“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.” – Warren Buffett Warren Buffett only buys stocks when he believes he’s getting a great company for a good price. He is able to get the best companies at great prices during bear markets. This is when he believes the biggest […]
Success is not random and it’s not luck. There are clear patterns that are obvious in hindsight for people that end up as success stories. It doesn’t matter as much where you start as your behavior and habits determine your destiny. Many rich kids end up broke and many poor kids end up rich, an
The calculation of your monthly mortgage payment has many inputs that effect the amount you will be paying. What affects a mortgage payment? How much your home costs. The time duration of your loan. Your down payment. Your interest rate. Home insurance. Property taxes. If you need private mortgage insurance. Home association fees. How much
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One day trading rule that many new traders don’t understand is the “pattern day trader” rule or PDT. The Pattern Day Trade (PDT) rule is enforced by the U.S. stock market regulatory body (FINRA). This is a rule for limiting the amount of active day trades a small account trader can make in their stock
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Michael Burry began warning about the stock market being in a passive investing bubble. The primary area of passive investing in 2022 is putting money into the SPY ETF and low cost S&P 500 index mutual funds. According to Bloomberg approximately 21.2% of all the S&P 500 companies shares are now held inside passive funds
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“Inflation is a very serious subject, you can argue it’s the way democracies die.” – Charlie Munger Charlie Munger goes on to explain the political dangers of hyper-inflation running too high in a country. “What brought in Hitler was the combination of the Weimer inflation, where they utterly destroyed the savings of the middle class
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There are seven financial sins that will keep you broke. Taken to excess they can even make you poor. Broke is a state of mind while poor is a condition of poverty. Broke is being deeply in debt but still getting a $8 coffee while being poor is not being able to buy groceries when
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The traditional way to see how much of a mortgage payment you can afford is to take your monthly income and multiply it by 0.28. So if your monthly income was $5,000 this formula would say you can afford a $1,400 a month house payment. So someone with a $60,000 annual income could afford a
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Emotions are the natural instinctive state of mind created internally as a reaction to your circumstances, derived from your mood, or arise based on interactions in relationships with friends, family, or strangers. These are feelings and different from logic, thinking, or knowledge. Emotions are messengers to your nervous system on how to react to a
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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
Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that there is danger that is likely to cause pain, or a threat. In trading, this can be a financial threat of loss or mental fear based on the ego. The fear is based on the belief in the probability of a future event happening. There
Mark Cuban was a hustler from a young age and his first experience with entrepreneurship was buying a lot of garbage bags from his dad’s friend for $3 a box and reselling them for $6 a box door to door. He had the world’s first and only door to door garbage bag subscription service. He
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Andrew Huberman Ph. D., is a neuroscientist and tenured Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Here is the advice he gives for developing billion dollar habits in life, business, health, and relationships. “Set three or four habits that you want to create for yourself. so find six habits
Everyone knows Warren Buffett is one of the richest people in the world and the greatest investor of all time. What few people know is that he is also a master of his personal finances. He is an unusual billionaire as he has always enjoyed intellectual pursuits over material possessions. He prefers simplicity and an
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Patience in trading is the ability to wait to take action until it’s the right time. Ego, impulses, boredom, and greed, can overcome a traders resolve and cause them to take action too soon or too much. Patience is the ability to follow a trading plan in real time with discipline and focus. Discipline is
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Business is not as easy as most people believe, whether it’s a big business trying to survive in its market year by year or a small business just starting out, the success rate is not high. Big business must grow its top line sales and its bottom line profit just to stay in business as
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School focuses on teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic primarily. How money works is rarely a topic for teaching or discussion. Too many students leave school with no understanding of personal finance, investing, or business and it shows. If a student is lucky they may get a home economics class to learn how to manage a
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In the United States there is high diversity between different so-called classes of people and their net worth. This is purely based on their finances and how much they have in assets, investments, and cash and not reflecting on how hard they work or how much value they add to the economy. The net worth
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Too many people are never educated about money and how it works. Sadly, many people think that wealth is achieved through inheritance, support of a rich family, luck, greed, or fraud. The school systems around the world train employees not entrepreneurs. Starting your own business, investing, and pursuing financial freedom is seen by most as
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The first things that the middle class must understand about millionaires is that their millionaire status is measured in their net worth not their annual income, and most of them pay their bills through cash flowing assets not a pay check. The majority of millionaires have multiple streams of income and are diversified in their
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