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Micro Caps + Information = Active Opportunity Small-cap stocks in general and micro-cap stocks in particular provide investors with a rich pool in which to attempt to generate excess returns.


Penny Stocks Listed On Major Exchanges


Small Caps Outperform Coming Out Of A Recession


Why Some Trades Feel So Good


Where America's Money Is Moving


How Rich Is Rich? Experts peg the figure to be somewhere around $2 to $12 million in savings.


Investors Eye Oil And Gas Takeovers


From Small Caps Big Things Sometime Grow


10 Attributes Of A Great Trader


Small Cap Investors Know Bigger Not Always Better


In Investing, Do the Hard Thing


Tip The Small Cap


Five Financial Penny Stocks Under $2


Small Cap IPO Market Is Worth Watching In 2010


The Most Important Charts You'll Ever See


The Myth Of Fair Value And How To Take Advantage Of It


Small Stocks Are This Year's Big Deal


What Is A Small Cap Stock? What was considered a big-cap stock in 1980 is a small-cap stock today.


BP Disaster: What Investors Need to Know


A Simple Way To Beat The Market Small-cap stocks returned 13.2 percent per year.


OTCBB Penny Stock Trading Activity On The Upswing Trading activity in the penny stocks arena is recovering after a solid decline in the second half of 2008. OTCBB dollar trading volumes in the first four months of 2010 have nearly equaled the beginning of 2008 levels.


10 Best Wealth Generating Companies Over The Last 8 Years


Check Out How Small Cap Stocks Work For Investors


Investing In Penny Stocks: Make Cents?


Small Caps, Behind The 10 Year Run


Amid The Gloom, Small Caps Could Rise


Which Way Will World Markets Go?


Small Caps Rocks


17 Rising Stocks With Good Valuation Ratios


10 Micro Cap Stocks Worth Considering


Penny Stocks: Investors Taking On More Risk


Fifteen Clever Economic Indicators


2010 Broker Survey


Mining Small Caps For Winners


Billionaires' Quirky Economic Indicators


Where America's Money Is Moving To


Emerging Market ETFs: The Benefit Of Small-Caps


Three Promising Small-Cap Cancer Plays


Small Caps On The Up


The Case For The Small Cap Rally


Dogs of the Dow


The 11 Year Itch, Dow Stuck at 10,000... Since March 16, 1999, when it first touched 10000 in intraday trading, the Dow has bounced over that threshold and back 63 times.


Stock Buybacks On The Rise


A Lot Of Changes In The Russell Changes to stock indexes maintained by Russell 200 Small Cap Index may make June the busiest month for managers who track the gauges since 2007.


Key Market Data You've Been Dismissing Investors who’ve written off weekly economic data as background noise may do well to start tuning in.


You Can Still Make Money in This Market


Small Cap Stocks Small company stocks just keep kicking big stocks around the stock exchange. This has been going on for over 10 years and, so far, the trend continues.


Are Small Caps Twice As Good As Large Caps?


Ten Reasons Why Market Will Rebound


Not Ready To Give Up On The Bull Market


U.S., China To Recover Nicely In Third Quarter


Lots Of Movement For June But Still Favor Small Cap And Value


Watch Wal-Mart Grow


Small Caps Loom Large Whoever said the aughts were a lost decade for stocks clearly wasn't paying attention to small cap stocks.


Small Cap Advantage


Small Cap Firepower Outsized gains are more typically found among small-cap stocks, which are less covered and often undiscovered. Small stocks have more room to grow.


The World's Biggest Debtor Nations


Does the Market Deserve To Be This Oversold?


For Patient Investors, Another Opportunity To Buy


Five Rolling Stocks


10 Personal Finance Tools You Should Use


Small Caps Reaping IP Dividends The study claims there is a predictive correlation between the strength of a company’s intellectual property and its revenue growth, gross margin and risk adjusted investment return.


Europe's Pain Could Be Your Gain In the US, it means cheaper loans, lower gas prices and good news for investors.


How To Find Cheap Stocks To Buy Now


Religious CEOs


Twelve Hot Penny Stocks


Grabbing Large Gains From Small Cap Small caps are the point of the spear. They're often the leading edge of market rallies out of doldrums.


Micro and Small Caps Outshine


Volatility Is You Friend


States Where Incomes Will Soar, and Stagnate


Best Online Savings Accounts


Buying Amid The Plunge, Bulls Keep The Faith


Gold's 'Ugly Sister' Gets A Second Look


Why Investing Is Like Chess  Investing, says Seth Klarman, used to be like checkers. Now it's like chess–a lot more complicated. 


S&P 500 One Day Declines of 3% or More


Investors Have Big Hopes For Small Cap Stocks


Small Caps, Big Performance Why are smaller companies so thoroughly beating big companies in the stock market?


Small Cap Stocks Show Promise


The Companies Hiring The Most


Investing: Start Young, Start Small, Just Start


Best 529 Plans By State


Small-Cap Value Stocks On The Rise


Behind The Surge In Small Cap Stocks Their market caps might be puny, but there's been nothing small at all about their headline-making moves this year.


Small Cap Sprint They're outperforming in the recovery and may still have a ways to go.


Street Critique, First Quarter Typically the second year of a bull market we see that small cap stocks continue to outperform.


Small Caps Don't Fear High P/E Don't shy away from rising stocks with steep prices--if the growth is there. Other investors may be just beginning to discover the growth story.


21% Of The Russell 2000 Small Cap Index Is Up Over 20% For anyone who looks at just the big stocks, you are missing the story of the year: Small-caps are on fire!


Five Small Caps With Firepower


Market Comments When small caps outperform blue chips it shows traders are more confident in the equity markets.


The Truth Behind Penny Stocks


Small Cap Stocks Offer Best Bet For Investors


S&P Says Small Caps Will Outperform Again This Year


It's A Small Cap World After All Want to know if all this talk of an economic recovery is for real? Don't think big. Think small.


Rolling Stocks


Small Cap Deal Flow On The Rise


Another Look At The Global Growth Theme


Around The World In 90 Days... We would expect the small cap stocks to outperform the larger cap stocks.


Spot the Decade's Super Stocks... And, of course, you should think small. The biggest winners will be among microcaps -- companies with market caps today of less than $300 million.


Small Caps Are Now A Big Deal


Why This Bull Market Could Lasts Two More Years


A Bet On Growth Puts Small Cap Fund Managers Ahead For Q1


Small Cap Bonanza...


2010 Is The Year For Small Caps


Stocks In The 1st Quarter Of 2010


Small Caps Post Double Digit Gains For The Year


High Beta Since the February 8th bottom, large caps have rallied 12.5% while small caps have rallied 18%.


