The 3 Tools EVERY Real Estate Investor Needs

By Doc Schmyz

I am always being asked. "Doc what advice can you give me that will help me with investing. What tricks of the trade or inside tidbits can you share with me?? The best answer is you need to develop a "toolbox".

Now before you go nuts scratching your head, let me define the areas of the tool box. The tool box has three areas.

1) Grey matter tools: This is the in your head part of the tool box. It is the manner in which you think about investing, the guidelines you use to select investments as well as ALL the information you call on every time the prospect of an investment even shows its self. It is the investment filter you have developed for yourself.

It is the results of the information you have taken in about investing.

IMPORTANT ELEMENT. While we all know that a zillion books have been written about investing. It is important to understand that you MUST have some knowledge from that book...WHY? Because if you understand what other investors are reading?it actually makes it easier to work with them since you understand where they are getting their basic tactics and understanding from, that helps steer them to the investments THEY are making.

The E-tool box: Your online tool box. What websites are you useing online over and over. Most real estate investors only use a few sites. I have found this can lead to a sort of tunnel vision or what I call "INFO INPUT SHUT DOWN".

The answer is very easy it's called the opt in newsletter/update. Here is how it works.

Simply put you create an email address and when you come across a site you think may be a useful reference you join up for the newsletter they email out. They send it to your "Info email account" and you can go thru the emails as you choose. I must warn you however.

Once your on a email list I suggest allowing a few weeks before opting out of it. Just because it doesnt give you the "diamond in the rough" on the first email doesnt mean the newletter your getting is worthless. Newletters to look can originate from RE investment clubs, Blogs, News sites...etc

To me most pop up ad based newsletters are a waste of time. I prefer to find the newsletters that are written by people who ACTUALLY invest. I prefer to get reviews of SEVERAL porducts/methods or tools that some one else actually uses. Those to me are the gems that I try to subscribe too.

My favorite online tools/sites are the ones that cost me very little to use/buy or better yet are free to me. I love to find good resource sites. ( I admit freely I normally link them to my own) A good web tool is a great thing to find. Im not refering to another mortgage calculator...I mena that online tool your just dying to try out. When you find them...bookmark them.

3) And last but not least... actual physical, hold in your hand, tools. It can be a great "go by list". A solid flash light. anything that makes the time in the field looking at investments easier.

So there it is..the outline to your toolbox. Build one...update it often..and USE IT DAILY. - 23196

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Doc Schmyz has worked with investors all over the US and Mexico. He built a free free website shares Real estate investing information for all over the US. Find Real estate investing information by state

Profitable CFD Trading Strategies

By Jeff Cartridge

Making of use of two critical measures of trading performance can dramatically improve your trading results. These two important measurements are the hit rate (winning %) and the risk reward.

Risk reward is calculated by dividing the average win by the average loss. The hit rate is the number of winning trades divided by the total trades. So the hit rate is how often you are right and the risk reward is how much you win when you are right relative to how much you lose when you are wrong.

How Does Lotto Compare To CFDs?

Judging by the number of people that play lotto this is the way to generate wealth, but is it really?

The attraction of lotto is the low outlay or risk. If you lose it only costs you $10 and if you win the returns are potentially enormous, maybe $10 million. The risk reward of Lotto is 1 million:1. This is an excellent risk reward ratio and one you are very unlikely to find anywhere else.

But there is a problem with buying Lotto tickets as an investment strategy. It is not the risk reward, but the hit rate. If a winning Lotto ticket requires 6 correct balls out of 40 possibilities, then the odds of winning are 3,838,380 to 1.

If you bought 3,838,380 tickets on average one ticket would win and the rest (3,838,379) would lose. This means on average you would have to spend $38,383,790 to win $10 million. Overall playing Lotto would cost you $28,383,790.

Overall, buying Lotto tickets is not a profitable strategy. Luck will favour some people in Lotto, but successful CFD trading is not about luck, it is about exploiting profitable opportunities.

Can Betting On Rugby Improve Your Trading?

