Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Friday, November 13, 2015
Inspiration from the World of Sports for Sucessful Investing / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: John_Mauldin
One of the most successful investors in the world is Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital Management. One of the things I look forward to every quarter is the letter he writes to his clients – it goes right to the top of my reading list. Not only is it always full of generally brilliant investment counsel, Howard is also a really great writer. He has an easy style that pulls you through his letter effortlessly.
I have never sent his letter to you as an Outside the Box, as the copies I get are clearly watermarked and copyrighted. So I was surprised and delighted to learn that the letter is free when I listened to a speech by Howard in which he encouraged everyone to get it. Unlike another hundred-billion-dollar hedge fund company that shall go unnamed, Oaktree evidently thinks that brilliance should be shared.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Find Out What Doug Casey Is Buying Today / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Casey_Research
By Dan Steinhart
Doug Casey was asked to leave the stage…If you’ve never heard Doug speak, you should. His controversial opinions always rile up the room. This time was no different…
The founder of Casey Research opened our ninth annual Casey Research Summit this weekend in Tucson, Arizona, with a lively talk about “the perversion of words.”
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Friday, October 09, 2015
Contrarian Investing - Being the 10th Man / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: John_Mauldin
By Jared Dillian
I was going to give you this big macro rundown of what happened since the payroll number, but I changed my mind. Anybody can give you the play-by-play. Let’s talk about it in the context of true contrarian investing.
Being contrarian doesn’t just mean doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. It means doing what is really unpopular and may make you subject to ridicule.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Jim Rogers on Timeless Investing Strategies You Can Use to Profit Today / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno
Recently I spoke with Jim Rogers about the most important investment lessons he has learned over the years.
Jim is a legendary investor and true international man. He’s always ahead of the game. Jim made a bundle by investing in commodities in the 1990s when they were out of favor with Wall Street. He’s also made large profits investing in crisis markets.
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Monday, September 14, 2015
All Investors Need To Diversify Their Investment Portfolio / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
Most people that make financial investments understand how important it is to research before money is invested and see how hard it can be without diversifying an investment portfolio. This basically means that the money is put into different assets like property, money markets, bonds or equities. At the same time, international market investment is also included in diversification, meaning that the money is divided in different markets, not just one.In order to understand why an investment portfolio needs to be diversified, here are some facts you have to always remember.
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Sunday, September 13, 2015
How to Prevent Costly Losses During Big Market Panics / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: DailyWealth
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Five Ways for Stock Investors to Profit from the Greek Debt Crisis / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: ...
MoneyMorning.com
Michael A. Robinson writes: Today I'm setting you up with five ways to profit from the Greek Debt Crisis and any other sell-offs that come along.
The market swoons and soars we've seen over the past couple of weeks are part of a long-term trend.
Just in the last week, we saw enormous battles between the bulls and the bears as a bevy of market "pundits" tried to factor in what the dramas in Greece and China will mean for the markets.
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Friday, May 29, 2015
Investing’s Great Struggle / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Zeal_LLC
The great endeavor of investing can be distilled down into four simple words, buy low sell high. They are so basic, so resoundingly clear, that even a child can understand this principle. Yet still the great majority of investors never achieve significant success. Even while full-well knowing the core idea of investing, they end up buying high and selling low. That treacherous struggle of investing must be overcome.
It’s funny, as life is full of simple ideas that are incredibly challenging to put into practice. Investing is certainly not unique in this regard. Americans’ expanding waistlines are a great example. The only way to lean up is some combination of eating less and exercising more. We all know this basic truth, we all know what we ought to be doing on both fronts, yet it’s still really hard to execute. Emotions are the reason.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
The Truth Behind Wall Street Stock Winners / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Harry_Dent
We all know there’s manipulation on Wall Street. There are companies that are much stronger than their fundamentals would suggest, and it laughs in the face of free market capitalism as it was originally intended.But it’s not just Wall Street that’s to blame…
The concept of free markets suggests that they work best when they’re run from the bottom up, not top down. “The invisible hand” was first brilliantly explained by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations in 1776.
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Monday, May 11, 2015
Why Your Investment Portfolio Probably Isn’t as “Diversified” as You Think / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: MoneyMetals
Stefan Gleason writes: “Am I diversified?”
It’s a question every investor should ask. It’s a question that CNBC’s bombastic stock guru Jim Cramer encourages his followers to pose. Unfortunately, Cramer’s answers are one-dimensional – he looks at diversification only in terms of stock holdings.
Having a stock portfolio that is diversified among different sectors and styles is just one aspect of diversification. During a stock market crash, any broadly diversified stock portfolio can be expected to go down with the market.