How To Make Money In The Bull Market's Second Year


Behind the Buzz About Mint The finance site is really Quicken for the short-attention-span generation.


US Performance By Market Cap Since 2009 Low Small-cap stocks have outperformed S&P 500 large-cap stocks in the US since the March 2009 low.


Small Cap Strength Indicator Supports Bull Case


This Is Not How A Bull Market Ends... The market is not giving out any of the classic signs of being close to a top. The Transports, Russell 2000, and Nasdaq Composite Index have all broken out to new bull market highs.


Investor Sentiment... Small caps have been a leading performer since the low of March 9 last year, with the Russell 2000 Index gaining 96.3%.


Small Cap Performance And Risk Appetite


2010 A Good Year For Small Caps So Far


Dividend Paying Small-Caps Challenge Conventional Perception Another micro-cap company announced an increase in its dividend this week, adding to the list of smaller companies going against conventional perceptions and providing income to their investors.


Small Cap Effect Smaller companies may outperform for a multi-year period.


Enter Your Salary And See How Tax Rates Have Changed Over Time


Investors Should Stick With Cyclicals And Small Cap Stocks


Would Ticker by Another Name Do the Same?


Stocks See 'Shock And Rebound'


Sticking With Small Caps And Value For March


One Year After The Bottom


Following the Bouncing Baltic Dry Index


Wall Street, Trust, And Penny Stocks


Small Caps Holding The Real Value


Small Cap Insider Buying On The Rise


Small Caps Surge Up To 1640% In A Year


The Essential Rules Of Short Selling


Bull Market Looks Ready For 2nd Year... Since 1949, small-caps have returned 22 percent on average in the second year of a rally, while large-caps rose 15 percent.


Outlook For Small Caps Upbeat Small caps certainly reflect the domestic economy and the activity of the domestic economy probably quicker than some of the large caps.


Big Themes From Small Caps 


What Is Liquidity? Having traded small and microcap stocks, and traded illiquid bonds, I am less afraid of illiquidity than many are. Illiquidity is something that one can absorb, if he has a strong balance sheet and a patient disposition.


Is Now The Time To Give Small Caps A Second Look?


The Ten Best Personal Finance Tools to Balance Your Budget


The Truth About Microcaps


Small Caps Are Beautiful


Lessons From the Best-Performing Stocks


Economic Indicators: Real Or Ridiculous... From the Underwear Index to the Hemline Index.


February's Most Promising Small Cap Charts


Do Global Small Caps Belong In Your Portfolio?


Three Types Of Penny Stocks


A Look At Small Cap Growth Stocks In 2009, growth stocks in the Russell 3000 index, which makes up nearly all U.S. stocks, were a clear standout, providing a 34.6 percent advance compared with 16.4 in the Russell 3000 value index.


Small Caps Soar As Appetite For Risk Returns


Small Cap Value Earnings Portfolio


Small Caps In Consumer Durables Have Done Fundamentally Well


What's a Gold Medal Worth? Bottom line: At today's prices, Vancouver gold medals would worth about $500 melted down and silver medals just over half that. The bronze medals wouldn't be worth much at all.


Big Upside For Small Cap Stocks In Emerging Markets


Big Themes From Small Caps


Small Caps Make A Nice Move Higher


Small-Caps Will Continue Outperforming Small-cap companies that have good product and good product innovation should continue to outperform.


Penny Stocks Speculation


Time Has Come For Small Caps


Donations for Haiti: How to Give Sensibly


Quick Quiz: Calculate Your Credit Scores


Will You Get Rich Someday? About a third of us think we will. 


Pegging The Markets Movements Is Futile


The High Cost Of The U.S. Budget The government believes that as U.S. citizens we should devote 10% or more of our gross income just to pay the interest on the federal debt.


Freaky Potpourri 1. News is always best at the top and worst near the lows. 2. The reaction to news is always more important than the news itself. 3. Earnings are rear-view.


As In Year's Past, Small Caps Are Leading The Market Like swallows returning every year at the same time, stock market legend has it that small cap stocks at the beginning of January regularly outperform the rest of the stock market.


Only Way To Buy Stocks For 500% Gains


Lost Decades Do Not Repeat Themselves... U.S. small caps were up 41% for the decade.


Test Your Investing Confidence...


Small Cap Tech, Big Gains


Small Cap Stocks Are The Only Stocks You Should Buy If you're serious about making a fortune in the stock market, I recommend you only buy small caps and microcaps.


Small Caps, Tech and Retail Stocks in 2010


Lessons Learned From Years In Markets And Life The last few years forever changed the socioeconomic landscape and seismically shifted our collective perception of what we do, how we do it and whom we do it with.


Seven Trading Lessons from a Legend


Big Gains From Winter Small-Cap Rally Small-cap U.S. indices such as the Russell 2000 have a history of outperforming big-cap indexes such as the Russell 1000 or the S&P 500 from the middle of December to at least the end of January.


Small-Cap Stocks: Searching For The Stars Of 2010 Based on his belief in momentum investing, Fisher thinks the next three to six months might be a good time to hold more, rather than fewer, small caps in your portfolio.


Small Caps Rocked The Decade


Investors Switching Attention To Penny Stocks


Small-Caps Were Beautiful in 2009  


Stock Market Quirks Are One For The Book The January Effect stems from the reasoning that small-cap investors stay away until late in the year when year-end dividends are made.


What Is The Capricorn Effect?


Small Caps for Sale I love small caps because they are largely neglected by Wall Street and thus have the ability to outperform the market. Some of the greatest gains can be made in small cap stocks.


Large Caps vs. Small Caps Part II


January Effect, A Seasonal Trend That Rings True The January Effect is the period from mid-December through the following January, when smaller companies may outperform larger companies.


What the Past Can't Tell Investors


What January Really Says About Stocks


Invesco Sees Big Gains For Small Caps


19 Companies Go From Small Cap To Large Cap


Institutions Betting Big On Microcaps


Large Cap Vs. Small Cap Pt 1


Biotech's 2009 Stealth Small Cap Rally...


2009 vs. 1999: Are You Better Off?


Out With The Old, In With The New... The part of the theory that small cap stocks tend to outperform large cap stocks has held true many times throughout history (only 6 years since 1980 did large caps outperform small caps.


Should You Bank Online? For some, Internet banking is all the rage.


Small Caps Are Beautiful Smaller companies often grow at a much greater speed than older, larger companies.


Small Caps Have The Potential To Deliver Big


Two Small Cap Indexes


Shopping For Deep Value Stocks


Tis The Season For Small-Caps


Big Winners For Small-Cap Investors


The Wise Rich Know About Risk Many investors who gradually took on more portfolio risk as they added more micro-and small-cap stocks and funds to their portfolios in 2006 and 2007. They were lured in by sizzling returns.


