Monday, January 19, 2009

Much needed legal services in the present recession

If you are living in New Jersey, and wondering about getting legal services for either settling your financial litigations due to recession, or worried by the traffic rule violations you just committed last week, made an entry in their list, you have got a good chance to access some legal services online in central jersey.

Generally whenever somebody talks about a lawyer or an attorney we start thinking about all sorts of criminals and crime scenes. That is a general situation. But there are also cases which are not apparently criminal type, but need legal aid to resolve those problems. For example, in the present financial mess we are in, almost everyone is badly messed up and in want of a lawyer to get economic aids. The central jersey services can accessed online if you are already in need of them.

I need not keep elaborating on for what all non-apparent things we need to get the help of legal service network. Immigration problems, class action lawsuits, financial obligation settlements, data theft, privacy protection, problems in real estate business and so on. The advantage of the The central jersey services are that you can login online and check for the type of problem you have by yourself and get to choose a lawyer by their profile. I know this is needed most in the present recession mess we are in. Don’t keep waiting before others get there.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Fiat Money

Fiat money is any money whose value is determined by legal means rather than the relative availability of goods and services. Fiat money may be symbolic of a commodity or government promises.

Fiat money provides solutions to several limitations of commodity money. Depending on the laws, there may be little or no need to physically transport the money - an electronic exchange may be sufficient. Its sole use is as a medium of exchange so its supply is not limited by competing alternate uses. It can be printed without limit, so there is no limit on trade volumes.

Fiat money, especially in the form of paper or coins, can be easily damaged or destroyed. However, it has an advantage over commodity money in that the same laws that created the money can also define rules for its replacement in case of damage or destruction. For example, the US government will replace mutilated paper money if at least half of the bill can be reconstructed. By contrast commodity money is gone for good.

Paper money is especially vulnerable to everyday hazards: from fire, water, termites, and simple wear and tear. Money in the form of minted coins is sometimes destroyed by children placing it on railroad tracks or in amusement park machines that restamp it. In order to reduce replacement costs, many countries are converting to plastic bills. For example, Mexico has changed its twenty and fifty pesos notes, Singapore its $2 and $10 bills, Malaysia with $1,$5,$10,$50 and $100, and Australia and New Zealand their $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 to plastic for the increased durability.

Some of the benefits of fiat money can be a double-edged sword. For example, if the amount of money in active circulation outstrips the available goods and services for sale, the effect can be inflationary. This can easily happen if governments print money without attention to the level of economic activity or if counterfeiters are allowed to flourish.

Perhaps the biggest criticism of paper money relates to the fact that its stability is highly dependent on the stability of the legal system backing the currency. Should the legal system fail, so would the currency that depends on it.

Reference:
Money:Wikipedia.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Video Conference goes easy with megameeting

Have you been bothered with the net meetings which require different software applications and those are not completely user-friendly? Or the restrictions on the number of people who can attend net meetings and the additional costs associated with it created a heck for your business? Here is the solution that comes from megameeting for all your video conference needs.

The video conferencing with megameeting is more of a user-friendly and feature based. The costs are not long term but one can avail it even temporarily. To know the costs and other unique things associated with the megameeting software check here. It compares the features and advantages megameeting with other meeting softwares. To give you an idea of how better it is, you can compare the cost per 5 participants for a video conference with megameeting ($75) and with that of others ($375).

Megameeting offers complete browser based web or video conferencing solutions without the need to download and install any software. You can do unlimited video or audio conferencing along with telephone conferencing and share desktops or do powerpoint presentations. 24x7 customer support is also available.

Whether it is for marketing purposes, internet marketing, meetings with employees or business clients, megameeting is the affordable and best available solution.

The bullish symmetrical triangle gives you higher potential

Have ever wondered what a symmetrical triangle related to the stock market? Find out about this pattern to pick a potential stock.

Take a look at the chart pattern of a stock over a period of a year or six months. Generally you will see three basic patterns: upward movement for a short time, downward movement for other time and range trading over another short period of time. These basic ingredients make up for different combinations of chart patterns. One interesting of these is the symmetrical triangle pattern.

