Mirroring services let you study a manager’s moves before you put your money at risk. Abbas Haider Ali wanted to put $25,000 into the stock market. But instead of transferring the money to a mutual fund, the Washington, D.C., technology executive decided to invest with a money manager whose every move he had been tracking [...]
He spent days sitting through free seminars to become a super trader. Lesson number one: It’ll cost you. Admit it: You’ve been tempted. You’ve seen the infomercials for trading systems that will teach you how to master the markets. Sign up for a free seminar in your area and you’re on your way to wealth [...]
A deluge of e-mail come-ons puts gullible investors at risk while the government does little to stop it. Promoters of penny stocks typically pitch these high-risk investments as if they were valuable real estate, like oceanfront property. With little money down, you can make a quick-and-easy profit. But in reality, penny stocks are more like [...]
Full-page ads promoting this small retailer’s shares are running in major business magazines. Investors beware. Guangzhou Global Telecom has made a big splash in its brief life as a U.S.-traded stock. Shares of the small Chinese retailer started trading here on May 15 with an opening share price of $1.75. In little more than two [...]
College students supply many of the offbeat picks for a unique fund. The first thing you notice in Peter Ricchiuti’s office is the stuffed alligator head, its mouth wide open. Ricchiuti, a finance professor at Tulane University, in New Orleans, bagged the gator while hunting in the bayou. A former stock analyst, he now trains [...]
Promotion to developed-nation status gives its stocks added appeal. From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance: Never mind last year’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, incessant rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip and growing concern about the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran. The Israeli stock market is on a roll. Over the past five years to October 15, [...]