Investment Strategy
The investment platform that I recommend to most people is M1 Finance, and this article describes in detail why I think it's so good. In short, it's commission-free and has a very powerful interface for managing position sizes, seamlessly blending ETFs and individual stocks, re-balancing for tactical asset allocation, and building custom … [Read more...]
There is a common perception among investors that over the long term, small cap stocks outperform large cap stocks. In exchange for more risk, you get more reward. As it turns out, this is mostly untrue. The best small cap stocks offer more explosive upside potential, but as a group they don't really outperform large cap stocks. This article … [Read more...]
Cryptocurrencies are one of today's hottest asset classes to invest in. Bitcoin in particular has soared in price from pennies to thousands of dollars per unit in just a few years. But is it all a bubble, like the Dotcom era or tulip mania? Or is this just the start of something bigger, or even revolutionary? Price is what an investor pays, … [Read more...]
This article provides a brief overview about investing in bonds and then dives into some potential trouble areas in the bond market. I read thousands of emails from my readers, and one of the key themes I see is that people are concerned about the next stock market crash, and perhaps rightly so. By many measures we have high stock valuations in … [Read more...]
The core of my investing approach has been focusing on ETFs and blue chip stocks for fifteen years now, which I then augment with some trading in other asset classes around the edges. More specifically, I complement my blue chip stocks with international ETFs, cash/bonds, precious metals, a few small stocks, and occasional option trades. For … [Read more...]