Stocks-Mutual-Funds
Put-to-Call Ratio
Wall Streeters will try anything short of a Ouija board to divine the next move of the market. The put-to-call ratio is popular and of some usefulness. Read more →Quality Investment Information: Standing Firm In the Face of Opposition
THERE?S SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR standing firm in the face of opposition. Interestingly, most of the best stock decisions have come at times when the mainstream is saying precisely the opposite. Read more →Race Horses and Mutual Funds
For years investors have been taught to look into the composition of a mutual funds. In other words the "experts" want you to take the time to analyze the stocks within the mutual fund portfolio, categorize them by industry group and try to understand the objective of the fund manager. Read more →Realistic Ways to Buy Stocks Cheap and Sell Stocks High
If anyone ever comes up with the perfect time to buy and sell stocks, that person will own the world. Right now, timing-based stock trading is based on premises only slighly better than magic. Read more →Really the Best Buy
As the holiday shopping season is days upon us, investors are trying to locate the perfect gift for themselves in the form of rewarding shares. With the launch of the next generation of video games upon us as well as the continued advancements in technology for the consumer, there may be no better stock to invest some capital in than Best Buy (BBY). Read more →Rear View Mirror
Buying a stock or mutual fund is like a driver who is going down the road at high speed, but is using looking in the rearview mirror as a guide. He can see fine out the back, but has no idea what is ahead. Read more →Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Alphabet Soup of Sales Charges
If most people can not easily explain how they are getting charged for services, you can almost always bank on a rip-off in your midst. Such is the case with many mutual funds and their "fund classes". Read more →Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Better, Cheaper, Less-risky Alternatives
As I have said many times in this series, active management would be palatable and worth the outsized fees charged by mutual fund companies if they consistently delivered superior performance compared to a pre-defined benchmark, but they do not. Read more →Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Chasing Performance
Just as fund companies tend to overstate the expertise level of their youthful, call-center "investment advisers", management also tends to attribute what the evidence shows to be more-or-less luck to extraordinary investment acumen. Read more →Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Enablers of Poor Corporate Governance
An entire book could be written about the happy conspiracy between corporate managers and the investment community that pads both pockets at the expense of the everyday shareholder. Read more →← Previous Next →
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Aphorism
Buy right and hold tight.
John Bogle
