Protecting your stock investments is one of the most important things you can do as an investor.  So we’re going to look at two techniques to do that.  One of them is quite simple, and will protect you from a major loss.  The other is a little more involved, but believe it or not, it [...]

With all of the wild swings in the stock market recently, there’s been much speculation about whether we’re in a bear market or a bull market.  That is to say, is the market going to go further down from here, or turn around and go back up? And there have been many questions on how [...]

Ronald Read, a former janitor and gas station attendant in Vermont, who died a few years ago, surprised everyone by leaving an $8 million fortune to his local library and hospital. What was his secret, everyone wondered?  And the answer turned out to be

Most investors should have a portion of their investments in precious metals like silver and gold.   And that’s because precious metals can offer you unique protection from inflation over time.  After all, precious metals cannot be inflated.  That is to say, you can’t just print more of them like you can dollars and other paper [...]

I recently bought more stock in an old, durable company founded by the famous gentleman pictured above.   He was a man of many talents, and did groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils and aeronautics.  And he had a strong influence on National Geographic, one of my favorite magazines. Even better, he shared my annoyance with [...]

In our last post we made the case that most people should own some silver. And that fits with most financial advisor’s recommendation’s that people own some precious metals in their investment portfolio.  But just how much in precious metals, and silver, should you own? Opinions vary rather widely on this, so let’s look into [...]

On January 18, 1980, the price of silver had rocketed upward 724% in less than a year, from $6 to $50 an ounce.  The price had risen so high and so fast that people formed long lines outside their local coin and pawn shops to cash in their silver.  Ladies were selling their tea sets, [...]

You probably know of Albert Einstein, the genius physicists with a bad haircut, shown in the picture above.  His famous relativity formula, e=mc2, showed how much energy can be released from matter.  And it was related to the development of the first atomic bomb in the 1940′s. By the way, the formula computes an astounding [...]

Some of my favorite dividend investments will pay you exceptionally high yields.  I find it most gratifying to see their outsized dividend payments show up in my account, quarter after quarter, year after year. And you will too. Because high yield dividend paying investments really build up your account.  You can see real wealth and [...]

The legendary investor Warren Buffett has two great rules for investing.  They are … Rule 1:  Don’t lose the money. Rule 2:  See rule number 1. This is a huge key to successful investing.  So protecting your stock investments is probably one of the most important things you can learn and do.  This is how [...]