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The Surging Interest in Dividends—Especially Among Boomers
This article explains the growing interest in dividends among stock investors, especially baby Boomers looking for income in retirement.
Stock Investing--Never Invest Your Money in a Company with Untrustworthy Management
This article explains why investors should always avoid companies which have displayed untrustworthy, questionable, unfair, or ilegal actions in the past.
Rate Yourself…A 20-Question Scorecard for Stock Investors
This article presents a 20-question "quiz" for individual stock investors. It is fun and easy to complete. It will help show investors where they are following sound practices, and also point out areas where they should consider brushing up on their techniques.
Always Use Protection! Trailing Sell-Stops for Safe Investing
This article discusses the use of trailing stop orders in stock investing.
Investors: Don't Shoot Yourself in the Foot With Emotional Errors...Lessons from Behavioral Finance
This article discusses findings of behavioral finance, which examines how and why investors commit emotional errors that reduce their investment success. The article offers solutions to counteract nonproductive tendencies.
Stock Investing: Why the Individual Often Has an Advantage Over the "Pros"
This article explains the advantages that an individual stock investor has over the "Wall Street pros."
Guess What Year It Is? It's The Third Year of the Presidential Cycle. Is That a Good Thing?
This article discusses the so-called Presidential Cycle indicator in the stock market.
Investor Psychology: Goals and Dreams vs. Day-to-Day Activities
This article distinguishes between very long-range goals--which might be called dreams--and the day-in and day-out steps that an investor needs to follow in order to achieve his or her dreams.
Rhinophobia (Fear of Cash)--A Bad Disease for an Investor
This article discusses an investor's "fear" of cash. This condition is known as rhinophobia. The article explains why rhinophobia can be harmful to any investor's returns.
Dividends or Buybacks--Which Are Better for Shareholders?
This article discusses the pros and cons of dividends vs. share buybacks. It concludes that usually, dividends are better for shareholders.
Dividends--Stocks' Secret Weapon
This article discusses the hidden benefits of dividend-paying stocks. It is not well known or appraceiated that dividends, over time, have accounted for about half of the stock market's total return.
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