April 5, 2010 · 6 comments
in bubble, discipline, economy, emotions, financial planning, future, investing, market crash, market timing, money lessons, opportunity, preparedness, psychology, purchases, savings, stock picks, stocks, wealthbuilding
One week we’re done with market crashes, the next week there’s more talk of bubbles and Wall Street antics wasting taxpayers’ money. This list of market doom headlines is a good enough reminder of how the fear for the end of the world felt like just over one year ago now in early March 2009.
What [...]
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January 14, 2010 · 10 comments
in behavioral finance, discipline, emotions, financial education, investing, market timing, psychology, stocks, technical analysis, time in the market
The stock markets are ultimately unpredictable, but that doesn’t mean they are mysterious or without guiding trends and principles that anyone can learn.
As long as you’re not day trading and hoping to turn profits within minutes or by 5pm, there are a number of ways you can help ensure that you buy your shares low [...]
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It may not be part of the old adage about religion and politics, but money still has the ability to divide and get people worked up. Perhaps it is the hugely abstract idea(s) behind our physical use of money that cause(s) this problem. Money is linked to the ideas of “value” and “worth.” How much [...]
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This is something I’ve been thinking about off and on for a while now. We’ve all heard that investing should be a purely rational enterprise, unclouded by the bouts of fear and greed that apparently rule the markets on a daily basis. The argument is that it’s this fear and greed that causes [...]
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