Behind The Great Stock Rally Of 2009


Fund Managers Hunt Small-Caps That Can Grow Bigger


Small Cap Run Still Has Legs


More Interest in Small Caps, Now that Large Caps Viewed as Riskier?


Wall Street's Alphabet Soup No other institution—with the possible exceptions of the government or the military—spews out acronyms and initials quite as prolifically.


Look to Small-Cap Stocks as Leading Indicator of Market Fatigue


Retail vs. Institutional: Why Small Caps Need A Broad Spread Of Investors


Less Publicly Traded Companies Now


Can Small-Caps Continue To Rally?


A Look at Small Caps Going Forward


A Small-Cap Strategy


Small Caps Have More To Go


Everyone Wants To Be A Contrarian – But How Do You Do It? The stocks that got no mentions in the press returned 3% more each year on average than those that attracted lots of attention. What's more, the best performers of all were small companies with little institutional ownership and limited coverage by analysts.


Gold, Small Caps and the Dollar Look Ready to Part Ways


2009 Stock Market Performance By Country


Alternative Investments Still Worth Consideration,,, In the mid-1990s you had a hard time finding good outlets for small cap stocks.


Did the January Effect Start on November 1?


Good Returns Come in Small Caps We are all in the market to make money, so why not be in stocks that outperform the S&P 500 by 20%? Yes, 20%. In a study conducted over the 80 years prior to 2007, small cap stocks beat the index 12% to 10%.


28 Clues That Earnings Are Getting Stronger Not surprisingly, of the 28 stocks that beat estimates by 100% or more on October 29, three quarters of them were Small Caps.


Small Cap Managers Beat Large Cap Managers In Q3


Squeezing the Shorts: Small-Cap Stocks Don't discount the power of the small stocks. While most investors spend their time focusing on big blue chips, small- and micro-cap investors are reaping the benefits of bigger price swings and a lack of analyst coverage. And when it comes to short squeezes, small-cap stocks provide some of the most serious gain potential.


Using the Relative Strength Index to Your Advantage


The Diverging Russell Small-Cap 2000 Index


Steady Returns in Small Caps


The Dow Then And Now 1999 Vs. 2009 Gold in 1999: $280 an ounce. Today: $1065. Oil in 1999: $16.44 a barrel. Today: $74.80.


Small Cap Diversity


There's Big Potential In Small Caps


A Market 'Meltup': Sizing Up the Chances


Reasons to like Paragon Shipping


Volume Analysis - Can It Help You Trade Small-Cap Stocks?


Small-Cap Stocks: Too Late? Too Early? Or Just Right?


Study Shows Confidence Growing


The Dollar-Proof Portfolio


European Small Caps On The Rampage


U.S. Q3 Growth Seen Strongest In 2 Years


Small Cap Stocks Driving The Market


Limit Loss By Studying Up On Volatility Morningstar found similar results for large-, mid-, and small-cap stock funds.


Growth vs. Value: Who's Right?


Money Managers Are Still Bullish


How To Play Natural Gas Small Cap Stocks


World Recovery Breakdown: By The Six Major Economies


Reasons to like Paragon Shipping


15 Great Investments From the Depression


Why So Many Earnings Surprises Aren’t So Surprising


QUIZ: How Does Emotion Affect Investing Choices?


Small-Cap Stocks Become Attractive to Institutional Investors


What Inning Is This Rally In?


7 Lessons From The Bull Market


Players Make Money, Pundits Make Noise


Burgernomics: What's a Big Mac Worth?


Profiting In The Market Is All About Perspective


It May Be Time to Consider Small-Caps And ETFs


On Small Cap Drug Makers And Volatility


Small-Cap Stocks Have Big Potential


Why Small Caps Are Sizzling


Handicapping the Caps Small caps have outperformed large-cap issues in the current market upturn.


Can Small Caps Stay Red Hot?


Small And Mid-Cap Stocks Have Done Well Of Late


Small Caps Soar


Think Like a Beginner to Become an Expert


7 Pieces of Good News About the Economy


Three Small Cap Stocks That Could Be Ready To Run


What's Your Investing Style?


Small Cap Banks Generating Big Profits


World Financial Markets in Eight Charts


Small-Cap Stocks Have Been Leading The Market Rally


Get Happy With Small-Caps


Gasoline Consumption Per Capita By State


Teaching Your Children The Value Of Money


Don't Count Out the U.S. Dollar


The Case for Small Caps


State By State Retiree Taxes


Revenge Of The Small Cap Energy Names


If The Small Cap Fits, Wear It


Are Small Caps Redefining Risk?


Reading The Financial Tea Leaves


Pocketing Nice Dividends with Hot Small-Caps


Small Cap Stocks Are Now Big For Gains


Micro-Cap Funds Can Smooth Out Returns


State By State Rankings For Business


Oil Consumption Per Capita By Country


Small Cap Charts Suggest MSCI Still Has Bullish Legs


August 2009 Model Signals Favor Small Caps And Value


Small Caps Still A Big Bargain


Cash Is Trash


Why There Is Value In Small Cap ETFs


How The World Spends Its Money


Which City Is Best For You?


Energy Trend Setters: Canadian Income and Small Cap Stocks


Put Your Cash to Work in Stocks


Stocks: Five Key Signals for Investors


Money Lessons For Children


Stubborn Little Winners, Small-Caps That Refused To Quit


America's 100 Fastest Growing Small Stocks


The Stocks That Will Lead Us Out of Recession: Small Caps


What Health-Care Reform Will Really Cost You


Three Tell-Tale Signs Your Mutual Fund Sucks


Do Blue-Chip Penny Stocks Exist?


Dow 10,000: How Long Will It Take?


Seven Reasons To Be Bullish Now


NYSE and Nasdaq Think Small Two big exchanges are courting ever smaller clients.


Trading Tactic Is the Rage... Many high-frequency traders collect tiny gains, often measured in pennies, on short-term market gyrations.


Stocks Are Far From Fair Value


Why Market Jargon Is Unnecessary


Penny Stock Speculators Should Buy What They Know


Blue Chip Penny Stocks Rebound


Small-Cap Stocks Score one for the small fry: Small Cap Stocks have generally had a bigger bounce than large-cap names since March.


Not For The Faint Of Heart Small-cap stocks -- companies with a market capitalization of less than $1 billion -- can offer this potential windfall more than any other class of publicly traded investment.


Economic Recovery Index


Small-Cap Strength Seen As Bright Sign


Second Quarter: High Risk Offerings Soar


Microcap Biotechnology Stocks Soar in 2009


Quiz: How Much Risk Can You Handle?