When upward and downward movements are consecutively happening but with reducing peaks and valleys, one can draw a triangle by connecting those peaks and valleys. If the triangle is symmetric then it is called a symmetrical triangle pattern. It is more often a bullish pattern indicating that the share will break out and rise to new highs. The chances of a break even can also be there but that nevertheless seldom happens. Use this pattern to look for potential stocks to reap profits more than 10% over a period of a month to six months.

Friday, May 25, 2007

The lessons I had learnt from investing in stocks

My personal experience in stock trading/investing. Read on to find out how I had started as an amateur investor and had grown to become a satisfied investor.

I had done a lot of trading in the last financial year. I started even though I am very young. My financial advisor and other people scared me and told to go for mutual funds. Not to take the risk. But I was fascinated about the idea of investing in stocks. Before investing in stocks I started reading and gathering information about how to start and do trading.

After thinking for a long time, I started out with a plan. I was happy and confident because I had a plan. But less did I know about what drives the market and the fundamentals of companies. I started with the goal of making 3% or more profits in a any share. I did so for over a month. Whenever I bought a share it used to go down. But I waited till the share crossed the mark. Of course, after selling the share some times went up further. But I didn’t care.

It was good to do like that for over a month. At the end of the month I calculated my returns and found it to be only 2% on my overall portfolio. The mutual funds have given 5% for the same month. Then I decided to increase the profits by doing more number of trades. I bought more shares than I can afford on the basis of margin trading. I bought share for every small dip. I didn’t bother why share was going down. I bought more shares on Friday. On the same night Reserve Bank has announced that it increased the cash reserve ratio for banks.

On Monday morning all the shares opened with a large negative gap. I panicked when one of my friends told me about this. He was eager to put his money. I told him to do so. I thought it will recover but it didn’t. Next day also all the stocks fell because of panic selling. A total of 7% loss doubled to 14% in my portfolio because of excess margin. On the third day I logically thought that if the shares fall further I am going to lose, if I sell and they rise then also I will lose. But the former case is severe than the latter. Logically the second options seemed to be better at that time. I did so. The remaining three days saw a recovery as if it was panic buying. I was depressed and couldn’t reinvest.

I did not only lose money but also the immediate opportunity to invest. I did more research and read the novel “Not a Penny More Not a Penny Less”. Eventually I resumed with a different approach. No more short term trading. Only long term. I had also diversified among different sectors. Shares have grown up. I was waiting to recover my 15% total loss before the end of the financial year. In the last month there was uncertainty about budget for the new FY. I didn’t think about that.

My portfolio has grown and recovered 10% in two months. Now it started retracing. No stock in my folio was going up. I waited but there was no use. I lost some more when I sold some stocks which have retraced up for a short time. After selling them all other stocks still went down. It was a global meltdown.

Just before the end of the FY, the budget was announced and I bought new different shares. But somewhere I read about Yen carry trade and Subprime lending issues as negative concern. I was concerned and did not want to lose more. So I had sold them immediately recording a net loss of 20% for that FY.

Then I started more research and finally resumed with a broader outlook and fresh commitments. This time my knowledge has expanded to such an extent that I am very confident in what I am doing. I read about chart patterns, more of technical analysis like RSI, moving averages (15, 100, 200) and about stocks making new highs.

I invested looking at chart patterns in two stocks and using good news in one stock. One tumbled down. But I am very patient. I now know that each stock often retraces but its large movements have a range of atleast 10%. As I waited for four weeks one stock has already went up by 20%. I sold it immediately. One in the other two gave 24% percent after 50 days. Now the third one has started going up. And I will wait no matter what it takes to reach my set target over a period of time.

Here the key is that I learned to be patient before jumping to buy and while holding the stock. I have learned about perseverance and that made me recover 15% out of 20% loss recorded in previous FY. Recently I had diversified my portfolio such that its movement is not correlated with any index worldwide. But only some individual stocks correlate.

The main lessons I had learned from my experience are these:

->Many stocks make significant move within a few days.
->Never chase a stock rather be ready to catch it at skeptical times.
->Investing or trading is a game of probability and not a scientific one. The stock movements follow certain patterns because they are ultimately influenced by human beings. A future movement is not definite but has a more chances in favor of movement based on technical analysis.
->Patience and perseverance are the most important attributes of a successful investor. It doesn’t take hardwork or talent but only patience and perseverance.
->Those stocks which trade in a narrow range give sudden surprises.
->In the worst case, get motivation from Warren Buffet.

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