Category: Learning to Invest
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, December 26, 2008
The Working Capital Model Investment Process / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Most people enter the investment process tip first. They hear something, grab an idea from a popular blog, accept a Cramerism or some motley foolishness, and think that they are making investment decisions. Rarely, will the right-now, instant-gratification, Internet-generation speculator think in terms that go beyond tomorrow's breaking news.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Portfolio Investment Management Strategy- Put More Smart Cash In Your Future / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
The stock market is a dynamic place where investors can consistently make reasonable returns on their capital if they comply with the basic principles of the endeavor and if they don't measure their progress too frequently against irrelevant indices.
The income securities market is most often a less dynamic place where investors can consistently make reasonable returns on their capital if they understand the basic principles of the endeavor and if they focus steadfastly on the income produced by their holdings.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
FINANCIAL PLANNING: My Guess Or Yours? Why It’s Absurd And Doomed To Fail From The Very Start / Personal_Finance / Learning to Invest
By: David_Haas
Upon reading that title, I'm sure some of you are thinking that I must have completely lost my mind. Well, of course that's not true. But, how could something as universally accepted, widely followed, and apparently “innocent and necessary” as financial planning be setting so many of those who unquestioningly apply it on a course toward a miserable financial future? Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
This Stock is Getting Ready to Fly / Companies / Learning to Invest
By: INO
This stock may be getting ready to fly. I was looking through our email alerts recently and this stock just jumped out at me. I want to share my thoughts about what I expect will happened to this market in this short video. We've discussed this pattern before on several other videos and all have worked out very successfully.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Five Misunderstood Stock Market Terms / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: There's a lot of confusion out there in the markets right now. But I want you to know that my stance hasn't changed one bit — I continue to think dividend superstar stocks are a great way for income investors to lock-in attractive yields right now, and potentially reap even bigger gains down the line.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, August 29, 2008
Investor Psychology Cycle Swinging From Greed to Fear / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
As the pendulum swings between greed and fear, investors typically become over-enthusiastic during bull markets and over-despondent as the bear's growl grows louder.
It stands to reason that in order to be a successful investor, it is important to distance yourself from the herd mentality and to take objective decisions based on fundamental reasons.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Investor Declaration of Independence / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: King_Orry
Yesterday I was talking to a moderately wealthy business acquaintance in Sydney, Australia, he was complaining that the shares in his Super Annuation (pension) account with Insurance and Pension giant AMP had lost $30,000 in value in the last 2 weeks and so he had taken all his funds away from AMP and placed them in cash deposits at the bank. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, August 04, 2008
Preventing Investment Mistakes: Ten Risk Minimizers / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Most investment mistakes are caused by basic misunderstandings of the securities markets and by invalid performance expectations. The markets move in totally unpredictable cyclical patterns of varying duration and amplitude. Evaluating the performance of the two major classes of investment securities needs to be done separately because they are owned for differing purposes. Stock market equity investments are expected to produce realized capital gains; income-producing investments are expected to generate cash flow.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, July 25, 2008
Importance of Long-term Trending Markets in Investment Risk Management / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Chris_Ciovacco
Long-Term Investors Need Trends to Make Money - Most of us would prefer to be investors instead of traders. Investors, with an intermediate to long-term time horizon, must be aligned with a positive trend in order to make money. This is true even for value investors who focus on a company's valuation rather than a trend that can be seen on a chart. For the value investor to make money, eventually the position must turn up.
The chart above is not designed to convey that spotting a trend reversal is easy. It is not, but as more evidence gathers as to the probable legitimacy of the new trend, the less risk you need endure to participate. If the stock or market does not trend upward for a significant period of time, long-term investors do not want to participate.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Stocks Boosted by Tracker Buying on Entering Major Indices / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: I love scouring the market for attractive stocks with smaller market capitalizations (the number of shares outstanding times the current stock price), especially ones that pay nice dividends.
