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by Bruce Lipski, Bru

Your stock buying and selling decisions should be based on the fundamentals of the company and not how you think the market will perform in the future. If you focus on the companies strengths and weaknesses, you can remove all other unimportant information and simplify the investing process.

One of the keys to making money and good investments is in understanding the businesses and industries in which you invest. You should be sticking with your investments long term. Many studies have shown that if you had been out of the market for just a few of the highest returning days of the year, your overall return would be significantly smaller. This shows why it is important to stay invested for the long term and not attempt to time the market.

If you glance down the Forbes list of richest people, you will find that not one of them has made their very large fortunes from frequent trading and trying to time the market. The best investors use the stock market to buy attractively priced companies and hold them while the business expands and prospers.

Any investor who buys stock in a good company based on solid research should do nothing more than monitor the company and develop a dollar cost averaging plan. This will over time allow his investment to grow. In time, his intelligent investing decisions will pay off well as the value of his shares appreciate.

One of the costliest mistakes made by investors is based on fear. This is also one of the easiest mistakes to make. One of the he worst things an investor can do is research a company, make a sound decision based on that research, and when the market hits a bad downturn, sell in fear of losing money. This is one of the reasons that panic and fear play a roll in the market.

In a down market, if the fundamentals of the company remain the same, then a stock will have become more attractively priced if it has gone down. Logic dictates that you should be buying more of the stock rather than selling. It is this principle and inner discipline that is needed to be able to become a successful stock market investor.

Unless you've been living under a rock, then you've known about the release of the Xbox 360, the mother of all video game systems...well at leats until the Playstation 3 comes out in addition to the new Nintendo box currently code-named "Revolution." Anyway, by the end of the year, the Xbox 360 will have about 25 or so titles to choose from. And by the end of 2006 there should most likely be at least 100 titles. If you've seen the games in action then you know just how powerful this new system is when compared to the original Xbox or any other game console currently available. The games are nothing short of breathtaking. If there were more systems available then impulse buying for this thing would probably be through the roof. And finally you have the backwards compatitbility of the 360 that allows you to play the majority of the original Xbox games.

Now having said all of this, one would think that the life expectancy of the original Xbox is short at best. But is this really the case? Let's look at a few more details.

At this point the scarcity of the 360 is driving the price at places like Amazon and Ebay through the roof. I've seen prices as high as $1500 for some packages. Even if you get one for the retail price, it's still 3 times higher then the original Xbox, which is now typically in the low hundreds range. But the biggest reason the Xbox will not go away quietly is the same reason the Playstation 2 is still going strong...the games. People who've been buying and trading games for years now are not going to see the need to upgrade their system right away. At least not for a while. But even if they do, all one has to do is look at the success of the GameBoy and Playstation 2 and the loyalty of their users. Game developers still make games for these consoles because they still sell like hotcakes. It really is all about the games. Its the main reason you see free Xbox giveaways, and also the reason Microsoft takes a loss with every system they sell...or so they say.

So while the Xbox 360 may be the big boy on the block right now, don't write off the original Xbox just yet. It'll be around for a while and the best may be yet to come!

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