Successful investing requires knowledge, time and commitment, discipline and patience, and the ability to develop an investment strategy that is compatible with your personality.
Knowledge
Each individual must consider what he knows when planning an investment strategy. Recognizing your current level of knowledge, and how you will acquire the additional wisdom you need, are all-important factors.
Time [...]
Archive for May, 2010
May 5th, 2010
Investment Basic: What does successful investing require?
Posted in Investing 
Tags: Critical Question, Discipline, Financial Strategies, Game Plan, Greed, Important Factors, Investment Plan, Investment Strategy, Investment Styles, Momentum, Nine Months, Patience, Personal Financial Success, Personality, Psychological Issues, Stock Market, Time Frames, Value Approach, Warren Buffett, Wisdom
Tags: Critical Question, Discipline, Financial Strategies, Game Plan, Greed, Important Factors, Investment Plan, Investment Strategy, Investment Styles, Momentum, Nine Months, Patience, Personal Financial Success, Personality, Psychological Issues, Stock Market, Time Frames, Value Approach, Warren Buffett, WisdomMay 5th, 2010
Investment Advisors 101 ask some questions.
Posted in Investing Tags: Brainwashing, Educational Credentials, Educational Qualifications, Ethereal Glow, Financial Benefit, Financial Planner, Gourmet Chefs, High School Dropout, Huge Collection, Insurance Salesmen, Insurance Salesperson, Investment Advisor, Investment Advisors, Investment Managers, Investment Products, Professional Accountants, Stock Brokers, Three Piece Suits, Tv Personalities, Wall Streets
Tags: Brainwashing, Educational Credentials, Educational Qualifications, Ethereal Glow, Financial Benefit, Financial Planner, Gourmet Chefs, High School Dropout, Huge Collection, Insurance Salesmen, Insurance Salesperson, Investment Advisor, Investment Advisors, Investment Managers, Investment Products, Professional Accountants, Stock Brokers, Three Piece Suits, Tv Personalities, Wall StreetsInvestment Advisors (IAs) come in all different intellectual, professional, and alphabetical varieties. They range in educational qualifications from High School dropout to PhD, and can be professional Accountants, Insurance Salesmen, Stock Brokers, Investment Managers, Dentists, Lawyers, TV personalities, and Gourmet Chefs. Anyone can be an Investment Advisor! It seems reasonable that your trust should gravitate [...]
May 5th, 2010
Monumental Life Insurance – A Company Worthy of Investment?
Posted in Investments Tags: Aegon, Aegon Insurance Group, Best Life Insurance Companies, Different Companies, Financial Services Organizations, Health Insurance, Insurance Services, International Group, Investment Plans, Largest Insurance, Life Insurance Companies, Life Insurance Company, London Life Insurance, London Life Insurance Company, Monumental Life Insurance, Monumental Life Insurance Company, Pension Insurance, Renowned World Leader, Retirement Investment, Single Life
Tags: Aegon, Aegon Insurance Group, Best Life Insurance Companies, Different Companies, Financial Services Organizations, Health Insurance, Insurance Services, International Group, Investment Plans, Largest Insurance, Life Insurance Companies, Life Insurance Company, London Life Insurance, London Life Insurance Company, Monumental Life Insurance, Monumental Life Insurance Company, Pension Insurance, Renowned World Leader, Retirement Investment, Single LifeThere are so many life insurance companies out there to choose from nowadays that there are literally hundreds of different companies who offer life insurance. This is great as it gives people a variety and choice, and allows them to make a decision on the best possible supplier to meet their needs. However, there [...]
May 4th, 2010
Investing Without Brakes Is Hazardous To Your Portfolio
Posted in Investing Tags: 18 Years, Bankruptcy, Brokerage Firm, Chart Patterns, Controlling Interest, Critical Problems, Driving Without Any Brakes, Financial Calamity, Investing In Stocks, Mr Buffett, Percentage Drop, Portfolio Worth, Profits, Shareholders, Stock Purchases, Stock Trading, Stockbroker, Stop Loss Order, Unsafe Position, Warren Buffett
Tags: 18 Years, Bankruptcy, Brokerage Firm, Chart Patterns, Controlling Interest, Critical Problems, Driving Without Any Brakes, Financial Calamity, Investing In Stocks, Mr Buffett, Percentage Drop, Portfolio Worth, Profits, Shareholders, Stock Purchases, Stock Trading, Stockbroker, Stop Loss Order, Unsafe Position, Warren BuffettThe business of investing in stocks is an inventory buying & selling business. Naturally, the companies that sell stock to the public want you to buy and hold it forever in order to maintain its value. But if you are buying without any selling, you are literally driving without any brakes. That is a horrifyingly [...]
May 4th, 2010
Mobile Home Rentals – A Great Investment
Posted in Investments Tags: 10 Years, 163, Equity Building, Fourteen Years, House Rentals, Insurance, Insurance Repairs, Investors, Mobile Home For Sale, Mobile Home Rentals, Mobile Homes, Negative Cash Flow, Prejudice, Real Estate Agent, Rents, Return Investment, Return On Investment, Sn, Truth, Year Mortgage
Tags: 10 Years, 163, Equity Building, Fourteen Years, House Rentals, Insurance, Insurance Repairs, Investors, Mobile Home For Sale, Mobile Home Rentals, Mobile Homes, Negative Cash Flow, Prejudice, Real Estate Agent, Rents, Return Investment, Return On Investment, Sn, Truth, Year MortgageWhy mobile home rentals? Get past the prejudice and look at the numbers. In our town, for example, a two bedroom house costs $130,000 and rents for $800/month. A $50,000 mobile home on real estate gets $500/month. Cash-on-cash return on investment is obviously higher with mobile homes.
