Category Archives: Investments

I Am Actually Excited to Buy My Niece’s Birthday Gift – Investments!

I hate how many toys I have in my house.  It isn’t the clutter as I am not a neat guy, it is that I truly believe that my son just doesn’t care about 92% of the toys.  So I think I just see them as wasted money mostly by very generous friends and family. Continue Reading

Updating My Dividend Champion Watch List for February 2013

I would venture to guess that most people that follow their finances and investments closely have a favorite account or investment account.  Mine would have to be my dividend investment account made up of companies that have raised their dividends every year for the past twenty-five years.  As such, every few months I update theContinue Reading

Starting an Investment Club

Notice how the title of this blog post is not how to start an investment club, because to be honest I have absolutely no experience with the topic.  Notwithstanding I am taking the plunge and starting an investment club with a few friends, and I love to hear your input.  The idea for an investmentContinue Reading

Strategies For Building An Extensive Property Portfolio With Little Capital

With mortgages harder to obtain, more people are interested in the prospect of building a property portfolio with little initial capital outlay. If you have money languishing in a bank account and earning very little interest, here are two strategies you could consider: Lockup Garages Whilst not the most glamorous of property investments, lock upContinue Reading

I Bet Against a Stock For the First Time–What Does Buying a Put Mean?

Before yesterday, I have never actually taken a position where I profited when a stock would decrease in price.  The reason was simply because I lacked the understanding and education as to how I would actually be able to do it short of shorting a company’s stock.  That is when I learned of another, muchContinue Reading

Why I am Almost Always Bearish on Investing in Physical Gold and You Should be Too

Evan’s Note: This Post is from a new blogger who was able to highlight why I don’t like gold as an investment much more eloquently than I would have been able to. Scott Hopkins is the author of Youthful Investor. Besides long walks on the beach, Scott enjoys dividends, low P/E ratios, commission free ETFsContinue Reading