Posts Tagged ‘market’

In doing your investment research, you may have come across a Tic-Tac-Toe-like box similar to the one below. This box is called the Morningstar Style Box. This particular one came from Vanguard 500 Index (VFINX) profile on Yahoo! Finance.

What Is a Morningstar Style Box?
Morningstar Style Box is a visual tool created by Morningstar, [...]

With the recent stock market volatility, I am sure a lot of us are having second thought about the stock market. Some may even ask, “Should I get out of the stock market?” The answer is it depends. Personally, I am holding steady and continuing to invest for the long-term. I [...]

There are a lot going on at Moolanomy’s ideas factory. Unfortunately, I can’t write them down fast enough, but I want to share everything now — talking about patience! Anyway, here is a list of topics that I will be talking about over the next few days, may be weeks. I just [...]

I’ve been investing since 1996. In the process, I have learned a lot, mainly from trial and error. I’d like to share my experience with you. Here are some of the mistakes I’ve made:

Not investing soon enough — I have been working part-time since my first year at college in 1991. If I had known [...]

Market timing does not work (1). However, there are still plenty of investors who believe in market timing, and a subset of these believe that January Effect and October Effect are real. In a true MythBusters‘ fashion, I did some historical data analysis and have a few statistical factoids to share with you. [...]

In my net worth report, I estimated my house at $625,965 for August 2007. I figured I should go into more detail about how I did this. I have to say that I owe this method to The Dough Roller’s 10 Fun and Free Websites to Lookup the Value of Your Home (and [...]

I have been investing in the stock market for nearly 10 years and acquired quite a bit of experience and knowledge (mainly through making mistakes). I’ve never codified on to a piece of paper until today. Before I begin, I want to give credit where it is due. This post was inspired by CommodityWorld.com’s Common [...]