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Welcome to the Marketocracy Library   May 23, 2013
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    Here are all the Investing Insights, please click on the title to read the full article.
     
   
- Shorting Stocks 101
"Everyday in the stock market, investors buy and sell shares of company stock. The act of buying stock is also known as establishing a “long” position, while selling those shares later indicates that an investor is “closing” that long position. In this series of transactions, where the investor first buys the stock and then sells it at a later point, that investor counts on the “long” position to make money as the price of the stock rises." ... click here to read more
by Marketocracy
- Trading: Timing & Sizing the Investment
"Now we’re ready to tie everything together and start buying and selling stocks. This article looks at timing and sizing your stock investments and how the tools on Marketocracy’s website can help you become a better trader." ... click here to read more
by Ken Kam
- Practice, Practice, Practice
"Most people I talk to decide to start investing in the stock market and just jump in with real money. That’s an expensive way to learn how to invest. Nobody would ever think about flying a plane before they’ve practiced on a flight simulator first." ... click here to read more
by Ken Kam
- Picking Stocks: Your Best Ideas List
"In the last lesson we learned the importance of focusing your limited research time on the areas that will yield the best results. Before you jump in and start buying stocks – you should set up Idea Watch Lists." ... click here to read more
by Ken Kam
- Everyone Can Become a Better Investor
"Everyone tells me they would love to be a better investor - but how do you start? Most people have had bad experiences listening to bad advice. They don’t know who they can trust and many have given up altogether." ... click here to read more
by Ken Kam
- How to Use the Website to Become a Better Investor
"Marketocracy offers what is arguably the most realistic trading simulation on the web. As you know, this is how we have found some of the best investors in the world, the m100. But, all investors, from beginner to advanced, can benefit from our trading simulation. We have made membership to the website free, (click here if you’re not yet a member) so that we can cast the net as wide as possible to find the best investors in the world. Whether you are already successfully managing your own portfolio, or just starting to think about it, read on to find out how you can utilize our website to hone your investing skills. Not only is our trading simulation the best one around, but we also offer detailed analysis of your portfolio for free, giving you the type of feedback that is normally only available to professionals." ... click here to read more
by Marketocracy
- Attribution Analysis
"When searching for someone to invest your money, whether it is your own personal portfolio or a large institutional account, your first step is to look at how well that person has performed over various time periods. However, simply looking at performance numbers alone does not tell the whole story. Was the portfolio manager's performance skillful, or lucky? And if we can determine that the manager was actually lucky, would we be as eager to have them manage our money going forward?" ... click here to read more
by Marketocracy
- Building Portfolios that Fit
"Successful investment portfolios nearly always consist of a set of investments that are constructed using a theme based upon a set of goals, and strategies in line with those goals. It is equally important that the strategies incorporate criteria that are well suited for the strategies themselves. " ... click here to read more
by m100 member Danny Chabino
- m100 Retreat: Las Vegas
"Thousands of individual investors descended on the Ballys and Paris hotels for the Money Show in Las Vegas this May 13 to search for market beating advice from the pros. Unfortunately, many of these individual investors didn't realize that they were being dealt a hand with odds that even a Vegas casino would drool on. How ironic that in a town where the odds are always stacked against you, investors were taking their advice from pros who lose to the S&P 500 roughly 80% of the time." ... click here to read more
by Marketocracy