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Annual and quarterly financial statements are like report cards. Avoid the glossy charts and the pretty pictures, and you’ll be able to tease out trends. The 10K is the annual report equivalent filed with the SEC. It’s sometimes more revealing than the corporate reports to shareholders and comes without the rosy verbiage.

You’ll also want to get your hands on a copy of the most recent proxy statement. This document details the proposals put before shareholders at the annual meeting, such as executive compensation programs and the election of directors.

Singapore’s Self-Made Millionaire Adam Khoo teaches you the 5 steps to financial wisdom…
If he can do it as a broke guy who barely passed high school, you can too.

1. When hiring a person to work for you, hire one who is more knowledgeable in the position you intend to hire him/her for. Make sure your employees are SMARTER THAN YOU ARE! This way, you will have less worry if they are able to perform the job. You get to learn from them, and you’ll have more time to attend to other ventures. As long as you compensate them well, EVERYTHING should be fine, so don’t worry about being “taken over” or anything silly like that.

This strategy is also one form of a synthetic position. The use of a long put with long stock creates a synthetic call. (When you use a long call to protect your position with short stock, it is called a synthetic put.) The risk of declining market value is a constant concern for every investor. If you buy stock and its value falls, a common reaction is to sell in the fear that the decline will continue. In spite of advice to the contrary, you may have sold low and bought high. It is human nature. It requires a cooler head to calmly wait out a decline and rebound, which could take months, even years. Special tax rules apply to married puts so, in calculating the cost and benefit to this strategy, you also need to evaluate the tax status for your stock.

When you enter into an opening sale transaction, you are referred to as a writer. Call writers (sellers) hope that the value of the underlying stock will remain at or below the striking price of the call. If that occurs, then the call will expire worthless and the writer’s profits will be made from declining time value (as well as any decline in intrinsic value resulting from the stock’s price moving from above the striking price, down to or below the striking price). For the writer, the breakeven price is the striking price plus the number of points received for selling the call.

Marl, The Stock Trading Robot, contrary to what it’s creators would have you believe is not unique. There have been automated trading systems for years on the internet, be they in FOREX or the stock and bond markets. What is different about Marl is the way in which stocks are analyzed and the information relayed. I’m sure many of you (much like myself until a few years ago) possessed a very rudimentary knowledge of investment strategy and terminology. To me the stock market represented the boring few seconds before the newscaster got to sports. However, I now know that with a solid knowledge of the market and a tool like the stock trading robot the market can be a powerful money making tool.

This is the first in an ongoing series of articles where I discuss what I feel are keys to successful investing. It is based on a previous article that provides a summary of the ten keys that individual investors should use to identify profitable stock trades.

There are two basic steps to investing. First, you need to find stocks that seem to have some potential. Then you have to determine whether these stocks are actually good investments. There are many stocks that at first glance look interesting, but further research reveals that there are too many negatives to warrant taking a position.

Since January 1, my phone hasn’t stopped ringing with women wanting to get their finances off to a good start. Most don’t even know where to start. I have put together a list to help you get started. While this list might seem overwhelming, JUST PICK ONE ITEM and make it a priority! If you can conquer one, you are well on your way to Financial Physical Health!

These are the four essential pieces you need to see the whole picture, to know which option is being discussed, and to distinguish it from all other options. In evaluating risk and potential gain, and even to discuss an option, every buyer and every seller needs to have these four essential pieces of information in hand. Of course, because point of view between buyer and seller is going to be opposite, an advantageous situation to one person may well be disadvantageous to another. That is the nature of investing in options: You can take or the other for any particular option, depending upon advantage lies.

The Treasury is not the only government agency that issues debt. There are a host of government agency and quasi-agencies (agencies created by an act of Congress, like FNMA) out there borrowing money. Following are some of them:

· The Federal National Mortgage Association (known as “Fannie Mae”). FNMA is a quasi-agency. Its debt is an implied (but not a guaranteed) obligation of the federal government. The agency’s stock trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol FNM.

· Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (”Freddie Mac”). Like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac is a quasi-agency/private corporation with stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol FRE.

If the stock’s market value remains between the range of $45 and $55 between the date you sell the call and expiration, the short call will expire worthless. It would not be exercised within that price range, since striking price is 55. You can wait out expiration or buy the call, closing it out at a profit. However, if the stock’s value does rise above $55 per share and the call were exercised, you would not receive any gain above $55 per share. While exercise would still produce a profit of $1,000 ($500 stock profit plus $500 option premium), you would lose any profits above the striking price level.