That's because smaller stocks tend to have better growth prospects. After all, it's easier to post big gains when you're starting from a smaller baseline. Most investors recognize this simple concept.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Good News For Income Investors / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
Looking for good news in today's markets is like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. Needless to say, practically all investment grade equities and nearly all closed end funds that specialize in providing regular recurring monthly income have been reduced in market value by this prolonged correction. The quake has spread in all directions form its financial epicenter, and the mounting doom and gloom has taken its toll on even the most rational investment decision makers. Try to keep in mind that the purpose of income investing is the income that your portfolio produces not an increase in the securities' market values---Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Advice from Warren Buffet for Investing in Difficult Times / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Richard_Shaw
There is an alleged ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.”
While there is no historical proof of the origin of that curse, there is ample current proof in the securities markets that we are living in interesting times. It's simply nasty out there — or at least it feels that way.
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
Secrets to Succeeding at Stocks Bear Market Investing / Stock-Markets / Learning to Invest
By: Keith_Fitz-Gerald
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is already in the bear's grasp. And the U.S. economy may well be headed for a recession. But here's the ultimate irony: Bear-market investing offers a direct pathway to the biggest profit opportunities most investors will ever see.
History shows time and again that the worst returns come to those who buy at - or even near - market peaks, like those of 1928, 1969, 1999 and 2007, when Price/Earnings (P/E) ratios are typically higher than “normal.”
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Learn to invest by Recognising Our Mistakes / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Hans_Wagner
Each of us believes we learn to invest by recognizing our mistakes. When we make a losing investment, do we recognize our mistake and learn from it, or do we attribute it to some outside factor, like bad luck or the market? To beat the market, we must recognize our mistakes and then learn from them. Unfortunately, learning from these mistakes is much harder than it seems. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Put Your Portfolio on Autopilot And Ride Out the Market Turbulence! / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: My daughter Vela turned one last week. We had a great little island-theme party complete with grilled mahi-mahi, coconut cake, and pineapple ice cream. I'm not sure if Vela knew what the heck was going on, but the rest of us had a great time.
Of course, underneath our grass-skirt celebration was a simple, indisputable fact: Time ain't waiting around for any of us. If anything, it's flying by at a seemingly faster and faster pace.
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
How to Deal with Knee-Jerk Market Reactions / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Jack Crooks writes: This past week was a roller coaster ride in the currency markets, and it sure ended with a bang. I'll get to the big news in a second. And I'll also tell you what to make of this market.
But first, I want to do a quick day-by-day rundown of what happened in the currency markets ...
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
Secrets to Successful Investing- Special / News_Letter / Learning to Invest
By: NewsLetter
Many small investors seem to repeatedly make the same old mistakes of either getting on board of a trend just as the trend ends or holding onto to losing investments in the hope of an eventual bounce back.
Therefore this weeks newsletter has a mix of education as well as up to date examples of strategies that illustrate how investors need to gear their thought processes towards key elements of successful investing which include :
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Monday, June 02, 2008
Preservation of Principal Is of Paramount Importance During Bear Markets / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Paul_Lamont
We hope you have a chance to read our rebuttal to CNNMoney.com's recent Great Depression article . While we have described the 1930 peak before (all the way back in October of 2006 ), we feel our analysis has been vindicated. We may take some flak for getting too far out ahead of the parade back in 2006; but our readers know we discuss long term trends. (Check our chart below on personal savings!) The reasoning in October was correct; Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Holy Grail Investment Cocktail / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Steve_Selengut
So what do your Investment Manager and your neighborhood bartender have in common, other than the probability that you spend more time with the latter during market corrections? Antoine Tedesco, in his "The History of Cocktails" article, lists three things that mixologists consider important to remember and to understand when making a cocktail: Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Use Stock Screeners to find Great Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes:There are thousands of stocks trading on U.S. exchanges right now. And there are thousands more trading on major foreign exchanges. So there are clearly lots of opportunities out there at any given time.
The million-dollar question: How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Heck, I spend every single day following the markets and researching great income investments ... and there's still no way I can easily study a fraction of the stocks out there!
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