Category: Learning to Invest
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, October 25, 2013
How to Be a David to Wall Street Goliaths / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
Does the little guy ever really stand a chance in the market? Well… did David take down Goliath?
The mainstream media likes to peddle stories about the little investor who always loses money in the stock market. When the mechanics or teachers or dentists of this world try to compete with the big boys on Wall Street, they always seem to fail. Ordinary people like you and me appear doomed to lose our shirts when we try to compete against folks with sophisticated trading tools (and mathematical geniuses to run them). But are we?
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Tweeter - Why You Should Triple-Check the Ticker Before Buying That Stock / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Casey_Research
By Dan Steinhart, Managing Editor, The Casey Report
A simple misplaced letter can make a world of difference.
Two weeks ago, on an otherwise quiet Friday, voracious investors piled into the most anticipated tech IPO since Facebook. Buyers bought over 14 million shares of social media giant Twitter, sending its price soaring over 1,000%.
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Monday, September 23, 2013
Why the Mega-Rich Get Richer / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: With unemployment high and the economy still sputtering, economic insecurity in the U.S. is rampant right now. The 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS), the longest-running survey of its kind, reveals that the percentage of workers who feel confident they have enough for a comfortable retirement is near record lows.
Monday, September 23, 2013
The Power of Compounding - How to Create Huge Wealth With Little Risk / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
Tom Dyson writes: We’ve seen compounding referred to as “the most powerful force in the universe,” “the royal road to riches,” and “the greatest mathematical discovery in human history.”
Albert Einstein called compounding the eighth wonder of the world.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
The Illusion of Safe Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Casey_Research
By Dennis Miller
Retirees are often more concerned with the return of their money than the return on their money. It's understandable; after our peak earning years have passed financial safety becomes our primary concern since the opportunity to earn back investment losses is essentially over.
Saturday, August 03, 2013
See Dr. Ron Paul Up Close and Personal at the 2013 Casey Summit / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Casey_Research
He’s never voted to raise taxes. He’s never taken a government-paid junket. And he’s never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He’s Dr. Ron Paul, and he’s always led by example. During his 36 years in Congress, he tried to convince his colleagues to vote along with him against any measure that ran counter to the Constitution. Unfortunately, they seldom did.
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Thursday, August 01, 2013
Five Point Test for Every Investment / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
The issue is no longer one of waiting to see what the government is going to do; the real issue is what are we as investors going to do?
When I say the investment paradigm has changed, I’m referring to a combination of factors. There are no more solid, safe investments paying any kind of decent yield that most retirees could possibly live on comfortably. Re-read that if you have to. Investors are being forced to take on more risk for yield. Some are doing it using an income strategy, some are not.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Growing Wealth With Stocks: Expectations vs The New Reality / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Dan_Amerman
The number one reason why stocks are a core component of most long-term financial planning strategies is their purported ability to reliably compound wealth over time.
How has this theory been working out in practice?
The world has been going down a vastly different economic and financial path than what many people in the 1980s and 1990s assumed it would. And within this new reality, there is a key question to be asked: how has real-world performance compared with typical projections of what average investors could expect when it comes to the growth in value of their investment portfolios over the long term?
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Should You Invest with Borrowed Money? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
It’s high time investors heed the yellow caution flags waving in front of their margin accounts. Much like the NASCAR driver who pumps his brakes to avoid disaster when he sees the caution flag, it's time for us to slow down. My friend and colleague Ed Steer, editor of Ed Steer's Gold & Silver Daily, recently highlighted a must-read Wall Street Journal blog post focusing on the record-high levels of margin debt, and it sure made me pause to think.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
How IPOs Are Priced: An Overview with Shah Gilani / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Tara Clarke writes: An initial public offering, or IPO, is the first time a stock is sold by a private company to the public.
Typically you will see IPOs being issued by younger, smaller companies seeking capital to expand. Sometimes, however, larger companies that wish to become publicly traded will also issue IPOs.
