How to get the transition from Brick-and-mortar to Click-and-mortar - by Abdul Vasi

How to get the transition from Brick-and-mortar to Click-and-mortar - by Abdul Vasi: "A Brick-and-mortar business to Click-and mortar transition requires the investigation of all companies, regardless of size or magnitude. It is well known that most of the business magazines devote considerable attention to DOTCOM companies. This term is widely used to describe startups which emphasize the use of the Internet and its technologies to provide new services or re-invent traditional commerce methods. A big chunk of these startups promote products and services that were available before the industries (and their consumers) could use computers as a global communication tool. In order to avoid being superseded by the DOTCOM waves, Brick and Mortars must take the assistance of the internet.

In order to guarantee their own survival in the rapidly merging internet economy, existing brick-and-mortar companies must leverage their brand recognition, customer base and core expertise while meticulously appraising areas in which the internet can help their business.
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Index Fund Trading Using Technical Stock Market Analysis - What Every Trader Should Know - by Rockford Tapscott

Index Fund Trading Using Technical Stock Market Analysis - What Every Trader Should Know - by Rockford Tapscott: "Index Fund trading using technical stock market analysis can be one of the most profitable...or most costly exercises you will ever undertake.

While trading a basket of stocks has it's advantages, such as removing the risk of any single company you own going bust and taking all of your money with it, stock indexes (on which index funds are based) can tend to be highly volatile, especially the smaller ones.

The S&P 500 is probably one of the worlds best know stock indexes, and it has a long history of strong trends that have made and lost traders fortunes over the years. By trading a managed fund that tracks the index, options over the index, futures contracts over the index or Contracts For Difference (CFD's), we can participate in the movements of the market.

The easiest way to do this (and the system that many mom and dad investors use) is to simply buy a managed fund like the Vanguard 500 Index Fund. This works fine when the trend is up, but what about when the trend is heading in the other direction? There are several mutual funds that trade inversely to their respective index. One of these can be used to trade the downside when prices are falling, as they do from time to time, sometime"