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41) Prospering with Mutual Funds: How anyone can "Afford" an Investment Advisor: Choosing a fee-based advisor, and watching how your portfolio performs with their advice will almost always prove that it doesn't cost you to have an investment advisor, it pays.

42) No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype vs. Investment Help: Here a a few pointers to help you to evaluate mutual fund newsletter services.

43) Five Tips for Analyzing an Income Statement: The income statement is the most deceptively simple of the major financial statements.The items on the income statement are easily manipulated by, say, less-than-honest management, and don’t necessarily represent the true situation at a company.

44) Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses: Sometimes you need to be in cash.

45) No Load Mutual Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?: In a nutshell, an ETF is a specific kind of no-load mutual fund that you might consider to be a basket of stocks. ETFs are diversified like mutual funds, only they trade like stocks.

46) How (NOT) to Buy Mutual Funds: Poor decision-making can lead to financial disaster.

47) How to Maximize Your 401k Mutual Fund Returns: Find an investment advisor who bases his decisions on a measured and objective approach. That will give you the edge no matter whether the market is going up or down.

48) How to Evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds: Who is selling load funds and why? Who markets no load funds? Which one is right for you?

49) How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing: The bottom line is to look at costs as balanced by performance and that's where you find value. Then seek true value not simple savings, enjoy healthy dollar-level returns and don't sweat the pennies.

50) How To Find An Investment Advisor: Choosing an Investment Advisor can yield long-term high profit benefits. However, as with any relationship, make sure there's a fit before you jump into it.

51) The Inside Scoop on Mutual Fund Rip Offs: The bear market that showed up at the end of 2000 has every brokerage house-as well as the entire mutual fund industry-scrambling to find creative ways to boost both their image and bottom line. Unfortunately, this is often at the investors' expense.

52) How to pay less and get more: Discount broker vs professional: How do you invest? What do you really pay? At the end of the day, what are your real results? These are questions smart investors should be asking themselves (but usually don't). In this era of more fees, misc. charges, holding periods and back end redemptions, even at discount brokers, how are you really making out?

53) Your Worst Enemy To Successful Investing - The Media: How do you make your investment decisions and where do you get your information? If you're like most of the people I know, you look to the experts. That's fine, however it's important to be aware that for every expert, there's an opinion and for every opinion there's an expert.

54) The Conflict of Interest Game: While it is impossible to predict conflict of interest schemes, it is definitely possible to follow a disciplined approach and be on the "right" side of the market so you can avoid jumping aboard a sinking ship.

55) The Demise of Buy & Hold: Buy & Hold should be renamed Buy, Hold & Bye-Bye. It sounded great for a while, especially for the huge majority of investors who don't have the time or interest in really doing due diligence on investments. Yet, if you're like many of us, you know there are opportunities for putting your money to work and having it grow.

56) Find a Methodology and Minimize Investment Madness: The majority of people dread having to deal with investment matters, and tend to jump into purchases and then hold their breath hoping for the best. If this sounds like you, there are basically 3 choices.

57) How We Eluded The Bear Of 2000:  If you buy an investment and you don’t have a clear strategy for taking profits if it goes your way, or taking a small loss if it goes against you, you are not investing; you are merely gambling.

58) Do Lifestyle Funds Provide Greater Security?: With the stock market stubbornly refusing to settle down and smooth out, Wall Street has been scrambling to come up with "product" they can sell to gun shy investors. One such new concept is the Lifestyle fund; an extremely diversified package designed to be the single fund in an investor's portfolio.

59) Why Your Mutual Fund Doesn't Return as Much as You Think: Mutual fund performance figures often leave out the taxes and some fees you are required to pay as an investor.. The little guy is left thinking he didn't do too badly when in fact he didn't do nearly as well as he thought.

60) Top Ten Rules to Trading Success: To be successful in the trading game, there are some rules to follow. By violating the rules, you will definitely on the losing side of the game.

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