successful investing

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. Today’s tip: “Selling your stock market picks costs money, and that’s why successful investors do it as little as possible.” Investors often ask, “When should I sell my stocks? If I sell now, I’ll nail down big profits. But I’ll have to pay heavy capital gains taxes.”...

Spreading your stock investments across the five main economic sectors is one of the main keys to successful investing. By doing so, you avoid overloading yourself with stocks that are about to slump simply because of industry conditions or changes in investor fashion. By diversifying across the sectors, you also increase your chances of stumbling upon a market superstar — a stock that does two to three or more times better than the market average. These stocks come along every year. By nature, their appearance is unpredictable; if you could routinely spot them ahead of time, you’d quickly acquire a large proportion of all the money in the world, and nobody ever does that. Speaking very generally, stocks in the Resources & Commodities sector and the Manufacturing & Industry sectors expose you to above-average volatility, while those in the Finance and Utilities sectors involve below-average volatility....

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. Today’s tip: “Some of today’s best investments are in high tech. So are some of the worst.” Today’s fast-changing technology offers huge opportunities in technology stocks. However, fast change also brings danger....

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. Today’s tip: “Home improvements raise home values less than you think.” Owning your primary residence can be a great financial deal. Mortgage payments amount to forced savings, a home is an inflation hedge, and capital gains are tax-free. But don’t fritter away your gains by excessive upgrading, or frequent moving....

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 the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Investment success depends more on the quality of your investments than on the price you paid for them.” When you start investing, you may think the secret to investment profit is “buy low, sell high.” But that’s hard to do. You’ll often buy just before prices fall, or sell just before they rise. If you stick to high-quality value stock picks, however, your short-term gains and losses can average out and you’ll still profit greatly in the long run. Here are nine factors to look for when judging a value stock pick’s investment quality....

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 the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Life-long dollar-cost averaging can increase your long-term retirement investing profits” Dollar-cost averaging involves investing equal amounts of money over a specific period ($200 a month, say). It’s a little like systematic saving, except that you put your money into stocks (or mutual funds) instead of a bank account....

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 the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Beware of companies that are more interested in boosting their stock than in building their business.” Penny stock promoters love to make deals with major, household-name companies. That’s because they think the public is far more likely to buy penny stocks that have agreements with Teck Resources, BHP Billiton or some other major mining company to finance exploration of their mining claims. Or if Sony, Apple or some other household-name multinational has agreed to evaluate their computer program or electronic gadget. The link with a major gives them instant credibility, especially with investors who buy penny stocks....

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 the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away.

Today’s tip: “Stock portfolio turnover costs money, so buy investments that you might want to hold on to indefinitely.”

Investors often wonder how often they should sell investments they own and buy new ones....

It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since we launched TSI Network. When we flicked the switch in June 2009, after months of hard work, the web site already contained a wealth of investment information and stock advice — over 2,000 individual articles, in fact. TSI Network is built on the strengths of our four newsletters: Canadian Wealth Advisor, Stock Pickers Digest, The Successful Investor and Wall Street Stock Forecaster. The site has come a long way in its first year. Its online investment library now contains more than 5,000 articles on stock advice and investment strategy. Plus, we’ve further expanded the information and stock advice you get on the site by adding new free reports and features, such as our “Investor Toolkit” series of Daily Updates. Every Wednesday, these articles give you a fundamental piece of stock advice and show you how you can put it into practice right away....

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 stock trading tips on the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “By the time you hear bad news, its immediate impact may be over.” If you hear bad news about a stock in which you invest, it’s easy to react impulsively and sell. But all investments come under a bad news cloud from time to time. If you always sell on bad news, you’ll pay lots of brokerage commissions, but you’ll never make money for yourself....