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Margin of Unsafety With margin, you change the game of value investing to gambling. |
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Investing With Borrowed Dimes Only invest on margin if you know what you're doing -- and maybe not even then. |
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Help From an Unlikely Source Disaster often strikes suddenly, bringing with it confusion, chaos, and devastation. You have many more options than you think. Including, believe it or not, your broker. A margin account can be a surprisingly useful tool for getting cash quickly and cheaply. |
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So You Want to Buy on Margin? Run, Fool, run! |
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Beware These Marginal Activities Investing with borrowed money can backfire badly. |
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Investing 101: Highly Profitable Stocks Undervalued by the Graham Number We used the Graham Number to screen for potentially undervalued stocks. |
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The Nerve-Racking Way to Clobber the Market By borrowing at relatively low rates, and buying higher-return investments, you, too, can try to profit from the same strategies that have made Wall Street rich over the years. |
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Light, Yes. End of the Tunnel, Yes. Train? We'll see. Insider trading and leverage have some in the financial services industry cringing. |
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Earnings Growth for Charles Schwab Doesn't Prevent a Slide Another online broker/bank releases less-than-stellar earnings. |
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Of Wealth and Debt According to two recent reports, the rich hold at least one thing in common with average consumers: an increasingly heavy load of debt. |
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Steelcase's Iron-Willed Ambitions Can the office-furniture powerhouse double its operating margins by 2010? Investors, take note. |
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How to Buy Low and Sell High Use Ben Graham's margin of safety to buy and sell stocks profitably. |
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Stocks to Bet the House On Margin is a dangerous game. The easiest way to crush the market over the next few decades is to be the patient long-term owner of great companies. |
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Edward Jones hit with $2.7 million fine One of the firm's brokers overloaded a client's account with unsuitable investments on margin. |
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The Absolute Worst Reason to Invest Don't look to the stock market to save you. As tempting as it can be for an inexperienced investor, you can't afford to treat the stock market like your own personal casino. |
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Ameritrade's Q3 Shines Low-cost broker Ameritrade produces a solid quarterly report. |
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Discount Brokers Proving Mortgage-Proof Discount broker E*Trade shows that they can rise above the subprime mess. Management makes a statement that it hopes will comfort investors; shares bounce back a little with the news. |
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Checking the Margins at Check Point Software Here's the current margin snapshot for Check Point Software and some of its sector, and industry peers and direct competitors. |
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