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Monthly Income Ideas: Closed-End Funds With 8% To 18% Yields, Parts I Through VI

The theoretical safety and predictability of mutual funds has, at times, attracted the conservative investor in me. But the actual transaction, unlike buying and selling stocks or ETFs, always left me wanting more excitement, more involvement.

Closed-end funds (CEF), with their mutual fund-like management and their equity-like tradability, offer, in my opinion, a wonderful option for conservative, yet actively involved investors, like me.

As CEFs pay out before-tax distributions to investors, they are also a great choice for those looking for annual, ...

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Guest Post: Keeping Track of Your Investments

As any investor will no doubt be aware, it is extremely important to keep track of your investments. Thankfully, there are a number of ways in which investors are able to do this. If you are keen to make the most of the investments which you have, then here are a few ways in which you might choose to keep track of them.

One of the best ways to keep track of the investments which you have is via ...

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How To Profit From A Stock Market Crash: Parts I Through IV

Some are calling the rally we have seen since the start of 2012 a bear trap, an insignificant bounce that will soon lose momentum and drive our markets down further. Extreme skeptics are even predicting that we will see a stock market crash in 2012 similar to that of 1929. Do I believe it? Not really, but I’m prepared for the worst, and you should be too.

The success of great investors generally isn’t due to an ability to predict market ...

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The Facebook IPO: Buy or Sell?

Yes, Facebook changed the world. But should you buy the IPO hype? I say no, and here’s why.

Let’s start with the numbers. The company, with an expected valuation of $75 billion to $100 billion, is profitable but not as profitable as it should be to put up numbers like that. With a 2011 revenue of $3.8 billion and an operating profit around $1.5 billion, the company has an operating margin of ...

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15 Equities Yielding 10%+ And Selling Under Book Value

Many undervalued equities have been performing significantly well in this, what appears to be, very optimistic month of January. I have, in this vein, continued to target high-yielding equities with strong returns, low price to book ratios; and those that otherwise appear undervalued…

Read the full article at http://seekingalpha.com/article/322709-15-equities-yielding-10-and-selling-under-book-value-part-i-reits.

Read the full series:

  1. 15 Equities Yielding 10%+ And Selling Under Book Value, Part I: REITs
  2. 15 Equities Yielding 10%+ And Selling Under Book Value, Part II: Closed-End Funds
  3. 15 Equities ...
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How To Improve Your Trading: Keeping A Detailed Trade Log

When speaking with a client recently I was reminded that many of the mundane, listless, yet important tasks that are essential to the trading success of me and my clients may not be common knowledge to all. One of these tasks is the detailed record keeping of trades, a now automatic chore that continually allows me the opportunity to analyze and learn from my trading successes and failures…

Read the full article at http://seekingalpha.com/article/321465-how-to-improve-your-trading-keeping-a-detailed-trade-log

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ForexPros Launches a New Design

FYI – My friends at ForexPros launched a new site design today.  Check our their press release below:

Forexpros Launches a New Design

Forexpros launches a newly redesigned website that provides improved navigation, an enhanced layout and upgraded features to further enrich the user experience with the utmost simplicity.

CYPRUS, January 10, 2012 – Forexpros, the leading financial web portal, today launched a major redesign of its website. The new design provides enhanced functionality and simplified navigation to ensure that users spend ...

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34 Stocks With Over 10% Return On Equity Selling For Less Than Book, Parts 1 Through 7

A company’s price to book ratio (P/B) is a fundamental measure often used by investors to determine the value of the stock in relation to the overall value of the company. A low P/B can indicate that a company’s stock is currently undervalued, offering a strong buying opportunity.

The P/B ratio, which compares the market’s valuation of a company to the actual book value of a company, is calculated as:

Price to Book (P/B) = Price per Share/Book Value of Equity

A P/B ...

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59 High-Yielding Equities With Monthly Distributions, Parts 1 through 7

2011 has proven to be a year of education for many, myself included. Aside from protecting from loss of capital, hedging against the risk exposure associated with equities investments has been the most important lesson I have (re)learned from the volatility our markets faced in 2011.

One of my favorite hedging strategies is the tried and true method of investing in dividend-yielding stocks and ETFs. Dividend yielding stocks and ETFs, with their consistent quarterly or sometimes monthly dividend payouts, can add ...

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35 Top Yielding Real Estate Investment Trusts, Parts 1 through 7

Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, are corporations or trusts that use pooled capital of many investors to invest in and manage a portfolio of real estate properties and mortgages. They are traded publicly, just like stocks, and offer the benefits of real estate ownership without directly owning real estate.

To qualify as a REIT, a company must distribute at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders each year. (Many pay out 100% of their taxable income.) As REITs ...

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