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This is the fifth — and final — in a series of Money and Markets columns where I’ll share with you the five essential building blocks that can help you successfully earn enduring gains in your portfolio.
Today, I’ll complete the discussion with a building block you must have to grow your nest egg …
Discipline
Discipline is the glue
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It’s a well-known fact that “getting in on the ground floor” is one of the best ways to make big investment gains.
But, here’s the problem: Most of the time to “get in on the ground floor” of a company, you have to be 1) well connected, 2) already rich, or 3) very, very lucky.
Simply put, it’s not something
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Every investor is different. And every investor is influenced by his or her biases and personal experiences. It doesn’t matter if that investor is a professional money manager like me, or a dabbler who plays with a couple hundred dollars in an online trading account.
But no matter how you trade, or how you first learned about the markets, you’ll
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to new highs again last week cracking through the 15,000 level in the process. With the Dow up 14.3 percent already this year, many investors I talk to, both retail and professional, are scratching their heads about the durability of the stock market’s rally.
After all, the Dow has added two-thousand-five-hundred points in less
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Yes, gold and silver and related mining shares may bounce a bit more. But mark my words: If you’re buying them now on the basis that they’ve bottomed, you’re going to lose your shirt!
So I repeat my warnings: Gold will NOT bottom until it moves below $1,100 an ounce. Silver will not bottom until it moves below $20. Mining
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The U.S. Federal Reserve has now promised to CONTINUE printing $85 billion every month practically until hell freezes over — until the stubborn, hellish unemployment in the U.S. goes away.
Japan has just announced that it’s going to DOUBLE that bet! That’s right. Adjusted for the size of its economy, Japan is now printing the equivalent of DOUBLE what the
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This is it … the last few days before my brand new report, Beating the Bond Bubble: 6 Bubble-Busting Investments for Income and Profit!, is released to the public.
If you reserve your copy before that release date, Monday, May 6, it will cost you just $99. That’s a 33 percent discount off the cover price it will sell for
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It’s a well worn adage on Wall Street to “sell in May and go away.” But is there any truth to this piece of trading conventional wisdom … or is it unwise advice? The answer depends a great deal on your chosen time frame.
In each of the past three years, advice to “sell in May” or thereabouts was spot
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This is the fourth in a series of Money and Markets columns where I’ll share with you the five essential building blocks that can help you successfully earn enduring investment gains in your portfolio.
The first building block that you must have to grow your nest egg is a Better Investment Model. As you’ll recall this means kicking the concept
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If I asked you to guess which country has the strongest bond rating in South America, many of you would probably say Brazil. After all, the country is becoming an economic powerhouse, infrastructure spending there is exploding in preparation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and I keep hearing about
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For a couple of years now I’ve maintained my view that the Dow Industrials and broad U.S. equity markets were entering a new bull market. One of the tools I used to come to that conclusion back in 2008 was the ratio of the Dow Industrials to the price of gold.
I wrote extensively about it in my July 2008
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Before he passed away, Dad and I talked frequently about global conflict — especially in East Asia.
Before World War II, he wrote extensively about the escalating trade war between Japan and the U.S., virtually pleading for the two countries to talk peace seriously.
Many years later, I lived in Japan for two years for my doctoral research.
And today,
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