There Are No “Forever Stocks”
Investing is becoming increasingly dominated by passive index investing, where people buy dirt-cheap mutual funds that basically try to represent the whole stock market rather than tie up all their …
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Discussion about investing theory, asset allocation, fund placement, and occasional praise for Jack Bogle.
What is Your “Number”?
We know that people don’t save enough, and deciding to make regular savings is the most important part of any retirement plan. But how do you know if you’re saving …
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Guaranteed Method to “Buy Low, Sell High”
We know that timing the market in order to buy stocks at low prices and sell them at high prices, on average, sucks. Market timing is a path to inferior …
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When the Stock Market Has a Seizure
The nerve center typically hums along with a nicely balanced ebb and flow. Electrical signals chatter constantly. There’s no obvious pattern to the noise at first glance, but the discerning …
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Time in the Market Beats Timing the Market
“Buy Low, Sell High”. It’s the most universal maxim of investing. But here’s the problem: It is impossible to do consistently. Even with teraflops of supercomputing power and mathematics PhDs …
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The Master Plan: Seven Principles to Grow Your Wealth
This post is designed to serve as a reference point for our basic philosophy of saving, investing, and growing your wealth so that you can have a comfortable life and …
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Millennials Aren’t Investing Much, and That’s a Problem
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a millennial (or an X-ennial, as I prefer to think of myself). Statistically speaking, you’re in deep financial trouble. You’ve found your way …
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6 Tricks to Increase Your Saving Rate
When it comes to increasing the size of your nest egg, there’s no substitute for the power of brute force savings. No investing trick can really increase your wealth in …
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