Archive for February 2nd, 2009

Profiting from the Anomalies – Stock Markets are not always right

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

There are many different factors that affect stock market levels on a minute-to-minute basis. This includes inflation data, gross domestic product (GDP), interest rates, unemployment, supply, demand, political changes, and broader economic forces, among others.
Complicating this are some general market trends, which have been determined historically to exist. Like their share-price-based brothers, these stock market [...]

Understanding Futures Trading

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Many people have the notion that commodity futures trading is very difficult to understand. It may only seem difficult when you are new to futures trading, but once you understand the inner workings and get a hang of it, you will be well on your way to success.
People have a common misconception that commodity exchanges [...]

Lying With Statistics: The Ezine Edition

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

A well know Ezine publisher encourages would be writers in an article he penned, himself.
Noting how well a few authors did with their inaugural articles, he sanguinely predicts
that “If their readership stays constant” they’ll rack up hundreds of thousands of readers during the next year, without submitting any additional pieces.
That’s viral marketing at its [...]

Bringing the World to Your Door

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

According to Internet.com, by the year 2008 nearly 30% of offline purchases will be influenced by online research. If your site is a well-implemented ecommerce site, the web can significantly lower both order-taking costs and customer support costs after the sale has been made. You could also experience larger purchases per transaction. Through automation, you [...]

Are You A Stockaholic?

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Today’s society gives special recognition to alcoholics, sexaholics, binge-aholics, shopaholics, chocaholics and other “-aholics”. What about stockaholics? Stockaholics are people who are overly obsessive about their stock market investments.
As approximately 50% of U.S. households directly or indirectly invest in the stock market, it is likely that there already exists a goodly number of undiagnosed stockaholics.
Are [...]