Along with continuous education, "One Up On Wall Street" helped me transition from gambling in the stock market to long-term stock investing. One essential lesson - how to identify potential "ten baggers". Ten baggers are investments where the initial investment is multiplied by ten or more!
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Learning to read stock charts was critical to improving my wealth. Today's blog gives you a brief introduction. Next week let's continue building chart competency by examining support and resistance.
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Both major and small brokerage firms, such as Fidelity and Charles Schwab now permit the purchase of fractional shares. A fractional share purchase allows you to buy a small portion of a stock, with as little as $5.00. Meaning you can own a fraction of an expensive stock like Amazon or Tesla. {Not recommending these stocks!} BROKERAGE FIRMS ALLOWING FRACTIONAL SHARE PURCHASES BROKERAGE TRADING FEES ACCOUNT MINIMUMS and MINIMUM SIZED FRACTIONAL SHARES Charles Schwab $0/trade $5.00 minimum ...
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Congratulations on accumulating a YUGEEE portion of your retirement money in a 401-K! As you approach retirement you need to decide what to do with YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY, currently sitting in one or more 401K Plans. This is a nice problem to have! SOME OPTIONS FOR AFTER RETIREMENT Keep your money in your 401-K Plan(s).Roll into an IRA or a ROTH IRA and convert to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), to lower fees.There ...
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What is the one thing we do not want to happen in retirement? I say death, but as this is an investment and finance blog- RUNNING OUT OF MONEY! Financial professionals recommend to maintain your current lifestyle in retirement, you need about 70-90% of your FINAL income, EACH YEAR. If your retirement final income is $100,000 you need $70,000 to $90,000 annual income. Because of the extension of life expectancy and ...
Read MoreSome of you are off to a terrific start! Let’s look at potential accomplishments: • You are employed or own your business and have a steady and growing income stream. • Have paid all education loans off. • Contributing (HOPEFULLY AT MAXIMUM LEVEL - $18,500) to your 401-K. If not at maximum level of your 401-K you are using your annual raises to increase your participation percentage in your 401K until you reach maximum amount of ...
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