...
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Sleeping Giants: 3 Chinese Stocks to Buy

The S&P 500 is about 44% off its October 2007 high. The Dow is about 40% off its October 2007 high. The NASDAQ Com...
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Lampert Gets in the Zone

Is it time to buy? Warren Buffett says yes. Two weeks ago, Buffett told The New York Times that he is buying U.S. stocks...
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Market Wrap Up October 27, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST, he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Insider Buys and Sells

BUYS Gehl Co. (GEHL) Gehl Co. Director Marcel Braud and 10% Owner Manitou BF S.A. have BOUGHT $549.5 million in GEHL sto...
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How to Earn a 98.8% Return in One Year

The coffee stained, lightly creased listing sheet read: For Sale: 3/1, 1121 square feet, Asking $4,999.  I did a ...
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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

Check out this week's Most Popular Finance & Investing Questions: 1.  What industries (if any) have benefited ...
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Precious Metals Future Explained

With all that is bad in the world today the goal of any investor should be; 1. To preserve existing wealth2. To grow and...
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The Most Undervalued Asset in Corporate America

MAKING MONEY IN MARKETS LIKE THESE HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH BRAVERY. History is littered with investors who lo...
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Watch That Triangle!

A triangle appears to be forming in the S&P 500, and also in the Dow Industrials. We always sit up and take notice ...
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DAX and Gold - Did an Ongoing Correlation Begin in 2003 - a Correlation Which Persists To This Day?

From 1991 through the first quarter of 1996, the price of Gold ranged between $579 and $659. From mid-1996 to early 200...
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Dr. Porsche's 1,001 Horsepower

In the early days of the automobile, Ferdinand Porsche, himself an Austrian, served as a designer at the Daimler motorca...
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Get Back What You Lost!

Over the last few days I have received many questions about the current state of the market, specifically about oil, gol...
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The Euro Collapses, Just As The Candlesticks Said It Would

It was written in the Bars, and we know the culprits: Double Tops and Candlesticks. Over the past 14 weeks, the Euro ha...
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Who's Beating Buffett?

[Editor's Note: Reminder: Teeka Tiwari's free webinar is TODAY at Noon Eastern. He has been reading your questions ...
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Market Wrap up for October 20, 2008

I'm not going to be doing a market wrap up tonight because I have an important issue to write for tomorrows Tycoon ...
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Media Mogul Redstone: From Billionaire to Bankruptcy?

Media mogul Sumner Redstone is embroiled in his own credit crisis brought on by the market’s savage sell-off. Re...
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Insider Buys and Sells

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and fut...
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Why You're 'Broker' Than Your Broker!

After reading the great articles in Tycoon this week about stockbrokers, I wanted to relate my personal experiences as w...
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The Most Dangerous Place to Get Investing Advice Today

[Editor's Note: Got questions? The market is up, down, and just plain crazy. Teeka Tiwari, hedge fund manager and F...
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The Secret to Success in this Market

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more...
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Why This Market Can Easily CRUSH You

[Editor's Note: Teeka Tiwari will answer Tycoon Report readers questions about the current market environment in a ...
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How I Cashed In While Everyone Else Cries

How I have cashed in while everyone else cries. It’s funny to hear my uncle, who is intelligent, successful, and...
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Market Wrap Up October 13, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Warren Buffett's Favorite Options Strategy

Warren Buffett isn’t known for his risky investments. Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio is filled with blue-chi...
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Weekly Wrap-up: Insider Buys and Sells

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and futu...
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Dow Sinks Past 8,600: How to Cope

"IT WOULD BE SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING IF IT WASN'T HAPPENING TO ME." That's what someone said to me yesterd...
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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions 1.  If you were a House of Representatives member, would you vote for...
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How YOU Can Turn a $4 Trillion Dollar Loss into Huge Profits...

I DON'T TRY TO TIME ASSETS, I TRY TO PRICE THEM. That's why I'm the wrong guy to ask if you want to know which directio...
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Who's really to blame for this financial crisis?

Seems like everyone is pointing the finger at everyone else. The most common and most convenient to blame is the fat cat...
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5 Bank Panic Mega-Trends

It’s currently Monday night and I am in Las Vegas after attending a speaking engagement this weekend. Normally I w...
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The effect of war on the crude and finaly the wealth of the world

First of all we should understand the actual value of the crude and paper money which is too much higher than that of ou...
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Is this another Black October?

We just experienced the third worst performing September since 1950 with the S&P 500 losing 8.6%. If that makes you ...
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The Fed acting as intermediary should work

Banks are wary of lending in the inter-bank market because the risk of a black hole is considerable. The current lack of...
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Buffett Buys GE, Goldman. Should You?

While I was sitting at my desk on Wednesday, I heard Chris Rowe marvel, “Warren Buffett is such a stud.” Now...
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Market Wrap Up October 6, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and fut...
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The so called bail out / theift ; help me I screwed up ......

I have sent this out to numurous people & congress men/women & nobody seems toget it If congress really wanted to hel...
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Historic Times

The MSNBC talking head told us to remember this day to tell our kids. This would be a day studied in the future as “t...
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Is the Next Great Bull Market For Rent?

The great thing about investing is that if you do your homework, you can always find a way to profit in any market. Even...
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Most Popular Investing Questions

This Week's Most Popular Finance & Investing Questions 1.  Now that the government has stepped in, is now...
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Rescue the economy through the solvent small banks

The stated objective of the $700B rescue plan is to provide liquidity to the market and keeping industry and the economy...
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How to Solve this Crisis

Boy, I thought the upcoming election would be the polarizing event of the year. But the McCain/Obama showdown looks like...
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Does the Government Owe JP Morgan?

