Bollinger bands work kind of like a rubber band that is being tightened. The tighter the bands get, the more likely it is that there is going to be a change in the trending line. Also, as the price moves to the top of the Bollinger band, it may be an indication of a overbought situation. The closer they move to the bottom line of the band, it may be an indication of an oversold situation.

It is possible for a stock to trade within a range for a period of time. If you watch the price, it will move up and down within the range. There are several different strategies that an investor can use with Bollinger bands. For instance, after a sharp spike or fall in the trend, the market is probably going to consolidate toward the middle of the band. Traders may also use the Bollinger band in conjunction with support and resistance lines to anticipate the action that the stock price will take.

If you are using Bollinger bands with the moving average line, you should watch for a deflection off of the bottom band. As the price moves above the 20 day line, the upper band now becomes the upper price target. The stock prices will probably then fluctuate between the upper band and the 20 day moving average line. Watch for a crossing of the 20 day line. This is probably an indication of a downward trend.

Bollinger bands should be used with other technical indicators to obtain an accurate picture of an expected action. However, you should never use two technical analytic processes to obtain an accurate conjecture. For instance, using two momentum indicators will do little for your analysis. They tend to move together. Avoid colinearity in your analysis.

It is possible for a stock price to break out of a Bollinger band range, and still not be an indicator of a reversal. There are breakouts that do occur. It is possible for a trader to miss out on a great opportunity if they sell merely because the price moved outside of the band. I remember reading an analysis of one stock I was following which indicated that since the price moved above the upper range, it was set for a fall. In this case, the stock price did actually fall, but it may not always be that way.

Bollinger bands use a simple moving average in their calculation based on a default parameter of 20 periods. The 20 periods is merely a default calculation and may not actually represent an accurate picture. A savvy trader may choose to lengthen the number of periods in certain situations.

A trader should also be very careful about making statistical assumptions based on the standard deviations used for Bollinger bands. The sample size used may not be large enough to obtain true statistical significance. In other words, do not put too much into what the Bands are telling you. Always confirm your expectations as indicated above.

Be wise in your investment strategy. You can make money with stock market investments. However, you need to realize that day traders do not always win. Many times they do lose out on opportunities based on what they anticipate the market will do. It is just as difficult to outguess the market as it is to outguess a two year old. Do not let your stock market returns suffer due to unwise decisions.

Garth Wheeler is the author for all of the articles on http://www.mystocktradingtips.com. It is a website devoted to providing informative stock tips to both the practiced and begining investors. It covers all aspects of stock trading including how to begin to trade, what the stock market is and many tips on how to pick winning stocks to invest in.

Every free foreclosure listing and every free foreclosure list is potentially a little different. And, there are essentially four different types of free foreclosure lists that you will find once you start searching.

One of the most important things for you to understand when you find your list is what type of free foreclosure list you have. This is important because the laws change depending on what list you are looking at. So, let me just jump right in and teach you the four different types of free foreclosure listings that you are going to find.

List 1: The Free Foreclosure List Before The Filing Date

The first free foreclosure list is what I would call pre-foreclosure before the filing date because the houses on this list are essentially listed before the initial foreclosure filing is done. There has been no paperwork filed by the bank at this time. The owners of the house might be behind on their payments and things are probably not looking very good financially for them but they are not to the point of having the Notice of Election and Demand actually filed. This is one of the types of free foreclosure lists that you are going to find in your search.

List 2: The Free Foreclosure List After The Filing Date

The second list of free foreclosure listings are listed after the filing date. Once the bank or mortgage company has taken an action to file the Notice of Election and Demand, the free foreclosure list moves into what I would call a pre-foreclosure after the filing date. Now, a lot of things change when you get a foreclosure list that is in this particular time frame.

It is an important thing to know because legally, from state to state, what you can do to solve the owners financial problems at this point in time varies dramatically. This is the second type of free foreclosure list that you are going to find.

