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Reddit recently hosted an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with Hardeep Walia, Founder and CEO of Motif Investing, and former SEC Chairman (1993-2001) and Motif Investing Board Member, Arthur Levitt. There were some pretty interesting exchanges that I thought were worth highlighting for anybody who uses Motif Investing and who is interested in investing as a whole. […]

A stock market correction is an inevitability. You just don’t know when it will happen exactly. Technically, a stock market correction means a decline of 10% or more from the peak. A bear market is when the stock market declines by more than 20%. A stock market correction occured in 2020, 2022, and again in

Try to be an accredited investor. Once you are, you can invest more easily in private companies. Do you know what the market capitalization was of Microsoft when they went public on March 13, 1986? A mere $500 million (~$1 billion in today’s dollars). If you had bought just 100 shares of Microsoft at the $21 offering

Do you want downside investment protection? We could be in another financial bubble. But nobody really knows when a correction will take place. Therefore, may I suggest looking into structured notes. This article will give you an example of an equity structured note that provides downside investment protection, while also offering upside potential as well.

Insider trading is a no no. The profits are not worth the risk. On Saturday, July 16, 2014 I played in a tennis tournament with a partner that worked at Trulia, an online real estate company. He just got his job and was explaining to me how the company makes money through its ad placements for

On January 30, 2015, I finally opened up my first Motif Investing portfolio with $10,000. I waited until the end of January because I felt there was a lot of uncertainty in the market (there still is), and I was also taking my sweet time doing research on the 30 companies and ETFs I wanted

One of the questions I asked in my accredited investor post is whether the current definition of accredited investor is fair or not. 61% of you voted that the Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) should not dictate who can and cannot invest in private offerings. Only 31% of you said the definition is currently fair, while the other

Oil is a popular topic due to its surprising ~60% price drop from June 2014 to 1Q2016. Nobody could have imagined such a quick collapse in oil. I certainly didn’t when I decided to buy a Honda Fit instead of a Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited last summer! If I had known I could pump my

One goal after leaving my corporate job of 11 years in 2012 was to learn more about the startup industry in Silicon Valley. With so much happing here, I found myself dreaming about going on my own startup journey. I was coming from the old school finance industry where there was relatively little innovation compared to

Fear of investing in the stock market is real. This fear is why I’ve encountered so many people since Financial Samurai started in 2009 who have huge cash hoards. Due to fear, they decided to save their cash instead of invest it. But if you just hoarded cash since the 2009 Global Financial Crisis, you