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka answer more...
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Profit from the Bailout Bloodbath!

AH! Thank goodness I get to write on TUESDAYS for Tycoon. I get to share my analysis of the 6.5% - 10.5% massacre in th...
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Hank Greenberg Jockeys for Control of AIG

Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former head of American International Group (AIG) who had been battling to regai...
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Market Wrap Up September 29, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Written in 1719, this could have been written today

Every now and then the world is visited by one of these delusive seasons, when the credit system .... expands to full lu...
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Can AmeriDream Save the American Dream?

Tycoon readers, after an unsettling week in which we saw the United States government go to unparalleled lengths to try ...
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Is this a draft of Henry M. Paulson's proposal?

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Most Popular Investing Questions

Given all the insanity surrounding our financial system lately, it's no surprise as to which types of questions would be...
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The Secret Villain Behind Our Economic Collapse

"EMBARRASSING" That's the word our Treasury Secretary used to describe how he felt begging Congress for money...
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6 Gold & Oil Stocks to Profit from Inflation

Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted. Listen now to hear Teeka more reader...
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A couple of ideas to help, not completely resolve, this financial mess.

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Buy Gold, Silver, and Commodities, Stop Naked Shorts!

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I have a secret to share with you ...

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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

If all the banks fail, will we use sea-shells instead of money? Do you think Oil will go below $60 after the presidenti...
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Credit Crisis Brings 'Once in a Century' Opportunities

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Should AIG be Saved?

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An Important Message from Chris

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Profit from Today's Fed Decision and Stock Market Meltdown

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Bill Gates Buys $32 Million Worth of Garbage

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Special Report: Can Dow Hold 11,000?

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Are We Trading In Our Future for Quick Cash Today?

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Buffett's $16 Billion Bet on Financials

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5 Stocks to Buy if Obama Wins

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Most Popular Investing Questions

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USA. Broke

We can no longer rely on ourselves any more. Everything we have comes from someone else(cars, clothing, food, toys) Funn...
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U.S. Taxpayers Taking in the Fannie (and Freddie)

Yeah, I said it. Somebody has to say it! Congratulations! You (if you are a U.S. taxpayer) are now the proud owner of a...
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A Stimulative Federal Spending Cut

The number one problem with our republic is that it has become a democratic tyranny which contravenes much of the Consti...
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IBM Insider Dumps $31 Million Shares

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Market Wrap Up September 8, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Banks will lead rally when bull market returns!

Most people seem to think that the stock market has hit bottom or is close to bottom. Who will lead the bull market ret...
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Invest at home first ! Shouldn't we pay ourselves first??

Greetings,I think we need to stop sending money to countries each time they're hit with problems(Georgia = 1 Billion). ...
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Does it still pay to excel in America?

Boy oh boy, I am really ripping mad today. I couldn't wait to write this article. You may have heard a story recently a...
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Universal Health Care

Dylan, I'm a Canadian, but I'm something of a political junkie and I follow US politics very closely. There is now, and...
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A Real President

We spend nearly 10% of our federal budget in interest. We are not even paying principal. Because we as a country are c...
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Leaving a healthier country to our children

Mr. Jovine:Everyone talks about what their particular "entitlement" means to the inhabitants of our nation as a whole. H...
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Low Hanging Fruit and Congressional Pay in Only Balanced Budget Years.

The Federal and State governments should use a cost benefit analysis on every proposed expenditure and program. Th...
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Most Popular Investing Questions

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Non-sacred cow American government deficit reduction

Or we could just get a Constitutional money system to profit the Americans in the US instead of the one that in the 1970...
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Part II: Why Picking the President Is A Lot Like Picking a Stock...

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priorities

Our first priority should be decent free education to young people who want to learn and are capable to do so. Vocationa...
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Tighten your belts, save and give education a chance.

After world war II we had a tremendous debt and taxes were high. The GI Bill was a great idea and gave all of the retur...
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Was July the Bottom for Auto Sales?

July was a horrible month for the automakers, but many believe it was the trough and that the situation will not get any...
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8 Stocks to Buy if McCain Wins

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Currencies Crashing at Record Rates! Disaster or Opportunity?

Happy Belated Labor Day! We enter September beginning a new chapter for the U.S. dollar. The U.S. dollar just recorded ...
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Got Condo Fever? Beware!

This past week, as I was sweeping the raging flood waters of Tropical Storm Fay off my screened porch for about the 14th...
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Why Picking the President Is A Lot Like Picking a Stock...

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Most Popular Finance and Investing Questions

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The Silent Boom in Building Stocks

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Step-By-Step: Sector Rotation & Relative Strength

Putting together a sound plan of attack using sector rotation and relative strength in order to pick stocks is confusing...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Market Wrap Up August 25, 2008

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Real Estate Bargain Hunting? Beware These Realtor Tricks

Have you ever wondered what happens when a professional seeks help from another professional within the same field? ...
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Oil Service Sector: A Short Play ... For Now!

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How to Buy the Right ETF

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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

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'Wall of Worry' Opens Door to Profits

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Market Wrap Up August 18th, 2008

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Are You The King Of The Jungle On Wall Street?