The Crusaders have consistently won the Super 14 rugby competition in NZ managing to secure 7 wins over the last ten years.

A large bet of $100,000 was made that the Crusaders would win a particular game. The payoff if the Crusaders won was $108,000 so the gambler would receive a profit of just $8,000. With a downside of $100,000 the risk reward is very poor at 8:100 or 0.08.

However when you consider the odds of a Crusaders win they were very high. If the probability is high enough, more than 90%, then this could actually be a profitable strategy.

The odds are unknown, but assuming they were 95% then the gambler would win 19 out of 20 times. This means he would win $8,000 x 19 - $100,000 x 1. Overall he expects to win $52,000 from this strategy. So despite the risk reward being very poor it is possible that this is a winning strategy.

To trade CFDs successfully it is vitally important to have a strategy that overall you expect to win because the combination of risk reward and hit rate are in your favour. - 23196

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Jeff Cartridge has been trading CFDs since they were first launched in Australia in 2002 and created the website LearnCFDs.com 441% in 6 weeks Trading CFDs

Know Major Stock Indexes (Part I)

By Ahmad Hassam

There are 100s of ETFs and HOLDRS covering key industry benchmarks such as the various Standard & Poor Indexes, Russell Indexes or the Dow Jones Averages. There are ETFs that cover the other less well known narrow based sectors.

You should know the major indexes that are either key benchmarks or have ETFs tied to them. For example SPY tracks the Standard & Poors 500 Composite Index and is the largest of the ETFs.

Standard & Poor: Standard & Poor (S&P) has been providing independent and objective financial information, analysis and research for nearly 140 years. It is the financial services segment of the McGraw Hill companies.

It is also the provider of equity indexes. Investors around the globe use S&P Indexes for investment performance measurement. These indexes are also used as the basis for wide variety of financial instruments such as Index Funds, Futures, Options and ETFs.

S&P 500 Composite is one of the most popular indexes in the global financial markets. Hundreds of companies around the world have licenses with the Standards & Poors for their index products and the influence and name recognition of S&P 500 is unparalleled. S&P 500 is also used as a key benchmark for money manager performance.

S&P 500 represents more than 75% of the capitalization of the entire US Stock Market. The S&P 500 is a capitalization weighted index that tracks the performance of 500 large capitalization issues. Each year thousands of money managers have the single minded goal of outperforming the S&P 500.

The stocks in the S&P 500 are determined by a nine member committee in accordance with the general guidelines. 30 years back most of the stocks in S&P 500 were from the Industrial Sector. Over the years, the complexion of S&P 500 has changed. By 1970s, six of the top companies were from the Oil Sector. In 2000s, technology composed about one third of the capitalization of the index.

The other Standard & Poors indexes are the S&P Midcap 400 Index. It is based on 400 chosen domestic stocks and is also capitalization based. It measures the performance of the midsize companies of the US economy.

The S&P SmallCap 600 Index consists of 600 domestic stocks. These stocks are chosen for market size and liquidity. S&P SmallCap 600 is also capitalization weighted index and is of interest to institutional and retail investors. There are also sub-indexes based on these S&P Indexes.

NASDAQ: You will often hear in the media that the Nasdaq market being up or down on a given day. NASDAQ Composite Index contains more than 4500+ companies. It represents a market capitalization of trillions of dollars in the US economy.

There is another Nasdaq Index called the Nasdaq-100 and it is composed of the top 100 nonfinancial companies in the Nasdaq Stock Market. NASDAQ-100 is a modified capitalization weighted index. The QQQ is based on the Nasdaq-100 Index. - 23196

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Mr. Ahmad Hassam has done Masters from Harvard University. He is interested in day trading stocks and forex. Know Candlestick Charting. Learn Forex Trading!

Living And Investing In Costa Rica - Land Investment

By Randy Berg

With Costa Rica real estate market booming, most of the real estate experts are sure of making good profit on real estate investments done in Costa Rica. The primary reason for this is - lots of foreigners showing interest in buying properties in Costa Rica, thereby bringing in foreign investment in Costa Rica. In many areas of Costa Rica within two years the cost has doubled.

