investing
Investing Is Hard Enough: Here Is How to Avoid Making Obvious Mistakes
2019-12-18
The Key to Avoiding Obvious Mistakes Understanding how to value a business is the key to avoiding making obvious mistakes when purchasing or selling common stocks. When you know what your investment is worth, the market cannot take advantage of your gullibility. When you don’t know what your investment is worth, markets can easily influence […]
Principles of Valuation Part 2: Price Is What You Pay, Value Is What You Get
2019-12-03
Introduction “Price Is What You Pay. Value Is What You Get.” The venerable investor Warren Buffett has a real knack of putting complex concepts and ideas into simple and easily understood terms. In my opinion, his quote, “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get” is one of the more profound and important […]
Answering the Important Questions: When to Buy or When to Sell A Stock: Part 1
2019-11-27
Introduction As a seasoned and grizzled veteran of the financial services industry for now going on 50 years, the most commonly asked questions I have received, and still do to this day, are: when to buy and when to sell a stock? Moreover, these very questions are the mother of how and why I have […]
For Long-Term Investors Only: It’s A Market of Stocks!
2019-11-20
Introduction Since the beginning of April 2009, the Standard & Poor’s 500 (the stock market) has enjoyed one of the longest bull markets on record. As a result, I am starting to hear from a lot of investors that they are becoming worried that this great bull market must soon come to an end. As […]
Forecasting Future Business Results are The Key to Successful Stock Investing: Part 1
2019-10-10
Introduction As investors, we can learn a great deal from the past about the businesses we are contemplating investing in. However, as investors, we must also recognize that we can only truly invest in the future. Consequently, although understanding a company’s history can help us better understand the business, our success is predicated on our […]
AGNC Investment Corp.: Not Suitable for Retirement Accounts – Part 3
2019-09-18
Introduction This is the third in a series of articles where I will be covering the historical performance and operating results of popular and highly recognized mREITs (mortgage REITs). In my first installment, I covered Annaly Capital Management (NLY) found here; in my second installment I covered Dynex Capital, Inc. (DX) found here; with this installment […]