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Portfolio Diversification: The Key to Financial Stability

Investing / By Tim McMahon / 6 minutes of reading

Understanding portfolio diversification is the first step to creating a well-rounded portfolio. Regardless of your age or how long you’ve been investing, diversification is an essential part of every financial plan.
According to Investopedia, “Diversification is a risk management strategy that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. A diversified portfolio contains a mix of distinct asset types and investment vehicles in an attempt at limiting exposure to any single asset or risk. “

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The Best Investment Advice for Beginners

Investing / By Tim McMahon / 5 minutes of reading

Getting started investing can be tricky. Finding the best investment advice for beginners is key to being successful in the long run.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Investing: 4 Major Dos & Don’ts

Investing / By Tim McMahon / 5 minutes of reading

When first getting into investing, you might contemplate just jumping into the deep end—but, before you take that leap, there are some things you should consider. Investing can be a tricky subject, which for some can enhance that feeling of needing to get it over with and begin investing at

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Learning to Trade from Video Tutorials

Investing / By Contributing Author / 3 minutes of reading

Trading is obviously appealing given the fact that there are thousands of investors at any given time. Sadly, only a few are becoming successful and many consistently lose money. Although there are many free resources and informational articles written by industry leaders and experts, finding a particularly helpful method that can illustrate the ABC’s of currency trading for beginners. At present, YouTube has become a dominant power in the world of technology and many people can learn a variety of techniques by watching YouTube videos. There are many YouTube channels where traders upload regular videos regarding Forex trading and its techniques.

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How Saxo Bank Democratizes Trading and Investment

Investing / By Contributing Author / 4 minutes of reading

Saxo bank is a Danish investment bank that was founded as a brokerage firm in 1992. The main purpose of Saxo is to achieving a democratized trading and investment and so they have to have various goals and objectives for the bank to reach its purpose. These goals and objective could be as follows,

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Investments You’ll Thank Yourself for in Twenty Years

Investing / By Tim McMahon / 3 minutes of reading

It may seem difficult to find extra money to save or invest for your future. However, putting away those few extra dollars today can result in the financial security to retire or have more control over your life. Let’s look at some investments that you’ll thank yourself tomorrow for making today.

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How to Maximize Your Investments & Grow Your Wealth

Investing / By Tim McMahon / 4 minutes of reading

Everyone knows that they should set aside some amount of money for investment purposes. What isn’t so commonly known, however, is how to optimize your investments for greater stability and better returns. Here are four tips that investors should keep in mind as they build their investment portfolios. Balance Risk

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What are Binary Options?

Investing / By Tim McMahon / 4 minutes of reading

Binary options are a relatively new form of investing in which an individual can speculate on the direction of the market, or an individual stock or even a currency. Like typical options “Binaries” involve an underlying vehicle like a stock but unlike a typical option all settlements are in cash

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Wedding a Part of Your Portfolio to an Annuity… with Little Hope of a Quickie Divorce.

Investing / By Contributing Author / 9 minutes of reading

By Dennis Miller Are annuities the greatest thing since sliced bread? Well, no, but they do make sense for some investors as part of their portfolio. However, we have to shop wisely and not allow sales agents to push us into the wrong products just to fatten their own wallets.

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What is the Monte Carlo Method?

Investing, Terminology / By Tim McMahon / 2 minutes of reading

The Monte Carlo method was invented in the late 1940s by Stanislaw Ulam, while he was working on nuclear weapon projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It was named after the Monte Carlo Casino, where Ulam’s uncle often gambled. Ulam and John von Neumann programmed the ENIAC computer to carry out Monte

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