Strategies

Below is a list of 10 longer-term investment books that I recommend. They aren't all pure investment books (some of them teach you how markets operate in general, doing so in a clever way) but they will help you understand the markets and investing, and make you a bigger-picture thinker.

When it comes to investing, the first rule thing you need to learn is effective management of your emotions. It is impossible to eliminate the impulse to act when euphoria or panic are in the air yet, while you cannot eliminate the emotion that pushes you to react, you can control your reaction. You can choose to run with the herd or fight panic and stand aside while the herd stampedes... Below are 8 additional rules of investing from a contrarian point of view.

The following major upcoming events will be exciting to watch unfold, one after the other. The steps will each involve a quantum jump in the Gold & Silver prices. The process will take a few years, but might be breath-taking in speed once the process is begun.

Because we know the trend is down, there is no guesswork about trading from the long side in paper gold. There is no need to “predict” the price direction. Just wait for more information that buyers are beginning to increase (which they are not, so far), and then have a strategy for buying in a changing up trend. Presently, there is no evidence of a change to an up trend, so wait for confirmation and keep one’s powder dry.

Through the combination of knowledge, skill and luck, the following top investors of all time have made their fortune through appropriate options trading, future trading and a variety of other methods. Go HERE to find out who they are and how they did it.

It’s important for every trader to understand that their trading decision-making process can have an impact on their portfolio’s overall volatility and performance. Let’s examine two main approaches: investing (methodical) and speculating (impulsive).

A trough of disillusionment has temporarily captured Bitcoin, the blockchain, and their derivatives. We think that cryptocurrency will remain in the trough for some time, but there are many reasons to believe that a robust foundation is being built for this technology. This infographic provides 5 reasons to be bullish on Bitcoin.

To help give you additional insight into your attitude toward risk, we’ve compiled a list of questions that together look at risk from a broader perspective than what typical questionnaires tend to address.

The stock market used to be a playground for the elite and the well-informed but it is now overrun by relatively ignorant retail investors. In light of this, and other dramatic shifts in market conditions, a P/E ratio of '15' may now be a real bargain if '20' is now the new fair market value.

The cloud on the horizon is a flock of black swans. No one can predict when they might land. What can be said for certain is that, at some point, they most certainly will.