Small Cap Value Stocks: First To Rebound With The Economy?


The Top-10 Hottest Commodities


The 'July Effect' And Small-Cap Stocks


Will Small-Cap Value Stocks Lead Market Out Of Recession?


Not A Lost Decade for Everyone The broader your stock holdings (small cap, international, etc.) were, the better you did.


Keep It Simple And Low Cost


A Safe Strategy for High Risk Small Cap Plays


Small-Cap Value Stocks Lead Rebound


Better Opportunities in Small Caps


Checking Out The Multi-Baggers Predictably, a clear small-cap bias was observed among stocks delivering manifold gains.


Stocks: Which Sectors Will Signal Recovery?


A Different Kind of Rally


10 Quirky Economic Indicators


Investment Surge Is No Small Wonder Big money pouring into small-cap stocks has lifted the sector.


Teacher Salaries By State


Good News Has Arrived for Investors


Which Country's Stocks Are Cheapest?


Stellar Small-Caps This stellar performance has investors asking two questions: will small caps will continue to provide such returns, and what does it tell us about faith in a wider economic recovery?


5 Economic Indicators To Watch


Now The Small-Cap Fits So Wear It Forget the FTSE 100 rally: small companies have been the place to be this year.


4 Ways to Capture Opportunities in Small Stocks


Why Small-Cap ETFs May Indicate Economic Recovery


Why We Continue to Recommend Small Caps and Growth


Small Caps To The Rescue


Which Companies Pay The Most Taxes


Which Companies Pay The Least Taxes


The Wisdom of Half Positions


Adding Small-Cap Stocks


The Penny Stock Rebound


Where Have The Small Caps Gone?


Money Site For Kids


The Most Trustworthy Small-Cap Companies


Top Ten Trading Rules


State By State Tax Rates


Are Investors Ready For Risk Again?


Six Reasons For A New Bull Market


15 Biggest Holders of US Government Debt


6 Free Online Courses to Beef Up Your Resume


What the World Will Look Like by 2050


For 40 Years, Small Caps Still Safest Bet in Stocks "Regardless of time horizon, small cap stocks offered the best risk/reward potential to investors, while gold offered the worst," Bernstein wrote.


Find a Small-Business Investor Online


Which Online Brokers Keep Clients Happy?


What Does Small-Cap Strength Tell Us?  


Scared? Then Buy Stocks


5 Signs Of The Recession's End


10 Financial Myths


Time to Say Goodbye to the Bear?


To Make Profits, Break Out Of The Herd They may be unloved right now, but this is a great time to be picking up carefully chosen small caps in the right sectors – they should lead the charge higher when the markets turn.


Small Cap Analysts Some fund managers fear the major investment banks are set to close their teams of small cap broking analysts – as they have done in previous recessions – compromising the flow of investment information and research.


Interactive Map of Where Recession is Hitting Hardest


Small-Cap Value Stocks Typically Lead Market Recovery


10 Not-So-Dumb Investing Questions


How Recessions Work


Small Caps Expected to Benefit Most When Hedge Funds Put Cash Back In


Why Selling Stocks Now May Be A Really Bad Idea


The Dow Roller Coaster


The Anatomy Of A Rally


How to Time the Market (Really)


Small Cap Growth: Opportunity Of A Lifetime? Values are among the lowest levels in 30 years and a small improvement in fundamentals could spark a significant rise in prices.


21 Reasons to Be Bullish


Values Push Firms Down to Small-Cap Status A total of 59 companies on a major U.S. stock market exchange were among the elite with large market values of $3 billion or more at the end of 2007, but now are small-cap stocks worth $1 billion or less.


Hallmarks of a Recovering Economy


Why Right Now Is a Good Time to Buy


Brokerage Houses Are Awash In Cash Investors have parked an estimated $600 billion in cash.


Top 25 Money Tips of All Time


Small-Caps Should Offer Better Performance In This Weak Market


Evidence Mounts That Recession's Worst Is Past


Small-Cap Managers See Good Bets in Energy Stocks


Rebound Will Be Like Coiled Spring Small cap and emerging markets have historically outperformed in a recovery.


Steady Income in a Stingy Market


Small-Cap Investors Return to Risk


How to Find Small Cap All Stars


You Down with OTC? OTC traders can sell anything they want -- from penny stocks to complex credit default swaps. There's no middle man, and few rules. Kinda like the old General Store.


Most Managers Say Market’s Undervalued


Annual Broker Survey


Waking the Slumbering Bull


5 Best Coupon-Clipping Web Sites


Small-Cap Investing: How to Play The Emerging Small-Cap Rally In December small cap stocks put up big numbers - a 5.8% gain versus a mere 1.1% uptick for the large guys.


The Case For A Quick Recovery Some economists think that because the downturn has been so sharp, that a rebound may be just as sharp.


These Are the Best of Times -- No, Really The bottom is clear and it's all up from here.


The January Effect: Small Caps Outperform After Really Bad Years


Lots of Small Cap Stock Bargains Available


How Volatility Breeds Opportunity


Small-Cap Value Stocks Look to Shine Historical precedents suggest that the small-cap stock value sector deserves serious attention.


The Cheapest Days to Buy Items


For Investors, Now What?


2009: Nowhere To Go But Up


States with the Lowest Business Taxes, 2009...(Slideshow)


Small Caps are Still Bountiful for Wise Investors


Thinking Big and Looking Small Small-cap stocks are good bets to lead the next bull market.


Secret Online Coupons


Tax Loss Selling vs. the January Effect


Small Wonders A Primer in Micro Cap Investing

Despite their strong historical performance, micro cap stocks are ignored, unloved, and generally shunned because most investors think they're either on the brink of bankruptcy or penny stocks that will never see a dollar. That misunderstanding opens the door to opportunities.


Forecast 2009: Your Investments The prediction: Expect the rebound to begin in 2009.


All About OTCBB and Pinksheet Small Cap Stocks The OTCBB is a quotation service that also lists over-the-counter securities. The pink sheets are a privately held company, while the Nasdaq owns and operates the OTCBB.


How to Thrive When This Bear Dies


Panicky Investors If you can't be greedy when others are fearful, that's fine. But please don't be among the fearful.


Small Caps: It’s Time to Think Small


You Can Buy Into This Market


America's 200 Best Small Cap Companies


Make $32K? You're In The Richer 50%


From Pain To Gain: The 5 Best Bull Runs


Credit Card and Mortgage Delinquency by County


Microcaps Poised for a Comeback Micro-cap stocks could lead the way out of this down market. Managers who have spent their careers watching these stocks say they haven't seen so many good companies trading so cheaply in decades. Small-Cap stocks tend to rise first and farthest coming out of a bear market.