Have you ever noticed that Wall Street is sometimes like a wild and dangerous jungle, with treacherous bull or bear trap...
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Time to get on the Gold train and ride the Dollar

Last Friday, I initiated a position in gold by shorting the Power Shares DB Gold Fund (SYM: DGL). As I will display, gol...
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Auction Rate Securities, Organized Crime and YOU

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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

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Why Rising Education Cost May NOT be The Future

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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up August 11, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Has Uncle Sam Put Closure To The Foreclosure?

Alan Greenspan gave an interview on CNBC last week, in which he said the housing market is "nowhere near the bottom...
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Oil, Oligopoly and Inflating Your Tires

Editor's Note: In today's issue, we're featuring an article written by Tycoon Report reader "Merlin."  I...
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Finding the New Hot Sectors

In my lifetime there has been a few famous lines exalting maximum effort. I found myself muttering one of them as the ma...
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Game Over for Whole Foods?

Editor's Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear Teeka ...
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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

It's been a crazy couple of weeks in the market and we've been seeing a slew of new activity on TickerHound.  Inves...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up August 4, 2008

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Last week I promised you a special article on how to get the FDIC to insure your bank deposits for more than the $100,00...
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Can You Profit From The Shoe Business?

Tycoon readers, with sincere apologies to the late, great singer and actress, Ethel Merman, let me just say, "There...
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Oil: The Beginning of a Long Term Downtrend?

We are continuously faced with expectations of $200 a barrel oil and gas prices hitting 6, 7, even 8 dollars a gallon by...
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A little known Covered Call Strategy

I love options. To me, they are one of the greatest investment and trading tools out there.   However, when most fo...
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Los Angeles Declares War on Colonel Sanders (and your portfolio)

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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

If you recall, for the last 2 weeks we’ve been asking you and other TickerHound members to submit their top invest...
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Breaking Down the Case-Shiller Index

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How to Make Money Going "Naked"

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The Market Has Actually Reversed Higher Right Under Your Nose!

Before I start, I just want to let you know I plan on writing a special article next Tuesday to show Tycoon readers a fe...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up July 28, 2008

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For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Can You Make Money From Bad Customer Service?

I promised my wonderful editor, Ben, two things about this week's article.  I would try to keep it shorter than som...
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When grandparents attack! The true story behind the Wachovia/Golden West merger...

OPEN: NOVEMBER 2006: An elderly married couple who could pass for caring grandparents are sitting inside a luxurious con...
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Is This Rally for Real?

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The Most Important Event of 2008

This week has investors talking of a market bottom. I don’t believe we have seen a bottom at all. Fannie Mae and Fredd...
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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

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Time to Go From Bearish to the Bullish Bullpen?

~ July 22, 2008 IMPORTANT UPDATE!!! Below is an article I wrote Monday and published Today (Tuesday, July 22, 2008).&nb...
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Time to invest in Jeans?

The American economy seems to be going through a rough patch. However, it seems people can't live without their jeans. ...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up July 21, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Are Short Sales Shorting The Real Estate Market?

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about my 300 mile trip to buy an investment property because I felt that, in the par...
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Top 10 Ways to Spot a Run on YOUR Bank

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE BANK YESTERDAY. It started when I headed out of my office to complete my month...
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Profit from the Crash: A Trader's Blueprint

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This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions

Before we get into this week's most popular finance and investing questions, I wanted to give you a shot at claiming the...
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Breaking News! Tycoon Slays a Bear For You!

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Game on for Activision Blizzard

We get the sense that the bullish toned financial pre-announcement issued by Activision Blizzard Inc. (ticker: ATVID) is...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up July 14, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Take A Load Off Fannie

"And put the load right on me," sings Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and the rest of the b...
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Can You Make Money Being A Contrarian?

Tycoon readers, you might be surprised to know that in my younger days, I was a bit of a rebel.  Like many teens an...
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How to Rob an Individual Investor

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Most Popular Investing Questions

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Retailers Dodge a Bullet in June

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Today's Bear Market and How To Get Out

Everyday there is some new projection about how high oil prices are going to go or how the U.S. economy is slipping deep...
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What is a "bucket shop"? Do they still exist today?

The term "bucket shop" is often confused with "boiler room" by the financially uneducated. Actually, the two concepts h...
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Bears Gone Wild!

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Ethan Allen Retains Leadership Position

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Value Plays Falling Prices and Rising Profits

It is no secret that the American consumer is pinched for cash in light of inflationary pressures, leaving them frustrat...
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Fishing Among The Meek

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InBev Goes Another Round With BUD

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Office Depot Gives One Dour Performance

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Rely on ONE Indicator and You'll Lose BIG TIME!

Did you check out my market wrap up video yesterday afternoon?  Every Monday evening at 6:30pm est. I give you a qu...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up July 7, 2008

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How to Make 300% to 600% in the Stock Market!

Tycoon readers, tomorrow is Independence Day. And with that theme in mind, today I would like to help you to declare you...
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Most Popular Investing Questions

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Of Swans and Shorts

The outlook for equities in the U.S. continues to be somewhat bearish at least for the near term. There is always a poss...
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Retailers: Be Ahead of the Curve

June sales tallies from retailers are set to be released on July 10, and in our view there will be a two part story. Ri...
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Time, Effort, and the inteligent use of Leverage

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It's Your Ship, But Who's the Captain of Your Money?

