A Simple Secret to Successful Investing.
People complicate investing with various concepts, philosophies and principals. There’s diversification, dollar cost averaging, P/E ratios, yield, growth vs. value, sector rotation, and on and on. But when you strip away all of these layers of complexity, you are left with one cardinal principal of successful investing:
Buy low, sell high.
It’s really that simple when you [...]
Mortgage Meltdown Mess: What to do?
Naturally there is a lot of chatter on the blogs about the $700 Billion bailout. Let’s face it: if you have a blog, you have an opinion. And there are a great many people expressing their opinions about the unprecedented bailout.
I am no different, except I maybe have more questions than opinions because, quite frankly [...]
Is the Bottom Near?
I wrote a post last week called “Waiting on Buffet“. The general point of that post was that many experts have put forth the proposition that the stock market will be at or very near its bottom when two basic events happen, specifically:
A big fish needs to go under.
Warren Buffet needs to take an interest.
Since [...]
Why I Don’t “Buy American”.
GM has a radio ad for the new Saturn Astra compact which uses a “neutral transmission” at stops and gets 30 MPG highway. Why is this the best U.S. auto manufacturers can do ? It’s pathetic. My 1999 Honda Civic gets 34 and it’s a vanilla (10 year old!) 4 cylinder!
Here’s my thinking on patriotic [...]
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