Value Investing
When to Buy Oil Stocks
Oil prices have been on a five month slide. Nymex crude hit $64.74 which is the lowest in five years. The last time oil was priced this low was the depth of the great recession. The US oil fracking boom is partly to blame as there is glut of oil in North America. But, in […]
How to Pick Stocks
The financial pages are commonly full of success stories, stocks that have done well. But, how to pick stocks is not to invest in expensive stocks that have already gone up in price but in inexpensive stocks that are likely to do well in the future. We are talking about intrinsic stock value and the […]
Invest in the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership
Will progress on the Transpacific Trade Partnership be announced at the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit in Beijing this week? The envisioned Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership currently would include the following: Likely Members Likely members of the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States […]
How to Build Wealth
As the 2014 stock market threatens to have a major correction there are a couple of important facts to keep in mind. You are in the market to build wealth. Avoiding overreaction to market swings is important. When considering how to build wealth, according to an article in Business Insider, timing the market is not […]
Where Will Alibaba Be in a Year?
Prior to the Alibaba IPO the five biggest IPOs of American companies listed on United States stock exchanges were as follows: FREE MASTERCLASS: 3 Secrets to Take Control of Your Financial Future! VISA, March 2008, $17.9 billion Facebook, May 2012, $16 billion GM, November 2010, $15.8 billion Kraft Foods, June 2001, $8.7 billion UPS, November […]
Basics of Successful Investing IV
Basics of Successful Investing IV is the last in our series. We wrote about getting your financial house in order and making some basic decisions about why you are investing and how much money you are willing to put at risk in Basics of Successful Investing I. Our advice in Basics of Successful Investing II was that you should start out by investing in what you know. And, when you pick something else you need to do your homework and thoroughly understand what a company does to make money and how it will manage to keep doing so. And we […]
Basics of Successful Investing III
Successful investing comes from learning the basics and refining your skills with experience. In this series of articles we look at the basics of successful investing. In the first article in this series, Basics of Successful Investing I, we noted that the first thing to do is put your financial house in order and then […]
Basics of Successful Investing II
Successful investors apply what they already know in picking stocks, choosing exchange traded funds and investing their money. Retailers have insight into retail stocks and computer programmers have insight into software companies. Doctors and others in the medical field have insight into medications and the tools used in treating diseases. And, if a successful investor […]
Invest in Micro Stocks
When you invest your money you want the best profit potential with the least risk. There are stocks in large cap companies where your money is pretty safe but where growth is minimal. And there are penny stock start-ups that offer the prospect in hundred fold growth and better but also very likely to fold, […]
American Profit from Made in China
On this website we often take a look at offshore investing opportunities. An interesting international investment strategy is to stay home and invest in companies that have their goods manufactured in China. The point of this strategy is not just to profit from the low cost of Chinese labor and to run up the United […]