Category: Learning to Invest

Friday, October 21, 2016

Stock Market Investment Success Through the “Investment Rule of 72” / 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 administer 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 pension 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 spectacular. Many believe that such degree of return is only possible through “speculative activity”. They are wrong and I will explain.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

An Incredibly Simple, Rarely Used Way to Book 170% Investing Gains / Interest-Rates / Learning to Invest

By: Casey_Research

By Dan Steinhart

Editor’s note: You’ll find a very important theme running through the Dispatch over the next five days…

We’re going to discuss the secrets of Casey Research founder Doug Casey’s wildly successful investment strategy…one that has made him tens of millions of dollars in the markets. For each of the next five days, you’ll receive an essay about how this strategy can potentially add tens of thousands of dollars a year to your investment returns…

Thursday, December 03, 2015

How to Win in Any Market: 9 Rules for Contrarian Investing / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: Sol_Palha

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." ~ Kahlil Gibran

When it comes to investing, the first rule thing you need to learn is effective management of your emotions. It is impossible to eliminate the impulse to act when euphoria or panic are in the air. While you cannot eliminate the emotion that pushes to you react, you can control your reaction. You can choose to run with the herd of fight panic and stand aside while the herd stampedes. The most important rule is to never let your emotions do the talking. This means not succumbing to panic or euphoria. If you fail here, then nothing can help you. All the rules in the world will fail to alter your outcome.

Friday, September 11, 2015

Decision Theory - The Certainty Equivalent / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: John_Mauldin

By Jared Dillian

One of my students met me in my office the other day. He is a ROTC cadet; that’s Reserve Officer Training Corps, in case you don’t know.

He knows I have military experience, and he wanted to pick my brain about how he could use his MBA while working for the government.

“Uh, you can’t, really,” I said.

Friday, August 14, 2015

7 Key Rules Contrarian Investors Should Adhere To / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: Sol_Palha

"Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea." ~ Anonymous

Contrarian investing is a dynamic field and not a static one. The assumption that it's a static field is held by the new breed of fashion contrarians, whose only donation to this field has been to glamorize it and distort the correct notion of being a contrarian investor. These fashion contrarians are no different from those with the mass mindset; they only pretend to do things differently, but the moment fear or uncertainty is in the air, they flee for the exits like bandits being chased by the hounds of hell. A true contrarian in most cases understands the basic rules of mass psychology. If you are not familiar with these rules, you are doing yourself a disservice and should catch up on them ASAP.

Saturday, August 01, 2015

Why Your Brokerage Account Isn’t as Safe as You Think It Is / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: Casey_Research

By E.B. Tucker

Imagine logging into your brokerage account tomorrow and finding out that it’s frozen.

Not just your account… every customer account at your brokerage is frozen.

You can’t buy stocks. You can’t sell stocks. You can’t move money out of the account.

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Market Orders - The Most Powerful Total Wealth Tactic of All / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: ...

MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: When I started Total Wealth, I made you a promise that we were not only going to cover the events of the day and the opportunities they create, but also the specific tactics you need to maximize profits and build Total Wealth.

Today I want to keep that promise with a look at the single most powerful Total Wealth Tactic of all.

It’s simple, easy to use, and takes only an extra second or two to put in place.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

One of the Most Important Lessons When Buying Stocks / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: DailyWealth

You're not going to succeed in the stock market by just buying the world's best businesses...

For the past several years, my colleague Dan Ferris and I have urged Extreme Value readers to buy great businesses... Businesses that gush free cash flow, reward shareholders, have great balance sheets, earn consistent profit margins, and have high returns on equity.

Friday, June 26, 2015

Stock Market Investors Avoid the "Herd" Like the Plague / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: DailyWealth

Porter Stansberry writes: If you've been following my series this week, you know we're working our way through the desert – the Rub' al Khali.

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

How to Handle a Short Attack on a Stock You Own / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: ...