List 3: The Free Foreclosure List At The Sale

The third list is what I would call the sale date foreclosure list. This is the actual list of houses schedule for foreclosure by the county. This foreclosure list is available at a point in time when the bank has moved through this whole process and gone through all of their options other than foreclosure but now the foreclosure has become nearly inevitable. There is a date set with the county and the property is actually going to be sold at the foreclosure sale. This free foreclosure list is actually in that time frame after the filing date but before the actual foreclosure date.

List 4: The Free Foreclosure List After The Sale

Finally, the fourth free foreclosure list you will find, and you will find these free foreclosure listings in just about every city across the country, is after the foreclosure sale itself. This list moves into what is known as bank owned properties or REO. So the fourth free foreclosure listing group that you are going to find are bank owned properties. The foreclosure has occurred and now the properties are owned by the bank.

So if you are looking for free foreclosure listings, these are the four different types of free foreclosure lists that are out there that you can get your hands on. You can use this information to find greatly discount houses that you can buy for good real estate investments.

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If you are going to look at stock investing tips, you should evaluate them based on your own gut feel. How do you feel about what is being put forth? I remember the saying which said, “Do not believe everything you read, and only half of what you see”. Following are some tips which you can evaluate and decide if they will work for you.

The first tip is to watch how you move in and out of the market. Many investors choose to jump out of the market during the beginning phases of a bull run. They feel that the market has gone up too far, too fast and has little support for the position it is in. Does that sound familiar? If you are on the sidelines during a bull run, you may be like the investor which once owned land that oil was found on. It will mean nothing to your financial success.

You should be willing to purchase stock in that position that is showing strength. Never buy into weakness. Never try to strengthen a losing position. If you have a losing stock, then get out. Never feel that you should buy more stock since the price is going down. Instead, you should be looking for those stocks which are going up and buy into those stocks. Bargain basement stocks are not always a good choice unless they have the fundamentals to support the purchase of them.

You should also be able to practice the art of patience. If you have found a stock that looks good but it is overpriced, then wait for the price to come down. You can bet that it will. If it does not, then move on. That is what Warren Buffet does. He rarely overpays for a stock. He knows what he wants to pay for it and calmly waits for the correct position. Once you have initiated a trade, then wait for it to develop. You should be willing to give it time to develop.

Another level of patience is to refuse to take small profits. There are several different winners during a year. Finding them and letting them develop will help you to obtain significant stock market returns. Too many investors jump in and out of positions. They then watch hopelessly as the stock they jumped out of, skyrockets. I recently did this with Microsoft. I was grateful to get out with a small loss, now it is taking off.

You should be willing to do more of what is working for you and less of what is not working. Each day you should look at those positions which are creating a profit, and add to them. At the same time, you should be willing to subtract from those positions which are losing you money. Being willing to take your emotions out of your trading strategy will only serve to help you to make money with your stock investments.

The last piece of advice is to wait until the technical and fundamental analysis agree. Many day traders will look only at the technical side of the analysis. They forget that this is a business and not mere speculation. You should never buy stock that you would not want to own for a long time. What happens if you buy stock based on a technical pattern and then the pattern changes? You may be left holding the bag on a worthless position.

Making money in the stock market is possible. You just need to be able to watch for the right opportunities and then give it enough time for the profits to come to you.

Garth Wheeler is the author for all of the articles on http://www.mystocktradingtips.com. It is a website devoted to providing informative stock tips to both the practiced and begining investors. It covers all aspects of stock trading including how to begin to trade, what the stock market is and many tips on how to pick winning stocks to invest in.

What you may not know about the upset sale is that all properties are sold subject to any liens or judgments. That means that if you purchase a tax deed at this sale, you are responsible for any other unpaid liens or judgments on the property. Most people assume that when they buy a property at a tax sale, that they don’t have to worry about other liens such as a mortgage. This is not true at the upset sale. If you plan on bidding at any of these sales this fall, you’d better do your homework!

So how do you find out about other liens or judgments on tax sale properties? There are two ways that you could do this; one is going to cost you some money and the other is going to take some of your time. The first way is to hire a title search company to do a simple title search on all of the properties in the sale that you are interested in bidding on. This could turn out to be a little costly, so it’s not my method of choice. Another reason why I don’t hire a title search company to do title searches for me before the sale is that many of the properties will come off the sale list the day before or the morning of the sale. You may pay for a few title searches that you don’t even need because the properties that you wanted to bid on are not sold at the sale.

