Category: Learning to Invest
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
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 9th 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 7th 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Investment Lessons TO a World Champ / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: I met a legend over the weekend...
He's a now-retired international sports hero.
I don't want to share his name today, because he told me quietly that he could use some financial help, and he probably wouldn't want that word out in public.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014
The Real Reason It's Tough to Beat the Stock Market / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: The latest research from DALBAR is very graphic…
Over the past 20 years, individual investors averaged a measly 2.53% a year, versus the S&P 500, which chalked up 9.02%. In other words, your average annual return was 6.49% less than what it could have been each year. Ouch.
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Friday, December 12, 2014
Central Banks and Government Policies Control the Markets Myth / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: EWI
Don't Get Ruined by These 10 Popular Investment Myths (Part X)
Interest rates, oil prices, earnings, GDP, wars, peace, terrorism, inflation, monetary policy, etc. -- NONE have a reliable effect on the stock market
You may remember that after the 2008-2009 crash, many called into question traditional economic models. Why did they fail?
And more importantly, will they warn us of a new approaching doomsday, should there be one?
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The Stock Market Timing Secret I Wish Everyone Knew / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Many investors are trying to time the markets, especially lately with concerns over low oil prices, global woes, and Chinese growth in the headlines.
I totally get where they’re coming from. The idea of picking market tops and bottoms is very seductive.
But they may as well try to catch falling knives…
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Friday, December 05, 2014
Shareholder Value Maximization - The World’s Dumbest Idea? / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: John_Mauldin
In today’s Outside the Box the redoubtable James Montier of GMO lifts his lance to prick the underbelly of the Mighty SVM. (That’s Shareholder Value Maximization, for you newbies.) “The world’s dumbest idea” (among many candidates in the world of finance), says James, citing none other than “Neutron Jack” Welch in support.
After noting that taking on SVM “is a little like criticizing motherhood and apple pie,” James sets right to work, tracing the monster’s birth to an editorial by Milton Friedman in 1970, in which Saint Milton wrote, “There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits...”
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The Free Trade Stock Investment Strategy / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
A big grin lit up my face when I opened my trading screens recently.
I was looking at the chart for Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: EKSO). The company was trading at right around $1.81 per share at midday on Monday.
That means it was close to a double from where I initially recommended it as our first human augmentation target to members of my Total Wealth research service.
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Friday, November 14, 2014
The Most Valuable Stock Market Investment Secret of All / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: DailyWealth
Porter Stansberry writes: Today, I'm going to show you one of the most advanced investment skills you could ever master...
But I don't want to tell you upfront what today's lesson is about. I want to see if you can figure it out yourself. So don't skip ahead.
Think of today's essay as a test. As I always say... there is no such thing as teaching, there is only learning. And there's a hugely valuable investment lesson – the most valuable secret of all – below...
Saturday, November 08, 2014
The Most Important Trade You'll Ever Make / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Seasoned investors know there are ways a trade can go wrong for you – that's why thorough research and tight investing discipline are so important.
But, the truth is, there's only one surefire way to lose your shirt, only one move that's absolutely, positively guaranteed to cost you money.
And it's a shockingly easy play to make. In fact, as of 2014, more than 52% of Americans have made this fatal trading mistake.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Don't Get Ruined by These 10 Popular Investment Myths (Part VIII) / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: EWI
Interest rates, oil prices, earnings, GDP, wars, peace, terrorism, inflation, monetary policy, etc. -- NONE have a reliable effect on the stock market
You may remember that after the 2008-2009 crash, many called into question traditional economic models. Why did they fail?
And more importantly, will they warn us of a new approaching doomsday, should there be one?
This series gives you a well-researched answer. Here is Part VIII; come back soon for Part IX.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Risk Management - Why I Run “Ultimate Trailing Stops” on All My Investments / InvestorEducation / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
You’ve spotted an unstoppable, trillion-dollar trend. You’ve identified the stock that’s set to benefit most and made a trade using the tactics that will squeeze the most profit out of it.
Nicely done.
Now it’s time for the final piece of the Total Wealth strategy.
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