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Investing shenanigans of retail investors with bone-chilling honesty and grammatical errors!

Law of Demand: Explained

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words…

Apple, Law of Demand, Share of Mind

Investing Discipline 101

A lot of value investors highlight the importance of ignoring macroeconomics and adhering the concept of intrinsic value of businesses…

Macroeconomics, Microeconomics

The Art Of Investing: With Examples

“The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve…

American Express, Home Depot, Qualcomm, SAP, Starbucks, Tableau

10 Best Amazon Prime Day Deals

We follow some of the major events of the company we have invested in. Amazon Prime day is one of…

Amazon, Prime Day

How Not To Lose Money In Bear Market?

“You don’t make money when you buy and you don’t make money when you sell.  You make money when you…

Bear Market

Is Macy’s Inc In The Bargain Territory?

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” ― Tony Robbins. Macy’s Inc (NYSE: M) sells a…

Business Analysis, Macy's

Bond With 10.25 % Coupon Rate!

Compared to stocks, bonds are safe havens for investors. Stock price tends to fluctuate wildly, whereas bond price not so…

Bond

Why The Rich Get Richer?

“If you are born Poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.” – Bill Gates. Robert T. Kiyosaki is an…

Assets, Liability, Millionaire, Saving

Alibaba Paid $5.6 Billion In Share-Based Compensation In 2018.

Alibaba Group Holding paid $5.6 billion in share-based compensation in the fiscal year 2018 which ended in March 2019. Should…

Alibaba

10 Places To Look For Economic Moat In A Business

The long-term success of a business is highly dependent on the competitive advantage of the business. With the changing environment,…

Competitive Advantage, Moat

Reasons Why Netflix Can Win

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from your debt is worth more than any amount you can earn. – Mark…

Business Analysis, Netflix, Stock Valuation

I Must Be One Of The Unlucky Investors!

My luck is so bad, If I bought a cemetery people would stop dying. – Anonymous. I must be one…

Business Analysis, Disney

Good News For Qualcomm Inc And Me!

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we are waiting. – Joyce Meyer.…

Business Analysis, Qualcomm

Why Do Struggling Stocks Go Up When Its CEO Is Changed?

“The sunk cost fallacy says that it is bad to lose something we have invested time, money, energy or emotions…

Management, Sunk Cost

Traits Of Long-Term Investors

Buying a piece of a company and holding it for more than a year has quite a few advantages. The…

Long-Term Investor

Are We In The Peak Of The Bull Market?

The United States stock market has historic run since the 2009 financial crisis. It has been 10 years of uninterrupted…

Bull Market, Recession

Business Ethics And Social Responsibility

Ethics refers to moral principles that control or influence a person’s behavior. Ethics are generally defined in the context of…

Business Ethics, Social Responsibility

Nature And Significance Of A Facebook Page

According to Facebook Inc., Facebook is a platform to give people the power to build community and bring the world…

Facebook

Buy What You Use And Use What You Buy

Every professional was once an amateur. – Nike. I bought this Air Max shoes a few years back, and it…

Nike, Phil Knight

Why Should You Trade Stocks In Margin?

Margin trading is burrowing funds to buy securities like stocks. It is an attractive instrument to amplify the return on…

Margin, Trading, Trading Risk

Small Swing In GDP Tumbles The Market

Dow Jones was down 33.84% in 2008 because of the Bank and Financial crisis. If we look at the correlation…

GDP, Stock Market, Stock Risk

Margin Trading Strategy For Retail Investors

It is hard to beat the market performance. There are very few investors who have actually achieved this feat over…

Chipotle, Margin, Nike, Trading, Trading Strategy

How To Prepare For Market Crash?

