http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/6012 Guidelines on investing in equities Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:33:36 PST en-us http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/6012 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/6012 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:33:36 PST How a 46 year old internet neophyte made his way on the web and found his voice! http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/3428 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/3428 Sun, 24 May 2009 01:46:34 PST When is 3 percent better than 6 percent? Yeah, we all know the answer, but only until the prices of the securities we already own begin to fall. Then, logic and mathematical acumen disappear and we become susceptible to all kinds of special cures for the periodic onset of higher interest rates. We’ll be told to sit in cash until rates stop rising, or to sell the securities we own now, before they lose even more of their precious market value. http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5645 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5645 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:33:45 PST The larger the portfolio, the more likely it is that you will be able to buy round lots of a diversified group of bonds, preferred stocks, etc. But regardless of size, individual securities of all kinds have liquidity problems, higher risk levels than are necessary, and lower yields spaced out over inconvenient time periods. http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5646 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5646 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:49:04 PST It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you just can't know where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course corrections… even more is squandered comparing portfolio Market Values with a handful of unrelated indices and averages. http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5648 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5648 Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:49:41 PST So, in addition to the normal risks associated with investing in general, we add: speculating in narrowly focused sectors, guessing on the prospects of unproven small cap companies, experimenting with securities in single countries, rolling the dice on commodities, and hoping for the eventual success of new technologies. http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5652 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5652 Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:09:06 PST Wall Street institutions already spend billions predicting future price movements of the stock market, individual issues & indices, commodities, and hemlines. Really? Is that right also? Economists have been analyzing and charting world economies for decades, showing clearly the repetitive cyclical changes and their upward bias. http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5656 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5656 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:13:12 PST Without having mega millions to work with, or a line of credit that goes around the block, you can have positions in various forms of Real Estate (commercial, industrial, residential) at the same time, and focus either on growth opportunities, income production, or a combination of the two. http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5657 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5657 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:16:37 PST Call it foresight, or hindsight if you want to be argumentative, but a long-term view of the investment process eliminates the guesswork and points pretty clearly toward a trading mentality that keys on the very natural volatility of the hundreds of investment grade value stocks out there for your portfolio building attention. Market Cycle Investment Management makes market volatility your Very Best Friend http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5660 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5660 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 08:19:19 PST Unfortunately, the stock market never has been able to generate guaranteed levels of income, and sometimes fails to move higher just because we think it should. Serious problems occur when mutual funds are packaged with annuity contracts and the critical differences between them are either overlooked or undisclosed, perhaps innocently, perhaps not. http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5665 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5665 Sat, 20 May 2017 09:12:30 PST Value stocks are those that tend to trade at lower prices relative to their fundamental characteristics than their more speculative cousins, the growth stocks; they have higher than usual dividend yields and lower P/E and P/B ratios. http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5667 http://net-teams.net/nti/Display.cfm/5667 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:36:21 PST