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Money Market Accounts and Money Market Funds- Where is Your Money Going? plus Industry in the Spotlight

November 21st, 2009 · 25 Comments

So you have a money market account and invest in a money market fund. You feel that your money is safe and you can access it quickly but the interest rate is nothing to write home about. That’s about all most of us know about these money market instruments so as educated Blue Collar Investors we need [...]

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Tags: Industry in the spotlight · economic news · money market account · money market fund

Types of Customer Orders plus Industry in the Spotlight

August 22nd, 2009 · 15 Comments

When instructing our online discount broker as to the actions we want taken, we submit a customer order. These orders can take several different forms depending on our investment strategies and objectives. We can buy or sell; request a specific price or simply the best available price; we can stipulate an action given a particular [...]

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Tags: Industry in the spotlight · economic news · limit order · market order

Technical Market Theories:More Tools for the Technical Analyst plus Industry in the Spotlight

August 8th, 2009 · 15 Comments

Chapter 8 in Cashing in on Covered Calls is devoted to technical analysis. This is a method of predicting future stock price movements based on observation of historical stock price movements. We use it to identify trends and for our buy/sell decisions.  The parameters I chose for my system include moving averages, MACD, stochastics and [...]

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Tags: Cashing in on Covered Calls · Industry in the spotlight · Technical Analysis · economic news · technical market theories

Dark Pool Liquidity- Secrets of the Institutional Investors

May 24th, 2009 · 18 Comments

What is the single most important factor in determining whether you should buy a particular stock? If you posed this question to a room full of investors you would get a myriad of different responses. The fundamentals. The technicals. The uniqueness of the product or service. Research and development. The management team and on and [...]

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Tags: Industry in the spotlight · NYSE Euronext · S&P 500 · SEC · dark pools · economic news