Carnival of Investing Strategies: Number 5

Welcome to the 5th edition of the Carnival of Investing Strategies. This is a carnival focused on different strategies of investing your money. If your article was included, please be sure to link back to this carnival. If you want to make a submission for the next edition, the form is here.

Editor's Choice

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Stock Market Technical Analysis Versus Fundamental Analysis, In Pictures » Silicon Valley Blog About Money posted at The Digerati Life.

The Smarter Wallet presents Investing In Stocks and Bonds: Some Investment Basics posted at The Smarter Wallet.

Darwin presents Is Now a Good Time to Start Investing in Stocks? posted at Darwin's Finance, saying, "This article examines the pros and cons of starting to invest now and some hedging strategies if you're ready to take the plunge."

And here are the rest

Qwoter.com presents Stock Market Investing Basics posted at Stock Tips, saying, "Before thinking about investing in the stock market you will want to first make sure to learn the stock market investing basics and not just simply jump in and start trading right away."

Jed Norwood presents Safe Banking posted at Forex Course | ForexStrategySecrets.com, saying, "The number one money tip is to get a safe bank. Turning your money over to people should involve a lot of research. Take the time to learn about safe banks."

Deposit Accounts presents What's Your Long Term Savings Plan? posted at Deposit Accounts.

Rob presents Why the Stimulus Bill is a Boost for Real Estate Investors posted at Two Wise Acres, saying, "The stimulus plan may be a big boon for real estate investors if they know how to use it."

The Investor presents Portfolio diversification posted at Monevator.com, saying, "By buying and holding assets with different characteristics, we can try to create a portfolio that offers the greatest return for the risk we’re prepared to take."

Al presents Dow Price to Earnings Ratios Since 1900 - A Summary posted at Observations, saying, "This post provides historical perspective on Dow P/E ratios, and their relationship to subsequent stock market returns."

Insurance Toolbox presents The Best Interest Rates on Savings Accounts Available in March 2009. posted at Fine-Tuned Finances.

Dana presents Are you seeing the whole picture when it comes to investing? posted at Investoralist, saying, "Instead of focusing on day-by-day events in the market, it might be wise to pay more attention to the bigger forces in the economy in order to safeguard your investment."

Sarah Scrafford presents How an Average Investor Should Use Currency ETFs posted at Currency Trading.net.

Tyrone Solee presents What Makes Rich Gets Richer? | Millionaire ACTS posted at Millionaire Acts, saying, "Different investing strategies that makes the rich gets richer."

Patricia Turner presents UX at the Top Financial Portals: Google vs. Yahoo vs. AOL Finance posted at Bankling.

Manshu presents Do not use a Leveraged ETF for Hedging | OneMint posted at OneMint.

Pinyo presents Conservative Bank Investments in a Difficult Economy posted at Moolanomy.

Michael Haltman presents The Annual Report From The Oracle Of Omaha posted at The Political and Financial Markets Commentator, saying, "As the year progressed, a series of life-threatening problems within many of the world’s great financial institutions was unveiled. This led to a dysfunctional credit market that in important respects soon turned non-functional.

David presents Fear and Loathing on Main Street posted at Pimp Your Finances, saying, "One thing that’s always bugged me about the media is how they pretend to be impartial observers, when the reality of it is that there is no way to observe something without interfering."

One Family presents Writing Covered Calls against Employer Stock Plan Shares (ESPP, Restricted Stock, and Stock Options) – A Primer posted at One Family's Blog, saying, "The post explains the steps involved in writing covered calls against stock acquired through employer stock plans."

Investing School presents What is the Federal Reserve posted at Investing School, saying, "What is the federal reserve and what do they actually do?"

Bank Savings Review presents FNBO Direct Online Savings Account Review posted at Bank Savings Review, saying, "FNBO Direct is one of the best banks out there. I especially love their bill pay feature"

Steve presents FastSwings - Blogs - Sequenom Inc. (SQNM) Still up 100% in 52 Weeks posted at FastSwings.

Thanks to everyone who submitted! It was a great turnout. Check back next week for the next edition.