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Risk is the tolerance level an investor can handle or afford to lose. All investments have some risk including stocks, 401k, mutual funds, bonds, futures, options, derivatives, currency, forex, etc… For example, a 401k plan has lost nearly 40% in the past year. How will this affect the investor? Could he have done something to control or manage the loss in his 401k? The majority of investors rely on brokers’ or bankers’ knowledge to...

Written by Emerging Market Capital FX (EMCFX.com)

What are margin requirements? A margin is a small deposit, which allows you to leverage a large contract (unit or lot) size and all this will depend on the clearinghouse. In the forex market, each clearinghouse has one or multiple margin requirements. For example, 1% (100:1 ratio) or 2% (100:1 ratio) margin based on a $100,000 balance would either be $1,000 margin or $2,000 margin. This means 1 unit is $1,000 margin or 5 units is $5,000...

You may not be aware of the fact that not all silver is the same. Some silver is good, while other silver is bad. Obviously, the purer the silver, the more valuable and the more precious it is. You should know that there is a standard "sterling" which determines the purity of silver. If your silver is sterling that means that it has 92.5 percent of actual silver and the other 7.5 percent are other metals used to harden the silver so that it is possible to make things out of it.
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A person's financial future is not a certain thing but anyone who believes that either their retirement funds or the benefits available from social security will be enough to provide for them is in for a shock. It is also not possible for people to be able to work for the rest of their lives either so investing is the way to counteract future financial problems.


There is nothing wrong with having short term savings in a low interest savings account but you cannot expect these...

Income diversification and multiple streams of income are important in today's struggling economy. What's great today might not be so great tomorrow. If people give their life to only one company and something bad happens down the road, they will be left with nothing.

This experience just happened recently to a large group of network marketers. One couple gave 30 years of their life to a top network marketing company and achieved huge success. Then one day they were suddenly kicked...