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1-You have no trading plan - you need to treat your trading like a business and plan how you're going to trade. If you don't have a trading plan, then google for it, there are loads of free resources out there to get you started.

For all the great strides Wall Street has made in making investing easy and affordable for the average person over the past few decades, investing still costs money. Most mutual funds have minimums in the thousands of dollars (not hundreds), and brokerage commissions make buying individual stocks prohibitively expensive if you only have a little to invest.

Ahead of the Bell: Dow futures are trading down 8 points and S&P futures are trading down 2 points. Investors wait for cues from global central banks after the major indices touched all-time highs. According to reports, the European Central Bank is preparing a package of policy options for its June meeting,

Penny stocks refer to the common stock of smaller public companies that trades for less than a dollar per share. Like other shares of stock, they are regulated by the SEC and other authorities, but instead of trading on the major markets like the NYSE, they trade on "over-the-counter" markets.

Major US stock indices rose on Friday to finish the week on the plus side as investors focused on swath of corporate earnings amid a mixed economic calendar. Of the major S&P 500 sectors, Healthcare and Staples led gains, while Utilities and Energy topped declines.

For many entrepreneurs, success is measured by profitability and achieved by increasing revenue and decreasing expenses. But just focusing on those desired outcomes is a mistake that will yield little change to the bottom line.

There's no shortage of advice on saving for retirement, and an important piece of the puzzle is having a strategy to generate sufficient income when you stop working, as Andrea Coombes recently highlighted. One interesting statistic she cited was a survey showing that 63% of people ages 35 to 75 are concerned that Social Security or pensions won't cover retirement expenses.

Never underestimate the ingenuity of corporate America or the optimism of its citizens. While the media obsess over multiple economic crisis scenarios and reinforce the message that the economy promises little growth, corporations just keep on grinding out higher earnings.

According to a study, pay for Chief Executive Officers is hitting all time record highs as CEOs see their median annual pay rising to a sweet $10.5 million, during calendar year 2013. The increase is up by 8.8% compared to CEO pay during 2012. Compensation packages for CEOs are rocking to eight-digit figures for the first time.

It is easy to get caught up in the daily stock market activity and lose sight of the interesting facts in the market's history. For instance, while the New York Stock Exchange is the largest U.S. Stock exchange, it is not the oldest. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange was created in 1790 and preceded the NYSE.

Great traders often see the attainment of wisdom as life's highest value. They are constantly seeking to gain new understandings of reality. They love to solve difficult puzzles and develop new solutions for pressing problems. They have an insatiable desire to acquire more and more knowledge.

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