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Are you a risk taker? When you're an individual trader in the stock market, one of the few safety devices you have is the risk/reward calculation. Risk v Reward Sadly, retail investors might end up losing a lot of money when they try to invest their own money. There are many reasons for this, but one of those comes from the inability of individual investors to manage risk. Risk/reward is a common term in financial vernacular, but what does it mean? Simply put, investing money into the markets has a high degree of risk, and you should be compensated if you're going to take that risk. If somebody you marginally trust asks for a $50 loan and offers to pay you $60 in two weeks, it might not be worth the risk, but what if they offered to...

Any investment portfolio is bound to take some lumps in a volatile market place like that experienced by most investors in the last 14 months. During an economic market cycle, market pullbacks and corrections are commonplace and naturally occurring parts of normal market growth. Even so, they can be difficult to stomach and send investors reeling for less volatile asset classes. When the volatility pendulum swings, investors can stay too long in the way of a poorly performing investment. Riding upward growth is euphoric for most investors but the contrary is disproportionately crushing to the psyche while plundering the pocketbook. How do you stop the madness when you're holding and you should be letting go? No matter which type of...