What if you could double your returns on a 5% increase in stock price with no extra work? Sounds good right? That is the sales pitch you often hear from some stock brokers when they try to convince the average investor to buy stocks using margin - or borrowed money to purchase investments. […]
Time is your friend; impulse is you enemy. This quote from John Bogle really sums up the necessary thinking during the first quarter of the year and the start of quarter two. After the market drop we saw to start the year out and then in the last couple of weeks the market […]
If you have been following this blog for awhile now, you will know that typically I have posted my weekly roundup of posts and articles on the Friday of each week. However, I have noticed that a lot of bloggers are putting up similar posts on the Fridays so I thought I would try […]
Just because you have a high level of tolerance for risk does not mean that you have the same level of capacity for risk. These are quite different concepts and I am suggesting that as investors we should understand the difference. In this post I will explain my interpretation of the two […]