Friday, May 08, 2015
Investing and the Lollapalooza Effect / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: John_Mauldin
How to Dress for a Rainy Day
Valuations are quite high and could spur financial instability, Janet Yellen told us yesterday. The question on the lips of the attendees at my recent Strategic Investment Conference was how to hedge their portfolios in a world of increasing volatility. For the last two years, my associate Worth Wray and I have been examining ways to design core strategic portfolios that are both robust and insulated. The challenge is that designing portfolios using backward-looking tools in a world that will not look like the past is an endeavor fraught with peril.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Why Stock Market Investors Are Ruining America / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: Economic inequality - the fact that a small percentage of Americans have so much more than the rest of us - has gotten a lot of press in recent months.
You are a big part of the problem.
I say that because this column is written by and for investors. Nothing exacerbates economic inequality like successful investing.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
It Takes a Different Breed to Be Contrarian / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Casey_Research
By Justin Spittler
The most memorable scene in the film adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross is when Alec Baldwin’s character—a hotshot real estate broker from the prestigious Mitch and Murray agency—tells a group of struggling real estate agents that it takes “brass balls to sell real estate.” There’s probably some truth to that, but it takes bigger cojones to buy what everyone else hates.
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Thursday, April 09, 2015
Five Total Wealth Stock Market Investing Principles to Use Today / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: I’ve talked to thousands of investors over the years who are absolutely convinced that they need to understand the market’s most complicated nuances to get ahead.
In reality, though, success comes down to just five things that I call the Total Wealth Principles.
Get ‘em right and you can make more money with less risk while enjoying a peace of mind that the vast majority of investors will never have. I know that sounds like a tall order, but it’s not. Or, at least, it doesn’t have to be.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
Investing From Complexity to Chaos, From a Trickle to a Flood / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: As a volatility trader, I loved seeing stocks drop 2% last week after having risen 3%. But as a credit trader and student of market behavior, I know all too well that this type of volatility is a forecast of stormy seas ahead.
Markets were disturbed last week by more evidence that the economy is weak, in spite of the fact that a steady stream of lousy economic news this year has done little to prevent stocks from reaching new highs. With first quarter GDP increasingly likely to come in at well below 1% – a number that certainly can't be blamed on the weather alone – investors are now starting to sweat.
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
Wall Street Doesn't Want You to Do This / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: DailyWealth
Chris Mayer writes: I write a lot about the virtues of buying stocks and sitting on them...
Take my "coffee can portfolio," for example. It's a simple, but successful strategy in which you find the best stocks you can and let them sit for 10 years. By committing to these safe and steady businesses, you incur almost no costs and you keep your worst instincts from hurting you.
But how about sitting still for 80 years?
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Reality Always Wins… But Never on Schedule / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Casey_Research
By Louis James, Chief Metals & Mining Investment Strategist
“Expect the worst and you won’t be disappointed” is true enough, but it’s a miserable way to go through life.
For investors, expecting the worst is paralyzing, a reason to do nothing.
But when a market gets beaten up the way the natural-resource sector has been over the last few years, pessimism comes to dominate the chatter in boardrooms, blogs, and cocktail parties the way mold takes over a shower. It’s a blight.
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Conflicts Of Interest Between Governments & Retirement Investors / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Dan_Amerman
Most retirement account and other long term investors continue to follow the same financial strategies they've been following for decades, believing that the "science" of modern finance will reliably build wealth and security for them.
Meanwhile, for some years now and as a matter of openly stated policy, the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan, as well as the central banks of other nations have sought to create what are known as "negative real rates of return".
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
More And More Americans Look To Protect Their Wealth Offshore / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: GoldSilverWorlds
Frank R. Suess writes: Every time you think the US establishment can do no more to threaten the freedom and livelihood of the very Americans who contribute the most to the prosperity of the country, they increase the heat in the furnace by a notch with more cheap money and debt, additional laws and higher taxes. America, the land of the free, as it was rightfully referred to in the past, and certainly a beautiful place in so many ways, is in the process of destroying the very foundation it was built on.
Monday, March 09, 2015
Thematic Investing Train Leaves The Station / Stock-Markets / Investing 2015
By: Anthony_Alfidi
The finance sector is always ready to entertain some new theory. The latest is thematic investing, which can mean just about anything. A handful of asset managers and consultancies have think pieces telling institutional clients how to make this work. Do a Web search to read them yourselves. I poked around a number of reputable sources tracking thematic investing to see what's missing from the discussion.
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