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The financial market is a place of emotions. Greed and fear mostly determine the actions of its participants. But acting on emotions is the worst you can do, if you want to invest successfully over the long run. So, the question is, how can you control your emotions? We’re all human. At least, I hope so. And being human means having …
The investment market is a place of hopes and fears. Many average investors hope to make a lot of money, sometimes to make it very quick. But they also fear to lose their hard earned money and some really do very quick. The most, I think, don’t get great returns, in the best case, mediocre returns. The question is, why and …
When you invest money, risk is always inherent. For many small investors, the question of risk, i.e the risk of losing money, is of great importance. Especially, because they invest their hard earned money. So today, we want to look a bit closer to risk. (Watch the risk post as video!) For many people, investments are a very sensitive issue. It’s …
Valuing a company is one of the most important tasks an investor has to solve. Buying an overpriced business all too often leads to massive losses. But how to value a company? (Watch the VLOG) Valuing a company is difficult and associated with a lot of work. When I’m sneaking around social media and read about investments young investors make, …
It’s like a disease. To get a notion about ones investment success, many want to know if he was better than his benchmark. But I tell you what. Forget the benchmark! The benchmark doesn’t decide on your investment success. I’ve never understood why so many people equals investment success with beating a benchmark. I’m not investing on the stock market to …
All too often people believe they are investing while they are actually speculating. Being an investor or speculator is different and everyone should know what he is or wants to be. His strategy and success depends on it. Being an investor or speculator is more important than people may believe. And to know what you are is even more important, because …
Sometimes you will come across something by coincidence and you were happy that it happened. That’s exactly what happened to me with Foot Locker! – My personal review! Investing in stocks is really exciting. Although most of the time it can be very “boring”, especially when you’re following a strategy like mine. I’m not buying very often. I’m searching for …
People tend to express value by a price that we’re willing to pay. Therefore many, if not the most, people equate price and value. But are both really the same? Recently I had a really nice conversation about investing. During our little chat we came to Bitcoin mining and crypto trading and to the question, why investors aren’t very interested in …
Selling stocks is at least as hard as buying them. For me, it’s like giving up a good friend. But that’s emotional. What about rational reasons? Although not as difficult as constructing a rocket, buying stocks reasonably needs some work to be done. I talk about this in my post “How do I find a stock to invest in?”. When you …
Many professional advisors as well as many private investors are of the opinion that an average investor has no chance to beat the market. Rather, he will perform worse than the market just because of his background. But is this really true? Or do they have an advantage? People who read my latest posts know that I love to invest in …