What you did in 1999-2001, or 2008-2009 is more important than what you did in 2002-2007 and 2010-2019 combined. The…

Market Crash, Volatility

3 Stock To Buy And Hold Forever

Warren Buffett once said that his favorite holding period for a good stock was “forever.” The benefit of holding a…

Amazon, Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Buy and Hold

What has Worked in Investing? Part-2

As the continuation of our earlier post (Part One), we are going to briefly discuss the second characteristics of every…

Investing Success, InvestingLessons, Investment Philosophy, Small Market Cap

Stock Investing Is More Of An Art Than Science

Here is an amazing read about investing philosophy by our guest writer, Manish Jauhari. He is a great source of…

Investment Philosophy

Boeing Is Down, But Not Out

In just a few months, two of the Boeing 737 Max 8 falls off the sky. Is this the end…

Boeing

What Has Worked In Investing? Part-1

There are numerous studies on investing and investing success. We are in a lookout for the characteristics of the successful…

Investing Success, InvestingLessons, Price

Don’t Be A Market Analyst, But Be A Business Analyst

Every day, financial news is flooded with market analysis like why a stock went up or down with a catchy…

Business Analysis, market, Market Analysis, Stock Market

Day Trading Strategy For Value Investors

You (assuming you are a long-term value investor) are going to hate me for this post! Among many other financial…

Trading, Trading Strategy

Financial Risk Is the Additional Risk To The Shareholders

The Financial risk is the additional risk to the common stockholders due to the use of debt financing. The use…

Business Risk, Financial Risk

This Is A Sensible Way To View The Market Price For Wise Investors

On Friday, March 22nd, 2019, Amazon.com, Inc. stock price opened at $1810.17 per share and reached to 1818.98, but closed…

Amazon, Stock Market

Riskiness Of The Stock Is The Riskiness Of Its Business

Business risk is the risk inherent in the operation of the business, which, apprently is the riskiness of the stock.…

Business Risk, Facebook, Stock Risk

Stock Valuation

Stock valuation is the process of determining intrinsic or fair value of common stock. In theory, the Intrinsic value of…

Dividend Discount Model, Stock Valuation

If I Get Too Excited About Stocks, I Look At This Picture! And You Should Too.

“A word of advice, my sweet Emmett – mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because…

BAC, Flash Crash, Stock Market

What Financial Ratios Don’t Tell Investors?

Shareholders analyze the financial statements to have information about the earnings of the firm. Financial ratios tell a lot of…

Financial Ratios

Is There A Way To Reduce Portfolio Risk to Zero?

A portfolio is a combination of wealth into two or more assets. The basic idea behind forming the portfolio is…

Portfolio, Risk

Time Value Of Money Is So Important in Financial Analysis

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. -Jim Rohn. The time value of money…

Financial Analysis, Time Value of Money

Du-Pont Analysis Is A Most Important Ratio To Analyze Firm’s Performance.

Du-Pont system is a comprehensive method of financial analysis first used and popularized by Duquoin Corporation. It is used to…

Du-Pont Analysis, Financial Ratios, Return on Assets, Return on Equity

Is Profit Maximization An Appropriate Goal For Financial Managers?

According to conventional theory of the firm, profit maximization is considered to be the principal objective of the firm because…

Management, Profit Maximization

How Does Wealth Maximization Goal Overcome The Drawbacks Of Profit Maximization Goal?

There are underlying incentives for managers to maximiz profit. Almost all of the top level managers have stock options as…

Goal, Wealth Maximization

The Best Investment Checklist For Retail Investors

“Good checklists, on the other hand, are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in…

Checklist, Investment Philosophy

The Current State Of Macroeconomy

GDP GDP Per Capita US Unemployment History Month By Month Unemployment Rate Full Detail (Bureau of Labor) US Market Capitalization…

Big Picture

Artificial Intelligence Will Take Over All Our Jobs And Create Wealth For Few!

As per the World Development Report, a total of 2.6 million industrial Artificial Intelligent robots will be in operation by…

Artificial Intelligence, Future Investment

Top 50 Inspirational Investing Quotes Of All Time

Here are the top 50 inspirational investing quotes of all time to motivate you to be a successful investor. In…

Quotes

Alibaba, A Gem? Part-1

“I don’t feel bad about online shopping at work. It is the only place you spend money while you make…

Alibaba

Why Did Warren Buffett Buy Apple And Not Amazon?

“Value is not determined by those who set the price, Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.”…

Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft

An Investing Principles Checklist from Poor Charlie

“Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding…

Checklist

New Digital Sales Tax – Should Investors be Worried?

“It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest…

Tax Rate

Fundamental Problem Of The Security Analysis

“Needless to say, the analyst cannot be right all the time. Furthermore, a conclusion may be logically right but work…

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