Investing

The one big secret to stock market riches is not really a secret at all: It’s time in the market, not timing the market, that builds your wealth. Unfortunately the majority of investors, including many professionals who should know better, mistakenly believe they can time the market, predicting when a stock’s price has bottomed before buying and […]

Let’s do something ill-advised: Let’s not invest using Value Investing strategies. Let’s invest using short-term, non-value based methods instead. Let’s become short-term traders. Unfortunately, when I started out, that’s exactly what I did. Back in the early 1990s I thought I was going to make a lot of money in the stock market very quickly […]

What is Investing? Investing is the process of turning ordinary income, the income you have to work for, into passive wealth — the wealth you don’t have to work for that increases in value over time. You can do that using stocks, real estate, gold, art or even comic books. In fact a portfolio of […]

Have you ever watched a time traveler movie and wished you could go back in time and share some hard-earned investing wisdom and knowledge with your younger self? You could, of course, tell your 2004 self to load up on Apple shares, but that’s not really the point. Wouldn’t it be great if you could […]

Logic should be at the heart of every investor’s decision-making process, yet many go wrong in a variety of ways. Chasing performance, failing to diversify, buying stocks without doing even a modicum of research and giving into cognitive biases conspire to keep millions of portfolios down – and of course there are the usual advertisers […]