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Many people wonder “can I buy stocks on my roth IRA account?” They are often confused between the account type and the funding method. The account type is like suitcase and the funding method is the investment. Account types are things like individual, joint and yes a Roth IRA. Investments are things like stocks, bonds, [...]

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I suggest that once you have decided on an investment strategy the next thing you should do is develop a step by step approach to buying stocks. What I mean by this is that you need to know your investment strategy inside and out. You need to be the expert. One way in which you [...]

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There’s a tendency to think that you need some fancy stock software to make money in stocks. The truth is though, that you don’t need a whole lot of tools other than what IBD provides and an excel spreadsheet to keep track of your watch list. There are some programs that can make it easier, [...]

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I always look forward to the market closing and getting my eIBD edition for the night so I can look in for stocks to buy now. Lately, I’ve been getting a lot emails about the best stocks to buy now. I always view those “alerts” with a great deal of skepticism. You should too.  Compiling [...]

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When you approach investing in the stock market, you can choose to buy mutual funds or start buying stock. Personally, I think that you should have a portion of your money in mutual funds and then buy stock, or individual stocks, with the rest. Whether you use a broker or do it yourself, I think [...]

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I don’t know why, but publishers could write a book called Stock Trading For Dummies and it would probably sell like a million copies. I’m not sure why we like to be called dummies but when it comes to really complicated things like stock market investing, we do. While a book that talks about stock [...]

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Investors are always asking themselves, where are the good stocks in the market. Uncovering these gems requires a strategy to uncover them. So, just how do you go about finding good stocks to invest in? My first step in the process is to sort through stocks based on earnings. The best way that I’ve found [...]

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For some reason, I’ve been having a lot of questions from my readers about trading stocks in your IRA. Trading stocks in your IRA is no different than trading stocks in general. An individual retirement account is a creation of the tax code and acts as an umbrella for a brokerage account. While you can [...]

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I am guessing by the questions my readers keep asking that there is still some confusion as they keep asking “can I buy stocks in my IRA“. I know that it’s easy to get confused about account types and what they can do. An IRA is an account type like an individual account, a joint [...]

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Each day after the market closes, I start reading the Investor’s Business Daily for IBD stocks to watch. The IBD is geared to bring high quality stocks to surface for you to put on your watch list. The first thing I do when looking for stocks to add to my watch list is reviewing each [...]

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I had one of my readers ask “can I put my retirement in stocks?” The answer is that it depends on how old you are. My mom for example is 73 and still has almost all of her retirement money in stocks. I’ll have to say that 2008 hurt her retirement fund badly. So, I [...]

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A common question I get is how to buy stocks with your IRA money. I can tell from a lot of my readers that are still questions about how IRA’s work when it comes to stock market investing. Remember, that the first important point is that an IRA is a type of trading account that [...]

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I had a reader write in and ask me if it was true that Scottrade blocks buying of penny stocks. Rather than just do my research on the web, I decided to call Scottrade directly and ask them. I called the contact us number on their website and because it was after hours, I was [...]

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One of the hardest decisions you face as an investor is figuring out what the best stocks to buy right now are. But finding the best stocks to buy will be one of the most challenging skill you’ll need to master. More importantly, though not only do you want to find the best stock to [...]

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Investing can be pretty complicated and if you factor in taxes and different tax vehicles, it can cause you to ask questions like are IRA rules and penny stocks different from anything else. It’s easy to get confused. But don’t confuse a penny stock investment with an account type. An IRA is nothing more than [...]

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Today I wanted to talk about some good stocks to buy right this second now that you know what to look for. You should already know from previous posts that you should be looking for stocks with strong earnings and buy them when they break out of a solid base. One place to start looking [...]

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When you are scouring the stock tables looking for stocks to buy with excellent upward potential, you’ll start to figure out that you are looking for growth stocks. Growth stocks provide the best opportunity for price appreciation. To me, the best growth stocks can be uncovered using the CANSLIM investment strategy. This will uncover stocks [...]

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Investing in the stock market today and making money at it comes down to figuring out one thing for the small investor. That is by buying what the big money is buying. Even though our portfolios might seem large to us (or maybe not so large), our investments are a drop in the bucket compared [...]

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There seems to be an influx of sites devoted to a hot category and I came across a site called Poker Player Penny Stocks. This was like another site I saw that talked about penny stocks just yesterday. It seems to be ran by the same people as it looks to be a similar type [...]

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