The Importance Of Margin Of Safety

Given the current market conditions in which the likes of Robinhood have helped turn the stock market into a casino, I find it to be invaluable to re-read The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. I highly recommend Chapter 20 which covers the importance of margin of safety. Chief Hazard Of A Buyer Of Securities The [...]

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Charlie Munger’s 13 Personal Attributes To Improve Investment Success

When I retired early a few years ago I had visions of being able to regularly travel and to exercise a few hours a day when at home. All was going according to plan until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Now, we have provincial quarantine restrictions. Couple these restrictions with less than pleasant weather conditions and [...]

By |April 23rd, 2021|General Investing|Comments Off on Charlie Munger’s 13 Personal Attributes To Improve Investment Success

Hope Is Not An Investment Strategy

In several recent articles I have indicated that when it comes to investing, as with many other aspects of life, it is important to set objectives and a goal and to have a strategy by which to achieve them. Hope is not an investment strategy I have ever recommended. The subject matter for this post [...]

By |April 20th, 2021|General Investing|Comments Off on Hope Is Not An Investment Strategy

Avoid These 25 Investing Mistakes

There is a host of possible investing mistakes. Avoid these 25 investing mistakes to improve your investment returns and enhance your investing experience. Investing In Stocks Is Like Gambling This is a common myth among people who know little about stocks. Because they know so little about equity investing they choose to believe it is [...]

By |April 17th, 2021|General Investing|Comments Off on Avoid These 25 Investing Mistakes

Applying The Patience Wealth-Building Habit of Self-Made Millionaires

In my recent Wealth-Building Habits of Self-Made Millionaires post, I list the findings by Thomas J Stanley, Ph.D., Sarah Stanley Fallaw, Ph.D., and Thomas C. Corley after several years of research. The post also includes the US and Canadian wealth distribution statistics. These statistics strongly support the findings that most people struggle in applying these [...]

By |April 15th, 2021|General Investing|Comments Off on Applying The Patience Wealth-Building Habit of Self-Made Millionaires

9 Traits of Successful Investors

I don't think anybody is born with the innate disposition for investing and in particular, equity investing. Luck may certainly be a factor in many instances. Success, however, mostly boils down to the hours dedicated to learning, failing, re-learning, and growing as an investor. Although patience and perseverance are key when on the journey to [...]

Skim Additional Income With Covered Calls

Great companies sometimes become grossly overvalued yet we do not want to part with the underlying shares. In such instances, skim additional income with covered calls. Covered Calls A covered call: is a conservative options strategy used to generate income if you think the underlying stock price is unlikely to rise significantly within a specific [...]

By |April 8th, 2021|General Investing|Comments Off on Skim Additional Income With Covered Calls

Avoid Making Poor Financial Decisions

Avoid making poor financial decisions and your life will be so much less stressful! This is what goes through my mind when I see people walking in and out of PayDay Loan outlets. Payday lenders like to view themselves as financial services companies that promote themselves as 'putting people first'. I find this extremely puzzling [...]

By |April 7th, 2021|General Investing|Comments Off on Avoid Making Poor Financial Decisions

Prepare for a Stock Market Correction

I do not know when it will happen. I just know it will happen. That is why we must prepare for a stock market correction. I have only been an equity investor since the late 1980s so I certainly do not have the experience and expertise of the world’s super investors. I have, however, witnessed [...]

By |April 2nd, 2021|General Investing|Comments Off on Prepare for a Stock Market Correction
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