Do you really want to become a better investor? Do you want to learn from your mistakes and learn to make better investment decisions?
For decades, behavioral economics/finance has been uncovering all the ways we make mistakes as investors. What’s been missing is how to correct these mistakes — how to turn these behaviors on their heads and make better investments.
The Insightful Investor does just that. In this free ebook, you’ll learn
Chris Camillo isn’t a professional investor but he know how to invest.
He turned $20,000 into over $2,000,000 by shopping at the mall, connecting on Facebook, and reading tabloids. Without even looking at a balance sheet or income statement, Chris takes big bets on trends he believes others aren’t aware of.
Then he heads to Facebook to validate his ideas with his social network.
He tells all in a new book, Laughing at Wall Street: How I Beat the Pros at Investing (by Reading Tabloids, Shopping at the Mall, and Connecting on Facebook) and How You Can, Too
Join Chris and me as we discuss his investment philosophy, how it works, and why he believes it’s a better way to invest.
Direxion Shares, the fund group known primarily for its leveraged ETFs, is moving into more buy-and-hold strategies.
And the firm is doing it first by launching 2 ETFs that use variants on Sabrient’s Insider Sentiment Index. Direxion announced that it was floating 2 funds:
You can see the prospectus for both funds here.
These two funds join Guggenheim’s Insider ETF ($NFO) — also powered by Sabrient’s Insider Sentiment Index.
Continue reading “Two new ways to invest with an insider trading strategy”
Where do you go for new, fresh investment ideas? Where do you go once you have an idea to vet it out, dig deep down into the research to validate your investment?
More and more investors are choosing to use YCHARTS. While the “chart” in the title might be misleading, the site’s research capabilities aren’t. This isn’t a place investors hear random ‘buy’ and ‘sell’ recommendations.
YCHARTS is a full blown investment site that helps beginning and advanced investors alike to make better — more informed — investment decisions.
And that folks, is what Tradestreaming is all about. Join me for a conversation with YCHARTS’ co-founder/CEO and financial content veteran Shawn Carpenter to talk about his firm’s value for investors and where he plans on taking his offering in the future.
Shawn’s also been generous enough to offer a free PRO subscription ($400) to a Tradestreaming listener. Please ‘Like’, ‘Retweet’, or ‘post to LinkedIn’ this interview and I’ll choose one person at random to receive a free 1-year subscription to YCHARTS Pro ($400). Continue reading “Building a better investment site – with YCHARTS’ Shawn Carpenter”
As an investment advisor, Lee Hull’s clients can’t afford to have down years.
They’re retirees looking for steady income — no matter what Mr. Market has to say about it. Where traditional advisors are willing to ride the market’s ups-and-downs, Hull uses a different approach.
His returns have trounced the markets while he puts less of his clients’ capital at risk. Over the past 10 years where the markets have literally gone nowhere, Hull’s investment firm has averaged over 8% per year (net of inflation!).
That’s pretty darn good but when you see that he was “only down” 9% in his largest losing year during the same time period, that should make you sit up and listen (if you’re not already).
On today’s episode of Tradestreaming Radio., Hull shares much of his research and methodology with us. He’s the author of Less Risk, More Return: A Proven Blueprint for Retirement Plan Investing.
Look below to access Hull’s 10 Tips to Improve Investing Returns and Lower Risk.
Continue reading “Investing with more return and less risk – with Lee Hull”
From Liv-Ex the wine exchange:
Check out my recent interview with Lot18’s Dini Rao about investing in wine. Prices can be pretty volatile and 2011 has been a disappointment (time for value investors to step in?).
The Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 Index – the fine wine industry’s leading benchmark – dropped 4.53 per cent to 308.03, bringing its year-to-date performance to -8.40 per cent and its year-on-year performance to -2.41 per cent.
Source: Liv-Ex Fine Wine 100 Falls 4.5% in October (Liv-ex Blog)
Andrew Hallam is an awesome teacher.
He’s also a self-made millionaire, having built his nest-egg off of basic, core tenets of sound finance AND a teacher’s salary.
In this episode of Tradestreaming Radio, the author of Millionaire Teacher: 9 Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School shares with us:
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Investment Products
Online banking keeps customers on hook for fees (NYT)
October 16, 2011
Big banks are struggling and their taking it out on their customers. How long will the currently banked continue to put up with this? BankSimple +1.
Social Media, Technology and Investing
The optimal software free trial strategy (SSRN)
Posted October 4, 2011
Lots of new investment startups and newsletters employ a free trial strategy to increase paid conversions. Do you go full features for X days or limited features forever? Here’s the optimal strategy.
The fear index based on social media sentiment looks bullish (MarketPsych)
Research firm MarketPsych has been profiled on Tradestreaming (go here). Looking at a variety of investor sentiment from thousands of sources, MarketPsych thinks the current market looks bullish.
New app is awesome showcase of stock market data and visualizations (Xignite)
Posted October 14, 2011
StockTouch is a new iOS app that uses a market heat map-type display of breaking stock market movements. New visualizations like StockTouch promise investors a new way to look at market data/info to aid decision making.
Investment Strategies and Research
Continue reading “Tradestreaming Cascade: The News You Need To Know (Week Of October 23, 2011)”
Investors seem to be more focused on the short term than ever.
You can credit hedge funds and institutional investors having to report performance on a monthly basis. CNBC’s 24/7 coverage of financial news doesn’t help, either.
However we got here, many analysts are calling for a return to longer term frameworks for investing — for investors and managers that run the companies they invest in.
Finance professor, Al Rappaport has been analyzing shareholder value since his first paper on the subject in 1965.
His new book, Saving Capitalism from Short Termism: How to Build Long-Term Value and Take Back Our Financial Future is a clarion call to break out of our current myopia and find a way to focus on long term value.
Rappaport joins us on Tradestreaming Radio today.
Al is a professor emeritus at the Kellogg School of Management where he taught for many years. He’s the author of numerous other books and papers, many with a focus on maximizing shareholder value.
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From Barry Ritholtz’s recent conference (The Big Picture Conference), this deck came from Barry’s own presentation entitled “Behavioral Finance, Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Psychology, and Investor’s Decision-Making Process” (whew, LOOONG title.)
I wasn’t there — anyone attend? How was it? Let me know in the comments.