15 Things You Need to Know About The Current Market


How To Keep Your Sanity!


The Lure Of Microcaps They continue to capture the imagination of investors aware that whenever micro-caps do revive, it usually occurs with a dramatic pop. Five years ago, they were among the hottest of investments.


10 Things That Will Change


Three Profitable Small-Caps With No Debt


What's Your Money Personality?


Top 10 Money Myths


Small Stocks Survive, and Thrive


Financial Satisfaction By Country


Who Called The Top at $147 a Barrel and the Small Cap Rally?


The Fed Effect: Interest-Rate Adjustments


Small Caps' Strength A Surprise


Stocks: You Need to Be in the Game to Win


For the Small-Cap Investor, Bargains Are Out There


Oil Is Cheaper, Why Not Gas?


Calculate What Your Time Is Worth


Track Down Extra Money


Ten Investing Rules That Will Help You Weather The Market


Stocks: Are P-E's Passé?


Why the S&P SmallCap Index Consistently Beats the Russell 2000


GDP Per Capita By State


Fastest Growing Small Companies


Stocks: Small Caps Are Beautiful


10 Reasons to Love a Recession


What Inflation? Some Items That Actually Cost Less


Small Caps are the Clear Winners when Rate Cuts Stop


Top Things To Know About Investing in Stocks


How to Tell if a Rally Is Real Small stocks generally perform better than large-capitalization shares in the first few months of market recoveries.


Five Money Management Tips The Rich Can Offer All Of Us


Active Value Investing Small-cap value stocks have historically performed the best during range-bound markets.


8 Investing Rules that were Made to be Broken


Here's why the Market goes Up when it Shouldn't


What Analyst Ratings Really Mean A Wall Street insider says you need a codebook to interpret "buy" and "sell" calls.


Learn the Best Times of the Day for the Best Trades


Crude Oil Prices 1861 - 2008


10 Financial Urban Legends


Take stock of market indexes


Small Caps Offer Big Potential Has the day of the small-cap stock dawned at last?


Top 10 Tips for Achieving Financial Freedom


The smart way to get rich


What's your business worth - really?


Three Small Caps to Tee Off On


Your magic number for retirement


Buying When Stocks Retreat


A Look at Indexes


Highest Taxed Countries


My Take on Greed


Think you know investing? Think again If most analysts already have a "buy" rating on a stock, everyone knows it's worth buying, and the stock probably has already appreciated. In other words, you've missed the boat.


Dow 18,500 in three years? The case for believing


Greed still rules Wall Street No matter how hard you try, you can never get too far from Wall Street. 


Without risk there is no reward Some managers say we have already entered a bear market, especially if you look at the decline in small cap stocks.


The Investor Awareness Index


Scoring Big With Small Stocks


Looking for Small-Cap Pearls


5 Easy Ways to Track Your Stocks


Knowing How Indexes Are Measured The oldest stock market index is the Dow Jones Industrial Average or simply the "Dow". Technically, this number is an average and not an index (hence the word “average” in the name).


The Robin Hoodwinking of America


State by State Income Tax Rates


Fancy the minnows Small-caps represent a genuine opportunity to pick up a future leader.


Small Cap Stocks' Rocky Ride Smaller stocks are generally more volatile than larger ones, which can present opportunity.


Why Investors Shouldn't Follow the Herd


Gross Product Per Capita by State


More than 3 credit cards: A good idea?  


FINRA's OTC Compromise The new take on Manning eases rules by dividing penny stocks into several tiers.


Fishing Small-Caps for Tomorrow's Whales The hard part about fishing for a few good micro-cap stocks is knowing where to drop a line.


Found money from lost papers


How to Find Stocks That Pay Off Fast


26 Fabulous Freebies Put your wallet away. Here are more than two dozen valuable goods and services that won't cost you a penny.


20 Small Ways to Save Big


Best times for bargain buys


World Wide Web of Free Stuff


Rolling the Dice


The Kiplinger Taxopedia


Investing Where No One Else Is A great exercise investors should do regularly is to ask yourself: What's the one thing that nobody expects to happen? In the answer to that question lies your greatest investment opportunities.


Tread Lightly in China


School of Hard Knocks Trading Not TV, Offers best investing lessons.


Small Cap Stocks are the Race Cars of Wall Street


Resisting the Status Quo


Soft Landing for Small Caps? Small Caps have tended in the past to perform well on the heels of Federal Reserve rate cuts. Last week's return on the benchmark Russell 2000 stock index lends early support to history repeating itself, but only if the U.S. economy steers clear of a recession.


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The 3 D's of investing during a downturn, and why that is a good time to Buy


How Electronic Trading Works


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Where do you stand in America's Wealth Spectrum?


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Lessons from best and worst growth screens


The Trade-Offs for Free E-Trades


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Smallest stocks can give investment portfolios a Lift Which part of the U.S. stock market has delivered 12% annualized returns over the past decade? Answer: Microcaps, those smaller-than-small, never-heard-of-'em stocks at the bottom of the market-capitalization pecking order.


Investing small, making it big


Getting To Know Stock Screeners


Meltdown? Please Remember, as an investor, panic is your friend. Let it make the bobble-heads on TV and all the fools willing to listen to them sell everything at rock-bottom prices. Be there with your own strong hands, buying 'em up.


Winning at Day Trading  For day traders, explains a former practitioner, all movement is good movement.


Algorithms showing up in Small-Cap Stocks


20 timeless money rules


The Perils of Stop-Loss Orders


Penny Stocks Holding Their Heads Higher But there's a growing list of more legitimate companies wanting to trade publicly but not wanting to deal with the expense and hassle of complying with certain rules, Sarbanes-Oxley in particular. For these companies and others, Pink Sheets is now working to become a more recognized and more strongly branded niche player.


Small-Caps Although small capitalization stocks are no longer as cheap as they used to be. You can still find interesting growth companies.


Falling dollar: Who wins, who loses


Don't Sweat Short-Term Swings


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Stock Investors Have It Backwards


Meet the Smallest Market of them all It has a total of 16 stocks. The combined capitalization of them all is equal to about $100 million, less than many penny stocks.


How Speculators Exploit Market Fears Here's a fact: The speculators and hedge fund managers who run today's stock market need market volatility in order to make money. They can't make enough money if the market stays flat or moves only a bit, so they like extreme and unexpected price movements.


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Long-Term Investors See Opportunity For some perspective, let's get something straight: Markets go up and markets go down.


Circus maximus... If we are Rome, and our civilization is tottering, then Wall Street is our Coliseum where Main Street investors are fed to the lions.


