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Not exact matches
While nobody wants to jump into
stocks only to catch a hideous down draft,
investing success is less
about when you get
in the game, and
more about how long you play.
I'm actively looking at my debt and determining if it makes
more sense to pay down mortgages (locking
in a guaranteed ~ 4 % return) or
investing in bonds (~ 1 % returns if held to maturity) or
stocks (uncertain, but I just wrote an article
about the current PE ratio and the inevitable reversion to the mean and I believe we are likely headed for 10 years of low single digit returns).
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the
stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of
investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to
invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45]
Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care
about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for
more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity
in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live
in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
While an aggressive type portfolio will naturally fluctuate over time and has
more «volatility,» this is nothing to get scared
about because you are saving this money for the long term and over a 10 + year
investing horizon you are going to make
more money
investing in stocks than
in bonds.
The latest Wells Fargo / Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index found that
more than half of investors weren't especially concerned
about recent volatility
in the
stock market, while 60 % said they still believe it's a good time to
invest in the financial markets.
But if what you're looking for is to simply learn
more about this strategy van Biema's Concentrated
Investing is a fascinating 650 - page read into the adventures and strategies of
stock pickers who
invest in just this way.
I don't think
investing in only
about 10
stocks would be smart, I agree that your first ideas are the best ones but a little
more diversification would be solid
in my eyes.
I don't really worry
about stocks being «overvalued» other than the reviewing P / E; I think price is reflected
in the dividend yield and I'm
investing more for income than capital gains.
Because of this, I'm often asked
about the latest trend
in investing, whether it be years ago, gold and silver, the Greek Crash a couple years ago, or
more recently, weed
stocks and cryptocurrency.
This is from a larger article with much
more detail
about the reasons to
invest in dividend
stocks.
Here's a letter to the board of Biglari Holdings re: executive compensation [Noise Free
Investing] & then
more thoughts on Biglari's compensation agreement [My
Investing Notebook] Where things stand
in the market [Bespoke Investment Group] A list of
stocks Nasdaq is canceling trades
in from yesterday's madness [Business Insider] The best interest rate chart
in the world [Trader's Narrative] A great macro overview from Barry Ritholtz [The Big Picture] A look at John Paulson's possible ownership of Bear Stearns CDOs [Zero Hedge] John Mauldin on the future of public debt [Advisor Perspectives] Top buys & sells from Morningstar's ultimate
stock pickers [Morningstar] The truth
about «Sell
in May & Go Away» [WSJ] An interview with hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry [Investment Week] Bill Ackman: Let's have a public registry for
stock opinion [Barron's] Hedge fund Harbinger hires ex-Orange chief for wireless plan [Dealbook] & Deutsche Telekom has been
in talks with Harbinger [FT] Hedge funds begin to restructure fee system [FT]
Learn
more about investing in oil
stocks so you can decide if it's right for your financial strategy.
One of my readers who is interested
in learning
more about the fundamentals of value
investing emailed me the following question: «I get the idea of buying undervalued
stocks but how do you know if they are undervalued or just junk that you wouldn't want to
invest in?»
Did our penny
stocks 101 post teach you
more about investing in penny
stocks?
I thought
about investing in stocks in the pharmaceutical industry, because people might get ill and stressed out
more often.
Note that if you had
invested in HP
stock in April of 2000 and sold
in September of 2002, you would've lost over 80 % (leaving you with only 1/5 of your original investment), while the S&P 500 lost «only»
about 40 % (at least leaving you with
more than 1/2 of your original investment).
The latest Wells Fargo / Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index found that
more than half of investors weren't especially concerned
about recent volatility
in the
stock market, while 60 % said they still believe it's a good time to
invest in the financial markets.
The Wall Street Journal recent had an article, What You Know
About Retirement
Investing Is Wrong, where it recommended that elderly people
invest more in stocks as they get older.
I've been
investing in stocks for
about 12 years, maybe a bit
more, and bonds for
about 20 years.
5 things you'll learn
about investing in Canadian growth
stocks like WestJet
Stock, RioCan
Stock and
more
Say you are thinking
about buying
stock in a specific company; before you
invest, you may want to learn
more about that company's mission and corporate values or get a better understanding of the products it produces.
While the eBook obviously isn't real time like the blog is, The Dividend Mantra Way is
more than
about how to
invest in dividend
stocks.
