Do you have contingency plans fo a digital bank run? If not, perhaps you should. The markets are extremely frothy again and another downturn could happen. If there is a downturn, there will be another digital bank run that will put pressure on the money market system. It happened in March 2020, it may happen […]
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Do you know who missed out on great growth stocks like Apple, Netflix, Google, Meta, NVIDIA and more over the last 10-20 years? Dividend stock investors. For younger investors (under 40), I believe it’s better to invest mostly in growth stocks over dividend stocks. With growth stocks, you increase your chances of accumulating more capital
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Looking for Robinhood alternatives? You’ve come to the right place as a DIY investor. Robinhood is an online brokerage house that steals from the poor (retail investors) and gives to the rich (hedge funds). Robinhood doesn’t charge its users a fee. But it sells its order flow to hedge funds and other institutional investors. When
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Let me say up front that day trading is a waste of time and money. You are much better off investing in long-term trends and dominant companies that are consistently growing their earnings and dividends. Day trading is the exact opposite of buy and hold investing. I first started day trading in college. It was
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Passive and active investing are two ways to make investment returns in the stock market. Since my first job in finance, I’ve always actively invested some of my funds to chase unicorns. The question is: what is the best split between passive and active investing in the stock market? If you are only a passive
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A number of people have asked me to share some different investment strategies for different life stages. What I’ll do is highlight the various investment strategies I think make sense for most people, discuss a couple more alternative investment strategies, and round up what strategy I think is most appropriate by life stage. We all
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When stock markets are at record highs, you need to be careful. The last thing you want to do is invest and lose a lot of money. When valuations are high, stocks are priced for perfection. And when stocks unwind, they unwind hard as the stampede tries to get out. There’s only one thing worse
The percentage of people with no wealth outside their home is sad. Homeownership is a great way to build worth for the average person. Rising rents and home prices over time can make the average homeowner much wealthier. However, it is also important to diversify into other investments. I recently stumbled across a fascinating chart
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Are you wondering whether to buy bonds to build wealth? Well, wealthier people in America do not follow the conventional asset allocation model of buying bonds, i.e. age equals your bond percentage allocation or a 60/40 equities/fixed income split. Nor do they follow my stock allocation by bond yield either. How do I know this?
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To gauge performance, you need to have net worth benchmarks. Otherwise, you have no idea whether you are outperforming or underperforming the masses. With net worth benchmarks, you can also retire early for greater happiness if you wish! Even if your net worth is up 20% one year, it may be not be so great
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