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As a real estate investor, you may understand your financial risks related to having a property that sits vacant for too long or a property that depreciates in value, but these are not the only risks you face when investing in real estate. There are other risks that can negatively impact your investment from a financial standpoint, and these can inflict considerable financial loss. The good news, however, is that real estate is one of t...

Everyone you talk to in the U.S. has always been all about the stock markets. While these may appear to be the most popular investment markets in town, the truth is that they are overwhelmingly dwarfed by the world FOREX, or Foreign Exchange Markets. Stocks may have their following, but they trade less a trillion dollars volume on a really busy day. Forex markets put that to shame in their sleep, trading in excess of $5 trillion per day...

There are any number of explanations and reasons why traders lose. However, there is no one defining factor as to why the majority of traders come out as losers from the “game”. The first hypothesis that comes to most people’s mind is the supposition that failure depends mainly on following a poorly developed trading system and strategy. However, this is just one of the reasons. Sometimes the importance of trading  p...

The foreign exchange market accounts for trillion dollars worth of transactions each day, creating a multitude of opportunities for regular Joes and Janes to profit from. But exactly what is online forex trading? And how does one profit from the market? These questions should be answered before even opening an account and sending trade orders. Here are five forex trading tips every novice should know. While they sound overused and unoriginal, the...

Just a few years ago it was almost impossible to encounter a broker that was supplying live accounts with 10 or 30 USD with no deposit required. Some brokers were using such campaigns for a very limited time and you could probably find out about such a campaign when it had already expired. Nowadays, there are some brokers that have a no deposit bonus campaign running with no time limitation. This means that by signing up with a broker and (usuall...

History of the Stock Market The stock market can be a strong driver of a country’s economic growth. Private companies that go public can sell shares to both institutional and ordinary investors. Companies can then use the raised capital from selling stocks to fund new product launches or expand operations. Consequently, new jobs are created which in turn stimulates consumerism and more investments. The cycle continues and the country experiences...

History of the Forex Market When you open your laptop, analyse some price charts, and place a forex trade which is executed in a few microseconds, it’s hard to imagine how foreign exchange transactions took place long before there was electricity, computers, internet, telephones, or even banknotes. Let’s take a brief look at how currencies have been traded and exchanged over the course of many centuries until this present time. Foreign Exchange i...

Top 10 Cryptocurrencies – The Currencies for the Future? Since the price of Bitcoin smashed through the price value of $7000 a few years back, the world could not help but notice. While most people are now familiar with the word ‘bitcoin’ most are yet to understand what cryptocurrencies are, and the technologies behind them.  Cryptocurrencies simply refer to the digital or virtual currencies that take the form of tokens or coins. They can b...

A Brief History About Cryptocurrency Summary: Ten years ago, a groundbreaking innovation, ‘Bitcoin’, emerged as the first ever cryptocurrency. Fast-forward today and over a thousand of cryptocurrencies are available in the market. The history of cryptos is certainly short in the grand scheme of things, but as this post demonstrates, there have been incredible twists and turns throughout the decade- long timeline. Although it is often viewed as a...

The article concentrates on, with reference to studies, what qualities female traders can offer and bring to the industry.

Purity of gold content makes Maple Leaf favoured investment coin

Forget the scammy ‘systems’ and promises of becoming an overnight millionaire with little starting capital. But you can earn attractive passive income. First thing first, there is no such thing as a free lunch. If anyone tells you that you can make a fortune from a few hundred or even a few thousand pounds with little time or effort involved, it’s a scam. There is a reason why few people earn big money and consider themselves to be ‘wealthy’. Mak...

Some of the main reasons you might take a reverse mortgage loan and the drawbacks to consider

An ‘Inside the Industry’ Opinion on Wine Investment 1. The fund’s website indicates that the great bulk of its investment of client funds is in Bordeaux wines. According to my reading, top Bordeaux vintages performed poorly in 2012, at least as regards London wine auctions. Accepting that this is just one year, is there not in any event a risk in putting all eggs in that particular basket? TWIF invests only in Bordeaux wines, for risk management...

Investing in forestry warrants serious consideration. Historically attractive long-run returns relative to other investment classes, low volatility and high correlation with inflation, make a forestry investment a good inflationary hedge. Investing in forestry can help to bring balance and stability to an investment portfolio otherwise biased towards financial securities (such as equities and gold) offering the prospect of higher returns but carr...

Among the myriad alternative investment products which have come to prominence since the onset of the global financial crisis made dangerous terrain of the traditional stocks and bonds markets, with everything from rare earth minerals to carbon credits getting a run, are wine investments. But not just any old quaffable red – fine wines, those which would be expected to pass at some point under the nose of entrenched guru Robert Parker and his coh...

High-yield fixed-income oddball looking increasingly anachronistic Intro Sooner or later, the investor trawling the markets for a fixed-income security which also offers a yield beyond the virtually undetectable will be drawn to PIBS – Permanent Interest Bearing Shares. They’ve been in play since the late 1980s and in the news in recent months, especially apropos the Co-operative Bank and the Nationwide Building Society, and it’s been news which...