The following is a guest post by insightful reader JayCeezy. He is a veteran investor who shares his perspective on investing, retirement, and risk tolerance. If you want to learn how to lose a million dollars and live to see another day, read on! How To Lose A Million Dollars Kidding. It was a lot […]
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Making money from home is more important than ever thanks to the pandemic. If you have children to support, then making money from home is what you need to do. Why wife and I have been making money from home technically since 2009. 2009 is when Financial Samurai started. Since 2009, Financial Samurai has grown
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Investing and personal finance are such a personal journey. Some people are better at it than others, but we can all learn and improve. Conventional wisdom leaves much to luck in investing as well. Imagine two similar investors, Leslie and Bob. Related: Personal Capital Versus Vanguard Personal Advisor Services Comparison The Result I sure would
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The 2012 predictions turned out to be surprisingly on track with Obama’s victory, a 13% increase in the S&P 500, and a collapse in the social media sector. If you want to know how to become a better negotiator, study how the Democrats decisively outmaneuvered the Republicans into accepting $1 of spending cuts for every
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So you want to be rich? Glad you’re here. Financial Samurai is focused on getting rich and staying rich. If you want to get rich, you must practice predicting the future. If you want to stay rich, you must continuously invest in real assets that hold its value. Finally, if you want to live freely,
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Losing someone else’s money is far worse than losing your own money. If you lose someone else’s money, you will have this tremendous psychological burden that will be hard to shake. For a brief moment in time, I wanted to be a money manager. The idea of managing other people’s money was alluring. After all,
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Stock market armageddon seems to happen every 5-10 years. 2018-2020 were extremely volatile years. Who would have thought the stock market would rise to all-time highs during a global pandemic! The best I could do was call a stock market bottom in March 2020. But I did not foresee this! I’m buying as many rental
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Investing in the stock market is one of the key ways to grow your wealth. If you save money but only keep it in cash for your whole life, you’re not going to be able to beat inflation. Sure there is risk involved when investing in the stock market. But there’s a wide range of
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Structured derivative products are a type of investment that provide some downside hedges. They are also called structured notes. I wrote this post back in 2012 after I got a six-figure severance. I was trying to figure out how to safely invest my severance with a hedge given I no longer had a job. I’m
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Back in July of 2010, I wrote a post entitled, “Am I Living In A Parallel Universe?” discussing the disconnect between the robustness on the ground in San Francisco and the incredibly negative mood by the mass media. Back then, I kept thinking “the economy is back, baby,” but nobody seemed to agree. Even my
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