Stock Investing
Sell Asian Stocks
Is it time to sell Asian stocks? Value based stock investing focuses on the intrinsic value of stocks. This is the prospective income stream that a stock will generate. Today there is a great deal of concern about the Chinese economy. This is a large export driven economy with links to the entire world. As […]
What Mother Never Told You about Stock Investing
“Save your money,” your Mother said when you received your allowance for mowing the lawn and running errands. This was in 1986. The idea was to teach you to be frugal. So, you put money in your piggy bank and eventually took all of the change to the bank and put it in your Junior […]
Slow Demise of Quantitative Easing
The most recent employment report was good and the market is worried. Will there be a fast or slow demise of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve? Basically the market is worried that in response to an improving economy the US Federal Reserve will stop buying US Treasury Bonds. This prospect has already driven interest […]
No-nonsense Approach to Stock Investing
Do you want to reliably make money at stock investing? You will want to avoid undue risk, pursue a no-nonsense approach to stock investing, learn to pick stocks, and manage a stock portfolio. The purpose of a no-nonsense approach to stock investing is that no one wants to waste time with non-essentials when there is […]
Sound Stock Investing Principles
It was just after the stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression that many investors learned the concept of fundamental analysis. Stock investing is not gambling. Smart investors seek to understand the factors that will drive a stock price up or down. They look at the price to earnings ratio of a stock […]
How High Can Stocks Go?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ are all at or near all-time highs? The question for those on the sidelines and wishing to invest it just how high can stocks go? FREE MASTERCLASS: 3 Secrets to Take Control of Your Financial Future! Markets as of April 10, 2013 Dow Jones 14,753.17 +79.71 […]
Investing in Risky Stocks
Investing in volatile stocks can be profitable if your fundamental analysis indicates that a stock is underpriced. And investing in risky stocks of the volatile kind can be very dangerous if you neglect to do your homework. As all too many investors learned to their dismay in the 2008 market crash, big stocks are not […]
Diversify Your Investment Portfolio
Diversification is a means of reducing risk and increasing opportunity in investing. The chances of having a stock in your portfolio rise significantly in price goes up when you have five well-chosen stocks instead of one. The chances of losing all of your investment capital also go down when you diversify your investment portfolio among […]
Raiding Personal Savings Accounts to Pay off Government Debt
According the news, EU officials are telling Cyprus that in order to get more bailout money Cyprus needs to start raiding personal savings accounts to pay off government debt. Some of this has to do with allegations of money laundering for the Russian mafia but it will surely hit hard at families who have put […]
Investment and the Time Value of Money
Time value is usually an expression used in options trading. When an options contract has a while to run before expiration it is said to have time value. Anything can happen so the price of the options contract may well rise or fall. Here we are concerned about investment and the time value of money. […]