Honor the Discipline!
Last week, I mentioned I made a QQQQ purchase ("toe in the water"); I also suggested that "since its now almost in the...
Apprenticed Investor: 10 Lessons Learned in the Selloff
The latest "Apprentice Investor" column is up at TheStreet.com: 10 Lessons Learned in the Selloff. The column...
How Cheap is the Market?
This is the first part of a two part series asking the question, "How cheap is the market right now?" (part II is here). The...
More on Stocks Making 52 Weak Lows
I mentioned earlier this week that I never buy stocks making 52 week weak lows: Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon.com: Interesting to note: All...
Principles to Assist in Financial Decisionmaking
Some smart, common sense advice from a Financial planning site: Principles to Assist in Financial Decisionmaking: • Plan ahead. Give...
How Professional Traders Differ From Amateurs
Two weeks ago, we discussed How Experts Differ from Novices (in the ways people learn). Along very similar lines, Brett Steenbarger looks...
What do you believe that’s actually false?
I am not a big fan of the ubiquitous Ken Fisher ads everywhere you look on line; They are way annoying. There can be little doubt that...
10 Smart Selling Strategies
Most people have no idea when to sell their stocks because they don’t have a strategy. Michael Sincere at Fidelity discusses this...
Measuring Real-World Inflation versus Investing Returns
Raymond James’ Jeff Saut made reference earlier this week to a WSJ article from February of this year; I adapted part of that in my...
Are you a ‘clueless’ investor?
Regular readers of this blog know that Behavioral Economics and Investor Psychology are two themes I frequently come back to. We know...