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October 3, 2019 Mutual Funds No Comments

30 Top-Performing Mutual Funds This Year

30 Top-Performing Mutual Funds This Year Mutual funds are supposed to be a way for the uninformed investor to take advantage of the stock market. A few broad-based funds can give you a simple way to build a very diverse portfolio without … Continue reading at finance.yahoo.com ETFs That Hide Their Holdings Are Coming for […]

February 23, 2019 Earnings One Comment

NHC Reports 2018 Year End Earnings

January 13, 2019 Mutual Funds No Comments

Investing Insights: Year in Funds, Tax Reporting Missteps

Investing Insights: Year in Funds, Tax Reporting Missteps Christine Benz: Hi, I’m Christine Benz for Morningstar.com. The year 2018 ended on a sour note, and most mutual fund categories ended the year in the red. Joining me to provide a recap of the past yea… Continue reading at morningstar.com Are age-based funds protecting U.S. investors […]

January 2, 2019 Personal 11 Comments

Here are the new ‘Dogs of the Dow,’ a simple investing strategy that beat the market last year

Here are the new ‘Dogs of the Dow,’ a simple investing strategy that beat the market last year The “Dogs of the Dow” beat the market in 2018, down only 1.5 percent. The dogs would have done much better in 2018 without General Electric’ 57 percent decline. International Business Machine, Exxon M… Continue reading at […]

December 26, 2018 Mutual Funds 16 Comments

A down year for mutual funds, especially at tax time

A down year for mutual funds, especially at tax time You will never go broke paying taxes. A good friend and fellow adviser likes to remind clients of that at this time of year. The idea, of course, is if you owe taxes on your investments, it’s because … Continue reading at startribune.com VMLY&R wins […]

November 19, 2018 News One Comment

Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year

Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year Using personal emails for government business could violate the Presidential Records Act … Comey’s controversial decision to hold a news conference a few months before the election to announce his c… Continue reading at washingtonpost.com California Inc.: Retailers […]

Gold - FOREX Correlations Crumble as ECB Maintains Liquidity Measures

January 16, 2018 Large Cap No Comments

3 Large-Cap Pharma Stocks to Watch Out for This New Year

3 Large-Cap Pharma Stocks to Watch Out for This New Year We have therefore identified three Large Cap stocks based on a favorable combination of a solid … the Denmark-based global healthcare company and a leader in the worldwide diabetes market. Shares of the company have surged 51.2% in a year’s time. Continue reading at […]

March 24, 2016 Earnings No Comments

2015 Was the Worst Year for S&P 500 Earnings Since the Crisis

2015 Was the Worst Year for S&P 500 Earnings Since the Crisis The final big company to release last year’s earnings is heavily-shorted GameStop, which reports fourth-quarter results after the close Thursday. No matter the result, the S&P 500 is sure to see earnings contract for the full year for the first time … Continue […]

Unlike the stock market, the currency trading market does not require a trader to pay a commission to place a trade. This will come as a welcome sign of relief to those who have grown accustomed to the vast amount of money they must fork over to their brokers which go towards clearing, exchange and government fees. In the 4x market you also do not have to worry about having a large sum of money in your account to sell your currency pairs. This concept of selling as you may already know is commonly called shorting in the equities world. You can buy or sell at will in the currency trading arena.

I personally love the fact that you can trade whenever you want to with the Forex. You see, in the stock trading world you are flagged if you are deemed to be a daytrader. In other words if a trader of stocks chooses to trade every day, he or she must have an account balance of 50,000 dollars to do so. There are no such restrictions when it comes to trading the 4x. If you work at night, you may trade in the daytime. If you work during the day, you may trade at night. You simply trade according to the schedule that works best for you.

Performance will vary. Fund performance often falls off and risk levels rise during the subsequent three years after a fund is given an initial five-star Morningstar rating, suggests another recent study by Matthew Morey, a professor at Pace University. One reason for this is that after receiving a five-star rating the size of the fund grows dramatically, which then makes the fund unwieldy to manage, he suggests. Since Morey's study was completed, Morningstar also has changed the way it doles out top rankings to make them more precise. One of the biggest problems with all rating systems is that they are not necessarily predictive in nature. This means they're not really set up to tell you whether certain funds will necessarily do better in the future. For the most part, the ratings indicate how much you might have made and how much aggravation you faced in the process.