Hey y’all, it’s Troy (trader, investor, whatever you want to call me). I just want to give y’all an update on the stock market, and in particular, the U.S. stock market. Here’s what’s been going on in the 2nd half of 2013 and what I think will happen in the first half of 2014. Please… Read more
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Are You Ready for the Challenge of Real Estate Investing?
Please welcome Dominica Applegate who will talk about the challenges of real estate investing. Dominica is a contributing writer at Inzopa.com. Inzopa is a private network of home buyers, owners, mortgage lenders and real estate agents. Let me know if you would like to guest post on RFI. With the surge in foreclosures over the past… Read more
How can a mortgage offset account reduce my home loan
A mortgage offset account is a great way of using your savings to reduce the amount of interest you will pay on your home loan. If you are unfamiliar with an off-set account, it is essentially a transaction account that is linked to your home loan, where the credit balance of… Read more
How to Balance Risk and Reward For a Winning Portfolio
Knowing how to manage your wealth and allocate your assets is one of the most important keys to financial success and unfortunately, many people neglect this critical aspect of financial planning. As a result, the gains that they make during good times are erased when economic conditions shift and move in the opposite direction…. Read more
Buying commercial real estate: the check list
Buying commercial real estate can be a great way to diversify your investments, and if you own your own business, to stop paying rent and build equity instead. Here is a check list of things to do before you take the plunge. Why do you want to invest Depending on why you want to… Read more
Every little counts
A couple of days ago, I was talking about failure, and how it affects people. Some will set the bar too high, then fail and give up. I don’t really mind failure, I’ve had my fair share of it, and also my fair share of success. Why? Because when I failed, I didn’t… Read more
Why gold attracts people
Since ancient times, gold has occupied a prominent place in the human psyche. The great empires of old had their castles and precious artifacts decked in gold. Alchemists of ages long past have strived to create “Philosopher’s Stones” that would transmute gold from lead. Throughout history, gold was (and still is) the ultimate… Read more
Choosing your investment strategy
Knowing where to begin when you start investing can be confusing. There are lots of ways to get started, whether you decide to pick the stocks yourself or to go with a company’s managed funds. Here is a description of the most common ways of investing. Index funds Index funds are an easy way… Read more
Binary Options
Options are financial tools very widely used to speculate on a certain asset or as a bet-hedging strategy, reducing the risk on an investment. Essentially, options give the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a certain underlying asset at a fixed price (known as strike price) at any point… Read more
Cattle investment part III: they are all gone!
This is the third post about how I invested in cattle, this time a lighter read with pictures of how the last sale went, if you want to check what breeding cattle is about and the numbers of the past September sale, you can refer to those two posts. It is a bittersweet… Read more