Strategies

Dollar cost averaging is a simple and effective strategy of investing fixed amounts of cash at predetermined times. If you invest $1,000 every month, then you are dollar cost averaging. The strategy is easy to understand, but many of the benefits are not so obvious. Here are 4 such benefits:

To protect one's wealth against risks one must own physical gold. Acquiring gold mining shares...[instead]would be a mistake. This article proves that contention.

The next time the stock market has a large decline, examine your emotions. Are you exuberant or despondent? The answer will tell you if you are an investor or merely a speculator.

The USD Index just made its first “Golden Cross” in more than 1 year which is a short-medium term bullish sign for the USD...Historically when that has happened the USD usually continued to go higher in the next 2-3 months.

One would think that following two major market corrections of over 50% within the last two decades, investors would have a better appreciation for how much time it takes to compound your way out of losses. While buy-and-hold investors who stayed true to their strategy over the last two decades are indeed ahead, they lost many years of valuable compounding time in a quest to “get back to even.” The bottom line is that corrections and crashes matter a lot.

The only way to make money in the markets is with a long-term perspective. That’s it! Instant-access, low-cost trading and a mountain of stock data are both a blessing and a curse. The fact is we have too much information available to us, and most of it is useless noise.

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!

Today’s infographic comes to us from Neptune-GBX and it showcases the story of each precious metal and, more importantly, it shows why owning them simultaneously is the only way to get exposure to the unique supply and demand drivers behind each of them in the context of the modern market.

These 10 investment rules have historically kept investors out of trouble over the long term. They are not unique by any means but rather ,rules that have been uttered in some shape, or form by every great investor in history.

When it comes to investing, you need to make sure you have a well diversified portfolio so that you can lower your risk. A great way to add diversification to your portfolio is with small cap stocks but the benefits of small cap stocks don’t end with just diversification... In this post, I highlight 3 critical reasons why investing in small cap stocks will increase your long term gains.