Last time I went to the Monroe County Upset Sale, I didn’t even bid on any properties. I researched about 10 of the properties in the sale that were in an area that I was interested in. Through my research I narrowed this down to only two properties that I wanted to bid on. I did all of my research the day before the sale and I had checked that morning to make sure that all of these properties were still in the sale. But by the next morning (the morning of the sale) the two properties that I was interested in had paid and were no longer included in the sale. I’m glad that I did my own research and did not pay a title company to do it!

That brings us to the second method for finding out about liens and judgments on tax lien properties, and that is to do it yourself. There is a little bit of education and some time involved, but it is well worth it. In most states, to do this type of research you would go to the County Hall of Records. In Pennsylvania the office that has the records that you need to search is the office of the Prothonotary. The people in this office are usually very helpful and will help you to look up what you need to know. You’ll have to look for liens and judgments by the name of the owner. If there are co-owners or joint owners, you will want to search under both names.

Keep in mind, however, that if new liens were not yet recorded they could slip through the cracks in the system and you won’t be able to find them. There is always some degree of risk when you buy a tax deed, even if you are careful and do your homework. This is why it is always recommended that you do not buy tax deeds in your own name, but in the name of a separate entity. It could be a corporation or an LLC.

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It is virtually impossible to be able to tell the difference from a legit investment opportunity from a scam. But there are several things that should raise a red flag and should tell you that something isn’t right here before making a money investment with someone new. There are a great number of investment newsletters that you can find online. The only problem is that sometimes, they are not so independent. Sometimes you might find a newsletter that is touting how much money can be made from a new stock, when they are only mentioning it simply because the company paid them to do so. Other newsletters spread false information, trying to control the market so they themselves can make good money off of their investment deals. Some might even try to drive up prices so they can profit greatly off of the increase price tag on their stock.

Another thing you should be wary of before making a money investment is online message boards. These have become a great tool over the years for investors to share information about stocks they are interested in or other investment opportunities they have found. The problem here is that it is also easy for a scammer to get on a message board and try to get people to buy into their scam.

This next tip should be obvious, but still needs to be said. Due to email being so easy to use, scammers increasingly send out spam about some fraudulent investment they are presenting to the user, hoping to get someone to bite. It goes without saying that you should never make a money investment with someone who contacts you with a supposed “great opportunity”. Only deal with those who you have researched and looked into first.

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The first on a long list of investment tips is to make sure that the investment you are about to make is registered. There are some companies out there that are so small that they don’t have to register their investment offerings with the federal government. But in addition to checking with the Securities and Exchange Commission, you should make an effort to check with the appropriate agency that regulates securities in your state as well. If you check with one of these and don’t see any information about the potential investment you could be making, that doesn’t necessarily mean you have discovered a scam, but just because an investment is registered doesn’t mean it is legit either.

Next on the list of investment tips is to make sure that whoever you are making an investment deal with is licensed to be able to do so legally. You can call the state regulators mentioned above and ask them if the person or firm you are looking at is licensed to operate in your state. You should also ask if the person or firm have any history of complaints against them. This should easily help you to get a good idea if the person you are about to trust your money with is on the up and up.

The final investment tip is perhaps one of mostly common sense, but some people still have a hard time following this statement. If the investment opportunity sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Before handing over your money to some investment group, be sure that they are able to provide you with a copy of their financial statements and what their investment prospects are.

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The first myth that most people have about making an online investment is that you are going to get rich and get rich very quickly. The truth is, just like any other kind of investment, it takes time to make good money. Making an investment online is no different, as it shouldn’t be looked as a quick and easy way to get rich. Making investments online is certainly not for everybody and should only be taken on by those who are up to the challenge and can afford to lose money if their investment doesn’t go in their favor. But if you are careful, do some extensive research before you hand your money over to anybody and know how to make sound trading decisions, you should be just fine by making an investment online.

