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How do small cap stocks perform vs. large cap stocks (like Dow constituents) during bear trends?

Does anyone have any good information on how small cap stocks, e.g. < $500M, perform during bear trends and/or recessions in comparison to large cap stocks like the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
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What's the least risky investment for people in Europe?

I have a few thousand euros in a bank deposit and I was wondering where I should invest them, considering that I won't want to take much risk? I am ready to accept the lower ROI than investing the ...
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What are the risks in buying a property from a “Tax Deed” auction?

Recently, I was approached by a friend of my wife's, and she said that she and her husband were making a lot of money bidding on properties that went up for sale in our area, at auctions like this ...
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Can the risk of investing in an asset be different for different investors?

If 2 people invest the same amount in the same asset at the same time, will their risk be different if they use different risk management strategies? Say Inventors A and B both buy 1000 shares in ...
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Investing in dividend-yielding stocks with money borrowed from margin account?

I am getting ready to invest some of my savings in a stock brokerage account. The well-known brokerages, e.g. ETrade, Ameritrade, etc, have relatively high margin interest rates for the level I am ...
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How to analyze risk of a bond?

If given the screen below as an example, how would you analyze the risk of a bond? I am not sure what to look for to know if this is a good investment. What risk factors should be considered when ...
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How to convince someone they're too risk averse or conservative with investments?

I have a friend who is very risk-averse, by self admission. By my standards he is too much risk averse for his own good. He says that his personal experience over the last 15-20 years taught him that ...
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Tax lien investing: Possible in Canada?

I was just reading on the tax lien investing process and how it works in the United States. I was wondering if it happens in other countries. In specific, I would like to know if it happens in Canada ...
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Is it possible to quantify the probability of sudden big movements for a high-volume stock?

As an example: Over this past weekend, from Friday close to Monday open, Netflix (NFLX) dropped about 36% in stock price. Going back to July, Netflix was trading near $300, and now it is at about ...
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How do you quantify investment risk?

It's obvious that investing in stocks and bonds is not a guaranteed return--there is some risk, and this is well known. People talk about risk averse investors or riskier ones, or that one should ...
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How do I minimize the risk of my investment losing value?

I am wondering what type of investment offers the least amount of overall risk. I know that Money Market accounts and CD's offer a low risk of reducing the principal. But they earn such low rates that ...
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Is it always sane to follow inaction if the only alternative investment carries a risk of higher than 50% to end up with loss?

Or is there a theory that proposes inaction is worse?
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Do large market players using HFT make it unsafe for individual investors to be in the stock market?

Similar to this question, but with new information concerning High Frequency Trading [HFT], see articles on HPCwire and the NY Times citing that HFT accounts for 73 percent of all equity trading ...
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Investing in foreign CDs, is it worth the risk?

I heard Clark Howard talking about foreign currency CDs, and so I looked and indeed their interest rates are much higher than US rates right now (3.75% for a year in Australia). What risks are ...