Category: Learning to Invest
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, June 13, 2014
Robert Prechter - How and Why Markets Fool Investors - Video / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: EWI
Bob Prechter explores price action in crude oil to deliver an important investment lesson
Editor's note:
The following is a timeless clip from Robert Prechter's presentation at the Social Mood Conference.
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Monday, June 02, 2014
How Stocks and Bonds Are Related: Investor Step Toward Market Mastery / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Over the past couple of months, I've been sharing with you some tips about how new investors can break into the market. And I think it's the perfect time for our next lesson - looking this time at the inextricable connection between stocks and bonds.
Although I tend to write about the stock market as if it were a singular entity, I'm usually talking about the markets in the plural. Not just the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or the S&P 500 Index, or the Nasdaq - when I'm talking about the stock market or stocks, I am talking about ALL the indexes.
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Friday, May 23, 2014
3 Effective Tools for Navigating International Markets - Free Webinar / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: EWI
FREE WEBINAR:
"3 Effective Tools for Navigating International Markets"
Thursday, May 29, 2:00 p.m. Eastern time
Duration: 45 minutes
Cost: Free
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Five Investor Tools to Turn Choppy Stock Markets to Your Advantage / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Back in the late 1990s, my wife was expecting our second daughter and we were really anxious to buy a home.
But the real estate market was soaring … prices were insane.
I can’t tell you how many times we lost out on a house we really liked because some other buyer was willing to pay 25% or more above the asking price – or was an “all-cash” buyer.
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
Hope and Regret: An Investor's Worst Enemies / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: It's often been said that the average investor's downfall are fear and greed. He tends to be too greedy to sell at market tops and too fearful to buy at market bottoms.
Yet fear and greed aren't an investor's worst emotions. Indeed, they have much to recommend them.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Learn to Trust Your Own Financial Judgment / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
Keep this goal in mind as you read on: solid income and growth with minimal risk and no catastrophic losses. Just tuck it in the back of your head.
Subscriber Brian A. wrote sharing a common concern:
"I subscribe to your newsletter for the purpose of diversifying my portfolio as well as taking more responsibility for my investment future. … I look at the soaring S&P and Dow and wonder if both are appreciating from strong fundamentals, or from the Fed's easy money policy. … I listen to my broker who spouts out information of a resurgence of manufacturing coming back to US soil and (says) equities are the place to be for the near future. The other side spouts banks are insolvent, businesses are closing, (and) if it wasn't for the Fed propping things up we would be in a recession. Some say we are in a recession. I would like to see you devote an article on the subject of the 'don't worry be happy' crowd verses the 'doom and gloom' crowd."
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Friday, April 04, 2014
Investing - What Is Worse Than Being at Risk? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
You may have heard the old adage: “What is worse than being lost? Not knowing you are lost.” In that same vein: What is worse than being at risk? You guessed it! Not knowing you’re at risk.
For many investors, portfolio diversification is just that. They think they are protected, only to find out later just how at risk they were.
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Friday, March 28, 2014
How To Overcome Stock Market “Investing Fear” And Finally Get Started / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:Today, I want to tell you a story.
It’s a true story that also illustrates how the advice I often give to investors can help them reach their financial goals.
As you know, I have more than 30-years professional trading experience (I mean real big money trading). And folks often ask me, “How do I get started?”
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
5 Red Flags to Notice When Working with an Financial Advisor / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
You don’t have to be an expert at ferreting out a bad financial advisor; if you were, you probably wouldn’t need one in the first place. Thankfully, you don’t need to become an expert in finance to spot the red flags. We’ll go over a few key warning signs here.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Why You Should Not Trust Your Broker / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: I've written about the dangers of relying on stockbrokers before.
You see, most stockbrokers aren't traders, and they aren't analysts, but salesmen. They usher clients into financial products with little regard for their individual financial situation or the broader markets.
That doesn't make them bad people. In fact, I have friends who are stockbrokers, and they're nice people.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Wells Fargo: A Stock Investors Lesson In Dealing With Fear / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Fast_Graphs
What would you do if we told you that a financial crisis was coming? Specifically, let's drill down to a single bank stock and say that we knew for certain that Wells Fargo's (WFC) share price would drop by more than 70%. Moreover, this price decline wasn't necessarily going to be capricious in nature as Wells Fargo's earnings would also drop by roughly 75% for the year. We didn't know when this time would come, but rest assured it was coming.
