Becoming a stock market millionaire is much easier than you think because if you take about an hour or two of your time now to create an investment strategy, you are 95% of the way to becoming a stock market millionaire. So what exactly do you need to know to become a stock market millionaire? I’ve outlined all the steps below to help you build your wealth in the stock market.

Here's your step-by-step guide for how to become a stock market millionaire. If you can follow them I can virtually guarantee you will become a stock market millionaire!

One of the things that really frosts me is the financial planning industry that insists on using rules of thumb such as the “set and forget” tools - specifically the 4% and 60-40 rules.

If the dollar keeps rising - which I don't believe it will, or can - U.S. exports will fall and imports will rise, negatively affecting GDP and the trade deficit. Things are going to get choppy.

There's a lot of pressure to buy a home instead of paying rent. While there are some very valid financial arguments for homeownership buying a home isn't the best choice for everyone so, in response to all those friends/acquaintances who say, "Why are you renting a home? You should be buying! Don't you know you're just throwing your money away?" here are 8 retorts for those house-shamers in your life.

FICO scores are the most widely used credit scores in the U.S. According to myFICO.com, 90% of the top U.S. lenders access these scores to make important credit decisions. This article presents the 5 factors used to determine your FICO score and where (and at what cost) to get such information.

Claims about guaranteed returns or “can’t miss” opportunities but opportunities that are too good to be true must pass the smell test and, most of the time, if you do your homework, they fail with flying colors. There are many different varieties of stock fraud to recognize, and they all have distinct characteristics that make them unique.

Everyone seems to be preoccupied with rising inflation nowadays. While I agree that inflation will rise over the next 1-3 years, I don’t think it will even reach high-single digit levels. A return to the 1970s’ double-digit inflation is extremely unlikely. [Here's why.]

Every year, humans gobble up around 28 million tonnes of the metal in uses mainly related to its electrical properties – and as we transition to a green energy paradigm, copper will be an even more vital ingredient to human progress than it is today.

The gold/oil ratio is recognized as a sort of canary in a coal mine, giving advance warning of turbulence ahead and, for the first time in 3 years, the ratio is below 20-to-1 compared to its historical average of 15-to-1. Were it to go above 20-to-1, making gold too expensive or oil too cheap, and we would be in crisis mode.