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Investment Strategy 101 Tutorial Guide

When You're Dissatisfied With The Risk Inherent In Conventional Investment Advice, Then Consider An Alternative Investment Strategy.

Conventional investment strategy is passive.

According to the experts, you just buy and hold a proper mix of stocks and bonds and that's as good as you'll ever do. Don't change investment strategy based on conditions and don't ever sell.

Just buy and hold through thick and thin, and the experts' claim the rising tide of the market will magically leave a pot of gold waiting for you at the end of your retirement rainbow.

Unfortunately, the passive approach isn't very effective for maintaining your health, advancing your career, raising your children, or developing satisfying relationships. What makes you think investing is any different?

It isn't, and the results prove it.

What you need are alternative investment strategies for those times and situations when a traditional, passive approach isn't adequate.

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  • Are You Gambling Or Investing? Learn the strategy of investing with the house advantage so that you can put the odds of success on your side.
  • Leverage - How to Fast-Track Your Financial Goals: If you aren’t using leverage analysis then you’re working harder than you should, to earn less than you could. Here's a complete leverage system to fast...
  • How My Worst Investment Made Me Wealthy: How you manage investment losses will ultimately determine your profits. Learn which investment strategy makes the most of a bad situation.
  • Deadly Dozen Investment Mistakes To Avoid: Reveals the twelve most common investment mistakes that can separate you from financial security and what you can do to avoid them.
  • Which Type Of Investor Are You? Take This Test ... Your financial security depends on the type of investor you are. Learn how you can advance your investment strategy to the next level.
  • Four Stages To Consistently Profitable Investing: Discover which investing stage you're at now, and learn how to advance your investment strategy to the next stage to become a more profitable investor.
  • Seven Key Reasons Why Financial Education Should Be Your First Investment - Learn all the ways that an investment in yourself will pay a lifetime of dividends that nobody can ever take and you can't ever lose.
  • Ten Commandments Of Investment Strategy: Find out how your investment strategy measures up to proven success principles and learn what you can do to increase your financial security.

Discover how alternative investment strategy improves your risk and reward compared to conventional investment advice. Learn to make more by risking less...

Conventional investment strategy isn't wrong.

It's just over-simplified, inadequate, and based on many dubious assumptions. You need alternative investment strategies so that you can profit more consistently with less risk.

Conventional investment strategies aren't as effective as these alternative strategies. Learn how to use them!

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Below you’ll find a listing of our most recent articles about alternative investment strategy providing you with additional insights and information so that you can take the next step…

Leverage – How To Fast-Track Your Financial Goals

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Nobody gets rich without leverage. If you aren’t employing leverage in your business and wealth plans, it means you’re compromising the speed, time, and work effort necessary to reach each level of success. Leverage isn’t difficult to master; it’s something you can implement right away and then reap the benefits for years to come. It’s time for you to stop working harder than you should to earn less than you could. Discover how to accelerate your financial growth in this article…

3 Types of Investors – Which One Are You? Take This Test…

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There are three types of investors, but only one type is right for you. You must carefully match your investment strategy with your skills, resources, and interests if you want to achieve your financial goals as easy as possible. Many investment strategies won’t fit your financial situation. The good news is you can advance to another investment type with the right education and skill development. Take this test to gauge where you are at now and what the right next step will be for your situation…

The Great Financial Forecasting Hoax: Why Stock Market Predictions Are Dangerous To Your Wealth

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Do you enjoy feeling out of control when investing in the market? Of course not. No one does. This loss of control is because the essence of investing is putting capital at risk into an unknowable future. How do you profit reliably when the future is unknowable? It’s a complicated question. Unfortunately, most people respond to this innate uncertainty by seeking financial forecasters – from talking heads on CNBC to magazine and newspaper writers to financial analysts – to bring some sense of certainty to this unknowable future. They want to believe these soothsayers have enough foreknowledge about financial events to make a meaningful difference. Unfortunately, they don’t, and I’ll show you the facts to prove it. In addition, you’ll discover how to invest profitably without any need to make any prediction about the future.

12 Deadly Investment Mistakes You Must Avoid

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Investment mistakes can cost you thousands of dollars and keep you from achieving your financial goals. Fortunately, you have two ways to learn how to avoid them – the first is expensive direct experience, and the second is vicariously through this article. What you’ll get in this article are the twelve most common (and expensive) investment mistakes that you’ll want to avoid along with tips, resources, and strategies showing you how to avoid them. Reading this article is the smart way to become a more profitable investor, without paying the price of direct experience. I hope it helps you reach your financial goals faster, and with less pain…

Are You Gambling Or Investing?

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Are you gambling or investing? Do you know the difference? An investor only puts capital at risk with a known, positive, “house advantage”. But that requires you to know the expectancy of your investment strategy, and not one investor in 1,000 knows the expectancy of his portfolio. This knowledge can secure your financial future or cost you millions. Learn more here…

10 Commandments of Investment Strategy

Abide by these 10 commandments for success with your investment strategy.

Nothing is more financially dangerous than a million dollar investment portfolio managed with a thousand dollars worth of financial intelligence. The truth is your investment skills and knowledge will be reflected in your investment results. Use these 10 critical commandments to improve your investment performance so that you can enjoy greater investment confidence and financial security as a result…

FM 019: Expected Value Formula – The Missing Key To Building Wealth with Billy Murphy

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Wealth is math. That’s bad news for math phobics, but it’s great news for the rest of us because it means there are rules and science behind how wealth building works. The process isn’t random luck. In Episode 19 of the Financial Mentor podcast we’ll explore the most essential math principle to wealth building – the expected value formula – so that you know how to put it to work in your wealth plans starting today…

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Peer To Peer Lending Review – Dangers Revealed

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In a world of zero percent interest rates peer to peer lending can look mighty tempting. Investor’s are starving for yield and P2P lending companies have risen to satisfy that need. Don’t be deceived. Look behind the emotional facade at default rates, unknown risks, operating difficulties and more so you can make a smart investment decision…

The Great Bond Bubble Is Now! What’s Next…

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What does the bond market today have in common with the stock market in 1998-2000 and the real estate market in 2006-2007? They were all ridiculous bubbles that ended very badly for investors. This is not a prediction. It is simple risk vs. reward analysis based on valuations. It is something that can save your portfolio from massive losses when you understand how it works. Learn how…

What Is A Good Investment?

Understand what a good investment is and looks like.

There is no such thing as an inherently good or bad investment. It is a myth. All assets can be good or bad investment given the right strategy, timing, or price. It is all about process – not product. Let’s see how this works…

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