Category Archives: Investing

Wamu Investors Rally to Fight Short Sellers

Die-hard investors of the beleaguered bank are fighting hard to keep Washington Mutual out of the pockets of greedy short sellers.

Short sellers are notorious for artificially driving down stock prices of otherwise healthy companies — or at least companies that have a fighting chance to pull out of murky waters.

The downfall of financial firms including AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, including the downward pressure on WaMu and Morgan Stanley are widely beleived to have been at the mercy of unscrupulous short sellers.
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Hooked on Investing

Omg Becky.

If you are just starting out a 401k plan at work then this is for you. It’s real easy to reap the benefits of a well-made portfolio, without doing all the research and without having to consistently update it. If you just don’t know enough to pick and choose your own stocks (like me) then you have an alternative. Continue reading →

5 Ways to 1-Up Your Investment Strategy

Nothing like a weekend break to get your juices flowing about your stock strategies for Monday. So to help out my fellow Weekend Warriors, I’ve constructed a list of 5 investment improving strategies that have helpd me keep my game on point. So if you’re ready, check out my 1-up to give you the umph you need for your financial touchdown. Continue reading →

Are You Ready For Stocks?

To introduce the formal subject of investing on Millionster and to contribute to the writing contest on My Money Forest, we begin with a fundamental question of investing: Are you ready? We will also introduce what we believe to be general rules of investing as we progress throughout the series. — As a matter of fact here’s one to start you off:
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