by gorillaz0e What have you learned, that you wish you knew, when you started investing in stocks? The below is my subjective personal experience and opinion. I do not think my experience is necessarily right or valuable for everyone. For …
by provoko Use a screener like finviz. Look for companies that have sales q/q 30% or more and gross margin over 40% (ideally over 80%, but new stocks closer to their IPO might have extremely low gross margin, but if they …
by ItsMeSlinky Received a bunch of calls from 866-582-6346, claiming to be “Richard, Tech #105 with Duke Energy” and asking me to call “Customer Service” at 877-661-1928, extension 2, to avoid having my power disconnected due to a lack of …
by VegetableMacaroon I got a call from a Washington, D.C. number yesterday with an automated message telling me it was the “Criminal Investigation Division” of the IRS, and to call them back immediately. I did. Got on the phone with …
by doublecastle https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/your-money/stock-market-after-hours-trading.html Check out the graph about halfway down in that article. It’s revelatory. If you had bought the SPY at the last second of trading on each business day since 1993 and sold at the market open the …
When buying a used car with over 100,000 miles, here are a few things you very specifically want to pay attention to. Number 1. When was the timing belt changed (If it uses one) Number 2. If the belt was …
by Aviator2903 I saw plenty of other posts about various employment scams and I recently encountered one myself. My sister-in-law is in college and in the process of applying for internships. She ran into one job posting on Indeed that …
by portfolioperfection “Everyone agrees that it’s appropriate to divide the space of a portfolio between different asset classes,” i.e., dividing your portfolio between different asset classes (e.g., 60% stocks and 40% bonds). However, it remains controversial to divide the time of your portfolio between different …
by whitethunder9 I started trading options with actual money May of 2017. I keep notes as I trade so I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned along the way, going from noob to an intermediate level. Interested …
Guest post by howimademoney So first off a few things I have got to admit too…part of me got lucky. However I still learned some valuable lessons and thought I would share. I also live in an very affordable part of …
by KMoney911 Don’t make the same mistake I did. Last year I started new service for Spectrum cable, electing to install the equipment myself. They accidentally sent me two boxes of equipment. No big deal I thought and called in …
by db8cn After my wife telling me numerous stories of being ran off the road and close calls, I researched and ultimately purchased two $100 dash cams for both of our vehicles for a total of about $198 on Amazon …
by Lance Roberts A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the coming “Pension Crisis.” The important point made was the unrealistic return assumptions used by pension managers in order to reduce the contribution (savings) requirement by their members. “However, the reason assumptions …
Guest post by thinkofanamefast Market profit margin ratios are around 10% vs perhaps 7% historically. Combined with PEs being high (although Birnyi associates has 17 for 1 year forward (not bad but a lot due to tax cuts, repatriation, and …
by TicklesMcFancy So I make 13.50. I pull about 2400 pre tax and take home about 1600 after taxes, health benefits, and a healthy 401k deposit, which I highly recommend. Start that shit early and play the market. I have a …
by jasonlong1212 Model: I wish to maintain a portfolio that began in June 2017 at $1,025,772. My maximum withdrawal rate is 3% of each year’s starting balance, provided that the portfolio remains above $1M. Should the portfolio drop below $1M, …
by andthenisawtheblood Article link. Full Text: From his home office in Charlotte, one of the most successful investors in higher education plies his trade in blissful obscurity. Bill Abt employs no stable of hotshot bond traders. He doesn’t dabble in …
ARE THEY NEXT THE LEHMAN BROTHERS? Deutsche Bank shares drop >5% & default probability jumps as CEO Cryan says that DB may not be profitable this year. pic.twitter.com/1jt6WzGMHJ — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) March 16, 2016 BUT DAYS BEFORE: JPMorgan, Goldman …
by Martin Armstrong Posted Feb 16, 2016 by Martin Armstrong Trading is something you have to develop a “feel” for. The only way to do that is with experience. The object of our modeling is to place the entire world …
By Michael Snyder Did you know that there are more than 1.8 trillion dollars worth of junk bonds outstanding in the United States alone? With interest rates at record lows all over the world in recent years, investors that were …
BY JOHN WARD It’s hard to see anything more than more of the same The great thing about Sundays once the kids quit the nest is that it can revert to being a time for cool reflection. I include this …
Can’t wait to point this out to some people I know who think everything is fine and all this talk of collapse for the past few years is actually happening…it’s no longer a “conspiracy theory”…go to NPR.org and listen to …
Deustche Bank is the largest bank in Europe and by some scales, the world. It grew significantly after the 2008 recession after the arrival of new executives that particularly focused on accumulating exactly the kind of high risk derivatives (essential …
by James Quinn In case you haven’t noticed February 2016 is September 2008 all over again. Deutsche Bank is dead bank walking. It’s collapse will unleash a whirlwind of pain upon the global economy that is already teetering. The market …
BY JOHN WARD “Oh shit, you mean I’m Janet Yellen?” PART TWO OF THE SLOG’S TRIPLE-HEADER ON WHY MARKETS ARE RIGHT & MONETARISTS ARE WRONG Watching the live coverage yesterday, I found Janet Yellen’s experience of ‘testifying’ to Congress about …
There was a story in the Yahoo Financial section yesterday about how Deutsche Bank was just fine, everything was great and they had enough capital to survive the end of the world… It brought to mind the spin the MSM …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The key take-away: focus on owning income-producing assets, not a primary residence. One truism of investing is to follow the lead of those who are building wealth.This chart reveals the foundation of the wealth of the top …
By Michael Snyder On Tuesday junk bonds continued to crash, the price of oil briefly dipped below 28 dollars a barrel, Deutsche Bank was forced to deny that it is on the verge of collapse, but the biggest news was …
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By Michael Snyder There is so much chaos going on that I don’t even know where to start. For a very long time I have been warning my readers that a major banking collapse was coming to Europe, and now …