Another myth regarding making an online investment is that trading online is the only way to get a hold of initial public offerings. These, of course, are referring to when a company finally decides to “go public” and opens the doors for investors to start trading shares of its stock. These are thought very highly of by many investors as they see their prices go up very quickly, making those initial investors a good amount of money. In reality, there is nothing special about online investing that allows you to get in on these early stock options. Even when you decide to make an investment online, you will still find that is very difficult to get in on these early stock options. This is more of an issue that has to do with supply and demand. There are so few shares offered up initially, but there is great demand from potential investors who are interested.

The final myth being addressed about making an online investment has to do with thinking that as soon as you initiate a sale or a trade of your stocks that it will be sold immediately. Sometimes it can be several minutes or even several hours before your trade is completed.

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In the State of Florida for example, if your lien does not redeem during the redemption period, the property goes into a tax deed sale in order to satisfy your lien. If you did your due diligence and purchased a lien on a decent property, in order to get the property, you will have to bid against other investors at the deed sale. So if you want to invest in Florida, and you are interested in obtaining property, then deed investing is the way to go, not lien investing. If, however, you are not interested in owning property, but just want to get a higher return on your money than you could in the bank, then tax liens are the way to go. In Florida, as long as you do your due diligence, you won’t have to worry about the possibility of owning the property.

If you live on the west cost, you might want to consider investing in tax deeds instead of tax liens. That’s because most of the states on the west cost are deed states and not lien states. Yes, you could travel to the closest lien state, but that would eat into your profits. And yes, you could invest online but then you have to deal with increased competition and higher costs. Also, would you purchase a property that you did not physically look at first? Even though with tax lien investing, you are not purchasing the property, you’re only buying a lien on the property; your lien is only as good as the property that guarantees it.

If you are interested in either owning the property or getting a very good return on your investment and you live in or near a redeemable deed state, than you should consider investing in redeemable deeds. Redeemable deeds are kind of in-between tax liens and tax deeds. You purchase the tax deed at the sale, but there is a redemption period in which the previous owner can come back and redeem the deed from you. They have to pay a pretty hefty penalty in most redeemable deed states in order to do so, and the penalty is on the total amount that you bid at the sale. In Texas the penalty is 25% and in Georgia it’s 20%. Not a bad rate of return! Another great thing about redeemable deeds is that the larger counties with bigger cities can have a tax sale a few times a year or even every month. That’s better than waiting for a tax sale only once a year sale as in most states that sell regular tax deeds or tax liens.

If you live in a state that sells tax liens, and you are not interested in purchasing property, but are interested in investing your money safely at a high rate of return, than tax lien investing is the best choice for you.

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It is important to do proper research on the mutual funds. A mutual fund is a pooling of money with a fund manager. This fund manager chooses which stocks to invest in that fit the criteria of the mutual fund by-laws or mission statement. For instance, a mutual fund may have the mandate to invest in only gold or gold related stocks. The manager has no legal right to decide he wants to invest in oils since he thinks they are a better investment at the time. He is forced to stay within the by-laws of the fund.

Investors will purchase into the fund from either the fund itself or from other brokers. Some funds are closed funds and do not issue additional stock. If there is not a market for that fund, then a potential investor will not be able to purchase into that fund. Mutual funds also will have a minimum required investment. If an investor does not have that amount of money to invest, then they also will not be able to invest in that fund.

The price that is paid for the mutual fund for open funds is the net asset value (NAV) plus the commissions and fees. The NAV is calculated by taking the value of the assets of the fund minus the liabilities which is then divided by the number of outstanding shares. The NAV is recalculated at the end of each business day. A closed fund’s price is determined by what the purchaser and seller determine to be a fair price.

There are some positive and negative aspects to mutual funds. A negative aspect is that the investor has no control over what their money is invested in. It is basically up to the fund manager as to which stocks he wishes to put the money into, subject to the by-laws. Another negative is that there are always fees associated with the fund. Even if the fund is losing money, the fees associated with the fund still need to be paid. Obtaining a true valuation of the mutual fund is also difficult. The value is not calculated until the end of the business day, so during the day you do not have a valid estimate of the funds value.

