Buy and hold investing is the strategy of buying a diversified portfolio of stocks using mutual funds or ETFs and holding them for the long-term. The normal hold time for buy and hold can be from 30 to 40 years. The strategy uses the historical returns for the U.S. stock market as its backtest. The […]
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The United States is one of the richest countries in the history of the world. The median income in the U.S. is $65,700 and the median net worth is $121,700. This is the middle, there is a huge variance both below and above this level. The bottom 20% of earners nationwide make $26,685 a year.[1]
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Do you every wish you could look over the shoulder of legendary investors and see what they are buying during the 2022 market crash? It could give insight into their thoughts about the future. It would be more of a look at their own strategy based on their method and time frame but would be
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Inflation is high, interest rates are rising, the consumer is going deeper into debt to keep up with the cost of living. Corporate profits continue to decline with drops in consumer discretionary spending and increasing labor, energy, and borrowing costs for business. Michael Burry predicted all of these things in the past 3 years. In
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Paul Tudor Jones became famous after appearing in the PBS documentary The Trader in 1987 where he anticipated a stock market crash. He used stock index futures to triple his capital under management during the Black Monday crash in 1987 with large short positions while most other traders were ruined or suffered huge losses. His
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David Tepper grew up poor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and had the desire and drive to become rich from a young age. He merged himself in learning and education and wanted to graduate from college in three years to not only save time but money. Tepper started trading during college to pay for his tuition. He
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Oil supply and demand Even though the United States is the world’s biggest producer of oil it still uses more than it makes requiring imports of oil. The world currently uses approximately 100 million barrels of oil a day, the U.S. produces about $18.8 million barrels a day in 2022 up from 2021. However the
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Deep value investing is quantifying the stocks that are the greatest value per share in the market at any given time based on their low share price versus the minimal value of the business. These are the stocks that are the best asymmetric bets with a minimal downside left but that could multiply in share
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You can’t master the markets as no one knows the future or can predict what millions of traders and investors will do today or tomorrow. The best we can do is master our own behavior in disciplined execution of our own system. The majority of new traders look to find consistency making money from one
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The richest man in the world is a serial entrepreneur. Elon Musk has spent his whole life building businesses from scratch, the early ones he sold and the latest ones he has kept. His record for creating companies is staggering in quantity, scale, and magnitude. What companies has Elon Musk created? His first business building
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Up Charlie Munger worked with Warren in Buffet’s grandfather’s grocery store in Omaha, Nebraska. Munger earned $2 for ten hours of labor in the 1930’s before he went off to college. He’s originally from Omaha and left to attend the University of Michigan to become a meteorologist in the army during World War II. He
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Roth IRAs and traditional 401K accounts are designed to enable people to save money in investment accounts by offering tax advantages. These retirement accounts were meant to replace the defined employer pension plans of the past. With a pension plan an employee received a defined payment every month from their employer based on years of
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Becoming a millionaire doesn’t happen randomly or by accident, there are specific skills that enable millionaires to build their net worth. A self-made millionaire is someone who has the skills to build a stock portfolio, real estate portfolio, crypto portfolio, or business that’s worth seven figures. This type of success doesn’t happen by accident and
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There are many levels of personal finance with the lowest levels being broke, being deeply in debt, and bankrupt. Being bankrupt means you can no longer pay your debts and must seek the courts protection and settle with your debt collectors. Being deeply in debt means that all your earnings go to debt payments each
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There are rules for making money, losing money, holding on to money, and growing money. There are principles for practicing medicine or law and a framework of rules for success, the same applies to finance. There are strategies for winning at sports or in business and there are also ways to win at money. Here
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In the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) there are 10 levels generally considered the journey from financial dependence to financial abundance. It can help psychologically to look at achieving financial independence as steps to new levels, one at a time. It is easier to focus on the next level than to see how far
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Steve Cohen is arguably the most profitable hedge fund trader ever. His SAC Capital returned 30% annually for more than 20 years since its inception in 1992 making Cohen a billionaire. What many people don’t know is that Cohen started his career as a day trader. [1] How good is he? Showtime’s Billions is inspired by
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How much you need to have saved by age should be based on your own goals. The most common filter used for projecting how much you need to save is based on retirement, having enough money to draw from after you quit working a job. Historically this has been saving ten times your annual income
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Selling short a stock reverses the normal order of buying it and then selling it. Selling short means to sell something you don’t own. When hedge funds and large players sell a stock short they borrow the stock from their broker and sell it to a buyer in the marker. They then owe the broker
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When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack was interviewing Helaine Olen he said that “The financial advice most people actually need is common sense and simple enough that it would fit onto a 4-by-6 index card.” “I started getting emails saying, ‘Where’s the index card?’” Pollack explains. So even though it had more of a
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