Editor's Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear Teeka ...
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How To Pick the Next Bottom in this Bloody Market

First I want to thank you again for the nice e-mails.  I have to quickly answer one common question and then I'll g...
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China Plays With Growth Potential

Over the weekend the big news was that a Chinese investment manager won the bidding to have lunch with Warren Buffet. C...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up June 30, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Would You Journey 300 Miles To Buy Investment Real Estate?

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3 investing lessons you "must" pass to your children

MY WIFE IS PREGNANT WITH OUR VERY FIRST CHILD... And for the first time in my life I've found myself wondering what inv...
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Anheuser Tells In Bev “This Bud’s Not For You”

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Anheuser Tells InBev "This Bud's Not For You"

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Heavyweight Earnings Greeted With Hostility

Some real heavyweights reported earnings after the bell yesterday and all were battered in the aftermarket. I must say t...
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How You Can Profit from Chinese Real Estate

Wow, what a week this has been! I landed in China about 7 days ago and have been completely amazed by how much it&rsquo...
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We're Not In Kansas Anymore, Automakers Try To Cope With A Changing Industry

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Where Do I Put My Money?

Editor's Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear Teeka ...
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Another Profitable Idea!

In this day and age, if you want to profit from the stock market you have to completely forget about the idea of just bu...
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Inversely Proportional

It is of grand interest to me, given all of the "experts" in the world, given all the "consultants" in the world extant,...
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Is There Any Hope for Retailers?

The state of the consumer is the hot button issue these days on the presidential campaign trail as the so called "oil cr...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up June 23, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a SUPER FAST ma...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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How To Profit From What Is Right In Front Of Your Nose!

Have you ever seen the movie, "The Treasure Of Sierra Madre"?  There is a classic scene from that film in...
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5 Ways to Check Your Portfolio For Financial "Cancer"

WARREN BUFFETT WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THAT INFLATION WAS LIKE CANCER -- IT MAY GO INTO REMISSION SOMETIMES, BUT IT NEVER...
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A Plea For Help

There has been much said recently about what follows on the www.financialsense.com radio program. The series is calle...
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An Ultra Simple Way to Improve Your Trading Results

Editor's Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear Teeka ...
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Most Popular Investing Questions

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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up June 17, 2008

I am not able to do the video today due to a software issue but here's the gist of what's going on in the market in text...
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This Falling Dagger Can Bleed Your Portfolio

The problem with individual investors' outlook on the market is that they TYPICALLY (not all of them) want instant grati...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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A Dollar Argument

An artificially instituted strong dollar is going to kill the current weak U.S. economy by making our businesses less co...
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Father's Day Tribute: 4 Ways to Teach Your Kids to Build Wealth

I'm sure by now you have heard and perhaps joked a little about today being Friday the 13th.   Historically th...
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How a "Windfall Tax" On Big Oil Can Hurt You

LET ME START OFF BY SAYING THAT IT FEELS GREAT TO BE BACK. Although it's only been a month since I last wrote an articl...
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Most Popular Investing Questions

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What is Going on with This Market?

Editor's Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear Teeka ...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up June 9, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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Profit Like a Hedge Fund From This Article

Today I'll show you how to make money, whether the market trades up or down, using a simple yet effective strategy that ...
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From the Editor: Politics and Your Money

A quick note today before we get into the Insider Trades wrap-up and this week’s calendar of economic announcement...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up June 5, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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Lies, Cries, and the Real Estate Guise

Tycoon readers, today I have my time machine all revved up with $4.00 a gallon gasoline, and it's ready for blast off.&n...
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Capitalism, Obama, and Options...

Another low point for Capitalism… My great uncle William S. Paley, who was the founder and chairman of CBS, woul...
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10,000% In Three Years? It’s Possible

Note: This article was run in the Penny Sleuth yesterday and is up 27% today...so far! Sorry the chart isn't there. To...
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How Do You Make Money in the Market?

Editor's Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear Teeka ...
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Most Popular Investing Questions

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5 Reasons to Master ETF Trading

Next Thursday, we're going to open the gates to the BIGGEST thing we've ever done for the readers of The Tycoon Report.&...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up June 2, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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How I wish....

Here I am at my computer daily, trying to soak in the myriad of stories, articles, every news release - from earnings to...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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It's Going To Be Hard To Make Lemonade Out Of These Lemons

The Dow Industrials made a Double Top in May: 13,132 on May 2 and 13,136 on May 19. (The S&P 100 made a similar Double ...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up May 29, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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How to Get Paid for Waiting

Today I want to focus on one of the most profitable aspects of trading, investing, and money management.  The simpl...
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Banging the Cash Drum

1.  Which types of investments are the best ones for you? 2.  Which style of investing/trading should you fol...
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The Most Popular Investing Questions

Welcome back, I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend! We had a great time over here -- instead of working (or even...
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Answer These 3 Questions and You Will Become Rich

Editor's Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear Teeka ...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Precious Metal Stock Review

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Why This Week Could Pulverize Your Portfolio!

First I would like to take this opportunity, in light of our U.S. holiday, Memorial Day, to give ENORMOUS respect to our...
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Chris Rowe's Market Wrap Up Thursday May 22, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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Main Street Gets It, But What About Wall Street?

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the government tax rebate checks, and asked Tycoon readers what they planned to do with t...
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continue prosperity for all w/ Conservatives

Historically, candidates rally the feelings of winning in us all. And also historically the spend & run people only decr...
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Capitalism Rethought?

Some of you have read my articles and by now must know where I stand on capitalism.  I told you then and I will tel...
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$7.50 a Gallon Gas Here We Come?

