Would you be amazed if I told you that it is possible to make 36% in annual returns by just buying the market indexes? So, how is this possible if the indexes have only been returning only 10%- 12.08% in compounded returns? The answer is by using a powerful strategy such as CFDs (Contract for differences) and Technical Analysis to turbo-charge your returns.
Technical Analysis is the process...
Value Investing is the strategy employed by the world's greatest investor and also the second richest man in the world, Warren Buffett. I was first inspired by Buffett's ability to make money in the markets when I read a book that was written about him in 1993. I was so amazed by this man not just because he was worth US$52 billion (just US$4 billion behind Bill Gates), but because he made all...
Do you realize that when you speak, move or look at people in a particular way, you actually trigger off certain judgments?
Are you aware that the manner in which you speak, the body language or posture you take on affect the people around you, and this could put you in unpleasant situations, especially in situations when people interpret your communication incorrectly.
Doing so breaks...
In order for us to know how to match and build rapport with others, we must first be able to observe others with precision. In NLP, we call this calibration.
Calibration is a process to help us fine tune our distinctions from an objective point of view rather than a subjective point of view. Calibration is the single most important element in modeling.
How do we calibrate? First of all,...
We know that in the short-term, stock markets go through booms and busts, upturns and downturns. So, there are a few signs you can look out for in order to avoid buying into the market when stock prices are generally high. Instead, you can do your best to enter the market when stock prices are generally low so that you can earn a potential return that is even greater than the average 12.08%.
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Value investor Warren Buffett, uses specific strategies to make sizable returns in individual stocks. There are three major steps that Value Investors take and they are: 1. identify great businesses, 2. buy them only at a huge discount and 3. wait for the market to realize their true value or overvalue them.
Step 1: Identify Great Businesses
Always remember that when you are buying a...
Look at the historical performance of the US stock market over the last 50 years. As we all know, stock markets are measured by indexes. In the case of the US market, the S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Dow Jones Industrial Index (INDU) are the two most common portfolio of stocks used to represent & measure the performance of the entire market.
The S&P 500 Index takes the weighted average price of...
The next most important question people ask is when they should sell the stock to take their profits. When you need the money? When the price has gone up by 20%? 50%? 100%? Well, as a value investor, you cannot just look at the price to determine if the stock should be sold. You must look at the price in relation to the intrinsic value of the stock. Even if a stock price increases by twenty...
Over the last 49 years, Warren Buffett managed to achieve a 24.7% annual compounding rate of return, which means he doubled his money every 2.9 years for half a century! He turned an initial investment of $100,000 into a staggering $42 billion. How was he able to consistently beat the market (only 10% of professional fund managers are able to beat the S&P 500 Index every year) and all the...
By using the Meta Model, you can make use of language patterns to influence others, to think from multiple perspectives. You can also use this model to prevent yourself from being too fixed in certain un-useful patterns of judgments in your day to day life.
One of the concepts of the Meta Model is known as 'Chunking'. When you communicate with people at work, do you find that some of them...