Only buying real estate just for investment and waiting for time to soar may be the way to have high returns on the investment done. However, in Costa Rica the real estate prices are driven high because of country offering buyers a quality lifestyle. The access to Costa Rica is very easy with number of flights available to Europe and South America.

In some places investing in real estate and waiting for ideal time to have the best returns is the way of following investments in real estate. But Costa Rica is a country which has provided quality lifestyle to buyers that have driven the real estate markets to such a height.

With so much available in Costa Rica, to live, there is not a bad idea. To buy real estate in Costa Rica is not only cheap but is also a good long time investment. As foreign buyers are on a look out for investments in Costa Rica it's going to be a sound investment in buying real estate in Costa Rica.

Living in Costa Rica is entertaining with full fledge amenities and infrastructure available; shifting to Costa Rica for living is not a bad option. Real estate in Costa Rica being cheaper, it is also a good long term investment with past showing lots of appreciations in property prices.

If you are on the look out for real paradise; this country called Costa Rica has much more to offer to nature lover, water sports maniac or retiree who has decided to spend his life leisurely. Those who are fed up of long hour rush when commutating from one place to another want to find respite in calm and cool place like Costa Rica.

This country is real paradise for nature lovers, water sport enthusiasts or retiree who wants to enjoy rest of his life with nature and other modern amenities around. Those who are fed up with hurly burly of busy life and wants to lead life leisurely are attracted to the country Costa Rica. Other factors that are a big advantage to living and investing in Costa Rica is risk free investment due to stable political environment of the country Costa Rica. With no political turmoil reported until date the risk involved in the investment in real estate in Costa Rica is almost zero. During all these year property in Costa Rica has seen up-swing due to people from other countries showing lots of interest in investing money. - 23196

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Forex Megadroid Review

By Frank Rivera

Following in the footsteps of the highly successful FAPTurbo, there have been several scalping robots released into the marketplace. Many of these have been proven to be cheap knock-offs and show dismal trading results that mean you'd be wasting your money on most of these. Among these releases was the Forex Megadroid and originally it seemed to get lumped into the same group as all the other cheap knock-offs. It didn't take long for people to learn that the Forex Megadroid is a good robot all of its own.

What makes Forex Megadroid stand out from the others? This expert trader is able to be used with any MetaTrader 4 forex trading platform, so this gives you plenty of options for choosing your broker.

Many traders that use FAPTurbo have also found that Megadroid is a nice complement to their trading strategy. Megadroid trades a different pair than FAPTurbo, so it gives you more opportunity to trade. The spreads on the EUR/USD are usually pretty reasonable at that time, so you shouldn't have any problem getting trades.

The Forex Megadroid can boast having a slightly higher accuracy rate than the FAPTurbo and also many other comparable robots too. It also has the ability to pick entry points that can often be more accurate than its competitors. However, you might notice that the trading strategy used by the Forex Megadroid differs from the majority of other robots.

The robot takes fewer trades, but it has a higher win percentage. In fact, it boasts that it has a 95% win percentage in its trades. This is a good win percentage for anyone, especially a robot.

One of the minor differences with the Forex Megadroid is that it doesn't offer the same level of customization that the FAPTurbo can offer, however this can make it much easier to use for novice traders. The robot makes your trading strategy very simple. You just input the amount you're willing to risk with each trade and the robot will factor in your risk tolerance levels with each trade placed, including stop-loss trades.

It is extremely easy to set up, as you just download it into your MetaTrader and then attach it to the appropriate chart. If you've never done anything with forex before, you could follow the guide that comes with it and be up and running in a few minutes.

Overall, this is a very effective robot that can get the job done. It's similar to FAPTurbo except it's more accurate and uses a different currency pair. You won't get that many trades, but you can feel more comfortable about the ones that you do get. Check out Forex Megadroid if you've been looking for a consistent way to grow your account. - 23196

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