Payrolls in U.S. Rose 162,000 in March; Unemployment at 9.7%

You may want to look into municipal bonds. They pay a better rate than savings accounts or CDs and you pay no taxes to the feds or the state on the interest ... as long as they are to municipalities of or within your state.

 

It is simple. Become educated on Kagi Charts. They are simple to understand and are easy to use as they give very definite buy and sell signals.

Go to www.stockcharts.com

At the upper right there is a window where you enter a stock symbol, like C, or F, or PAYX ... whatever company that is publicly traded. [I am not suggesting you buy these company stocks. They were excellent buys a year ago. Each has shown a good increase, but this, IMNO, is the time to hold them, not buy them.] This will bring up a candlestick chart. Look down and you will see a number of small windows where you can tweak charts. In the second window down you will see a window labeled "Type." Click on that. A long list of charts will appear including Kagi. Click on Kagi. Then click on update.

I like to change from a daily chart to a weekly chart. This cuts out noise.

Also I shorted the length of time covered to a year or less.

There are windows to do both of these things.

Pick, say, 20, companies and check them every day. Buy when the charts says buy, sell when it says sell.

A good way to find good but inexpensive stock is to go to www.fool.com
They, The Motley Fool, have good information. Check them often and read, read, read.

Go with a discount broker who will only charge you $5 to $10 a trade and do your trading online. It is simple.

Personally I like Kagi charts and point and figure charts. The PF charts are very reliable, but more complicated. If you want become knowledgeable of this type of chart. They are the only charts I know of that actually give signals of how far up or down a stock will go.

If you have other questions, please ask. I hope I have not forgotten anything important.

This is a trend following method of investing. You will not buy at bottoms nor sell at tops. But most of the time you will get a good slice of the middle. That is the best anyone can hope for. There is a wall street adage on trying to hit tops and bottom .... bears can make money and bulls can make money, but hogs will loose every time.

Once I believed the market had bottomed I looked for stock that was selling for below $10 and where the point and figure chart indicated the price of the stock would double. You can buy a good number of stock at this low price and your risk-reward ration is very good. If you are not interested in learning the PF method, stick with the Kagi system. You will be rewarded. Do a search on Kagi stock and read carefully. It really is not a hard system to understand.

 

I guess you miss my point .... any job helps.

 

A job is a job and contributes to the economy and should be counted.

 

Really. Have you considered:

The Internet was a government product from DRAPA. Think of the industry that has grown from this government product.

GPS was a government product before being released to the public.

Have you considered all the jobs in the drug industry that have resulted from products from the National Institutes of Health that were released to private industry.

Have you considered all the productivity improvements that were developed and taught by the Department of Agriculture to farmers.

Have you considered the products that have been developed through pure research that was done in government laboratories? The results are used by private industry in the development of new products and, thus, jobs.

This is simply a drop in the bucket of jobs that have been produced in private industry through government developed products.

Do you consider defense industry jobs that depend on the government as real jobs?
Where would Boeing, General Dynamics, Martin Marietta, Melpar, Haliburton and who knows how many other companies would cease to exist without government contracts?

I am not attempting to insult you with the next sentence. I think you thinking and vision is too narrow.