What Is A Systematic Investment Plan?

When managing your personal finances, it is important to regularly budget a certain amount in order to build up a reserve for the future—this regular budgeting is the basic foundation of good future or retirement planning. But simply depositing money regularly in a savings account does not provide the sort...

How to Build a Basic Stock Portfolio

Before you buy securities, it is important for you to go through the basic steps of establishing the asset allocation and building your portfolios. Usually you would look at the type of account you are looking to establish and figure out when you would need the money. You would then need to determine your...

A Primer for the New Investor

If you’re now at the point where you want to plan for your future income goals, then it’s important to set into place some budgetary habits that will definitively lead you to where you want to go. Therefore, there are a number of fiscal practices you’ll want to get into the habit of before you make the...

How Do I Go About Investing?

Many have taken the road to financial success through investing. If they can do it successfully, why can’t you? Investing is just a matter of decision and tactic—things you have to simply calculate with your mind. Treat investment as your devotion. You invest because you think that the investment you...

Is a PPIP Investment in Your Future?

Related to the government’s bail-out program PPIP (pronounced “pee-pip”) or the Public-Private Investment Program is an investment vehicle that has been designed by the government to “bail out” the banks. This is the way it works – for each dollar that a fund manger receives from an investor the...

What to Look For in Your Trading Journal

In my previous post, I mentioned what to include in your trading journal. Now that you have started keeping one, now what? Your trading journal will help you succeed in investing. By carefully reviewing your trading journal you should be able to improve on your gains, and avoid some key losses. You’re...