MoneyMorning.com Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: An anonymous individual writing under the name “The Pump Stopper” launched a vicious attack on Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. (OTC:EKSO) yesterday that immediately pressured the stock and caused it to drop 24.28% to close at $1.36 a share on heavy volume. Understandably, that makes a lot of people nervous.

Here’s the thing, though.

If you’ve been in this game long enough, you know what to look for and why stuff like this isn’t a big deal in the scheme of things.

Friday, May 22, 2015

Investing is About Identifying Gifted and Talented Camps / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: John_Mauldin

Jared Dillan writes: I was a “smart kid” growing up. I got used to being the smartest in the class, every year; I also got used to being left out socially and being bullied a bit. It wasn’t bad, though. In 9^th grade, I transformed from a little pork chop into a tall, decent-looking kid. I had lots of friends in high school, and life was good.

Before that, though, it was tough. I put up with my share of indignities. One summer, in 7^th grade, I was sent to gifted and talented camp or, more specifically, the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), where I could be around other geeks like me.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Real Secret to Warren Buffett's Investing Success... / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: DailyWealth

Porter Stansberry writes: Fair warning, gentle reader... the next two DailyWealth essays are, in all likelihood, a waste of your time.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

How To Invest With $5,000 to $10,000 / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: Dudley_Baker

Investing with limited funds can present many challenges.

Let’s face it, if you had $1,000,000 to work with the number of opportunities and a reasonable dollar allocation would be much easier. Who would not like to have this problem?

Friday, March 06, 2015

The Anthropology of Finance / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: John_Mauldin

Jared Dillian writes: When I was 11, my grandmother liked to hang out in Bee Bee’s Dairy and smoke cigarettes and drink coffee.

The air quality in that place was like modern-day Beijing, with all these old people smoking and shooting the breeze. I used to get ice cream sodas there, what you would call a “float” in other parts of the country.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Investing in Stocks - Safety in Numbers, Protection in Options / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: Casey_Research

By Andrey Dashkov

If you want to fail as an investor, the possibilities are endless. Buying stocks on a whim, holding on to the losers for too long, and dumping winners too soon are just a few ways to start.

Options, like anything else, can cost you money or make you money. Due to the leverage employed when trading options, they often add both a layer of potential profit and a layer of risk on top of their underlying assets. But a less-known benefit of trading options is that they can serve as a hedge or form of insurance.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

How to Determine the Best Place to Invest Using Technical Analysis / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: Investment_U

Christopher Rowe writes: Over the next five minutes, I’ll teach you one of the most successful investment approaches in history... one that can tell you which part of the stock market you should be in right now.

Its success has been documented in more than 100 independent studies over the last few decades. And it’s been back-tested for over a century.

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

What's The Best Asset Allocation? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: DailyWealth

Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: My friend Meb Faber just wrote the book on asset allocation.

Monday, February 02, 2015

Don't Make This Fatal Investing Mistake / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: Money_Morning

William Patalon III writes: As I wrote this for you folks last week, my part of the country was bracing for Winter Storm Juno, a blizzard that could bring wind gusts of 65 miles per hour while dumping as much as three feet of snow on some of the biggest cities in the Northeast. (We were spared its brunt, but New England could claim no such good fortune).

With the early warning systems we have today – giving us the ability to prepare – the human toll from Juno was held to a minimum.

Friday, January 23, 2015

Keep Your Risk Managers Away From Me / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: John_Mauldin

Jared Dillian writes: This week’s big news, of course, continues to be the massive revaluation of the Swiss franc (CHF). It’s perhaps the first instance of a G10 currency going up 16% in a single day.

From a strategy standpoint, there really is only one way to interpret this, as many people already have: it’s the end of central bank omnipotence.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Learning This Simple Concept Could Make You Rich / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest

By: DailyWealth

Brett Aitken writes: There is a simple path to wealth...

It doesn't require much work. It doesn't require much knowledge. You don't have to be lucky, or even all that good.

You just have to learn one simple concept: capital efficiency.