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12 ways investors can profit via legal insider trading
Insider trading has been top of mind for the past few months with Galleon and Congressional insider trading blanketing the news. While illegal insider trading is being taken to the woodshed, there’s plenty to do with legal insider trading. By following the smart money, investors can follow the cookie crumbs back to the investing profits. So, … Continue Reading
Making investing simpler – with Jon Stein
A lot of people don’t invest because it’s seemingly too complicated. So many decisions to make, so much jargon, who to trust? Jon Stein is the founder and CEO of Betterment which he describes as a mix between Apple and Vanguard. It’s extremely easy to design a fine portfolio. By removing much of the noise … Continue Reading
Forecasting the financial weather and why so many get it wrong
Newspapers, magazine, bloggers — the financial press — get up every morning of every day (yeah, I’ll include weekends) to try and figure out what the future has in store for investors. The investing weathermen When my kids ask me what I do, I tell ‘em and receive comments like “Why can’t you run a … Continue Reading
Why risk is so hard to measure
Building on this theme of risk that’s capturing my attention as of late, I wanted to drill down a bit further into this discussion of risk. One of the things I’ve discussed on my podcast has been how traditional tools used by financial advisors and RIAs aren’t sufficient to get a real handle on our risk. … Continue Reading
Investing tool: interesting sentiment indicator for overbought/oversold
Check out what Dr. Richard Peterson is doing at MarketPsych. He’s done perhaps the deepest research into different sentiment indicators in the stock market. He’s got so many emotions to describe the activity in social media that it sounds almost like he’s anthropomorphized the markets and market chatter.
Investment risk: what is it and how a two-headed hyrdra monster can ruin your investment returns
Been talking to a lot of investing people about Risk recently: what it is, how to measure it, how to control it. Why Risk matters Risk is one of those things you don’t realize you have too much of until it’s too late. Being able to manage risk effectively is essential in the investment process. … Continue Reading