Some positive aspects of the mutual funds have already been partially discussed. The investor is able to pool their funds with other investors and purchase a larger quantity of stock than they would have been able to purchase on their own. Their risk is spread over many different stocks. The reduction of risk is perhaps the greatest advantage of mutual funds. Another advantage is that you have a supposed expert who is picking the stocks to invest in. They have access to information that the common investor does not have access to.

It is important to remember that all investments do carry an element of risk. It is important to read the prospectus very carefully before choosing to invest in a mutual fund. Read about the amount of fees they can charge. You want to find a fund which has a very low ratio of fees. You should also read about their by-laws for what they can invest in and what the process is for changing those rules.

Watch for those industries which are expected to grow in the next few years. Too many people choose funds based on prior years results. The prior year is no indication for the coming years as far as mutual funds go. You should instead evaluate an investment based on the expected growth of the industry.

Garth Wheeler is the author for all of the articles on http://www.mystocktradingtips.com. It is a website devoted to providing informative stock tips to both the practiced and begining investors. It covers all aspects of stock trading including how to begin to trade, what the stock market is and many tips on how to pick winning stocks to invest in.

This theory is based on four distinct phases of economics. These phases are inflationary growth, stagflation, deflationary growth and depression.

The phase of inflationary growth is sort of the beginning of the economic cycle. The economy begins its expansion with slow rising prices, minimal and stable interest rates. Because of the conditions which exist, stock prices begin to rise. After the inflationary growth cycle, the stagflation (recession) cycle begins. This cycle has rising prices, increasing interest rates, inflation and increasing debt. Investors who missed the boat at the beginning of the inflationary growth pattern will tend to jump in to the market during this phase.

The economy cannot sustain itself at this pace of growth and eventually achieves the plateau known as the deflationary growth cycle. This cycle contains sharply rising stock prices, a small amount of economic growth, and sharply rising debt. This could be considered the sucker phase for investors. The sharply rising stock prices will drag in those who have been patiently waiting on the sidelines. These investors are the type who buy high and sell low. They are always a day late and a dollar short.

The final economic stage is depression. This cycle has falling prices, increasing commodity prices, rapidly falling profits, falling stock prices and stable interest rates. The savvy investor is smart enough to see this cycle coming and will either short the market or purchase commodities. These investors are the ones who are able to make money in whatever cycle the market is in.

During the 2008 – 2010 period, the government tried to soften the economic blow as economic cycle moved into the depression phase. They pumped massive amounts of money into the economy and increased the national debt to the point that it will now exceed 62 percent of the Gross National Product in 2010. The nation simply cannot sustain this much debt. Something is going to need to change. Many economists are concerned about this very issue.

It would have been interesting to have been able to watch the economy if nothing had been done, and the economic nature of things been allowed to run its course. There would have been more pain and politically, it would not have been good. However, would we now be in a better position as the economy moves out of this cycle and begins the inflationary growth cycle? Has government only served to delay the inevitible?

What we can learn from the Kondratieff wave cycle theory is that sometimes it is best to let things run the course. I learned from my macro economic classes that government does have a factor in the economy. Sometimes however, it might be better if they chose a lighter touch with their policies. They are kind of like a child who gets into a mess and then makes decisions that make it worse. The child is only trying to avoid the punishment but ends up making things worse than if he had only bucked up and admitted the mess he was in. A perfect example of this happened years ago to my nephew. He went up to visit his grandma who lived close by. After many hours together, she stated that perhaps it was time he go home. He said “Grandma, it’s dangerous down there”. He was in trouble and had run.

As stated earlier, the savvy investor watches the signs of the economy similar to how a farmer watches the seasons. He or she knows when it is time to change their investment strategy. Perhaps you too can become a savvy investor.

Garth Wheeler is the author for all of the articles on http://www.mystocktradingtips.com. It is a website devoted to providing informative stock tips to both the practiced and begining investors. It covers all aspects of stock trading including how to begin to trade, what the stock market is and many tips on how to pick winning stocks to invest in.