Investors Master Risk to Seize Psychological Advantages and Better Returns

… higher returns?
Purpose: Gauges your outlook toward security, safety, return, and risk.
Investment Experience
Question 10: How much experience do you have with investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or other financial products? (e.g., none, limited, moderate, extensive)
Purpose: Determines your familiarity with different investment types and understanding of associated risks.
Question 11: Have …

Winning the Financial Game: How to Protect Your Investments

… give biased advice that benefits them more than the client, such as recommending investments that pay advisors the highest fees. That can happen when they sell many mutual funds when equivalent ETFs offer investors double the returns at lower costs.
Impact: This often results in market-lagging performance, potential financial losses, and delayed financial goals …

Retirement Plan Essentials: How to Build Your Secure Retirement

… myself.
A Shocking Revelation
But the turning point came when I looked closer at my retirement accounts. Because my financial advisor had put me in multiple overlapping mutual funds, I paid twice the fees available to investors in lower-cost alternative funds. That fee difference went into the pockets of the advisor and the financial …

Smart Diversification: Optimizing Investment Portfolios for Better Results

… ability to make smart diversification choices.
Living in an oil town, working for the oil company, with your portfolio holding shares in the same company along with mutual funds that have 30% exposure to the oil patch and energy, is not diversified! That is high risk! To address that and every other situation, we continue …

Stock Trading Halts Demystified: Everything You Need to Know

… your investment success!
Other lessons related to: Stock Trading Halts Demystified: Everything You Need to Know
Investors need personal diversification
5 Star market compass
ETFs beat most mutual funds
Girls make winning investors
Short sellers need judgment
Tapering groupthink costs investors!
4 Indicators muffle noise
6 Other investment choices
4 Stock scam tips
Comments and …

Boost Your Investment Portfolio: The Best Stock Market Strategies Revealed

… the market. At the same time, others focus on buying low and selling high, and others still, patiently ride long-term dividend-paying investments. Some only buy funds rather than stocks to build their portfolios. They buy mutual funds or exchange-traded funds to achieve their desired results.
Whatever approach an investor chooses, it is …

Warren Buffett Explains Gold: Why It's a Poor Investment Choice

… gold bars ranging from a few grams to 400 ounces. You can buy from gold and coin dealers, pawnshops, and major banks in Canada. Gold is available as jewelry, gold receipts, derivatives, gold-holding ETFs, mutual funds, or stocks of gold mining companies.An ETF holding gold is secure, low-cost, and easy to buy,

The 3 Yeses Formula: How to Know When to Invest Confidently

… elsewhere.

Other Lessons Related To: The 3 Yeses Formula: How to Know When to Invest Confidently
Investors need personal diversification
5 Star market compass
ETFs beat most mutual funds
Girls make winning investors
Short sellers need judgment
Tapering groupthink costs investors!
4 Indicators muffle noise
6 Other investment choices
5 Key finance checks
4 Stock …

Markets, technology, and laws respond to high frequency trading

… conflict. That distinguishes IEX, because orders of the IEX owners, like all orders, must go through brokers. On conflicted exchanges, owner orders can directly access the exchange. Unlike like your and my orders do. That innovation levels the playing field on the IEX exchange.
Buy-side ownership interest includes private equity funds, mutual funds, life

Who’s selling your stock?

… the broker.Where are my stocks held?A brokerage account stores the stocks you buy. You can use this account to buy, sell, and hold stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). You access your stock information through the broker’s online platform or app.When you buy stocks, the brokerage firm records …