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Free Your Portfolio By Freeing Your Mind

“Free your mind” These words from the cult classic, The Matrix, were spoken by Morpheus in an attempt to guide the newly delivered Neo away from the deception of the Matrix. The Matrix depicts a future where reality as perceived by most humans is actually a computer simulation created by intelligent machines to subdue humanity [...]

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What Makes You Trust Anyone’s Investment Advice?

It is well documented in surveys and studies by financial institutions that when we seek investment help, we make choices based upon one major criterion: trust. It all boils down to this one word. Who is giving me the advice? Can I trust them? If you are a hard-core do-it-yourself investor who loves to day-trade, [...]

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How to Invest During a Weak Growth Economy

The news is in. Manufacturing growth crept to its slowest pace in 20 months with the index of manufacturing activity experiencing its biggest decline since 1984. Payrolls were also shockingly weak according to ADP, adding a mere 38,000 jobs in May, down from 177,000 in April. And sadly, this is not just a U.S. problem. [...]

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3 Emotions That Will Destroy Your Retirement

While many retirement investors have felt tempted to flip Wall Street the middle finger in recent years, famous Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan took this impulse to a new level. In a highly publicized event, Cattelan created a bold sculpture called L.O.V.E., an 11-meter tall marble middle finger that has been strategically placed at the entrance to [...]

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Did You Know That You Are Now Cool?

The renowned 70′s funk band, Tower of Power, raised the all-important question about “coolness” in their ’70′s hit “What is Hip?”  “What is hip, tell me tell me if you think you know,” the band wailed, pondering a subject that grips many in our pop driven culture. How products, people, or ideas move from unknown to [...]

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Check out what Jennifer Schultz of the New York Times wrote today in the Bucks Money Blog referencing MarketRiders’ recent cigarette analogy to mutual fund managers.  Seems to have hit a nerve. Make sure to also read a comment posted by Morningstar as they too weighed in on the matter! How Mutual Fund Managers Are [...]

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How To Not Check Your Retirement Portfolio

There are different types of retirement investors and ultimately, different approaches to growing your money.  Some investors play the high stakes game of competing against the market itself. These investors have entered the largest poker tournament the world has to offer. And who has joined these gamblers at the table? Teams of the smartest minds, [...]

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How To Build Bob Pisani's CNBC Model ETF Portfolios With MarketRiders

In order to build Bob Pisani’s ETF portfolios with MarketRiders, follow these easy steps: 1.  Sign up for a MarketRiders 30 day Free Trial.  There is a “sign-up” link on the top right of www.marketriders.com. 2.  You will be asked to create your first portfolio and you’ll have 2 options:  “Build It For Me” and [...]

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Get Wall Street Out of Your Pocketbook by Removing the Intermediaries

Just when we thought we were through hearing about the Wall Street hooligans and their criminal vices our “untouchable” friends at Goldman Sachs made the news twice. The Wall Street Journal revealed that the SEC has found criminal doings at Goldman. With one hand secretly cramming worthless mortgaged backed securities into their valued clients accounts, the [...]

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How Much Is Needed to Comfortably Retire? Plan Your Retirement Portfolio Strategy Now

This mornings Wall Street Journal Sunday had a compelling yet alarming article ‘Do You Have Enough to Retire? Do the Math‘ that highlights the lack of a retirement portfolio strategy for many of the 80 million baby boomers. “Just how much are you going to need in order to retire comfortably?” the article challenges each of [...]

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