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Ross Lo Giudice’s Blue Chip Challenge Investment Strategy

Final Rank: 338 / 518 Final Portfolio Value: $979,922,717.88 (-2.01%) Investment Strategy For This Contest I don’t know if what I did even qualifies as strategy. I purchased about 20 or stocks that...

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Phil Simard’s Blue Chip Investment Strategy

Final Rank: 318 / 518 Final Portfolio Value: $992,114,784.48 (-0.79%) Investment Strategy For The Blue Chip Investment Contest Since time was very limited for me in the Blue Chip Investment Challenge....

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BranFlakes1212’s October Day Trading Strategy

Contest: October First Daily Contest Final Rank: 6 Final Portfolio Value: $101,341.05 (+1.34%) Day Trading Strategy For This Contest I usually focus on Lower priced stocks because they tend to be more...

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hoabidebay’s First October Week Contest Trading Strategy

Contest: October First Weekly Challenge Final Rank: 1 Final Portfolio Value: $116,943.82 (+16.94%) Trading Strategy For This Contest I select highly volatile and liquid stocks / ETFs to trade, paying...

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ksmith’s October Day Trading Strategy

Contest: October First Daily Challenge Final Rank: 3 Final Portfolio Value: $102,112.25 (+2.11%) Day Trading Strategy For This Contest For this day-trading contest, my big winners were the...

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Branflakes’s November Investing Contest Strategy

Contest: Second November Investing Contest Final Rank: 5 Final Portfolio Value: $112,017.03 (+12.01%) Trading Strategy For This Contest I looked for low prices stocks breaking new highs and held on for...

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Finding Stocks In Specific Sectors

If you’ve started buying a few stocks, you will probably be interested in diversifying your portfolio between more than one sector. This sounds easy, but it can be very challenging finding stocks from...

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JamesAquino’s Trading Strategy

Contest: December Trading Contest Final Portfolio Value: $117,803.89 (+17.80%) Trading Strategy For This Contest I’ll be general with my strategy so what I have done is I kept a max 5 stocks so it is...

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Janene’s March Trading Strategy

Contest: March Trading Contest Final Portfolio Value: $131,022.78 Trading Strategy For This Contest I’ve watched the market as it fluctuates, learning to buy and short gold as it adjusts. I tend to go...

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Social Investing Offers High Tech, Low-Cost Way to Copy Stock Traders

While managed funds have seen a waning interest as more investors prefer mutual and index funds, there are still those out there who prefer to follow the guidance of others when it comes to picking...

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Short Selling your Investment Portfolio and Taking a Position

In shorting you sell the stocks and then buy them back when the price falls, earning you a profit.

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How To Select Your Trading Strategy

Factors that contribute to selecting your trading strategy include: personality, goals, amount of investment capital and comfort zone.

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Buy Stock: Making Your First Trade and Which Stocks to Buy

Steps to consider as you make your first trade.

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Dogs of Dow Strategy

A stock investing tactic where you purchase the ten DJIA stocks with the highest dividend yield at the start of each year.

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Stocks To Buy?

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Cutting Your Losses

The golden rule of stock investing dictates cutting your losses when they fall 10 percent from the price paid, but common wisdom just might be wrong. Instead, use some common sense to determine if it's...

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When to Sell Stocks

The question of when to sell stocks is not easily answered. On the one hand, you know a correction is coming but the question of "when" isn't so clear. Anyone who has ever sold early only to stand by...

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How to Build a Stock Portfolio

There are a couple of different strategies that you can employ to build a stock portfolio: 1) You can take the risk that the products will not be good, and buy the cheapest brands of everything on the...

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Sharpe Ratio (Beginner)

Sharpe Ratio for Beginners Introduction The Sharpe Ratio is an important tool for evaluating a stock, or a portfolio, based on how risky it is to get a higher return. You can use the Sharpe Ratio to...

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How To Choose Stocks

Choosing Stocks So you have a virtual portfolio with tons of cash, where can you start? This is often the biggest road block for people just getting started with investing, there is always so much to...

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How do I diversify a portfolio?

How Do I Build a Diversified Portfolio? Understanding what it means to build a diversified portfolio is one of the first concepts a new investor needs to understand. When talking about stocks,...

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Team HTMW Blue Chip Challenge Investment Strategy

Final Rank: 336 / 518 Final Portfolio Value: $981,381,149.90 (-1.86%) Investment Strategy For This Contest We picked blue chip stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and tried to balance analyst...

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Kevin Smith’s Blue Chip Challenge Investment Strategy

Final Rank: 331 / 518 Final Portfolio Value: $985,785,982.85 (-1.42%) Investment Strategy For This Contest This was a contest where I wanted to go big or crash hard. The news leading up to the contest...

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Basic Investing Strategies

An “Investing Strategy” is a plan for how to save money to help it grow. Sometimes an “investing strategy” can just mean “plan for trading stocks”, but it really means a lot more. Liquidity, Risk, and...

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Dogs of the Dow: The Simple Stock Picking Strategy that Works

Meet the Dogs No question about it, investing is a dog-eat-dog world. Traders are constantly developing and revising strategies in order to make the most money in the stock market. Throughout time many...

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