Thursday, November 13, 2014

Leverage as High as 50 to 1 Lures Amateur Forex Traders. They Lose

It’s a Saturday afternoon in March, and more than 500 people have tuned in for a two-hour webinar that tells them they can become rich trading foreign currencies.
“Success in trading is not a fantasy; it’s a formula,” Jared Martinez, founder of Market Traders Institute Inc., the oldest and largest such school in the U.S., tells his audience. “We have that formula.”

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Thursday, November 6, 2014

How Do You Know If You Can Trust Your Financial Advisor?

The financial services landscape is increasingly complex, and it’s tough to know whether you are getting your money’s worth from your financial advisor. In a recent Deloitte study, researchers found that 58% of Americans don’t have a formal retirement plan in place. One potential reason for this is rampant mistrust in the financial services industry. Only 2 out of every 10 polled said they had trust in financial services providers.