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<title>Rocko Chen - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mathematician, Copywriter, Innovator]]></description>
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<title>Protection Against Bank Failure Risk</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:37:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As IndyMac Bank falls, many have witnessed the very real threat of fundamental bank risk, and should take action to hedge against it. As countries like Australia, New Zealand do not offer insurance against bank failure; and the American FDIC remains (very) limited with funding, this calls for an initiative.
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<title>Classical Arbitrage Strategies Explained</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:17:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Now that I have described pair trading, the next topic of interest lies in "risk-free" arbitrage strategies. Due to generally limited literature, this subject remains heavily veiled behind institutional trading.        ]]></description>
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<title>Protection Against NZ Credit, Mutual Fund Losses</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:38:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NZ investors can eliminate risks connected to volatile market exposure; it just takes a little bit of ingenuity. The following idea applies to holders of financing company shares and "buy & hold" funds like the various Kiwi-Saver pools (and those two frozen ING funds).        ]]></description>
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<title>NZ Mutual Fund Managers Offer Little Value</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:07:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Having learned some bits and pieces of how Wall Street functions, one eventually realizes the limited benefits or merit held by mutual fund managers. Buying, holding, and praying in the stock markets (or "share-markets" coined by New Zealanders) does not require any know-how, in fact a few clicks of the mouse can get it done. Many New Zealanders have gotten ripped off from these investment businesses, and this rampant ploy has become increasingly apparent as an economic downturn descends.]]></description>
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<title>Interpreting Financial Media</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:58:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To apply financial news as a source of sentiment analysis, one must examine motivations of media sources. Despite that most information off financial news services present nothing but reiterated historical events, unfolding their incentives could mean the difference between losing and winning for common investors.]]></description>
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<title>US China Trade Imbalance</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:28:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[According to CIA, Americans have led the world in consumption this past year, and China took the largest trade surplus. This does not reflect positively for the American economic machine. Nations frequently become powerful via growing exports, not excessive expenditure.]]></description>
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<title>Stock Pair Trading Explained</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:21:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Market neutral, pair-trading strategies allow traders to reap profit off stock markets regardless of directional forecasting. It embraces simple principles, though the reward does not come easily.]]></description>
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<title>Forex Broker, Bucket Shop Deceptions</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:40:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most forex brokers profit off client losses, hence making it a losing game for many new traders. Solutions lie in ECNs and exchange rate options.]]></description>
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<title>Not So Easy But Profitable Trading Strategies</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1096099</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:09:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A reality check that profitable trading takes work. Nothing is as easy as claimed by some.]]></description>
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<title>Lessons From Unsuccessful Stock Traders</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:14:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many stock traders operate with a negative expectancy, and learning not to repeat their most notable mistakes could help new traders get a head-start in the game. Any one of the mentioned slip-ups would interfere with potential successful.  Insufficient Prerequisite Education         Developing successful strategies for trading (or investing, which is simply trading in longer time frames) absolutely requires at the minimum a profound understanding of general statistics and probability theory.]]></description>
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<title>Trend Following Trading-Investing Concerns</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:27:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The mainstream trend following advertised hype, expanded off the phrase "the trend is your friend..." does not provide optimal results. Mutual funds and investment advisors often use past market rallies to engage potential investors. The astute investor however questions the effectiveness of the theme.  ]]></description>
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<title>Money Market Strategy</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:20:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Optimization of returns via money markets calls for the pursuit of high yielding liquid instruments while minimizing associated risks. A variety of investment vehicles remain available to the retail investors, but finding and exploiting high yield of limited risk takes a bit of research.      ]]></description>
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<title>Interpreting Current Public Bearish Sentiment</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:50:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The game of financial markets functions to extract wealth from a majority of the players, and most of the public investors have now taken sizable losses and taken on extremely negative attitudes. They are probably wrong.        ]]></description>
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<title>Winning Requires Non-Competition</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:12:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hard work alone does not suffice for success, it also takes brains. The wits portion suggests that only when a period of non-competition is created, can the business operate at full profit earning potential.    ]]></description>
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<title>2008 Presidential Race Effect On The Stock Markets</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:07:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The presidential battle will likely cause the markets to climb this year due to political interests and statistical evidence. The candidates along with their campaign contributors have invested heavily in the forms of money and political whip cracking, and they play to win.        ]]></description>
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<title>Effect Of Hedge Funds Today On Retail Investors</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:34:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This presents the idea that the growing hedge fund industry promotes increased volatility in the financial markets. It takes more research for individual investors today to stay profitable.]]></description>
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<title>Avoid Losses From Single Stock Failures</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:22:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Several means remain available today to avoid or minimize risk involved with business failures for the equity holders. According to business survival statistics I had listed in the past (Stock Market Downside Bets), it moves below 50% after five years of operations. Managing this form of risk is crucial for the long term bullish investors.]]></description>