A Buoyant World Economy... Credit woes, focused mainly on the U.S., won't stall global growth or the steady gains in American exports.


A Penny for your thoughts A penny saved may still be a penny earned, but the real question for investors is whether a penny purchased is actually worth a nickel when it comes time to figure their return on investment.


What you expect to happen may not Most investors and advisers have come to believe stocks will deliver an annualized average return of about 10 percent, with small-company stocks doing slightly better.


Questioning a Large-Cap 'Flight To Quality': Small is Still Beautiful U.S. large-company stocks have yet to outhustle small-company stock assets in any calendar year of the the 21st century. Yet there's ample evidence that a flight to quality is occurring.


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Map: State-by-state home values


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Avoid playing the stock market 'tic-tac-toe' game


In search of answers to investing mysteries Why have small-caps outperformed large-caps over the years — and will they continue to do so in the future?


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The truth about starting a business Quitting your job and going it alone is one of the biggest–and riskiest–decisions you’ll ever make.


Small-Cap Growth Stocks Beat Value Plays Small-cap growth stocks in the iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Growth fund are actually growing earnings faster and are now cheaper than small-cap value stocks


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Do Small-Cap Pros Really Have a Leg Up? In the lesser-known world of small-cap stocks, the theory goes, a stock picker can more easily discover overlooked, bargain-priced stocks -- and handily beat his or her benchmark.


Street Dogs: The minimum requirement Chances are the best investment you will ever make will be a small cap that for some reason or other you took a gamble on — a small company that wanted to change the world, and succeeded. Not a blue chip.


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Most Micro-caps too small for spotlight Imperiale estimates there are more than 4,000 micro-cap stocks in the U.S. Their valuations got very cheap from 2003 through 2005, when all the action was in small- and mid-cap and international stocks.


Ignored sectors need tending to stay in balance The index for the small, bargain-priced stocks--the Russell 2000 value index--has easily more than doubled since the end of 1999. Meanwhile, the Russell 1000 growth index--an index for large, fast-growing stocks--remains in negative territory after the crushing blows of 2000.


The $5 Million Club To enter the nation's top 1%, you need more than $5 million.


Master The Art Of Buying On A Pullback The volume rules turn upside down. Investors are accustomed to buying into strength -- higher prices on big volume surges. If you're buying a dip, you want below-average volume.


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Investment slogans carry little weight... If you listened to Wall Street's sloganeers and decided to "sell in May and go away," you're probably kicking yourself now. 


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What's the Market Really Worth? 13,274 For the Dow.


Third-year phenomena ready to take effect Study says stocks have skyrocketed during this point in presidential term over last 40 years.


Small Wonders Catch them young and watch them grow. No, we are not talking of kids, we are referring to small and mid-cap stocks.


Best of Both Worlds Small Caps That Offer Growth and Value.


Private equity: Watch the Small Caps Multibillion-dollar takeovers may grab all the attention, but most private equity deals are under $1 billion.


Class wins with small-cap stocks


A Seven-Year Financial History From 2000-2002, if you were invested in only the large cap growth stocks you lost about 68.5% of your net worth. However, during that same time, if you were invested in small cap value stocks, your investments appreciated 29.2%!


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Small Stocks Can't Win Every Year -- Or Can They


Perception Problems Ahead 


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America's hottest job markets


Tax Ideas for the Self-Employed


Is a penny a gallon worth a detour?


The 10 best places to live


Net Worth: How do you stack up?


Do You Have What It Takes to Run a Home-Based Business?


Why all the Volatility?


Patience and homework can pay off on small caps


All About Small-Cap Stocks


How Uncle Sam Spends Your Tax Money


Find out your vehicle's real gas mileage


Tax Freedom Day by State


The Capital Market Crackup This history lesson is apropos today, as the U.S. appears to be losing its long-established grip on the market for publicly traded securities. 


Can Small Caps Keep Up Big Gains? Small-cap stocks continue to defy the skeptics. Despite some market soothsayers' annual predictions of large-cap supremacy, shares of small companies have piled up an impressive seven-year run.


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Profiting From The Anomalies - Stock Markets Are Not Always Right Smaller companies tend to outperform larger companies, which is a key reason for investing in small cap stocks.


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Appetite for small-company stocks increases In one sense, the appetite of private-equity firms for small-company stocks could help extend the historic seven-year string of small-cap stocks outperforming large-cap stocks.


Ranking The States For the New Economy...


Money Hungry Six avenues to get the capital you need to start and fund your small business


Free 411 Why pay $1.79 per call when you can use a free service instead?


Investing Success Doesn't Require Perfection You can be right less than 50% of the time and still make a lot of money in the market. How? Just cut your losses short and hold your biggest winners.


The Teachings of Warren Buffett Growth of 50% per year is with small capitalization, not large cap.


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The Return Of The Daytrader


Small is beautiful for FTSE Investors targeting their cash at Britain's ranks of smaller firms are expected to be the share winners in 2007, leading fund managers have suggested.


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What the Rich Know and the Poor Do Not


Tapping the Power of Your Morning Routine.


Stick With Small-Caps In 2007


Thinking small Since 2001, small caps have delivered an average annual return that is north of 15% in Canada and 13.5% in the U.S.


2006 predictions mostly right, except the calling for declines in small caps


Small Wonders “A lot of times you can find more mis-priced securities in the small cap market where you can generate returns between 10% and 30% in a short period of time, something very hard to do in the large cap universe of stocks. ”


What are Penny Stocks and Small-Cap Stocks?


The Best Financial Advice Ever... Prince Charming isn't coming. Live like a college student. Never co-sign a loan.


Small-Caps Continue to Lead More than two-thirds of the way through the '00s, it has plainly been a decade for small cap stocks, not the blue chips.


Investors take chances on Penny Stocks Because the prices of most penny stocks are so low, even a modest improvement in a company's operations can exert a profound impact.


Let’s Get Small


Small cap returns abound for the skilled Outperformance in the small cap sector is driven by stock picking skills.


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Small-caps 'can deliver returns'


Shortchanged on Short-Selling


Why invest in small companies? Investors flock to smaller companies not just for cheap valuations but for earnings growth momentum and high return on equity.


Harvard buys small-cap and foreign stocks


Don't count out small-caps just yet


What's the Fewest Amount of Shares You Can Buy


Discoveries in Micro Caps


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Insiders and Institutions


Follow the Trend, Not the Crowd


Give Me Some Credit The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies to provide you with a free copy of your credit report, at your request, once every 12 months.To get it, go to www.AnnualCreditReport.com. This is the only site authorized by the FTC to distribute free credit reports.


