Investing
Deciding On a Certificate of Deposit
An alternative to a regular savings account is a savings certificate, also known as a certificate of deposit (CD) from a bank, savings and loan, brokerage firm or as a share certificate from a credit union. Read more →Defending Wealth Against the Great Enemy: Inflation
When talking about defense against inflation, there is reason to have a solid strategy of protection against the enemy. But what exactly is the enemy? How does the enemy operate? Read more →Defined Benefit Pension Plans
A major U.S. corporation recently announced they were discontinuing their defined benefit pension plan after 2007 and will beef-up their existing 401k, which was implemented in 2005. Read more →Defining Bull and Bear Markets
If you listen to much financial news, you may hear a variety of odd phrases used to describe the activities of the stock market. Perhaps two of the more confusing of these are the terms ? Read more →Defining the "Perfect Bond Market Storm"
There are many EXCUSES why the bond market may be selling off. But the real reason we are seeing prices fall is because:there are simply more sellers than buyers! Read more →Definitions: Long and Short
Long, ShortTo be long X means you have a positive quantity of X on your books. To be short X means you have a negative quantity of X on your books. * You become long X by buying it. Read more →Deja Vu, All Over Again (and Again...)
During every correction, I encourage investors to avoid the destructive inertia that results from trying to determine: "How low can we go?" and/or "How long will this last? Read more →Delist My Corporation Please
It use to be said that once a company was de-listed from the NASDAQ it was the kiss of death, not so any more. With Sarbanes Oxley and all the insane reporting requirements it might save your company from incessant lawsuits from investors and the government regulators who are out to destroy free enterprise. Read more →DELL Daily Chart - Covered Call Example #3
NOTES ON DELL COMPUTER (DELL)Covered Call1. After dropping out of a higher trading range, Dell tradesdown throughout the months of December 2002, January 2003 andinto mid-February 2003 before bottoming out. Read more →Dell versus Hewlett Packard
There is a war shaping up that involves two giant companies facing off, and soon there will be three. The war is between Dell Computer, and Hewlett Packard for supremacy in the personal computer world. Read more →1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235
Aphorism
Charlie [Munger] and I would be glad to take any money management organization in the world managing more than $US10 billion and we would be willing to bet that their aggregate investment (performance) will be poorer than a no-load, very low cost index fu
Warren Buffett