Welcome to the January 30, 2007 edition of festival of investing.

Vahid Chaychi presents: How to Report Spam and Scam Emails posted at Work at Home Entrepreneurs, saying, “If you have an email address, you should be able to report spam and scam emails. If internet users learns this, we will have a safer internet for everybody.”

Murad Ali presents U.S. and Canada Going to Trade War! posted at The New Business World.

Tom Lydon presents 10 New ETF Trends for 2007 | ETF Trends posted at ETF Trends.

Matthew Paulson presents Learn How to Teach Yourself About Money posted at Getting Green.

H.S. Ayoub presents The Biotech Industry: 30 Years of Failure posted atBioHealth Investor.

Praveen presents Looking at Trading with Fresh Eyes posted at My Simple Trading System.

Nigel Swaby presents Russ Whitney – Explain Yourself Please posted at Salt Lake Real Estate Blog.

Murad Ali presents Pension Executives May Change Your Retirement Fund (Survey) posted at The New Business World.

Tyler presents Is Encana Turning Around? posted at Dividend Money.

Vahid Chaychi presents Why You Should Trade ETFs & Mutual Funds Rather Than Individual Stocks posted at Work at Home Entrepreneurs.

Vahid Chaychi presents Why You Should Use a Stop Loss and Profit Protect Discipline posted at Work at Home Entrepreneurs.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Accounting For That CPA posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

burningchrome presents Power Secret: A Must Read For Those Age 24 or Younger posted at SmartCoolRich – Consolidated Privileged Information.

H.S. Ayoub presents Project BioShield Has Given Biotechs Little Motivation to Protect Americans posted at BioHealth Investor.

Chuck Russell presents A COOL Concept To Make Money posted at Make Money Online.

Mark McManus presents How EVERYONE Can Get Rich – A Practical How To? posted at Build Your Life To Order ™, saying, “This article is a very practical, step by step method of how anyone can become a millionaire – seriously.”

Phil B. presents Another Fundamental Flaw with Online Advertisement « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, “Imagine for a moment, you are reading an interesting article or watching a cool video on the Internet for free. That’s not hard to imagine, since you are doing it now. Now imagine that you want to give thanks to the provider for the content that you just saw, so you intentionally click on an advertisement on that webpage.”

Paul Smith presents Price Earnings Value of ASX 200 posted at Investing using Fundamentals on the Aussie StockMarket, saying, “This article is about how market statistics can be misleading. I have analysed the market statistics for the PE ratio of the ASX 200 compared to the sector values and find that there is a huge difference.”

Moneywalks presents How to create your investment plan posted at moneywalks.

veryLegal presents Prison Break: Investing Trends In Oil And Alternative Energy Part 2 | veryLegal – The Blog posted at veryLegal, saying, “An excellent article which runs through the key issues with alternative energy and oil investment. Great article for general info and investors alike. A must read!”

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Did You Own AAPL Before the iPhone Announcement? posted at The Digerati Life.

Avant News presents Ford Motor Company Preemptively Recalls 6.1 Million 2011 Models posted at Avant News, saying, “(satire)”

Brian C Lee presents Keep your Cool in Stocks and Dating posted at geniustypes.com.

Paul Smith presents Magazine Tips and their effect on shares posted at Investing using Fundamentals on the Aussie StockMarket, saying, “An intersting article I wrote on the effect of Magazine tips when used in combination with Fundamental Analysis.”

Larry Russell presents Choose mutual funds and ETFs with a minimum economical portfolio size posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog, saying, “If you are going to pay the higher fees of actively managed investment funds, at a minimum, put your money into a fund with a large enough asset base to support the necessary research. Any active manager in a small fund could get lucky with your money. However, with inadequate funding that manager might only be able to afford a few darts and the stock pages of a newspaper. You could do that without paying the management fee.”

John presents Make Money with Stocks: 100% Possibility posted at OhCash.com, saying, “Being a trader is what everyone wants to be. Seems easy and the cash is great. However, most people have the wrong mindset and techniques when it comes to stocks.”

Will Chen presents “Paying Yourself First” Explained in Plain English posted at Wisebread.

Murad Ali presents The importance of keeping business cash on hand posted at The New Business World.

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When it comes to investing, many people focus their attention solely on finding the “perfect” strategy. What many people fail to recognize, however, is the fact that all forms of investment markets have “seasons” just like the very predictable weather patterns of spring, summer, fall and winter.

For example, it is fairly well-known that election year stock markets perform very well. If we step back, and analyze the performance of the stock market through out its documented history, we will see a very predictable pattern of performance.

For example, years ending with 0 through 5 are poorly performing or negative stock market years. Years ending with 6 are generally transition years, with years 7 through 9 being strong to extremely strong. There are, of course, other factors affecting investment seasons, such as interest-rate cycle and peak spending cycles, and there are no guarantees that any particular year will achieve a specific performance target. However, rather than simply looking for a strategy (which obviously would have worked for the author during an appropriate cycle), it is important to match strategy with the broad trends.

While it is obviously no guarantee of success, your odds will increase that a long stock strategy will be successful in the last part of the decade, while selling options or purchasing money market instruments may be a better strategy for the early part of a decade.

I have found this over the years to be the most effective way of managing the markets. Regardless, always keep in mind the protection of your capital, and always invest accordingly.

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