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The Story of the iPad and the Stock Market

I’ve had a few days with my iPad and I can honestly say this has potential to be a big technology changer for everyone. This also includes investors. The new mobile society has become even more capable with this device.

What does the iPad have in store for Lunch Break Investors? Here are a few of my thoughts on how this will change it all:

1. Full web browser. No more squinting at the mobile version of our favorite financial site. I was able to log into my Scottrade account and view charts, financial data and news. Just like on my laptop. The only drawback I’ve had so far is that I can’t use the drawing tool on the stock chart. So, I’m still not at the point that I can completely know if a stock is trending.
2. The every growing awesome apps. The Apple app store has enough financial apps that should suit anyone’s strategy. I’ll start reviewing those over the next few days.
3. Numbers is the Apple version of Excel. This is an amazing application. I’m in the process of converting my stock tracking spreadsheet to it (I currently use Google Docs). Again, there is one draw back to the app, it will import Excel documents, but not export them.
4. iBooks, Knook (Barnes & Noble) and Kindle (Amazon). These are the three big boys of the ebook reader market (sorry Sony). Barnes & Noble and Kindle both run on the iPad. What does that mean for Lunch Break Investors? No more heavy books! You can now buy all your favorite books on your preferred format and read away.
5. The video player is much better on the iPad than on the iPhone/iPod touch. Now those videos from podcasts and iTunes U are much easier on the eyes. Time to upgrade your financial knowledge.

Those are my thoughts, do you have any to share. Post a comment below, I would love to hear from you!

80/20 Principal – Stock Portfolio

I’ve been reading the “80/20 Principle” by Richard Koch and it has me thinking about my portfolio. Does it have a large distribution of winners versus losers?

After looking over my notes, I’ve decided that yes it does. There is a smaller portion of my portfolio that makes the most money versus the number of stocks I’ve bought/sold.

This makes for some interesting pondering. I invest in more stocks that lose money than make money. Yet, the ones that make money make up the difference plus add profits. So, this just proves that it’s not how many winners versus losers that you have, but how well the real winners do.

To wrap up this odd post. Cut your losses early, don’t buy into stocks that are losing money and invest more into the winners while they are winning.

Do you use the 80/20 Principle when you invest? Let me know in the comments.

Thanks for reading. Happy Trading!