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Stock Market College

Surviving Bear Markets

Future bear markets usually arrive every three to five years (four years on average), and they can demolish your capital. Avoiding these slumps is the key to protecting your hard-earned capital. Unfortunately, most investors have no clue as to the market's future direction, how the stock market works, or how to minimize their losses. Therefore, it is not surprising that investors suffer the consequences when a bear market sneaks up and severely mauls them.

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The Ponzi Scheme

What if you were told that you could get a 40% return on your investment in just 90 days compared with 5% for bank savings accounts? Would you join in? Well one man was able to scam investors out of $1 million (in 1921!) using what is now dubbed 'The Ponzi Scheme'.

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Costs of Going Public

So you have already decided why to go public and are yearning to take the next step. Wait! Before you take the plunge, make sure you are aware of the costs of going public. The costs associated with taking a company public are significant.

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Stock Market Advice

Offshore Investment Advice

"Offshore investing" is often so shrouded by secrecy to many investors that it makes it seem very mysterious. Many investors become weary of offshore investment advice and immediately become suspicious. Once you conduct the offshore investment advice for yourself, you will discover that investing offshore is nothing more than other another way of investing.

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Why Go Public?

Interested in taking your company public? Like most of your tough business decisions, taking your company public has advantages and disadvantages. There are a host of reasons for companies to consider going public.

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Hot Stock Market Tips

Are you looking for that next hot stock market tip that is supposed to make you rich? Well, stop looking and think again. Stock tips supposedly give you the "inside scoop" on the next potential hot stock play so you can buy in when the stock price is low but before the stock takes off. Then sell when it's high - making you a nice profit. In theory, it sounds like a good stock trading strategy. If it only worked that simple.

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Top 20 Trading Rules

Learn the Top 20 Trading Rules that the professionals use to make money by trading in the stock market and investments.

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6 Different Investment Philosophies

To be successful with any investment strategy, you have to start out with an investment philosophy that is consistent in substance and one that corresponds not only to the markets you decide to invest in but your to your personal and individual characteristics as well.

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Primal vs Emotional Investing

It is pretty apparent to most people who observe people act and react that they do a lot of what they do based on moderately primal and/or emotionally motivated impulses. Many experiments have been conducted to check the impact that primal instincts and emotion-based thinking has on investing and stock market psychology.

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