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Traders Toolbox: Money Management – Part 1 of 4
Crucial but often overlooked, money management practices can mean the difference between winning and losing in the markets.
Plenty of books, manuals, and software packages will help you form and opinion of a market, but not many will tell you how to trade once you have decided to get long or short. The goal of money management is to increase the odds of high quality trades. And as we’ll see, leaving the money management variable out of your trading equation can lead to ruin, even if you’re correct about the market direction.
In a broad sense, money management can encompass those elements…
24Nov2008 | INO | 0 comments | ContinuedSpooked by a Combination of ‘Flations’
What not to do with your money now…
It has been the worst June in 77 years, says Bloomberg. In June of 1930, the Dow lost 18%. So far, it is down 9.4% this month. Since this is the last day of the month, we presume that is where it will stay.
The rest of the news is not much better. Oil closed over $140 a barrel on Friday. OPEC’s president says it could go to $170 by the end of the year.
And the New York Times says the number of people who can’t pay their mortgages continues to grow. There were…
1Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | Comments Off | ContinuedFour Things to Ponder and Three Ways to Act When it Comes to the Fed
There’s one thing you can almost always count on with the government: Coming late to the party.
The release of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s minutes from the April 29 and 30 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) included several “pronouncements,†none of which you’re hearing from the mainstream press and all of which we here at Money Morning told you were coming months ago.
Four things to think about:
1. The Fed’s doom and gloom forecast of 0.3% to 1.2% gross domestic product (GDP) growth represent the FOMC’s views from over a month ago. Since then, we’ve had a meager round…
3Jun2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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