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Understanding Technical Analysis

By Adam Heist · 16 years ago

Stocks need to be understood before making any major moves. This can be accomplished by a few methods known as analyses. Technical analysis is one of the most useful methods to understand the trends of ...

Understanding Amortization

By Adam Heist · 16 years ago

It can be said that most people all over the world have either involved themselves in an amortization process in the past or are doing so right now. As such, it could be termed as ...

Secured and Unsecured Debts

By Adam Heist · 16 years ago

Debts do seem to be all alike, but it must be known that there are actually many different kinds of debts available. A borrower might ask – what does it matter if there are different ...

Pros and Cons of Online Mortgage Lending

By Adam Heist · 16 years ago

Buying and selling of mortgages over the internet seems to have become the norm of the day. Yet, there is skepticism in the minds of the people regarding such programs. Let us try to objectively ...

Know Your Loan Options before Applying

By Adam Heist · 16 years ago

All loan options are not the same; there are huge differences in them with respect to the options they provide. Sometimes with all these features it becomes very difficult to choose the loan option that ...

What Happens When Stocks Split

By Adam Heist · 16 years ago

Stock splitting is one of the best things that can happen to an investor. When a stock splits, then the stockholders would receive twice as many shares as before. Though the volume of the shares ...

Credit Cards for Students Explained

By Adam Heist · 16 years ago

Whether one likes it or not, the fact is that credit cards are slowly and surely becoming indispensable parts of modern lives. The convenience that a credit card provides is making them really invaluable in ...

Advice for First Time Home Buyers Seeking Loans

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

First time home buyers are faced with a lot of confusion when seeking loans. Their inexperience could lead to them taking several wrong decisions which could become disastrous in the long run. Thus it is ...

You Can Retire Rich

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

Claims that you can retire rich seem farfetched to some folks, especially those working what some perceive to be dead end, blue collar type jobs. Even then, these folks usually walk away with a pension ...

You Can Make Money With Your Blog

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

Are you a blogger? Do you own your own blog? If you answered yes to both of these questions, then you need to know that you can make money off of your blog, good money ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Stockbrokers

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

Stockbrokers are the people who look after the buying and selling on the stock market. They are the guides of the investors in the market, and especially of the amateur investors who have little experience ...

Protection from Mortgage Scams

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

Almost everything financial is a victim of some kind or other of scam today, and quite often it is very difficult to recognize a scam deal from a genuine one. Scams are also operating in ...

Making the Best of a Reverse Mortgage

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

Going in for a reverse mortgage requires a lot of planning. The pros and cons of getting into a mortgage when almost all the responsibilities of life are accomplished are to be thought about very ...

Planning Your First Home Mortgage

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

It isn’t a simple task to buy your home on a mortgage, especially so if it is your first home. Homebuyers find it very intimidating to take over such a huge responsibility, and that too ...

Benefits of Standard Tax Deductions

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

The standard tax deduction is a flat value of deduction over the entire gross taxable income. It is one of the most important kinds of deductions that are available to the average taxpayer. Another such ...

A Countdown to the Five Most Low Down Dirty Scams

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

As much as any one tries, it is becoming more and more difficult to keep pace with the clever scam artists that are operating in various markets today. No sooner do people find a method ...

Want To Know If Day Trading Is For You?

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

Day trading can be a very dangerous form of financial speculation, but it is going on from PC all over the United States and the world. The idea is to sell a futures contract to ...

Stock Options Continue, Despite Scandals

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

The stock-option backdating scandal has hit over 150 companies nationally as of October 2006. The financial advisory firm Glass Lewis has said that over $10 billion is involved in the various companies charged with backdating ...

The Free Market and Tax Evasion

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

Law enforcement officials have had a difficult time cracking down on offshore islands and countries that aid investors in concealing income and tax evasions. These countries, such as Switzerland often have their financial companies marketing ...

Debt Management – How Does it Work?

By Adam Heist · 17 years ago

What is debt? Sounds like a dumb question? If it was would so many people be getting debt wrong? Debt is an amount that you borrow which you must pay back over a period of ...