Category: Learning to Invest
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Stock Market Lessons From Legendary Small Cap Investors / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Joseph_Dancy
It has been said that Shelby Davis was one of the best investors the public has never heard of—unlike the well known Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway fame.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
What's Your Investment IQ? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Many of the things you think you know about investing are part of a mythology designed to make you bounce around between investment products. Modern day "conventional wisdom" just isn't all that its cracked up to be. Concepts you worship are inaccurate; indices and averages you trust do not tell the complete story; the basic investment concepts still work --- but Wall Street won't tell you what they are.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
How to be a Contrarian Stock Market Investor / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Hans_Wagner
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
Contrarian investors believe that following the crowd leads to losses and missed opportunities. When the crowd reacts to news or speculation about a stock or the market, the price can rise of fall so far, that has mis-priced the value of the company or the market.
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Buffets Berkshire Hathaway New Investing Lessons for 2010 / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nilus_Mattive
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Warren Buffett (and his business partner Charlie Munger, too). That’s why I eagerly await the release of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder reports.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Sign-up for Perfect Portfolio Investing 2010 Webinar this Friday / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: INO
On Friday, Adam is going to go into detail about this hypothetical
portfolio and it's conservative strategy. This set-up is "perfect"
for those of us who don't want to look at our brokerage accounts
every day.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Income Investing And What You Really Know About It - Survey Results / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
The results are in! Roughly 260 people took the time to respond to the income investing survey and I thank y'all very much for being so generous with your time. First, the generalizations:
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
How to Profit in Any Kind of Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: When it comes to the global financial crisis, many so-called "experts" think the worst is behind us. But I don't buy it.
And I'm not alone.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Stock and Bond Investors Perils of Relying on Black Box Price Data / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
Investors today rely greatly on web data sources, but must for their own safety never forget that while most of the time most of the data is good, sometimes it is not — or is not what you think it is. Before taking capital risk based on web data, use basic logic as a reality check and alternative sources for confirmation that what you are viewing is reasonable.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The Market Cycle Investment Management (MCIM) Program / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
During the past sixty years, most economic, market, and interest rate cycles have lasted from two to five years, peak-to-peak. Rarely have any of the cycle-tracking market indices moved in tandem, and none of the cycles are considered to be particularly predictable.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
End of Year Stock Market Portfolio Rebalancing 101 / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Zeal_LLC
Year-end is always a time of reflection, a rare opportunity where the usual psychological boundaries of time crumble. For a couple weeks, the tyranny of the present yields to a heightened consideration of the past and the future. This rift in our everyday thought patterns leads many investors to ponder the composition of their portfolios, making this time of year the primary season for portfolio rebalancing.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Robert Prechter Exposes the Ten Most Dangerous Stock Market Myths / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: EWI
Free 33-page Investment eBook: Our friends over at Elliott Wave International have just released a brand-new ebook to help you sell and fold bad investment advice forever. EWI's 33-page Market Myths Exposed eBook takes the 10 most dangerous investment myths head on and exposes the truth about each in a way every investor can understand. Please learn more about the 33-page Market Myths Exposed eBook, and download your copy now.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Stock Market Myths Exposed / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: EWI
Free 33-page Investment eBook: Our friends over at Elliott Wave International have just released a brand-new ebook to help you sell and fold bad investment advice forever. EWI's 33-page Market Myths Exposed eBook takes the 10 most dangerous investment myths head on and exposes the truth about each in a way every investor can understand. Please learn more about the 33-page Market Myths Exposed eBook, and download your copy now.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Stock Market Sector Equal Weight Investing Strategies / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Hans_Wagner
Many successful investors follow sector investing. Some of the largest funds and ETFs including the SPDR S&P 500 Index ETF (SPY) base their portfolio allocation on the capitalization weighted S&P 500 index. This sector investing strategy allows you to match the market as defined by the S&P 500. Another sector investing method is to weight each sector equally.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Stocks & Bonds Price Returns vs Total Returns / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
Price return is one thing, and total return is another. Most securities charts show price performance.
Total return for yielding securities is greater than price return, because it considers both price changes and investment income. Because some securities are yielding and some are not, and because some securities have low yields while others have high yields, total return is a better indicator of the value of owning a security than price return.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Initial Public Offering, IPO Investors Primer / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Jay_DeVincentis
Here's a stock and an education all wrapped up in one.
This week's stock update: Since March, the market has rallied strongly and leaves many stocks in various set ups. As I'm sure you're aware, it would be great to have a time machine and go back to March and bet the farm. In hindsight, that would be the best time to trade stocks breaking out of bases. We don't have the luxury of hindsight, but we do have stocks in various setups in the wake of this advance. We'll talk about them here and how best to trade them.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Top 10 Rules for Successful Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: With all the financial woes in the global economy, the worst thing an investor can do is to “freeze up.” With all the ups and downs in the market, it’s all too easy for investors to allow their emotions to take control. That’s when the smallest mistakes turn into the biggest mistakes.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Mistakes When Investing With A Commodity Trading Advisor / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Andrew_Abraham
There are exist numerous mistakes when investing with a commodity trading advisor. After being on both sides of allocating to commodity trading advisors as well as being one myself it has become very clear to me some of the mistakes that investors make.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Hedge Fund Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Monty Agarwal writes: Hedge funds and the managers who run them have been getting a lot of publicity lately — and not of the flattering kind.
We have massive Ponzi schemes, equally massive losses and outsized systemic risks that are enough to frighten away even the hardiest of investors.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Forecasting and Trading, Nadeem Walayat's Trading Lesson's / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Over time one learns the important difference between forecasting, which is scenario building and trading, which is reacting to price movements in real time. Why forecast ?
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Do You Really Have a Diversified Portfolio? / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Andrew_Abraham
I have heard so many times when speaking to investors that they have a diversified portfolio. I ask further and I have been told that they maintain a diversified portfolio of stocks consisting of both domestic and international companies. My immediate question is, are you really reducing your risk? Especially in these times it is paramount to have a diversified portfolio and try to mitigate some of inherent risks.
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