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16 Stock Investing Questions This quick reference guide is designed to be a "go to source" for answers to your stock investing needs. How Many Mutual Funds Should You Have in Your Portfolio? Adding new mutual funds to your portfolio is far easier than reorganizing your fund portfolio and discarding inappropriate, redundant, or simply poor-performing mutual funds.

Stock Investing Articles
	What Steps You Should Take When Your Stock's Price Falls In stock investing there are a few universal truths. One of them is that at some point, a stock's price will fall. There are myriad reasons why a stock's price falls and it is up to you as a stock investor to determine the cause.
	Four Basic Steps to Gauging a Firm's True Financial Position Four initial steps you can use to analyze a firm's financial statements.
	Investing in Gray Matter: Evaluating a Firm's Human Assets If you want to buy shares in a company that depends primarily on brainpower, you need to make sure that those brains are going to stick around.
	Taking the Spin Out of Earnings Announcements Public companies always want to put the best face on their quarterly financial results. But investors should not be distracted by excessive 'spin.' Tips to keep in mind when reviewing earnings announcements.
	The Big Picture: How to Decipher What the Market Is Saying A look at some key market indicators that provide a lens into how the market is behaving—and what it is saying right now.
Mutual Fund Investing Articles
	Mutual Funds: 14 Mutual Fund Questions That Every Investor Should Know How to Answer Stock investing can occasionally be perplexing. Often when a specific stock or investment question comes to mind, no obvious source for an answer is apparent. Here is a list of practical answers to frequently asked stock investing questions. This quick reference guide is designed to be a "go to source" for answers to your stock investing needs.
	How Many Mutual Funds Should You Have in Your Investment Portfolio? Taking the time to create an organized, understandable, appropriate and efficient portfolio of mutual funds may be your most important investment.
	What Every Investor Should Know About Mutual Funds Stock funds at the top of the performance lists may continue outperforming in the next period. But what is more telling is that bad funds tend to continue to be bad. Mutual fund pearls of wisdom.
	Fund Investors' Biggest Mistakes and How You Can Avoid Them To become the best possible investor you can, it is imperative to avoid the big mistakes.

How Many Mutual Funds Should You Have in Your Portfolio? Time to take an inventory of your mutual funds. How many are there? What are their investment styles? Is your portfolio of mutual funds cluttered just like your closet? Have you owned some mutual funds so long that you have forgotten why you bought them? Are there some mutual funds on the top shelf, way in the back of your financial closet you haven't even looked at in a while? Adding new mutual funds to your portfolio is far easier than reorganizing your fund portfolio and discarding inappropriate, redundant, or simply poor-performing mutual funds. The answer to the question of how many mutual funds you should have in your portfolio is not just a number. But if you have many more than eight mutual funds in your closet, chances are you need to do some serious portfolio cleaning. Continue to Full Article