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Larry, Moe and Curley, Investment Brokers
Larry, Moe and Curley were sitting in their favorite restaurant just off Wall Street having their usual 3 martini lunch and were discussing the day's events and their client portfolios.Larry:"I had 12 calls this morning from customers wanting to know why the market was going down".

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What Age Should I Start Saving For Retirement?
Ask this question to 100 people and you will receive 100 very different answers. The fact of the matter is there is no right age to start.

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Numismatics are for Collectors, Not Investors
As a precious metals investor, you may heard much about numismatic and "semi-numismatic" coins, particularly the St. Gaudens $20 double eagle gold coin.

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Caveat Emptor: You May Owe Taxes Despite 401(K) Losses!
One among many ways you lose money in non-indexed mutual funds is the tax trap. You may have to pay taxes even when your mutual fund loses money! To many people this is painfully unexpected.

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Buying a Home - Your BIGGEST Investment
This column has often focused on intangible investments like stocks that a young investor might hold in their portfolio. While these are one of the most important components of an investment plan, it is not the dominant one for most young people.

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Five Sure Fire Way to Secure Your Financial Future
"You can be poor when you're young, but you can't be poor when you're old." That was the tag line used some years ago in a financial services television commercial.

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Why You Need To Buy and Sell Gold Coins (Part 2)
How to Collect Rare Coins For Fun and ProfitTime has proven that collectors tend to make the most money in rare coins because they search out "undervalued coins" and buy during market lulls. Buying in today's market climate offers you superb upside profit potential.

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Have You Ever Seen A Map of the World Turned Upside Down?
For those accustomed to viewing things a certain way, it is quite disconcerting. One almost expects the ocean to pour out.

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Is a SEP Plan Right For Your Business
A SEP is a special type of IRA. Under a SEP plan the employer creates an IRA account for each eligible employee, hence the name SEP-IRA.

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Risk and Reward
If you are doing your own investing in the stock market, what would be the first question you would ask yourself before you make any trade or investment? If your answer is how fundamentally sound the stock is, or whether the stock just broke out of a trading range on a chart, or the fact that the stock has gone down 50% in the last 6 months, or whether the volatility is low now so it is a good time to buy or sell, then you are probably on the road to ruin. These strategies have nothing in common with each other and there are all kinds of different criteria that I did not mention that have nothing in common with each other.

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Trading Commodity Futures Using Support and Resistance - Paper Trading
Setting Up a Paper Trading AccountQuestion: I cannot trade with "real money" as yet; however, how do I go about setting up a paper trade account?Answer: You can paper trade various ways and it really does not require that you have anything more specialized than a notebook to track your trades and access to charts.Begin by funding your paper trading account with the amount of money you think you will really begin with, whether it is $2000 or $20,000.

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Creating Wealth by Gearing Up
Gearing is where you borrow money to invest. As already mentioned, it is best to clear all your debt before looking at investment.

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Preholiday Trading
The Light Crude Continuous Contract closed at $66.13 a barrel Friday, after hitting an all-time high at $67.

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Playing With Money - And Making More
Ready to start playing with your money? Not interested in complicated businesses or boring bank C.D.

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June 2005: Weather Forecasts for Weather Traders
If Johannes Kepler, the renowned 17th century astronomer and discoverer of the planetary laws of motion, could speak from the heavenlies, he might have a few words of wisdom to share with the National Weather Service. Although Kepler's name is not normally associated with meteorology, he was quite the weather forecaster in his day.

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When Its Too Late to Save for Retirement
You are 55 years old (or somewhere around there) and your company is going to force you to retire at 65. You have $35,000 saved in your 401K and that's all.

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Help with My Annuity
The cries are heard from the distance, "I need help with my annuities." Nothing has changed.

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How To Start Investing For Financial Independence, Part 1
Today, I am going to start a multi-part series about how to go from being a beginning investor to being "financially independent" in a steady and predictable way. At our website, we get tons of e-mails about how do I start, how do I start with little $'s, etc.

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Which IRA Is Best For You?
An Ira is one of the greatest ways to save on taxes currently and accumulate money for the future.For individuals three types of IRA's will normally come under consideration.

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Creating a Financial Future - Putting Your Plan Into Action Part 1
This column has previously discussed "picturing the future that we desire", and outlining a plan to achieve it. We mentioned that the plan must include goal-setting, measurement, and implementation.

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