Editor's Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear Teeka ...
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Barrick’s Hedges; WTF-S!

I apologize for the formatting and missing links in advance, Enjoy! For those taking offense to the title it refers to a...
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Blackberry vs. the iPhone

Boy oh boy, do I know how to ruffle some feathers! So I wrote this article a few days ago and posted it to SeekingAlpha....
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A Simple Secret to Saving/Making Millions Trading!

Not only have I made millions of dollars for individuals and institutions whose money I managed directly, but I have als...
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Market Wrap Up May 19, 2008

Today, unfortunately, I won't be doing my video wrap up because I have to do a lot of special work for members of The Tr...
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Wall Street's Greed hurts eighty-five percent of america

If wall street would wash it's greedy little hands and stop minipulating oil, in it's future and options trading, percen...
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wall street's greed, enough is enough! american's are suffering

when is wall street going to give back to america? the speculation in oil stocks, future and option trading, is putting ...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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How To Make Money From Bad News!

I was in a parking lot the other day, when I saw an attractive bumper sticker on the car in front of me.  It said: ...
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Market Wrap Up May 15, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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A Stockbroker Autopsy

Editor's Note:  Jason is in bed with the flu, so I had the pleasure of reading through more than a year of his arti...
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The Tycoon Report misses some good ideas from its readers

The Tycoon Report has no "contact us" place on its web page. It misses many good ideas (and a few bad ones, too) from in...
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The Tycoon Report misses some good ideas from its readers

The Tycoon Report has no "contact us" place on its web page. It misses many good ideas (and a few bad ones, too) from in...
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The Tycoon Report misses some good ideas from its readers

The Tycoon Report has no "contact us" place on its web page. It misses many good ideas (and a few bad ones, too) from in...
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The Tycoon Report misses some good ideas from its readers

The Tycoon Report has no "contact us" place on its web page. It misses many good ideas (and a few bad ones, too) from in...
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HP & EDS: A marriage made in Heaven?

Editor's Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear ... ...
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Most Popular Investing Questions

We'll keep today's TickerHound column short and sweet -- We'll be back with our regular market commentary next week. Fo...
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Market Wrap Up May 12, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 6:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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Why You Must Reduce Commodity Exposure This Week

Did you check out yesterday's "twice-a-week market summary"?  Click here to check it out. This is an art...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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May 11 Precious Meal Stock Review

Please sign up at my site to view the charts and link inlcuded in this article.Enjoy,Best Regards,Warren Bevanwww.precio...
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Would You Walk Away from $2.5 Million?

Depends on whether you owe it or someone owed it to you! Jose Canseco, former baseball star, and author of the controve...
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Capitalism gone wild...

I decided that I had to write this article because capitalism in the U.S. has become so annoying that I need to vent abo...
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Market Wrap Up May 8, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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Is Microsoft REALLY Through with Yahoo!?

So by now it’s old news that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has completely called off its bid for Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO)....
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Reconciling the Macro Investor with the Systematic Trader

Editor’s Note:  Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear ...
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Are You Headed for Stock Options Disaster?

I love options! Have you ever loved something or someone who really hurt you, maybe nearly killed you in the past? ...
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Market Wrap Up May 5, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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May 4 2008 Precious Metal Stock Review

I must appologize for the missing charts and links. This is my weekly newsletter so to recieve links and charts please s...
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Credit Crisis Not Stopping N. Texas Development

Greetings all,We have all been barraged by the national press telling us that recession is upon us and the end is near b...
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Market Wrap Up May 1, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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Tax Rebates For Taxing Times

There is an old joke that goes something like this: How I made one million dollars in less than a week! The first day,...
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Economic Emergency?

No, I am not going to talk about Rev. Wright or Thomas Friedman getting pies thrown at his face (How funny was that?). I...
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An "Alternative" Way to Profit

As I was taking my daily “stroll” through TickerHound.com, I came across a question on a topic that I’...
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Sub Prime Revisited

Editor's Note: Teeka is in sunny South Florida preparing for his first Live Seminar that takes place this weekend. I fou...
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Where will the real estate bubble end?

The pundits say that this market is cyclical. Each bubble has a wave to come in behind it, and at some point float it a...
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Commodity Massacre Starting Tomorrow?

I hope some of you have made use of my FREE "Twice-a-Week Market Wrap-Ups".  Remember, every Monday and T...
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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future...
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Market Wrap Up April 28, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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My trip down the "Going Broke Expressway"

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT THE "GOING BROKE EXPRESSWAY" IS THE WORST ROAD I'VE EVER BEEN ON. Each and every ...
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April 26, 2008 Precious Metal Stock Review

I must appologize for the missing charts and links. This is my weekly newsletter so to recieve linka nd charts please s...
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Going Green: And Starving The World While Where At It!

We should be really proud of our selves. We have created a global movement against global warming and we are saving the ...
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Wrestling With The Bear: New Strategies For An Old Dilemma

I am frequently amazed at how the mood of stock market investors can vacillate from overwhelming despair to total euphor...
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Jaesop's money lesson...

I was always taught to never discuss politics or religion with people because it was just too sensitive a topic. For exa...
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Market Wrap Up April 24, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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Monster! Beware...

Could There be a "Monster" Lurking in Your Portfolio? The other day, on TickerHound.com, a member asked: &q...
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Precious Metal Stock Review

Precious Metal Stock Review Gold had a nice week until Friday when the trend line broke down early morning at the usu...
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Trade on Inside Information, LEGALLY!

