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Financial New Year’s Resolutions

My resolutions for 2007 are to:

Always use logic that can be easily explained to others when deciding to make trades
Learn more about fundamental and technical analysis
Begin trading options
Behave in a more risk-neutral fashion
Increase my risk-free rate of return from the 5.35% it is today to over 6%
Have a return of at least 12% on my “risky” [...]

Posted on December 31, 2006 at 11:51 am by adampowell · Permalink · Comments
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Know What You are Getting

This past semester, I have read a bit about investing abroad. My readings have caused me to ask the following questions:
Who owns the shares?
The phrase “publicly-owned” does not mean the same thing for every company. Who owns the shares? Are the mostly owned by the founders, a handful of institutional investors, or by individuals in [...]

Posted on December 25, 2006 at 6:50 pm by adampowell · Permalink · Comments
In: General, Uncategorized