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Saturday, July 06, 2013
Investor Lessons from Bell Labs / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: John_Mauldin
Investors seek that elusive substance called alpha. It is too often remains hidden from them, and instead they find some form of beta, or simply what the market gives everyone. Sometimes, in secular bull markets, that can be plenty and investors feel secure. But in the secular bear cycles investing is a difficult task and one that at the end of the day may find you distressingly close to where you started.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Are You Preventing Yourself From Getting Rich? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: "Why is it that people seem to plan for everything except success?"
My colleague Bill Patalon who heads up Private Briefing made that comment to me recently during one of our after-hours chats. We've held them almost every day for the past 7 years since we started working together.
Long after the markets have closed and most of the team has gone home, "BP" and I talk about the events of the day by phone. No matter where I am in the world, I look forward to the 15 or so minutes we spend together.
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Thursday, June 06, 2013
The Hidden Investing Secret of the Top 1 Percent / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Garrett Baldwin writes: It's rare when an investing secret becomes so obvious that it looks us in the eye...
And nearly all Americans completely miss it.
But one such secret has been so greatly underestimated that Nobel Prize-winning economists, investing legends and those considered to be the "best" minds in finance are now finally waking up to its possibilities--and its astonishing track record.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Doug Casey’s Primer on Investing Internationalization / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Casey_Research
As many of you may know, International Man has its roots in the book of the same name. It was first published in 1978 by best-selling author, speculator, and renowned world-traveler Doug Casey.
The original intent of that book was to give readers a general sense of the exciting and opportunity-rich world that lay outside of their national borders, with a review of over 100 countries, valuable "opportunity intelligence," and the resources that anyone could follow to realize these opportunities.
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Monday, May 13, 2013
How to Profit from Insider Stock Transactions / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: DailyGainsLetter
Moe Zulfiqar writes: If an executive of a publicly traded company buys or sells shares of their own firm, should this be taken as a signal by investors about what might happen to the stock prices? This question has taken center stage these days, as the markets are reaching new highs on a regular basis and insiders—those who hold some of the key positions in a company—are selling their shares.
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Are Billionaires Smarter Than You? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
Carl Delfeld writes: Do you have to be a genius to be a billionaire?
I certainly hope not.
But a recent study by Jonathan Wai of Duke University suggests a strong link between brains and billions. The study says “the top 1% in wealth highly overlaps with the top 1% in brains.”
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Top 10 Secrets of Successful Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Steve Christ writes: For Sir John Marks Templeton, the road not taken really did make all the difference in the world.
A true contrarian, the legendary investor became a billionaire by "avoiding the herd".
He bought low, sold high, and was always working against the grains of extreme bullish and bearish sentiment.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Stocks When to Buy a “Buy” / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
Buy, sell, hold, or pass altogether? This is the dilemma we face as investors, particularly if we subscribe to one or more investment newsletters. If a company was recommended in a previous issue, are we too late? Did the price escalate rapidly, or is it still a good choice? I subscribe to many newsletters myself, so it's an issue I deal with often. Fortunately, the answer is likely the same no matter how many different publications you read.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
How to Beat the Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
Marc Lichtenfeld writes: As I write this, we have a house full of my daughter’s friends for a sleepover birthday party. Despite the nonstop chattering (and shrieking), I still have no idea what 9-year-old girls talk about. I assume the main topics were puppies and Justin Bieber.
All I know is I have two jobs for the party. 1) Make my famous baked ziti. 2) Go upstairs and remain unseen for the rest of the evening.
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Friday, April 05, 2013
Investor Wall Street Q&A - Everything You Wanted to Know And Weren't Afraid to Ask / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: We'll have a Q&A session today, covering everything from precious metals to reserve banking to the derivatives markets.
Let's start with a very interesting question about gold and silver.
Q: Advisors frequently tell us not to be invested in gold/silver exchange traded funds (ETFs) as they could collapse and leave the investor with nothing but paper. Can that happen when one is invested in ETFs which are backed 98% by gold and/or silver bullion, such as the Sprott Physical Gold and Silver funds)? ~ Virginia R.
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