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Blog #9: Fluctuations

Every market has its ups and downs, its pros and cons. Some days, your stocks and bonds might be worth top dollar and other days they might be worth less than when you bought them. It’s important as an investor to keep an eye on what’s going on, but the tides can move...

Blog #8: Understanding Tax Advantages

–    When you make a profit, you want to hold on to as much of it as you can. You earned it, it’s yours, and you want it to stay yours! But that’s not how it goes. A certain amount of every dollar you make in your life goes towards taxes. It’s unavoidable. So,...

Blog #7: Banks Love Financing This…

Things cost you what they cost, right? That much seems obvious. If you want to buy $1,000 worth of stock, you’re putting $1,000 of your own money out of your pocket into that investment. There’s no getting around it – stocks, bonds, mutual funds, gold… whatever your...

Blog #6: Banks Love Financing This…

Things cost you what they cost, right? That much seems obvious. If you want to buy 1000 dollars worth of stock, you’re putting 1000 of your own dollars out of your own pocket into that investment. There’s no getting around it- stocks, bonds, mutual funds, gold…...

Blog #5: On the Right Side of Supply and Demand

Supply and demand might just be the most important factors in our economy. How much of something exists and how badly people want it are the defining aspects of how that market works. From an investor’s perspective, the best bets are ones where demand outstrips...

Blog #4: Loving Leverage

  For more investments, you have no choice but to pay the market price for whatever it is you’re buying. If an ounce of gold costs $1,900, you pay $1,900. You put in the asking price and that’s that. It makes sense, but it’s not the smartest way to turn a profit on...
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