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Seasonal Investing Rule #1: How To Use the January Effect To Your Advantage

January 22, 2010 · 1 comment

in January, investing, market timing, market trends, psychology, seasonal investing, special dates, stocks, technical analysis, theories

What’s “the January Effect”? It’s a simple seasonal investing rule that goes something like this: “as goes January, so goes the rest of the year.”
Seasonal investing is not quite an investment style, but more like a strategy, for making trades that correspond to cyclical market trends around the year.  Certain events, and thus market movements, [...]

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Five Simple Ways To Help Make Sure You Buy Stocks Low and Sell Them Higher

January 14, 2010 · 7 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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How Wealthy Are You, Really? Look Past Networth and Cashflow to See The True Meaning of Wealth

October 26, 2009 · 8 comments

in achievement, happiness, health, lifestyle design, psychology, success, wealth

Someone once said that wealth is what you’ve got left even after you’ve lost all your money.
In today’s business terms, wealth is goodwill; the invaluable resource that remains on the books despite what the rest of the balance sheets say.  In social media, it is your reputation – or even the “personal brand equity” [...]

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What Nature Can Teach Us About Personal Finance

July 15, 2009 · 10 comments

in financial education, financial planning, guest post, money lessons, psychology, resources

This is a guest post from Wojciech Kulicki, the writer behind the personal finance blog Fiscal Fizzle. If you enjoyed this post, please consider subscribing to his feed.
First, let me say that it’s a pleasure to share this post with MoneyEnergy readers. I’ve been a regular reader for some time, and the posts here are [...]

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The Closest We Can Come to Making Money Out of Thin Air: Think Your Way To Wealth by Leveraging Your Brain’s Consumption of Calories

July 3, 2009 · 0 comments

in health, humor, lifehack, nutrition, psychology, wealthbuilding, weight loss

While you’re crunching retirement or networth numbers, or doing serious soul-searching into your dream career or life purpose, your brain is hard at work turning glucose into calories for all those neurons.  You may just be sitting at your computer, but if you can feel the wheels of thought turning, chances are you’re burning calories [...]

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More Stress, Less Money? Ways That Stress Can Cause Your Spending to Increase

June 23, 2009 · 12 comments

in behavioral finance, financial education, lifehack, money decisions, money lessons, psychology

If you’re frequently stressed out, do you tend to make bad money decisions?  My answer is yes.  If you know you’re under stress, keep an eye on your bank account and your budget, if you have one.  And it’s not just financial stress that causes bad financial decisions.  Sometimes the necessary pursuit of money itself [...]

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4 Tips for Having Conversations with Parents (and Others) About Money

June 12, 2009 · 4 comments

in behavioral finance, emotions, finances, financial planning, money decisions, money lessons, psychology

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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