As Joe will note
in his article, I'm an advocate of much
more caution
about stock investing than seems to prevail today (thanks,
in my opinion, to Wall Street marketing), and I hold what many would consider heretical views on equity
investing.
(You can learn
more about our value -
investing strategy for selecting
stocks in our new free report, «Canadian Stock Market Basics: How to Trade Stocks and Make Good Investments in Canada.&r
stocks in our new free report, «Canadian
Stock Market Basics: How to Trade
Stocks and Make Good Investments in Canada.&r
Stocks and Make Good Investments
in Canada.»)
Although I'm a major proponent of
investing in dividend growth
stocks, unlike many of my fellow dividend growth Read more about Super-Fast Growing Mid-Cap Growth Stocks With Explosive Returns -LS
stocks, unlike many of my fellow dividend growth Read
more about Super-Fast Growing Mid-Cap Growth
Stocks With Explosive Returns -LS
Stocks With Explosive Returns -LSB-...]
Im pretty conversative and am interested
in starting to
invest in blue chip
stocks and low risk
stocks and would like to learn
more about dividends and ETFs.
The concept behind Don't Talk
About Your
Stocks is that there is a whole lot
more to trading,
investing, and money
in general than making up some bullshit reasons why you should «BUY!
Within, we discussed
more in detail
about getting started with
investing in stocks.
Or you could keep your withdrawal the same and choose to
invest more conservatively so you don't have to fret as much
about setbacks
in the
stock market.
To investors like me, the
stock market is simply the store that we shop at
in order to buy (
invest in) great Read
more about Mr. Valuation disagrees with Henry Blodget: «It's a Market of
Stocks» is not a Meaningless Phrase -LSB-...]
Commonly held beliefs such as
investing in stocks is risky, or that the stock market is overvalued, or that the fed is driving stock prices, etc., are just a few examples Read more about Stocks for 2014: Something for Everyone: Part 1 -LS
stocks is risky, or that the
stock market is overvalued, or that the fed is driving
stock prices, etc., are just a few examples Read
more about Stocks for 2014: Something for Everyone: Part 1 -LS
Stocks for 2014: Something for Everyone: Part 1 -LSB-...]
Learn
more about how to
invest in stocks with little money.
However, Read
more about The Often Overlooked Danger When
Investing In S&P 500 Utility
Stocks — Part 10A -LSB-...]
In our opinion,» value
investing versus Read
more about 10 Super-Fast Growth
Stocks With Explosive Returns -LSB-...]
@Christy: I'm going to do a shameless plug here for http://www.bogleheads.org/forum (I hope you don't mind JD), as a great beginning resource to learn
more about indexing and
investing in general (though the majority of posters there are indexers and don't advocate
stock picking at all.)
My rule of thumb is to own
about 12
stocks in a portfolio with $ 100k
invested and
about 30 to 40
stocks in a portfolio with $ 1 million or
more invested.
Well, a recent study by David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar, found that by being flexible
about how much you draw each year from your retirement portfolio — say, scaling back withdrawals when the market is faring poorly and spending
more when
stock prices are surging — you may be able to get by while
investing less
in an immediate annuity than you otherwise would.
To learn
more about why I
invested in such a high risk
stock like PNNT, see my March post for my thoughts and concerns
about PNNT.
Also, most people think that
investing is «picking
stocks» but most wealthy people don't do that — and I'll show you what they DO do later
in this post (
more about investor psychology).
The
stocks I write
about and personally
invest in can be largely found on David Fish's illustrious Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers list, which is a compilation of the
more than 750 US - listed
stocks with at least five consecutive years of dividend increases.
Learn
more about investing in monthly dividend
stocks here.
About Investor's Business Daily - Investor's Business Daily provides exclusive
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stock market research, education and the latest financial and business news to help investors make
more money
in the
stock market.
The writeup was found by our friends at Abnormal Returns), which like 90 % of academic studies
about stocks has as its conclusion something that anyone with half a brain and a couple of years of decent
investing experience could tell you
about in a shorter and
more easily understandable way, with fewer equations.
Yes, sure, that's what
investing's all
about — but you need a much
more holistic &
in - depth perspective of a
stock before you'd actually buy it.
Studies have shown that 80 % or
more of your investment return is determined by how much of your portfolio is
invested in stocks (flowers) versus bonds (vegetables), and only
about 20 % is determined by how good a job you did at making the individual selections.
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