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<title>Realistic Risks In Long Term Stock Investments</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:51:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Long investment positions of corporate common stocks carry inherent risks. Advisers, agents like to avoid this subject as it requires more profound considerations via the client investor, and understanding it would reveal the often unjustified entry-costs and management fees. ]]></description>
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<title>Banks Facing Treacherous Times</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:27:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke, chairman (or God as referred in the finance industry) of the American Federal Reserve expects a number of banks to fail within the next few years. These banks hold YOUR money. What seems unthinkable has become quite probable with the unfolding of the credit debacle.]]></description>
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<title>Position Sizing and Risk Management</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:54:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the recent horribly tragic events of real estate and debt instrument investment experiences, some public information on risk management deserves attention. Position sizing deals with the portion of total asset exposed to risk/reward.]]></description>
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<title>Statistical Expectancy to Calculate Risk</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:57:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The world does not run on absolute certainty, yet the strategic decisions we choose affects future outcomes somehow. The irony seems amplified with those who understand little toward statistical expectancy. Having adequate grasp of this subject makes a more informed investor for any business or personal desires.]]></description>
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<title>Thousands In New Zealand Cheated By Local Real Estate Firm</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:32:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Thousands of New Zealand property investors have lost both invested estates and home properties due to equity backed mortgage loans. Many have lost everything due to trust of a real estate broker, Blue Chip, and failed to verify claims.]]></description>
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<title>Diversification Does Not Lower Risk</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1039557</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:40:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["You want to reduce your portfolio risk. Diversify, diversify, diversify..." I remember hearing some stock broker ranting on TV a decade ago, as the bear market hit US in 98 along with the collapse of Long Term Capital Investments. The audience at the studio watched her intently, the pain of recent losses still apparent on their faces.   ]]></description>
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<title>Birthday Paradox and Risk Evaluation</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:48:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Birthday Paradox raises the question of taking "highly unlikely" events or risks in a more conservative light. The article presents the logic in mathematical terms. ]]></description>
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<title>Arbitrage Themed Business Models</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:58:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This provides some accounts of unconventional business schemes that have performed well. Gives the readers an idea that not all businesses require large risks in terms of money and time.]]></description>
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<title>Order Out Of Chaos</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1025199</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:13:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Certainty does not exist in this world. This article imposes the importance of statistical analysis in the business world.]]></description>
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<title>Gullibility Of The Educated</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1023018</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:03:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A study of the tactic sales people apply to the educated demographic. I provide the why, how, and solutions to the scheme.]]></description>
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<title>Subtleties Of Charisma</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1021101</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:29:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Charisma is something I had never learned from school. Experience however, presents it a crucial part of successful business. Most fundamentally speaking, to make a profit, somebody out there must stand willing to risk their hard earned capital for your product or service in return.]]></description>
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<title>Don't Follow The Trend</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1020144</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:39:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The trend is not my friend. With every business industry, the leaders take the biggest cut out of the particular markets and the "followers" share the left over. This phenomenon provides a picture of current business culture, where the winning players set the trend, and a whole lot of losers work desperately to survive.]]></description>
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<title>Stock Market Downside Bets</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1015658</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:42:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I provide an unconventional notion of profiting via downside only trades on the stock markets. This writing gives the "why and how" of the scheme.]]></description>
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<title>Impossibility Revisited</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1011931</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:09:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My great grand father lost a fortune in the Hong Kong stock market early in the century, prejudiced by the American economic "slow down" of 1929. Both dad and grandpa used to repeat that story, warning me to stay far from stock trading. They and majority of the population believe resolutely that generating consistent returns trading financial instruments presents impossibility.]]></description>
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<title>Accumulation of Wealth</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1010350</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:38:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What does it take to become wealthy? What does one need to feel wealthy? Encarta Dictionary suggests a characterization of abundance, "enjoying an abundance or great quantity of something".]]></description>
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<title>Work, Happiness, Game of Life</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1007622</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:59:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As far as I can remember, school counselors had always said something along the lines of "Get a job you love, and you'll never work for a day." The worn out axiom suggests that my life long purpose lies in a pursuit for some "lovable" repetitive task. Does that make sense?]]></description>
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<title>5 Tactics of Sales And Con Pitches</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1006037</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:22:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Well performing sales people claim the ability of selling "ice to Eskimos"; i.e. they expect you to give them money for useless crap via their beguiling manners. By understanding their underlying strategies, we can break the spell and avoid becoming "suckers" whether it be typical consumers or con-artist victims.]]></description>
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