successful investing
When it comes to adding value to your investing efforts, one of the least productive things you can do is to try to “time” the market. By that, I mean attempting to sell good stocks at what looks to you like a price peak, in hopes of buying them back at lower prices. One of the hardest things about successful investing is that it’s easy to form a strong opinion on the market’s next price trend, and then find the market does something totally different from what you expected. That’s why you want to confine your buying mostly, if not entirely, to high-quality stocks. They tend to hold on to their value over long periods. Sometimes your strong opinions will turn out right. Other times, you’ll sell at what looks like a high price, only to find that some new information comes along that spurs the stock to much higher prices. Sometimes, you’ll sell a stock that looks “high,” then use the money to buy something else that looks cheap. But your cheap stocks get even cheaper while the rest of the market continues to rise....
Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific advice on successful investing, and not least on successful retirement planning. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Tip of the week: “When you’re planning for retirement, make sure you make realistic calculations rather than indulging in wishful thinking.”...
Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific advice on successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Tip of the week: “Short sellers can make money in a hurry, but there are more losers than winners.”...
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Today, we discuss three fairly common errors we remind our readers of from time to time. Almost all investors make one or more of these mistakes sooner or later.
When you seek investment advice on what to do with a particular stock you should always consider the source. Most investors get their advice from brokers.
Stock option investing includes selling options; covered call writing is where you sell a call option against a stock you currently own.
Shares of large companies generally rebounded well after a market crisis. Investors refer to these companies as large cap stocks.