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Timing is everything.You have heard it a thousand times.It is a tired, over-used cliche that happens to be true.Regardless of what you are up against, timing is everything.If you are a futures or stock dealer, timing is the only thing between you and the poor house.It is a statistical certainty that in case you play with a zero-sum match with unlimited downside risk long enough, you may drop everything you have...

Once in a while the technical indicators begin making news.When it's the VIX, or a moving average, someone picks up the story and soon it's on CNBC or Bloomberg as the news of the day.So, as an investor one must ask,"are specialized indications a reason to buy or sell?" In certain respects the answer is no, because"investing" is something different from swing trading or day trading.Let's suppose you're in exactly the same camp as we are and you believe the long term outlook on gold is quite positive...

You could have some, perhaps all your assets in a stock mutual fund when market conditions are favorable.We want a mutual fund rather than basket of individual stocks because.Many retirement accounts usually do not offer usage of stocks.We want the broad diversification obtainable in a fund.A specific stock may miss most or most of an over-all market advance, but a fund with wide market exposure will probably get a little bit of the action...

Trading inexpensive Micro cap and small cap stocks is really a "High Risk High Reward" style of trading.I have found that one of the most profitable ways to trade these stocks is by finding the bottoms.In case you are correct and find the bottom, the stock has nowhere to go but up.In case you are wrong and miss the bottom, no one wants to "catch a falling knife".When searching for bottoming stocks, the first key is to understand what caused the stock to drop to begin with...

Certain circumstances might force them to slice the dividend.Yes, it really is embarrassing.But, it could be had a need to survive.Business could be slow.Debt payments could be coming due.Whatever it really is, dividend cut generally isn't a very important thing.Here are several indications that management will cut future dividend:Huge Loss.Whenever a company isn't profitable, dividend cut could be initiated...