    Editor's Note:  This week's conversation with Teeka is complete and ready for download.  Li...
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How to Profit From This Explosive Chart Formation

Today (this was written Monday April 21), I recommended a trade to members of The Trend Rider that jumped almost 8% high...
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Mortgage Monopoly Under Way?

The definition of a monopoly: to have exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or...
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Market Wrap Up April 21, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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Tycoon Report: Latest Insider Buys and Sells

There probably isn't a day that goes by without us asking ourselves what we can do to improve the Tycoon Report experien...
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Market Wrap Up April 17, 2008

Did you see Chris Rowe's most recent market wrap up? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm EST. he's posting a ...
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The Mortgage Industry Is Killing The Real Estate Market!

In last week's Tycoon Report, I wrote about how the politicians continue to spit out one proposal after another, ostensi...
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Inflation Nation...

I stopped the other day to fill up my gas tank and Regular Unleaded (87) was $3.46 per gallon!!! Boy, have gas prices go...
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How to Profit From Inflation

Editor's Note:  This week's conversation with Teeka is complete and ready for download.  Listen now to hear .....
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Why Microsoft Should be Shaking in its Boots

A TickerHound member asked: "What do you make of Google's latest announcement? Is "App Engine" a new bus...
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CRAZY (maybe bloody) Earnings Week - JP Morgan, Citigroup & Merrill!

HAPPY TAX DAY! By show of hands, how many people have been watching my "twice-a-week" market wrap up?  I...
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Market Wrap Up April 14, 2008

Have you been watching Chris Rowe's market wrap ups? Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm EST. he's posting a...
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Should You Brew a Fresh Cup of Starbucks Stock?

IT HAS HAPPENED TO EVERY SUCCESSFUL COMPANY IN THE HISTORY OF CAPITALISM. Sony. Apple. AOL. Coca-Cola. General Electric...
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100 Monkeys

What neither 100 Senators, 435 Reps, nor Aldous Huxley counted on.Zookeepers decided to test Huxley's suggestion that "o...
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Can 100 Monkeys Pass a Decent Housing Bill?

There is an old quote, attributed to Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), a proponent of Darwinian thought, that if you leav...
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Market Wrap Up for April 10, 2008

Did you check out Chris Rowe's market wrap up yesterday evening?  Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm E...
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5 Rules to Become a "Trading Monk"

Tell me if this is you: 1.    You work very hard at your “day job”. 2.    Yo...
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The Market Doesn't Care if We are in a Recession. Should You?

Editor's Note:  The third weekly conversation with Teeka is complete and ready for download.  Listen now to he...
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Will Google Buy Expedia?

I saw this question come up on TickerHound the other day and just had to write a post on it. A member asked, "Expe...
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Market Wrap Up for April 7, 2008

Did you check out Chris Rowe's market wrap up yesterday evening?  Every Monday and Thursday afternoon at 5:30pm E...
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Why This is An Intermediate Advance in a Long-Term Down Trend

Want an incredibly simple way to know when it's time to be a long-term bull or a long-term bear? This ex-Wall Street mo...
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Big Profits in Big Oil Still?

HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST POLITICAL AD ATTACKING BIG OIL? This one was made by the Obama campaign, and has been playing ...
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How to Teach Your Children To Be Financially Independent

In my pile of must read craziness this week, an AP article called "Parents Offer Refuge to Older Adults" was a...
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Market Wrap Up for April 3, 2008

As Promised! Chris Rowe has delivered the first of many “Twice-a-week Market Wrap Up”. In about 5 minute...
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Perfect Copper Leading Indicator

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5 Rules to Profit from a Bull and Bear Market Cycle

The big push this week is coming from the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Henry (“Hank”) Paulson. He is looking to ...
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John McCain: The 44th President!

Editor's Note:  It's Thursday, and as promised, we've chosen one reader article for publication dealing with the up...
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Time to go Long on the Dollar, Oil or Gold?

Editor's Note:  Thanks to all of you who provided your feedback after last week's telephone conversation with Teeka...
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XM & Sirius Have Bigger Problems than the FCC

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How to make sure YOU don't own the next Bear Stearns

My hedge-fund buddies are making ridiculous money shorting the brokerage stocks.  After making a 2,200% gain for in...
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How to Make Money in Wall Street

TODAY, I'D LIKE TO CELEBRATE THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHING OF THE BOOK "FIFTY YEARS IN WALL S...
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Is history being repeated?

“Election 2008: History Being Repeated” Is history being repeated? To be exact are the years of 1996 and 1976 being...
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2008 Election - Temporary Whoopee

How a new administration impaacts the economy should be consiidered both short and long term. It also has to be seperat...
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8 Rules to Trade this Market to Perfection

People often ask me questions about short term trading.  They want to know all about day trading, and they are also...
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Election 2008: McCain - Best of a Bad Lot

In predicting the effects of any of these three candidates as President on investments I assume investments will correla...
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Election 2008: The Unseen Hand

The Unseen Hand promotes candidate Obama as a struggling Negro overcoming racism, the stigma of his racist pastor, and t...
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Winning is'nt everything.

Like mosquito's in a nudist camp---American taxpaying voters are confused, big time this election year, because of the l...
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Beware of Mutual Funds Dressed as ETFs

There is $11.7 trillion currently invested in traditional mutual funds today.  Although the number is staggering, i...
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Light at the End of the Tunnel

Editor's Note:  In addition to the below article, Teeka has prepared a brief audio recording to answer a few of the...
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Most Popular Investing Questions

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There's Always a Bull Market Somewhere

Pessimism has been at a multi-year high. That typically means we are at or near a bottom (at least in the short-term). ...
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The Gold Rush of 2008!

