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Getting Started
Core articles for getting started on managing your money.
Technical Trading Basics: Using Overbought And Oversold Signals To Buy And Sell
After considering the big trends, fundamentals, and government & central bank policy, it is time to figure out when to buy and sell. Basic technical analysis can help investors put the odds on their side quicker and grind out several extra points per year with little effort. Technical trading experts can make even more with the right temperament. Learn more about when to buy and sell using simple technical signals.
My Core Subscriptions With Some Discounts
Having the right resources is extremely important in investing. I’ve vetted over a hundred services and websites over two decades. Here are a simple and cheap ways to get great information and sift out the noise.
Tuesday & Friday Webinars
Our weekly webinars on investing and the economy. Available live to members with any service, as well as, free library card holders.
Building Your Model Portfolio
Model portfolios are worth precisely nothing to you. Stocks should not be bought all at one time, neither should ETFs. However, having a structured portfolio to fill in as you get prices on assets you want, now that goes a long way. Here are three approaches that have worked well for me managing OPM. One should work for you too.
Submit A SWOT – Tell Us Your Investment Ideas
If you think you have a great investment idea, let us have it. We’ll dig deep along with you. Get started by doing a medium dive and writing a SWOT report. Then share it with me and we’ll look for the right questions to ask.
Using RSI, Money Flow & MACD To Buy & Sell
The market is volatile. Risk is pervasive. Using simple technical tools can help you with you with your buys and sells. We are primarily position traders meaning that we seek to hold for quarters and years, not days and weeks. That is at the heart of our methodology.
Don’t You Dare Trade Options Until You Read This!!!
Summary Options are derivatives and can cause your account destruction. Options are the best tool for managing risk, generating income and occasionally generating asymmetric gains. You are your own worst enemy on options by being greedy, unknowledgeable and inexperienced. Control your emotions, learn how options work, what options are for and practice trade in a paper (no money) account at your brokerage before ever using your hard earned money. “You […]
Ignore Good Investments, Focus On Great Ideas And Asset Allocation
Over the past 25 years I have learned more about investing each day. The one lesson I have learned over and over again is that we should ignore most investment ideas, even the good ones.
Technical/Quant Guidelines For Buying Stocks & ETFs (Brief)
Summary Buying a stock or ETF is not just a matter of wanting to own it, it’s a matter of buying it with the lowest cost possible. Scaling in is mandatory, don’t try to buy your whole potential position all at once. Use some basic technical and quantitative indicators to help you find spots that are more likely near intermediate term price bottoms. We buy investments using a 4-step process: […]
Stock Investing – Know What You Own
“The common intellectual theme of the investors from Graham-and-Doddsville is this: they search for discrepancies between the value of a business and the price of small pieces of that business in that market… I have seen no trend toward value investing in the (65) years I’ve practiced it. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. The academic world, if anything, has actually backed away from the teaching of […]
How We Trade & Invest
Having a philosophy and a process of investing is very important. The cores of our approach are to control our emotions and make a series of well thought out good investment decisions. If we can control our emotions, then we can focus on a good analysis and portfolio construction. If we do not control our emotions, then we will fail to beat the markets or control risk like 80% of […]
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