Monthly Archives: December 2011

Evaluating Your Positions Using The Kelly Criterion In Investing

December 29, 2011
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Although a change in trends or shift into “oversold” or “overbought” conditions, especially on a monthly timeframe should result in some drastic shifts in your portfolio, there are times between trends when individual positions are up or down, or when certain changes in fundamentals should impact your weightings, and there are times when you...

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How To Boost Portfolio Growth: Leveraging Arbitrage

December 29, 2011
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How To Boost Portfolio Growth: Leveraging Arbitrage

The best part about arbitrage plays is how independent they are from each other as well as the market. Multiple arbitrage plays on their own can provide a great high probability portfolio with consistently positive trades over time. However, if you are also following trends, and keeping an amount of bias towards stocks and...

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Investing in 2012 for survival

December 29, 2011
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If you want to know what the first 2Qs or perhaps even 3Qs of 2012 will be like, play Monopoly with no cash for passing go and half the starting money as usual. Properties may go fast initially, but then money becomes scarce, mortgages will be common, and soon properties will be auctioned, The...

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How to invest in 2012? Get defensive

December 28, 2011
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2012 is certain to bring about economic uncertainties, which is about the only thing that is certain. In 2012 you will not have the luxury of going after big gains.The environment is potentially going to be full of both inflation and deflation. What is being missed in all the stories hyped on TV is...

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How To Make Money In the Stock Markets Regardless of Direction

December 28, 2011
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How To Make Money In Bull Markets, Bear Markets, And Sideways Markets The stock market can be a brutal place for those unprepared, making it difficult not only to recognize the future market direction, but also to position yourself properly for the given conditions. However, what if you could find away to make money...

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Boosting Long Term Portfolio Growth By Leveraging Arbitrage

December 21, 2011
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Boosting Long Term Portfolio Growth By Leveraging Arbitrage

A big part of the concept of using the principals of the “kelly criterion” in your advantage is understanding that you can leverage multiple bets simultaneously if they are INDEPENDENT and that the more independent profitable bets at once, the better (with all other things being equal). The markets rarely have complete independence and...

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Breaking News: Indefinite Detention Legal! Habeas Corpus Suspended!

December 17, 2011
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Breaking News: Indefinite Detention Legal! Habeas Corpus Suspended!

The word “indefinite detention” brings up images of Nazi Germany, soon after Hitler took power. “With the Reichstag Fire in Februrary 1933, the Nazis in government were to initiate legislation that would eventually stifle all true freedoms. The first step in the artificially whipped-up frenzy after the fire was the Decree of the President...

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Homes for sale – Get the dream house now!

December 16, 2011
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Whether you are single or married there comes a time when everyone will want a place for themselves. Getting that dream home is something that one starts dreaming about when the time is right. In the old days that would mean saving a huge amount of money before even thinking about searching for anything...

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Good Stock Market Investing Strategy

December 8, 2011
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There are many stock market investing strategies, but putting all of the bits of wisdom together into one comprehensive flexible strategy is difficult. Markets have many patterns of behavior combined in one and different ways to play those features. The optimal way to play the markets is a combination of understanding all of the...

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Reducing Risk With Option Trading

December 8, 2011
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There are several things that factor in to the price of the option. The interest rates moving up can actually effect the price of the option. The time moving on effects the price of the option, the movement of the stock effects the price, and the strike price effects how a stock option behaves....

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