SAVE MONEY (AND MAKE BIG MONEY) WITH FREE INVESTMENT HELP PART 3

* Accounts payable you can spot potential cash problems in a company by investigating the accounts payable section of the financial statement. If the company pays its bills on time in one lump sum, it is in good financial condition. If you notice that bill payments are getting stretched out, the company might be having cash flow problems.
Investment Newsletters
Another source for information is an investment newsletter. There are dozens of them on the market today, and the trick is to find the one that best deals with your interests and needs.
No investment newsletter is going to be 100 percent, or even 75 percent accurate on its choices. You need to view a newsletter as a springboard for your own investment ideas and research. Avoid newsletters full of hype and adjectives like "Stupendous" or "once in a lifetime chance." Try to locate a newsletter that is full of restraint, and explains its choices in a logical manner. It also helps if the newsletter you choose has a consistent record of picking the good stocks.
Before taking any investment newsletter, decide if you are a long term investor-willing to take a loss at times and in the investment for the long haul-or short term investor in need of immediate information for today's stock market. There are newsletters available for both kinds of investors.
On the surface, newsletters can seem expensive, with a $45 to a whopping $7,000 per year subscription price, but compared to what you would pay for a money manager, you can end up saving in the long run. Whether you use a broker or not, remember that the information in these newsletters is up-to-the-minute in many cases. If you act on it too late, it can cost you.
Here are some of the best investing newsletters:
Astro Geometrics Journal $282 per year for 12 issues to subscribe, call: 312-559-5500
Astro Investor $45 per year for 12 issues to subscribe, call: 317-357-6855
Crawford Perspectives $250 per year for 12 issues to subscribe, call: 212-535-6202
Cash in on Chaos $250 per year for 12 issues to subscribe, call: 303-452-5566
Market Systems $366 per year for 12 issues to subscribe, call: 818-509-1133
Be Your Own Broker If you enjoy investing in government securities, you can cut out the broker's price by buying you own Treasury notes and bonds directly from the Federal Reserve Bank.

Simply write a letter to the Bank or one of its branches, stating the securities to be bought, and the name under which any notes or bonds will be registered. Enclose a check for the face value of the securities ($10,000 minimum for bills, $5,000 for short-term notes, and $1,000 for bonds). Make sure your letter is postmarked by midnight the day before the next securities auction. The government will send you a receipt along with a refund for the discount determined at the auction.
Do Your Own Forecasting through Technical Analysis Technical analysis is the fine art of predicting the major trends of a particular stock by studying its price pattern. It can work very much in your favor, because the price of stocks is set by what others think it is worth, not by what it is actually worth. Since stockholders tend to stay in love with a stock for a period of time, you may be able to cash in on this without using any inside information or top research analysts.
The technical analysis of price patterns can show you how big of a move to expect from a particular stock, but it can also get you into trouble if you become too impatient and buy or sell before the signal for it actually happens. The result can be disastrous for you.
One way to tell when the market is ripe for a breakthrough is to watch the Dow. If you see, interest rates are peaking and heading down, a large number of stocks hitting the new high list, volumes in excess of 60 million shares a day, and strong moves in the transportation and utility averages. This is the time to put your knowledge to work for you.
Watch Other Indicators besides the Dow although trends on the Dow Jones Industrial Average are reliable sources of market information, it is not the only method for predicting market movements. Some of the other indicators to use in conjunction with the Dow are:

*The Quotron Change This indicator is especially effective if you have mutual funds, because funds track more closely to
Quotron than to the Dow. Quotron lets you know what the market is doing in broad term, on both the New York and American Stock Exchanges.

* The Over-the-Counter Composite Index This index shows the cumulative performance of over-the-counter issues. If you see it outpacing the Dow, get ready for a bull market. If the index is weaker than the Dow, plan for a bear market.

* The Dow Jones Transportation Average This indicator tracks intermediate trends between bull and bear markets.