Investing in Small-Cap companies


Price-to-earnings ratios: Calculate them yourself, or pay the price...


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Let The Market Prove You Wrong Stick with your opinion until the market PROVES you wrong. Trying to catch every little zig and zag can drive you nuts. You're much better off trading in the direction of the major trend until proven otherwise.


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Five Keys to Investing Success


A Bull Market for 2007?


Where now for small caps?


At times, the best things come in small packages


What's Wrong With Penny Stocks? The rest of the stock market can be so utterly boring. Let’s face it, unless you’ve got huge amounts of money on the line, how excited can you get when one of your blue chips has a really big day and moves up 1.5%? A penny stock can easily double in price in a matter of days.


Trading Floor Secrets: Common Mistakes Traders Make


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Economic Mythology I'm not sure why consumption is supposed to be so important. Sure, if I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times: "The consumer is 70% of the U.S. economy." But so what? The producer is 100% of the U.S. economy.


Large Caps Are Getting the Big Head Spread your holdings across all cap sizes


Riding the 600 A column published in Forbes.com reported Thompson analysts expecting stocks in the Standard and Poor's Small-Cap 600 Index to return an average of 19% in 2006 and 16% in 2007. That tops predictions of 15% and 10%, respectively, for it’s big brother -- the S&P 500.


The Case for Small Caps When you hear pretty much every investor and analyst saying the same thing, it's usually time to get worried.


Private Equity Firms Chasing Small-Caps


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The Last Days of the Dollar


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Funds: Buying up 'smallest of the small'


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Small Caps Stand Tall In Equal-Weighted ETF


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Yes, there are small value-priced stocks; here's how to find them


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Gimme Guidance


Profiting From Neglect The idea that neglected stocks are worth paying attention to has a long and illustrious history. Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, several academic studies found that the average stock that was followed by no analyst on Wall Street performed better than the average stock that did have such a following. This pattern came to be known as the "neglected stock effect."


Too Soon To Bury Small Fry Smaller stocks have run rings around their larger counterparts for six consecutive years, but an increasing number of pros say the glory days are over for the small fry. Many predict they will now play second fiddle to the biggies. If you pick right, there are still plenty of big gains to be derived from small stocks.


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Simple Secret May Explain Mystery of Small Stocks More than two years have passed since sharp-penciled analysts began touting a switch away from small stocks. As time has passed and the changeover hasn't happened, the proclamations have only grown louder, to the point where hardly anybody is left beating the drum for small stocks. In investing, strong consensuses are always to be distrusted.


What's smaller than a penny stock?


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Finding Rewards With Small-Cap Stocks


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Think Big and Small


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Penny stock buyer winds up CEO


Still Big on Small Stocks


Make money on market fears


Little Stocks That Rock


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Finding a Small-Cap Strategy


Small Cap Correction could be short lived


A Look at Small-Cap Breadth


Inside Wall Street's Culture Of Risk


US small companies are on a roll


It's a Small-Cap World


Why Do The Rich Keep Working?


Utah Tries to Stop Naked Shorting


Sizzling Hot Growth


The Lessons of Market History


Pullbacks Present Opportunity


Best and worst states for small biz


How to tell if you are really beating the market


How to Find a Great growth Stock


Success Doesn't Care Which College You Went To


Small-Cap rally helped by hedge funds Hedge funds are emerging as one of the key drivers behind the unexpected, enduring strength of small-capitalization stocks, a sector that has baffled observers by rallying since October, 2002.


Can Small Stocks Stay Big? Combined, the Russell 2000 companies make up just 8.8% of stock market equity in the U.S., or $1.2 trillion. But the index's performance has created a clamor for small stocks: Investors have placed $1 trillion in funds that try to beat or mimic the index.


Microcap Mania Sometimes good things really do come in small packages. Take micro-cap stocks--stocks with a market cap of between $50 million and $500 million--which went up a whopping 72.3 percent over the past five years. It's easy to see why they're gaining investor attention.


A Small-Cap World After All Are large-cap returns really due to pull ahead? Don't bet on it. 


We're just entering the silly time


Small-scale investments ''The main point is exposure, exposure, exposure -- that's what small companies like ours want,'' said David Sasso.


2 Things You Should Look For In Early Trading


Uncapped Small Caps


The Bulls are Back


Technical Analysis: Big Caps Stay Stuck


A Kind Word for the Overlooked Small Stocks will continue to outscore the Blue-Chip averages.


This Year, the First Round Goes to the Risk Takers Small-capitalization stocks are still confounding market strategists, who have long been saying that investors should reduce risk by sticking with shares of large blue-chip companies.


Cap, schmap. Does size really matter? The general, back-of-the-envelope definitiion is that small-cap stocks are stocks of companies that have market values up to $1 billion.


To get a decent return, you have to take some risk


The Least You Can Invest


How to spot the next hot sector


Investors can take advantage of market fluctuations


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A Small-Cap True Believer


Small companies still carrying the load for stocks


Let's look back at how wrong experts were in their predictions


Net worth: How do you stack up?


Why Does Small Value Do So Well


Small investors try big-time tactics


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From little acorns Small-Cap stocks have demonstrated remarkable stamina in recent years. They have produced better returns than their large-cap rivals over three, five and ten years.


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Squint to See the Trend Clearly


Believe it or not, 10% annual returns are the average Try not to get frustrated. I know it has been a difficult five years for large-cap stocks (keep in mind, though, that small and foreign stocks have done very well). But having a sound plan and sticking with it is the only way to achieve financial success.


What moves stocks? In the short run, stock prices are volatile, erratic and unpredictable. What moves stocks? Everything.


The Danger of Crowds The trick to making money in the market is to zig when everyone else is zagging.


Small-Caps Are the Place To Be The irony in the world of professional investing is that the big guys with all the marketing muscle and slick sales forces cannot overcome the fact that big stocks, the only game in town for big money, haven’t been performing well relative to smaller stocks.


US `Small Caps' Beat Large Companies Again ``For the last three years, all I've done is defend small caps,'' said Keeley, whose fund returned 16 percent in 2005. ``There continues to be a tremendous amount of private equity money chasing higher quality small caps.''


Want Big Returns? Think Small Why are the returns from small cap, high value so great? Again, it's complicated -- and we may not even know for sure. We definitely cannot promise that it will last forever. But it has to do with buying cheap, dusty, overlooked corners of the market. These tend to be the sleepers that pay off over very long periods.


The Upside of Downgrades


The Value of a Penny to the Street


The Strongest Industries Often Produce The Best Stocks... Research shows that up to half of a stock's move is traced to the strength of its industry. That's why it's important to track the performance of industry groups.


