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Steve Selengut

Steve Selengut writes and could be found in the following categories: ALL Articles - Options Trading - Stock Market - Technical Analysis

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• Compound Stock Earnings Programs - Caveat Investor - Options are bets about the future price movement of exchange-traded securities--- it''s just that simple. The prospect of unusually high returns always signals unusually high risk. Caveat emptor, in spades. Here are some things to consider before you think about attending that free seminar---
• Quarterly Window Dressing - A Recurrent Wall Street Scam - Why aren`t the wizards of Wall Street assuaging our nerves by explaining the cyclical nature of the markets and pointing out that similar crises have always preceded the attainment of new all time highs? Right, because the unhappy investor is Wall Street`s best friend. Why can`t politicians address economic problems with capitalist-economic solutions?
• Asset Allocation for Foundation and Endowment Investment Portfolios - Foundations, Endowments and other Not-for-Profit organizations come in all shapes and sizes. The assets that they control and manage for the benefit of countless projects, charities, and causes is staggering in total and it has become a primary market for the vast array of investment products developed by Wall Street financial institutions
• Asset Allocation: Investing by the Numbers - Asset Allocation is an investment planning tool, not an investment strategy... few investment professionals understand the distinction. Investment strategies are used to implement the asset allocation formula that investment planning produces.
• Calculating Your Investment IQ - So many terms, ideas, and strategies; so little time and money! Here is a list of thirty mostly-true or mostly-false comments for you to kick around with your friends and fellow investment bloggers:
• Good News For Income Investors - Admittedly, even if your asset allocation has been fine tuned for years, lower portfolio market values in this area make stock market valuation shrinkage feel even worse. But the value of stable cash flow becomes painfully clear for investors who misguidedly depend on capital gains for their spending money.
• Income Investing: Go Ask Alice - Don't let such uniformed thinking sabotage your retirement program; don't let the selfish advice of a product sharpshooter send you chasing rabbits when IRE (interest rate expectations) or other temporary market conditions shrink the market value of your income portfolio. Feed your head; feed---your---head.
• Investment Book Reviewed by University Professors - `The Brainwashing of the American Investor` is direct, hard-hitting and brutally honest--- The title implies a strong message, and the book does not let the reader down. Once Steve Selengut debunks the notion that Wall Street is on your side, he tells you how to take control of your own investments. His strategy is easy to understand and takes the guesswork and emotion out of investing.
• Investment Performance - It`s Better Than You Think - The Working Capital Model (WCM) approach to portfolio performance evaluation eliminates the tears and fears because it is based on more than the current market value illusion of wealth--- a number that won`t sit still long enough to ever be meaningful. Market value, within the WCM, is used only to determine what to buy and/or when to take profits
• Investment Performance Analysis Using the Working Capital Asset Allocation Model - It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you just cannot know where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course corrections... even more is squandered comparing portfolio Market Values with a handful of unrelated indices and averages.
• Investor Political Priorities - A Survey - 90% of all Americans are investors and, as such, there are issues that we need to hear about from the man who would be king. None of our could-be leaders are addressing the issues that would allow us to achieve our financial goals. This is my short list for the presidential candidates. Where they stand on these issues will certainly influence our economic future. Which of these is most important?
• Ishares and ETFs: Indexed Investment Illusions - On Wall Street, the incubation period for new product scams may be measured in years instead of minutes, but the end result is always a lopsided, greed-driven, gold rush toward financial disaster.
• Just Another Credit Crunch? - Many investors are beginning to think that income investing is every bit as risky as equity investing, but nothing has really changed in the relationship between these two basic building blocks of corporate finance.
• Last Bank Standing - The Wall Street Mega-Crash - Today's Congress is ignoring its role as the primary creative force in today's problems. This transfusion is needed because: bad laws have obscured the values on financial institution balance sheets, and have created a clot in the credit arteries that keep the economy alive.
• Predicting Stock Market Movements - Wall Street spins reality in whatever manner it can to make most investors unhappy, thus increasing new product sales. Your confusion, fear, greed, impatience, and need for a quick panacea fuels their profit engines, not yours. Learn how to deal unemotionally with Wall Street events and shun the herd mentality.
• Preventing Investment Mistakes: Ten Risk Minimizers - Losing money on an investment may not be the result of a mistake, and not all mistakes result in monetary losses. Your own misconceptions about how securities react to varying economic, political, and hysterical circumstances are your most vicious enemy. Step away from calendar year, market value thinking. Avoid these ten common errors to improve your performance:
• Retirement Income Investment Planning - Step One - Employer provided pension plans, Social Security, and (always much too expensive) fixed annuity contracts, are retirement income providers. They are monthly income machines that you have paid dearly for but which may not be adequate to cover your retirement expenses--- most of us will need more income than our guaranteed benefits will provide.
• Retirement Plans - Risk minimization begins with quality, is enhanced through diversification, and is compounded with realized income. The first two steps require research, greed control, and discipline. The income part just requires discipline, so it should be much easier to manage.
• Stock and Bond Trading Powers Modern Asset Allocation - For most individual investors, trading is approached in a totally speculative manner. Stock trading, in its more popular forms (Day Trading, Swing Trading, etc.) includes none of the elements that a conservative investment strategy would contain: little if any attention is given to the Quality of the equities selected
• Stock Market Meltdown - Watching Rome Burn - Both presidential candidates want to crucify SEC Chairman Cox for failing to control our creative financial institutions. But rumor has it that Congress specifically excluded the devilish derivatives from SEC purview. Let's fire the right bunch of "poips" for a change!

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