August 30, 2006 – There are no greater flawed investment strategies than those pushed by 99% of investment firms all over the world. This is why most individual investors have no idea what returns they should really expect from their portfolios – because it’s certainly not the 6% to 8% annual returns you’ve been led [...]

August 26, 2006 – Are you tired of always hearing that the smartest way to invest money in the stock market is to buy an index fund when you know that other people consistently beat the S&P 500 and other major index funds of other global stock markets? Everyday, I see articles online by people [...]

August 24, 2006 – The first task of becoming wealthy is to shed yourself of almost all of the beliefs surrounding investing that you’ve been taught. Most people, no matter where they are educated, go through their educational life learning to become robots whether they realize it or not. The “authority” figure tells them that [...]

August 22, 2006 – Ever wondered if you’d be better off with an independent financial consultant or investing your stocks yourself than with a huge investment firm? To understand the answer to this question you must first be able to separate investment fiction from investment fact. The key to sorting through all the “noise” that [...]

August 20, 2006 – When I was young and foolish, I used to speculate a lot, sure that my next speculation would pay for my next vacation in Tahiti. And I made some big mistakes with my money ten years ago because of that. There’s a difference between smart speculation and dumb speculation. And i [...]

August 18, 2006 – Mainstream news is the famous bandwagon jumper. It’s not uncommon for headlines such as “Bull markets roar ahead!” to be followed by “Bear markets spell disaster for investors” to be followed by “Emerging markets booming!” to be followed by “Emerging markets spectacular run is over!” to be followed with “Gold: the [...]

August 16, 2006 – When it comes to investing, nothing kills good returns more than nationalism. And nationalism rules at large investment firms. In mid-2006, as you can see from the chart below,the major U.S. stock market index, the S&P 500 stands exactly at the same level it stood seven and a half years ago [...]

August 14, 2006 – Unless your name is Warren Buffet, the days of buy and hold are over. Actually even if your name is Warren Buffet, the days of buy and hold are over. At least they are for the rest of this decade. Buy and hold as a strategy is dead and will get [...]

August 14, 2006 – “The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our constitution. I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin. If American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency first by [...]

August 12, 2006 – In June, 2006, www.marketwatch.com (an online financial news service) reported that global investment firms Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch all declared double digit profit increases in the second quarter of 2006. In fact, upon closer inspection, this statement understated how profitable some of these firms [...]

August 11, 2006 – In mid-2006, the global markets corrected a great deal. In the U.S., the Dow plummeted 4%, the Nasdaq about 6%, and the S&P 500 about 5% in a single week. European stocks posted their biggest drop since May 2003, and the FTSE 100 in the UK had its biggest two-day loss [...]

August 9, 2006 – Every wonder why you are reluctant to ask a large investment firm advisor if 20% annual returns are possible without the assumption of enormous risk? The answer is simple. Most big investment firms, through squawk boxes on MSNBC, and through the reinforcement of their portfolio managers and financial consultants have conditioned [...]

August 7, 2006 – If you’re frustrated from having one financial consultant after another financial consultant provide you with inadequate returns on your stock portfolio, you’re not the only one. Trust me, you have lots of company out there. Consider the fact that Smith Barney alone employs over 11,000 financial consultants in just the United [...]