Posted on April 25, 2011 by John

In other Streetster news, gold reached a record high on Tuesday, rising past the high mark of $1500 per ounce. This is yet another sign of the tremendous anxiety that is affecting the market. People just don’t know where to turn, and it’s clear that things are going to get a lot worse before they [...]

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Rich Browne

The concept of “speculative risk” can be most usefully contrasted with the concept of “pure risk.”
A pure risk is something that will be bad if it happens to you, where there is no corresponding good (other than its absence). The risk of getting hit by lightning, the risk of having your town destroyed by a [...]

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Rich Browne

In life there are different kinds of risks. Some are risks we knowingly run in order to seek certain benefits. These are called “speculative risks.” Gambling, investing, starting a business, entering into a relationship, buying a home, etc. can all turn out poorly and leave us worse off than we were going [...]

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Rich Browne

Hedging is a technique of portfolio management applied by some investment funds known as hedge funds The minimum investment capital required in this domain is significantly high, it runs into tens of thousands of dollars and in some cases hundreds of thousands. Moreover, the area is not as regulated as with conventional mutual funds, and [...]

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Rich Browne

The thing to remember when you are investing is that unless you are doing it full time you are not a professional investor.
Professional investors work for firms that spend vast fortunes analyzing the markets to get the information that they then work on to try and get a handle on what is going to go [...]

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Rich Browne

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As the market opens there is a great deal of volatility – bulls and bears are fighting most fiercely during the first 15 to 30 minutes of the session! This means big volatility, less predictability! An inexperienced trader rushes to enter as soon as the bell rings, trying to catch tops and bottoms in a [...]

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Rich Browne

There probably are more trading strategies than traders! A successful strategy consists not only of technical indicators and a proper interpretation of a never-ending news feed but to the greater extent it incorporates the individual characteristics of a trader! The majorities of us see the same data being plotted on the chart, react to the [...]

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Rich Browne

Under investment, precision investment refers to the investment of funds by converting capital into assets or other financial instrument. The goal is to generate added value or ideally an income. Goods meant for consumption are not counted as an investment, but instead entails investment made through direct investment.
That is, financial interest in a company or [...]

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Rich Browne

An exclusion of minority shareholders or squeeze-out involves forced exclusion of minority shareholders from a corporation. In countries such as Germany shareholders holding at least 95% of company stock have the capacity to compulsorily acquire the shares of minority shareholders. The minority shareholders in turn receive a cash settlement, or compensated via other alternatives of [...]

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Rich Browne

The question is not how to buy gold, but rather why to buy gold. Gold is easy to acquire in various forms, jewelry, ore, ingots, etc. You will have no problem laying hands on it. But whether this is a good idea is the bigger issue.
Good old common sense dictates that Gold, a precious metal [...]