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Introduction To The Stock Market

Last week, I wrote Introduction To Morningstar Style Box and thought it’s a good idea to start writing more introductory level articles about investing. Over the next few weeks, I am hoping that I could organize my Investing archive into an “Investing for Beginners Series” for your convenience. In this article, I’ll attempt to [...]

Practical Investing Guide For Beginners (Reprint)

Neither one of my parents know how to invest in the stock market, and it wasn’t a part of my formal education. I had to learn everything on my own, so I know how intimidating it is for people who are new to investing. Where do I start? What do I invest in? [...]

Market Volatility, Should I Get Out of the Stock Market?

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 [...]

Preview of Upcoming Articles at Moolanomy

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 [...]

Review of The Only Guide To A Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need, Part One

This is part one of a three parts series where I will be reviewing The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need by Larry Swedroe — our resident Ask The Expert columnist. Part One of this book was entitled: “The Loser’s Game: The Game Wall Street Wants and Needs You to [...]

12 Investing Mistakes I’ve Made, and How You Can Learn From Them (Reprint)

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 [...]

22 Money Maximizing Moves You Can Do Today

Now that the benefits enrollment for my company is over, I can start thinking about things that I could do before the end of the year to make my money work harder for me. Here are 22 ideas that I want to share with you.

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Boost 401k contribution – I think I will [...]

January Effect and October Effect, Are They Real?

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. [...]

Review of Larry Swedroe’s Wise Investing Made Simple

Recently, I was sent a copy of Wise Investing Made Simple: Larry Swedroe’s Tales to Enrich Your Future by the publicist. After I finished the first chapter, I simply couldn’t put it down until I finished the book. As my regular readers may know, I like good stories, and this book was packed [...]

Why It’s Better to Cut Your Losses Early

You may have heard the expression “cut your losses early” before. This is probably the most profound wisdom for stock investors. The table below will illustrate the reason behind this insight.

The table shows that it is exponentially harder to recover from the decline in stock value. For example:

If a stock loses 10% of [...]

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