Don’t let the half-truth that mobiles depreciate in value [...]
May 3rd, 2010
Investing With Confidence
Posted in Investing Tags: Balance Sheets, Certitude, Correct Principles, Desirable Attributes, Edifice, Enterprise Value, Everyday Lives, Free Cash Flow, Grade Spelling Bee, Guiding Principles, Human Behavior, Human Phenomena, Investment Decision, Investment Decisions, Passive Knowledge, Physicist, Ratios, Rules Of Thumb, Sound Reasoning, True Principles
Tags: Balance Sheets, Certitude, Correct Principles, Desirable Attributes, Edifice, Enterprise Value, Everyday Lives, Free Cash Flow, Grade Spelling Bee, Guiding Principles, Human Behavior, Human Phenomena, Investment Decision, Investment Decisions, Passive Knowledge, Physicist, Ratios, Rules Of Thumb, Sound Reasoning, True PrinciplesMost peoples beliefs about investing are very tenuous. There are, of course, people who are very passionate about investing. They dont view investing as some esoteric subject, but rather as a field intimately connected to the human behavior they observe in their everyday lives.
For everyone else, however, beliefs about investing come in the form of [...]
May 3rd, 2010
Mixing Oil And Water: Six Steps To Selling Investments In
Posted in Investments Tags: Compensation Structure, Consumer Awareness, Customer Demand, Depository Institutions, Financial Institutions, Glass Steagall Act, Insurance Agents, Interest Income, Investment Brokerage, Investment Programs, Last Thirty Years, Marketing Arrangements, Maximum Efficiency, Monetary Control Act, Oil And Water, Performance Engine, Radical Difference, Service Opportunities, Six Steps, Substantial Fee
Tags: Compensation Structure, Consumer Awareness, Customer Demand, Depository Institutions, Financial Institutions, Glass Steagall Act, Insurance Agents, Interest Income, Investment Brokerage, Investment Programs, Last Thirty Years, Marketing Arrangements, Maximum Efficiency, Monetary Control Act, Oil And Water, Performance Engine, Radical Difference, Service Opportunities, Six Steps, Substantial FeeMixing Oil And Water: Six Steps To Selling Investments In Financial Institutions
Oil and water just dont mix; there is no point in trying. Both are needed for a high performance engine to run at maximum efficiency, but they have different functions. In banking, the oil is the bank products and the water is the non-bank [...]
May 3rd, 2010
Investing vs. Trading: Who Cares Anyway?
Posted in Investing Tags: Brokerage Firm, Closer Look, Currency Trader, Day Trading, Manufacturing Plant, Market Timing, Marketing Plan, Mutual Fund Industry, Mutual Fund Sales, Mutual Funds, Roof Windows, Sales Material, Scandals, Slow Motion, Strip Mall, Successful Trading, Term Investments, Time Weather, Trading Is A Business, Vestige
Tags: Brokerage Firm, Closer Look, Currency Trader, Day Trading, Manufacturing Plant, Market Timing, Marketing Plan, Mutual Fund Industry, Mutual Fund Sales, Mutual Funds, Roof Windows, Sales Material, Scandals, Slow Motion, Strip Mall, Successful Trading, Term Investments, Time Weather, Trading Is A Business, VestigeThe mutual fund industry requires customers that buy their funds and never sell them. So naturally, they disseminate a lot of editorial decrying any trading, market-timing or re-allocating that includes selling their mutual funds. This non-selling concept gets more ridiculous and hypocritical every year as scandals continue to trickle into the news regarding brokerage firm [...]
May 2nd, 2010
Microcaps Can Be Big Investments
Posted in Investments Tags: Airport Security, Aviation, Commercial Computer Systems, Contract Manufacturing, Defining Moment, Department Of Homeland, Department Of Homeland Security, Digital Technology, Global Epoint Inc, Homeland Security, Hot Products, Industry Investors, Investments, Micro Cap Stocks, Micro Caps, Risk, Security Sector, September 11 2001, Video Surveillance, Warren Buffet
Tags: Airport Security, Aviation, Commercial Computer Systems, Contract Manufacturing, Defining Moment, Department Of Homeland, Department Of Homeland Security, Digital Technology, Global Epoint Inc, Homeland Security, Hot Products, Industry Investors, Investments, Micro Cap Stocks, Micro Caps, Risk, Security Sector, September 11 2001, Video Surveillance, Warren BuffetSeptember 11, 2001 was a defining moment in the history of our country. Prior to this historical date the Department of Homeland Security was not even created and airport security was just like any other industry. Investors have capitalized on the recent surge in this sector. As most investors do, they go for the bigger [...]
May 2nd, 2010
Investing vs. Trading – What’s The Difference?
Posted in Investing Tags: British Pound, Circumstance, Currency, Dividends, European Exchange, Exchange Rate Mechanism, Expectation, Financial Markets, Finite Life, George Soros, Handsome Profit, Hedge Fund, Investor, Notion, Participants, Price Target, Profits, Prospects, Scope Definition, Warren Buffet
Tags: British Pound, Circumstance, Currency, Dividends, European Exchange, Exchange Rate Mechanism, Expectation, Financial Markets, Finite Life, George Soros, Handsome Profit, Hedge Fund, Investor, Notion, Participants, Price Target, Profits, Prospects, Scope Definition, Warren BuffetThere is a question which is sometimes asked by those new to the financial markets, and even occasionally debated by experienced participants. That question is how one differentiates between trading and investing. Because both trading and investing – when one considers them from the perspective of the financial markets – are performed in very [...]