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 [...]
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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 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 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
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
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 [...]
May 2nd, 2010
Investing Tips For Beginners
Posted in Investing Tags: Choices, Fast Paced World, Guarantees, High Risk, How Much Money, Invest, Investing In Stocks, Investing In The Stock Market, Investing Stock, Investing Tips, Investments, Investor, Many People, Matter What Type, Net Worth, Plays, Risk Stocks, Simple Plan, Start Investing, Stock Prices
Tags: Choices, Fast Paced World, Guarantees, High Risk, How Much Money, Invest, Investing In Stocks, Investing In The Stock Market, Investing Stock, Investing Tips, Investments, Investor, Many People, Matter What Type, Net Worth, Plays, Risk Stocks, Simple Plan, Start Investing, Stock PricesInvesting can be confusing, especially for the beginner. Getting some basic tips can help a beginning investor to make informed choices that fit their needs. Each person has a different goal when investing and that plays a big impact on how you invest. The following list explains some things beginners should know before investing.
1. Understand [...]
May 1st, 2010
Investing The Right Way
Posted in Investing Tags: Accumulating Wealth, Fingers, Fluctuations, Good Reason, Gut Instinct, Highs And Lows, Hot Stock, Invest, Investing Stock, Investments, Investors, Losses, Love, Minimal Risk, Previous Year, Profits, Reckless Decisions, Rewards, Sake, Start Investing
Tags: Accumulating Wealth, Fingers, Fluctuations, Good Reason, Gut Instinct, Highs And Lows, Hot Stock, Invest, Investing Stock, Investments, Investors, Losses, Love, Minimal Risk, Previous Year, Profits, Reckless Decisions, Rewards, Sake, Start InvestingThe world of investments offers a dangerous draw: huge rewards with the chance of terrible losses. Investors love the idea of accumulating wealth, but no one likes losing money. The trick is to know how to invest with minimal risk. Nobody can predict the fluctuations of the market completely accurately, but as you start investing, [...]
April 30th, 2010
Investing Psychology – Know Thyself
Posted in Investing Tags: Advancements In Technology, American Households, Astute Investor, Blue Chip, Boom Period, Casualties, Commodities, Depressed Price, Financial Position, Insiders, Instances, Investment Opportunities, Land Of Opportunity, Mutual Funds, Outset, Rich Man, Safe Place, Small Investor, Stock Ownership, Stocks Bonds
Tags: Advancements In Technology, American Households, Astute Investor, Blue Chip, Boom Period, Casualties, Commodities, Depressed Price, Financial Position, Insiders, Instances, Investment Opportunities, Land Of Opportunity, Mutual Funds, Outset, Rich Man, Safe Place, Small Investor, Stock Ownership, Stocks BondsAmerica will continue to be the land of opportunity and regardless of what course our economy takes over the next few years, it’s likely that investment opportunities will be numerous and attractive. Companies driven by the ever increasing advancements in technology will emerge, while older companies, out of necessity, will come forth with new products. [...]
April 30th, 2010
Investing In Tax Liens/Tax Deeds For Higher Returns
Posted in Investing Tags: Ashion, Bank Cd, Delinquent Property Taxes, Delinquent Tax Debt, Delinquent Taxes, Delinquent Taxpayer, Fire Departments, Fort Knox, Hard Earned Money, Important Services, Investing In Tax Liens, Investment Tax, Rate Of Return, Rise And Fall, Stock Markets, Tax Deeds, Tax Lien Certificate, Tax Lien Certificates, Ups And Downs, Wealth Building
Tags: Ashion, Bank Cd, Delinquent Property Taxes, Delinquent Tax Debt, Delinquent Taxes, Delinquent Taxpayer, Fire Departments, Fort Knox, Hard Earned Money, Important Services, Investing In Tax Liens, Investment Tax, Rate Of Return, Rise And Fall, Stock Markets, Tax Deeds, Tax Lien Certificate, Tax Lien Certificates, Ups And Downs, Wealth BuildingWith large numbers of Americans now looking for safer investments for their long term wealth building programs. Most want higher returns than they can get from putting their hard earned money into Bank CD’s, many are seeking information about Tax Liens. Investing in Tax Lien/Deed certificates will enable you to realize safe, annualized returns all [...]