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There are so many variables to an investment that there can be just as many rules and pieces of advice to follow to make it successful. However, if you are just starting out as an investor, then you need to learn to crawl before you can walk, and to do that you need to learn the first five investment rules, to build a foundation for the subsequent knowledge and advice you will need to finally run.

When markets take a hit, money market funds become some of the top sellers in the mutual fund industry. Investing

When it comes to investing, there two distinctive strategies. The first is the buy and hold approach. The second is timing the market. Here's a quick look at both.

I just found out about a survey that caught my eye from Sharebuilder. They surveyed a bunch of ‘younger investors’ and found that they seek stock investing advice from different sources than their parents. According to their data…

Are Investing Experts Ethical? The short answer to this one is: “No.”

By the standards that apply in most other fields of life endeavour, the investing / financial advice field is frighteningly corrupt. I worked for several years as a tax lobbyist (hey, we all have a past!). So it takes something special in the department of ethical lapses to shock me. The investing advice field is something truly special in this regard.

One of the terms that you might have come across as an investor is “contrarian.” In some cases, the savvy contrarian investor can make money by engaging in strategies that are considered different than the conventional wisdom.