An article with a catchy title caught my attention the other day.  “Cashing In On $1000 Gold” declared...
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Solving Debt Problems using more Debt

For those of you fools including myself,(and I use the term "fools" in a pejorative sense, not in the joking way we use ...
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Are Gold and Silver done?

I love weeks like these. Gold plunged almost $130 and Silver fell $4. In the past year Gold is still up 40% and Silver...
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Should You Buy Shares of Visa?

I've recently been asked by friends what I think about buying shares in Visa (SYM: V). The credit card processor went pu...
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Why Buffett Would Never Buy Google

Yesterday on TickerHound.com, a member asked, “Would Buffett really buy Google?” (click here to read the que...
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Stock market turnaround

My guess is October.Right now, we still have to deal with the credit shakeout. Chances are, other sectors like Alt-A, pe...
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Here's How to Predict the Market's Next Move

My Tycoon Report article last Tuesday was titled "Bear Market Here We Come? Don't Fight the Tape". The funny p...
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Lender of last resort

The history of Manias, Panics and Crashes shows that the presence of a lender of last resort has significantly lessened ...
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Market Turn Around

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Profit From Panic

That loud popping noise you hear is Wall Street's collective brain stem snapping. WOW! We are seeing some true madness d...
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Real men wear tool belts

I was lucky enough to be hired at Oracle (Symbol: ORCL) just a few months after they went public in 1986. The few stock ...
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It's going to be a long windy road back.

The US is a behemoth in respect to the markets of the world and its influence is felt far and wide, for good as much as ...
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Lemmings Finally Grow Tired of Running over the Cliff

August - September we will see the beginning of sanity returning to the investment community. I feel that the lemmings ...
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May Day May Day

Just my reading of the market but I think we will see a turnaround in May. To be more specific the beginning of May. I...
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Mr L.J. Kolfschoten, The Netherlands

A strong turnaround in the stockmarket will taken place during the first half of April 2008.Be aware nothing is wrong wi...
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Predicting a turnaround in the stock market

I would estimate the month of May 2008 as the turnaround period in the stock market. At the present time there is widesp...
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Recovery in July 08

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Stock Market Turnaround

What is your definition of Turnaround? BPNYSE crossing above 30%? BPNASD crossing above 30%, or both? Internals showing ...
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The Tycoon Report: Fear & Loathing in the Stock Market

IT'S STARTING TO FEEL LIKE THAT MOVIE "FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS". You know the one I'm talking about: H...
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Today is the turnaround for the stock Market

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When do I see a turnaround in the stock market?

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3 Key Steps to Building Your Wealth...

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Don't Trade Options on Vacation!

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3 Key Steps to Building Your Wealth...

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How to get rich in a bear market

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Helicopter Ben to the Rescue!

In what some will call a final act of desperation, Helicopter Ben has released the hounds and flooded the world with che...
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The Next Google(s)

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Bear Market Here We Come? Don't fight the tape!

The only way to trade successfully is to have the ability to evolve with the market.  The fact is, most individuals...
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Suicide by Zipper

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Averaging down on Citigroup on Jason Jovine's advice

My Worse Trade in Recent Memory - - Unfortunately, I followed Jason Jovine's advice and bought Citigroup at $28 per shar...
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Infomercials-Millionaire or Bust?

This is my story and I was the requestor.I was approached by a 1-800 marketing company about a product that I was curren...
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The 10 Largest Trading Losses In History

P.T. BARNUM WASN'T LYING WHEN HE SAID THERE WAS ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE. But here at the Tycoon Report, we don't call the...
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A Ricochet Dance in the NASDAQ, then Breakout Downhill

The NASDAQ Combined Composite Index topped at 2861.51 on October 31, 2007. The Weekly chart (which included October 31)...
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Avoiding the largest threat to your stocks

Remember what happened to the economy on 9/11? It was not good. Why should we be concerned now? Because such a economi...
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Uranium: It only makes good common sense.

The world is now up to unprecedented levels of human beings, and growing. The world is being drained by these humans ...
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Why You Should NOT Sell Your Home

GOOD MORNING FELLOW TYCOONS. How are the world's greatest readers doing this Friday morning? I hope you're doing GREAT...
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Don't Sell Your Home!

Unless you’ve been in a coma or off on a desert island, you probably have a pretty good idea of what has been goin...
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To Buy or Not to Buy?

When people want to buy a car, a new article of clothing, or some other good or service, they usually wait for a sale to...
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Google Ads - The Real Story

So the talk of the tape last week was obviously Google (Nasdaq: GOOG). The Mountain View search giant has been on a down...
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Look at This Explosive Action

What in the name is going on in the gold market? Yesterday saw a near gap down $30. It happened so fast I missed half...
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Should we Fear China?

Originally published Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Last week's article on the US/Chinese trade deficit sparked a number of ...
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High-Probability Stock Market Winners - Found Here

I have received many requests from readers begging for some guidance in this "confusing market". That's what I...
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Sometimes it is best to Not Look Too Close when considering an investment

Sometimes it is best to Not Look too Close when considering an Investment . Any of us who have had the pleasure (an...
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4 Questions to Ask Before You Buy a Private Company

I HAVE TO ADMIT - YOU ALL REALLY IMPRESSED THE HECK OUT OF ME THIS WEEK. In last week’s Tycoon Report article, I ...
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1st Three Questions to Ask When Investing in a Private Company

1. Who are the primaries of the company and what is their background?2. Fully explain all market research.3. What is the...
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How inflation affects your portfolio...

