Category: Learning to Invest
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
I Hate Reverse Stock Splits / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Dudley_Baker
I started to title this piece, ‘These Guys Are Killing Us’. Where I am coming from is that over the last eight months or so many of the junior mining companies have required additional financing to meet current requirements. In better times and at substantially higher prices, the raising of additional monies and the issuance of more shares and warrants could have been accepted, at least reluctantly, by shareholders.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Investment Performance Evaluation Re-Evaluated: Part Two / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
The Working Capital Model (WCM) looks at investment performance differently, less emotionally, and without a whole lot of concern for short-term market value movements. Market value performance evaluation techniques are only used to analyze peak-to-peak market cycle movements over significant time periods.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Investment Performance Evaluation Re-Evaluated: Part One / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you just can't know for certain where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course corrections--- even more is squandered comparing portfolio market values with a handful of unrelated indices and averages.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Why Warren Buffett Doesn’t Matter, Lessons in Investor Sheep Herding / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Mike_Stathis
Without a doubt, Warren Buffet is one of the leading investors in the world. There’s no disputing that. But let’s face it. His skills have been over-exaggerated by the media. Of more detriment, the media continues to deliver the message that what Buffett invests in matters to you. As you will see, he has been made into a god-like figure by the financial media for very precise reasons.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Wall Street's Secret to Investing Success / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Studies show that most investors - even ultra-wealthy ones - lose money over time because they don't, or can't, stick to a well-defined set of rules. For some, this is driven by reckless personal behavior in search of profits. For others, it's the constant shift between bad decisions and bad advice that creates whopping errors and poor performance. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Stock Market Investing, Careful Risk Taking / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
What is “risk” for investors? We think it is a broader, more important and more perilous issue than most investors have recognized for many years.
A typical “measure” of risk in stock markets has been standard deviation of return (the variability of returns around a long-term mean). Yet, a typical “measure” of risk in the bond market has been credit quality (the likelihood of payment default or bankruptcy).
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Stock Market Investing Risk versus Financial Condition and Financial Stage of Life / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
Here are several archetypal situations that illustrate the differences in appropriate risk taking with respect to stocks depending on the financial condition and financial life stage of the investor — there are, of course, more profiles, but these cross a wide spectrum: Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Investors Guard Yourself Against Wall Street Deception / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: If you're like many investors, you are probably sitting on the sidelines right now, unsure of what to do. If you want to buy, you may be thinking “let's wait a little longer.” If you want to sell, you might be concerned about “missing out.”
Either way (and even if you don't plan on making either move anytime soon), having a sense of what got us here can keep you from repeating the same mistakes and even help you make smarter financial decisions - particularly when it comes to repairing your portfolio and even growing it in the years ahead.
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Monday, March 09, 2009
Filling the Investment Education Void With Web Workshops / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Now more than ever, you can appreciate the need for comprehensive investment education. All of a sudden, fifty percent of your nest egg has disappeared--- and the bad news? There never was a plan for income generation. Ouch!Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 02, 2009
Why Watching CNBC Could Destroy Your Portfolio / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nadeem_Walayat
August 2007 - Dow Jones 13,000 - What did the CNBC Talking Heads Recommend Investors Should do ?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Stock Index Trading: Learn to Trade with the Trend / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: INO
Today we looking at trends and how important they are in trading.In particular, we're going to be looking at the DOW (DJI) and how it has continued to trend since June of '08.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Investment Performance Expectations: Fine Tuning Working Capital Model / Stock-Markets / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Contrary to popular belief and Wall Street propaganda, investing is not a competitive event. Rather, it is a uniquely personal, goal-directed activity that individuals must organize and control for themselves. Too few appreciate that it is a long-term enterprise and only a handful, at best, have discovered that DJIA and S & P 500 numbers are only useful at their extremes.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Is the Media the Perfect Contrary Stock Market Investing Indicator? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Joseph_Toronto
Capitulation theory holds that when everyone throws in the towel and is “sure” the market is going further down, that it will then actually go up. A derivative theory, the front page/cartoonist theory holds that when you finally see doom and gloom on the front page of newsmagazines or in the cartoonist's columns, then literally everyone “knows” the market is going down further and, yep, at that point it starts to go up… or so goes the theory.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Working Capital Model Portfolio Investment Strategy / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
No investor should ever be surprised by the changes in market value that appear on his or her monthly brokerage account statements. In general, media noise throughout the month should lead to a feel for what has been going on and investors should understand that the market prices of investment securities are constantly changing.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, February 02, 2009
Mike Shedlock (Mish) Vs Peter Schiff: Analysts Clash / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Mike Shedlock last week fired a broadside attack onto Peter Schiff (Dr Doom's) record of financial forecasts for 2008, which culminated with a statement that illustrated and implied that many of Peter Schiff's clients may have actually lost between 30% to 60% of the value of their portfolios during the volatile trading and investment environment of 2008. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Investing in 2009, Six Mistakes You Must Avoid / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Q1_Publishing
“Our first priority is managing risk.”
Seven months ago I had a chance to attend a presentation by investment manager David Burrows. You're not going to find his name in the Wall Street Journal or a quote in a Bloomberg news article, but that doesn't mean he's not worth listening to. He is.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Stock Selection Fundamental vs Technical Analysis / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: INO
Every once in a while, I like to flip the TV channels and watch Jim Cramer on CNBC. It's not that I think that Jim Cramer is a spectacular trader, I just think he is a talented and amusing guy. The last time I tuned on the tube, CNBC's Jim Cramer was naming his top five picks to get you through these recessionary times. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 22, 2009
How to Ponzi Scam Proof Your Stocks Portfolio / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: INO
I've been in the financial arena for over 30 years. I must say I that I am appalled to see scum like Bernie Madoff stealing money from honest people. In many ways he's committing one of the most heinous of crimes. He's destroying the financial standings of unsuspecting victims for his own selfish greed. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Dumb and Dumber, Taking Investment Advice from Wall Street / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Oxbury_Research
Dumb and Dumber is the title of the 1994 comedy film starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. The title could also be applied to the current behavior of both institutional and individual investors. Both type of investors are cowering in the corner, afraid of the bogeyman – deflation. Both types of investors are eagerly purchasing Treasuries at zero per cent or even negative interest rates. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Stock Market Index Investing Using Moving Averages / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Donald_W_Dony
The art of index investing. How to optimize index funds with simple moving averages.
Warren Buffet got it right. Arguably, the world's best know investor has for years been advocating to both private and professional investors that the simple index funds offer superior returns to actively managed portfolios. Read full article... Read full article...