Dividends With Room to Grow... Solid profitable companies that work hard to cut you a quarterly check are often ignored.


Feeding the Demand for Microcaps But the biggest reason for microcaps' popularity is the sector's five-year track record. These tiny stocks often generate the largest returns in the arena.


Define Small-Cap Stock


5 lessons the rich can teach you


P-Es aren't perfect for picking stocks


Finding the sleeper stocks For one thing, stocks that don't move a lot don't generate news, and with thousands of stocks to watch, many money managers rely on the headlines to bring stocks to their attention.


Small-Cap Stock Value: Fact or Fiction Some practitioners and academics have long contended that small-capitalization value stocks provide investors with a better return than other market segments. The recent strong performance of small-cap value indexes has likely regenerated investors' interest in this theory.


Another Losing Argument for Large Caps 


Super Savings Accounts... Internet banks are offering yields of over 4% on their savings accounts. Ready to sign up?


How to Read an Annual Report... Explaining three important financial statements from the annual report.


The Best Short-Term Investments...


Moving From 'Value' to Growth Stocks Also, small-cap value stock funds, one of the best-performing market sectors of the last five years, took a back seat to small-cap growth funds in the quarter. The average small-cap value fund rose 0.7%, while the average small-cap growth fund gained 1.7%. That marked the third straight quarter that small-cap growth outpaced small-cap value.


High noon at the small-cap corral I have yet to see a fundamental reason for not being both vigilant toward, and invested in, the remarkably resilient small-cap class.


Appreciating Small-Cap Value Over the last five years, no segment of the U.S. equity market has enjoyed more success than small-cap value.


Street Talk "There are hundreds, if not thousands of companies that are growing and have earnings potential that are under the radar screen,"


Small-Caps: 2005 Winners And Losers


A Brighter Outlook For Stocks


The leaders are lagging In the recently ended third quarter, the same types of stocks that had led the market in recent years continued to thrive. For example, small stocks outperformed large stocks, as they've done for the past five years. 


Big returns for small caps


60 money tips for 2006


10 moves for 2006


Beneath Wall Street's Radar When it comes to financial stocks, many investors tend to focus on the well-known, large-cap banks, brokerages, and asset managers. However, there are hundreds of smaller-cap financials that operate beneath Wall Street's radar.


What Rising Rates Mean for Stocks


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Quality Growth Below the Radar


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Smaller Stocks Still Rockin'


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Small-caps buck low-price image, make a big splash Mention the term small-cap stocks and the first thing that comes to mind for most people is that of penny stocks with low prices. This notion may need to be modified considering the way in which the rally in small-cap shares has continued unabated.

Small cap firms outperform bigger peers in profit growth


Some big names go nowhere fast This underscores the irony of the recovery. As is often the case after a bear market, investors who play it safe by sticking with big household-name companies can get left behind when the new bull arrives.


A new approach to microcaps


Tiny Investments, Big Changes


Definition of "Penny Stock


Market Capitalization 101


Serious Gains at the American Stock Exchange It makes sense that the Amex composite has rallied, since it tracks small-caps.


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When Smaller is Better The only thing better than an undiscovered small-cap stock is a tiny stock.


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Investing: Small-cap stocks


Know More About Stocks The risk inherent in these penny stocks cannot be totally eliminated, but a background check on the company's assets and profits can reduce the risk to a minimum and lead you to the best penny stocks.


Microcaps Available ETF enthusiasts can invest in just about every size of US company save one: microcaps. This is a shame because microcaps have performed well in two important regards. They have outperformed larger cap stocks and done so with little correlation to the rest of the market. Now investors will have their first microcap ETF. 


How to understand the financial pages A penny stock moves mainly on news and rumours. Because they are so speculative, penny stocks should occupy only up to 15 per cent of an investor’s equity portfolio. Even then, it is safer to spread the risk over several penny shares, including growth and recovery situations.


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It is what will happen, not what has happened


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Click Here to Save Big... A quick visit to a coupon-collecting web site could easily shave 20% or more off your online purchases — and should add no more than a few minutes to your shopping experience.


Charity Navigator...


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Gas Tax Burden by State


Report Card on Credit Reports


How to Use the P/E


The truth behind soaring gas prices


Unloved Penny Stocks Get Top Returns


Microcaps can add a lift to portfolios


Micro Caps to Get Russell Index ``Micro cap'' companies have been among the U.S. stock market's leaders for the past five years, and Russell Investment Group Inc. has responded by creating an index to track them.


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Stocks vs. Bonds: Stocks Win


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Introduction To Convertible Preferred Shares


How ETFs work


Is Your Bank Shortchanging You? Larger Accounts Are Getting Better Rates.


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"Outstanding Shares" vs. "Float"


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Time to Buy?


What Is a Small Cap?


Small Cap Stock Success Formula


Making Sense Of The Public Markets


Do Numbers Really Matter?


The Natural The fact that small cap stocks have been outperforming and should continue to outperform is predictable. It’s their nature.


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The old rule applies: Small Cap is a better long-term bet


Speculating On The Small-Cap Oil Boom


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International Small-Caps Outpace Large in January


Small Caps: The Roadrunners


Small-cap stocks have never been more attractive to investors


Investing: How long is long-term? While innumerable stocks, most of them small-cap and penny stocks, continue to provide returns.


Small fry prove big hit with investors


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7 signs a stock is ready to soar


A Penny Stock Penny-Pinching Guide


Small, Strong And Still Cheap Small-cap stocks have outperformed the market as a whole for the past five years.


Who the Small-Cap Fits Large-cap stocks make the headlines, but lately the small-caps have been making investors money.


A Macro View of Micro-Caps


Upward Price gaps in a stock's base signal demand


Types of Investors: Which Are You?


How to choose the right brokerage for you


Fishing For Small Fry... (Barrons) SmallCapReview.com is another good place to get information about the small-cap market in general, and its securities in detail.


A Growing Trend: Research Paid for by Companies... Among some of the respected paid research firms are stockresearch.com, Investrend Research, RedChip, NICStock.com, WallStreetResearch.org, OTC Financial Research, SmallCapReview


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The Stealth Rally in Smaller Stocks


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The Myth of Volume Weighted Average Price


Markets: The Little Guy Is Back


What you need to know to invest online


What do all those indexes mean?


New tricks for Dogs of the Dow.


Smaller Outfits With Rising Payouts


5 money mistakes smart people make


Do you know where your stocks are listed?


Where the Sweet Small-Caps Are


How to Beat a Sideways Market


Test your risk tolerance


Understanding a shareholder report


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The Wall St. casino... The evidence is all around, whether it's a noticeable increase in day-trading or the surging volume among the penny stocks on the OTC Bulletin Board.


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