This is an important week on the economic front. The Federal Reserve is in a pickle. Its goal is to grow the economy and...
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Is Hershey the Value Play of the Year?

A great question appeared on TickerHound the other day that really caught my eye. One of our members asked: “Is H...
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question not an article

We have had numerous discussions recently as to whether we are headed into a recession or "are we there yet", as my kids...
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How to STILL Make Money trading Oil

Happy days are here again, or so it feels. After a bitter market winter, stocks are looking like they are finally findin...
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3 Questions to Ask Before Investing in a Private Company...

1.) I would like the owner to explain what the "thesis" is of the business. In other words, what is the product or serv...
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Plenty of Meat on this market's bone to profit big

WOW!  Is it February 25th already?  If you read my February 5th article titled "Why this is an HISTORIC B...
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Why "In-The-Money" Puts Are Not as Risky as Shorting Stock

Ed. Note: This article was originally published December 6, 2007.  The put option contract gives you the right to...
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3 questions to ask

I would definitely like to hear someone else's opinion on it. But I would think the questions an prospective investor mi...
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Three important questions before investing

Before investing in a greenfield business the first question I would ask is whether or nor a carefully considered and th...
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3 Questions to ask before investing in a private business

Question #1. Has the management team "done it before". More specifically, has the management team been most recently b...
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My Thoughts on What are the first 3 questions you should ask before investing in a private company

My first question would be what is the uniqueness of the product or service that the company is offering. There's always...
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THREE QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE INVESTING IN A PRIVATE COMPANY

The three questions I would ask before I invested in a private company are:1)How are you going to make money? What's th...
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1st Three Questions To Ask

(1) Who is the management and what is their acutal hands-on business experience particularly past failures and how they ...
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3 Basic Questions to ask when investing in a Private Company

In response to the question "What are the first three questions you should ask before investing in a private company?", ...
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Going Public without an IPO

Over the past two decades, most instances of private compaqnies merging into public shells were unattractive vehicles fo...
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Is this all you've got ?? I need more info.....

In any private venture I look for research on the project first to see if the venture has any creditability,then how...
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My requirements for investing in a private company.

If after reading the business plan and these items were not included in the plan the following would be my first require...
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Questions to ask when consideringinvestment in a private business

1. Who are the principals and what is their knowledge and level of experience in the business?2. How long has the compan...
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The personal approach

3 questions to ask:How has this person handled failure in the past, how many times has he changed his focus and why, how...
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What are the first 3 questions to ask when investing in a private company.

The first thing I want to kno is their commitment. I want to know how much time and money they have invested and will i...
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What are the first 3 questions you should ask before investing into a private company?

While there are so many questions to ask, these are three I ask myself before I even look at the business plan. My thoug...
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what to ask

I would be interested to know what to ask about when being asked to invest in a private company. I have no idea what the...
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should we invest more money?

our daughter, age 55(and happily married-kids out of the nest)is a juniorofficer in a( half million dollar sales)beauty,...
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3 questions

How much is it going to cost totalHow much compittion is out thereHow difficult will it be for others to catch up?not re...
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3 Questions I ask.

1. what makes you so special? How does your head work? Do you know your stuff?2. Do you have any money?3. Show me the pl...
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3 questions to ask before investing in a private company

I don't have any experience in this particular area, so this is a new concept for me.I think I would want to know -How m...
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3 Questions To Ask Before Investing In A Private Company

For me, the first thing I look for is, how knowledgeable about the business is the entrepreneur. If someone wants to op...
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3 Questions to ask before investing in a private company

1. What is your product/service and define the extent and depth of the competition?2. What type of management experien...
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3 Questions to ask before investing in a private company

1.)The frst question hits me right between the eyes and its "How much money could I loose?". Warren reminds me every day...
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3 Questions to ASk Before Investing in a Private Company

The 3 key questions that I would ask before investing in a private company are as follows.Who are the key management tea...
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3 questions to ask before investing in a private company?

Who is the market for your product?What distribution channels are in place to sell your product?How much experience in w...
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3 Questions To Ask When Looking To Invest Privately

Initially, here are the first 3 questions that I would ask any that approached me to invest in their new idea.1. How muc...
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3 QuestionsBefore Investing In A Private Company

Since many private ventures start out without any kind of business plan, the first question should be can I read your bu...
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3 things to look for before investing

First, I would find out what the business plan is,and course of action is to accomplish those goals.Second, check into t...
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4 Questions Before Taking the Investor Plunge....

Q1. Is this product or service new/unique/exciting enough to make me buy it and if so, would I buy it or use it again a...
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A gambling website where users can place wagers on people's marriages!

That's right, I was approached to invest my time and money in a website concept. It was to be a gambling site that allow...
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Answer these three compelling questions before considering an investment in a private company. By Richard S. Grome

It is all about risk and reward. Understand the amount of risk you are taking relative to the reward that you might r...
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Answer to "The First 3 Questions?"

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Any payments (salaries etc.) to the owner(s) of the company have to be at significantl (at least 50%) below market.

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The first 3 questions to ask before investing in a private company.

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Waht are the first three questions you should ask before investing in a private company?

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In Sales, Personality Counts

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The Family Took the Hit

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