Emotion and Investing

The ability to control your emotions is an important skill for investing (and life). Human begins are emotional animals. That’s a fact. That fact shows itself in the stock market every year. Stocks become overbought or oversold all the time. Basically what that means is that when humans react to Read more…

Understand the Company

Find your circle of competence. Buy what you know. These are two fantastic pieces of advice from some of the best investors of our time, Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch. It’s easier to get overwhelmed by all the choices we have. It’s the same for the stock market. There are Read more…

My Foundation Stocks

The idea behind a foundation stock is that you feel comfortable putting a significant portion of your investments in a relatively small basket of them. These are stocks that have been around for the long haul, ideally having a track record of paying and raising dividends and earnings in any Read more…

Foundations

Foundations (n) – 1.) The load bearing part of a building 2.) An underlying basis or principle for something I’m a big fan of the concept of foundations in investing. It’s important to have a theory or principle for investing that you stick to.  It didn’t take me long to Read more…