Monday, December 23, 2013
The "$5 Rule" Stock Investing Rule Gives You a Powerful Edge over Goldman Sachs Traders / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Robert Hsu writes: We hear it all the time, this notion that professional traders at top-tier Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and HSBC have tremendous advantages over smaller, individual investors.
The system is rigged...
Too-big-to-failbankers are getting richer at the expense of the little guy...
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Monday, December 02, 2013
Short Selling - The Worst Trade You Can Make / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an article titled “Tough Year for Short Sellers.”
I’ll say…
Short sellers bet that stocks will fall rather than rise. You already know, for instance, that if you buy a stock at $20 and sell it at $25, you make $5 a share. But if you short a stock at $25 and buy it back at $20, you also make $5 a share. However, this has been an awfully difficult game to play this year.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Investing - Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
I have received numerous emails from subscribers asking about individual stocks and how much they should buy. While I am not licensed to give individualized advice, each time I read these questions, the experiences shared seem eerily similar to my own.
, Back in 2008 many retirees had their CDs called in overnight. They had a large amount of cash and an urgent need to do something to recover the 6%, low-risk income that no longer existed. Many thought moving all of their capital into the stock market was all that they needed to do. Oh boy, they were in for a surprise.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Investors' Toolkit - Trailing Stops: Why You Need Them and How to Use Them / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Here at Money Morning, we're big proponents of using trailing stops as an easy and effective way to mitigate risk and boost gains.
And yet a surprisingly large group of individual investors don't use them, or have never heard the importance of trailing stops explained.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Investor Street Smarts - Staying in the Game / Personal_Finance / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
Fifty-eight percent of workers have not even tried to calculate how much they need for retirement, let alone put a plan in place. To stay in the game, you have to get in the game. As a reader of articles like this, you are already past that hurdle.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Common Investing Mistakes to Avoid / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Garrett Baldwin writes: It's been a great year for investors who stayed in the market, and stayed disciplined. The S&P 500 is up more than 25% on the year, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained 21%.
But making money isn't just about finding stocks/investments that will increase in price. It also involves avoiding the common investing mistakes that prevent retail investors from enjoying record-high markets.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
The Investment Rule of 72 for Successful Stock Market Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Christopher_Quigley
The issue of successful stock market investment affects us all. Even if we are not directly engaged in the industry, all of us will need some form of pension to fund our retirement. Whether we like it or not most of our retirement funds will find their way into the financial markets. For this very reason, the issue of pensions has moved politically centre stage, in particular the investment strategies used to direct pension funds. Due to mismanagement, mainly over the last decade, many retirement portfolios have become under-funded at best, or, at worst, totally bust. This situation is a direct result of the managed funds having been speculated rather than invested. Many cynics will say that the whole investment environment today has more of the characteristics of a casino than of a professional market of equities and, therefore, they doubt that one can ever achieve a faithful and fair return on capital. However, this view is erroneous. This essay sets out to explain how to achieve superior stock market investment returns through a simple yet powerful investment rule: “the rule of 72”. This rule is based on investment and not speculation yet if you faithfully apply it your returns, over time, will be worthwhile. Many believe that such degree of return is only possible through “speculative activity”. They are wrong and I will explain.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Are Investors Getting Dumber / Personal_Finance / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
I’ve long lamented that basic financial literacy is not a routine part of a high-school education in this country. Students routinely graduate without understanding compound interest, IRAs, mortgages or why we even have a stock market.
And so they trundle out into the real world, saving little, investing poorly (or not at all) and – typically – paying 18.6% annual interest on their credit cards. Within a few years, they are deep in a hole, trying to dig themselves out, and telling anyone who will listen of the essential inequity of the capitalist system.
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
The "Painful" Truth About Portfolio Diversification / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Robert Hsu writes: Portfolio diversification is one of the most widely advocated concepts in investing. Almost all financial planners recommend it.
But it's also one of the most misunderstood concepts.
Traditional diversification isn't a real-world way to create big wealth.
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