How Investors Buy Hype Rather Than Reality As each new hot stock goes to market, there is a rush of investors scrambling to buy IPO stock at the offering. The calls to brokers from their clients asking for an allotment rises and the brokers scramble to get an allotment themselves in order to fill the… Continue reading The Glory of Investing in an IPO is Financially Painful
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Irrational Investing – The Gamble of Buying Apple Computer Stock
Market Darlings That Disappoint There is a lot of talk currently about Apple Computers whose shares reached an astonishing $644 in April 2012. Today they trade at $585 which is a 9% drop in value. It is reminiscent somewhat of the painful share performance of Research in Motion (RIMM) which reached an equally astonishing $148… Continue reading Irrational Investing – The Gamble of Buying Apple Computer Stock
Should You Invest in Stocks ? Every Cycle Reaches a Point where Investors Shy Away From Stocks
Investors Are Being Advised to Invest in Bonds or Dividends It is interesting how history repeats itself, yet few seem to understand this. Our economic world revolves in cycles, and each cycle is remarkably similar to the ones before and to the cycles that will be experienced in the future. As we near the bottom… Continue reading Should You Invest in Stocks ? Every Cycle Reaches a Point where Investors Shy Away From Stocks
The Stock Market is Well Valued for Investors Now
The Efficient Market Theory There is a long held belief that the stock market is the fore-teller of all that will happen. Somehow it is believed that the market can see into the future, and the rises or falls in the market foretell what will happen with some accuracy. Believers, which includes most people, ignore… Continue reading The Stock Market is Well Valued for Investors Now
How To Deal WIth Deficits, and Getting Rich in the Stock Market
In our last Bl9og, we talked about the current downturn in the market and the ever climbing Wall of Worry. We referred to the never-ending economic cycles that have always existing and always will exist. They mirror the fluctuations in human emotions, which range from higher highs to lower lows, always exceeding in either direction… Continue reading How To Deal WIth Deficits, and Getting Rich in the Stock Market