Real estate can be a great long term investment. The general historical trend of real estate prices has been upward. Despite periodic downturns such as the real estate collapse in the late 2000's, investing in real estate can be profitable with come careful research and evaluation. Whether you choose to by buy property as an individual investor or invest in a real estate fund, the earning... read more »

Here's some renegade advice on investing for you, and you will probably not hear this from too many other places. My advice to you is to take active control of everything in which you invest. I realize it's hard to do this if you're in a 401(k) program. You'll basically be given a choice of a handful of mutual funds, which bites. However, some of these funds are better tha... read more »

Caution Stock trading is a double edged weapon. Using it as an expert will let us control the world. If we don't know how to handle, then our life will be in threat. Learning is the first step for earning. Stock trading is an art which you will master by experience and skill. Basic Requirements Is the risk required? This is the first question you have to ask before thinking about in... read more »

It's true that you can't literally buy happiness. In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." And he would know, because he was depressed and miserable most of the time. But money can at least provide an escape from drudgery and give you increased access to excitement and entertainment. MOVE SLOWLY Don't throw your... read more »

Cash survey programs: There are many legit survey sites out there that really pay for your opinions. If you are living in the USA or Canada you can earn a few hundred dollars easily per month from survey programs. There are many legit sites such as Global test market, American consumer opinion, Test spin, Esearch and Brand institute. You can join these sites and earn. Google ad sense: You need... read more »

As we have seen in previous articles a sound financial planning includes allocating enough liquid money for emergencies. But there is a much more important thing to do which can preserve your cash in most emergencies. When you think of an emergency situation it is most likely to be a loss of job, loss of health or loss of life. Insurance is the most important aspect of your entire financial plann... read more »

After a whole bunch of articles on the stock market that was targeted on getting the basics right we are now set to go ahead and learn the most exciting among them - which stocks to buy. The older articles can be backtracked by going here http://www.advice.com/article/2009/05/23/Advice+on+Building+a+Portfolio+in+Stock+Markets... read more »

The previous articles have focused on the basic of Stock Market, the buying, selling (both stop losses and booking profits). In this article we will see how to build a portfolio of Stocks. For previous articles, you can go to the link below and backtrack from there http://www.advice.com/article/2009/05/22/Advice+on+booking+profits+in+Stock+Market... read more »

In the last article we saw about stop losses. That was selling your stocks for a loss when things don't turn out as you had planned. Now we will see the nicer side and how to make some money :-). You can go here to read the previous article - http://www.advice.com/article/2009/05/21/Advice+on+Stopping+Losses+in+Stock+Market... read more »

In the previous article we learned that the most important thing to do in investing in Stock Market is to take care of the losses. Make sure your losses are minimum but how do we do that. One technique that we learned was not to make big bets. The rule that you are going to learn here is the most important and should be adhered to with a lot of discipline. Let us take the same example of the p... read more »