Investors are a lot smarter then they were when the market lost one-third of its value over three days in October of 1987. The lessons they learned about mutual funds still help investors today.
Chuck Jaffe from MarketWatch discusses four main lessons for owning mutual funds that were learned from the ‘87 crash. What I like [...]

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Apple Computers (AAPL) is going to report its earnings after the bell today, and you should be interested to see how the stock will react in after hours trading, or trading after 4:00 PM EST when the market closes. How the stock performs after the bell today will surely identify its direction tomorrow.
In light [...]

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Last Friday’s market sell off was nothing to “brush off” even though you will see CNBC analysts saying there is nothing to worry about. In fact the whole week was rough.
Take a quick read of my post on analyzing the overall market for dummies and you can see based on the chart below how [...]

I started this week asking a question, and that question was whether October 11th’s market sell off was a sign of a setback? Well, it was.
The NASDAQ and S & P 500 stormed to weekly lows on Friday on huge volume and with big numbers over 2.5%. The market can’t turn its back on the [...]

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The October top commentator contest sponsored by Covestor.com (read my full review) is entering the last full week of October. The top 8 commentators have left an astounding 80 comments since the last update which was only 10 days ago. By leaving comments on all posts readers hope to earn their spot on the top [...]

Chris from ChrisPerruna.com is an outstanding investment blogger that covers some great topics. If you are looking for trade ideas and some phenomenal insight into the market you definitely need to give him a look. If you haven’t Subscribed to his Feed now would be a good time to do so. Check out these posts:

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I love TheStreet.com TV and have talked about it here on the blog before.
Nonetheless, I was just on the site and noticed how the site isn’t hesitant on displaying ads, and more importantly prime ads. You will see below a 728 x 90 header block, the TD Ameritrade small banner, the prime 300 x 250 [...]

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Most investors know about Zecco by now, the $0 commission online stock broker. Well, their ZeccoShare community which is in Beta testing has now officially opened its doors to all current members of Zecco and anyone else who wants to participate.
I find this funny because ZeccoShare was originally open to ONLY Zecco members that had [...]