Short Takes: Philosophies for Investing Success and more

I wrote one post this week about how I can feel myself getting complacent about stock market risk:

Stock Markets Only Go Up?

Here are some short takes and some weekend reading:

Million Dollar Journey has an excellent list of key philosophies for long-term investing success. Beginning investors and old hands would do well to read it.

 John Heinzl does a great job of explaining the problems with covered-call ETFs.

Canadian Couch Potato says that if you started investing in stocks in the past 5 years, you don’t really know your tolerance for risk yet. However, older investors who suffered through 2008-2009 had their nerves tested.

 My Own Advisor gives the results of a Sun Life survey on the difference in attitudes toward retirement between men and women.

 Big Cajun Man explores a market timing strategy. It might be more believable if he included references to “Dementia 5”.

Comments

  1. Big Cajun ManAugust 1, 2014 at 8:17 AM

    Welcome to the investing world of Dimentia 5!!!!
    http://youtu.be/K8_2GUXnPu4

    For those that don't remember it. Thanks for the inclusion this week.

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  2. My Own AdvisorAugust 2, 2014 at 8:33 AM

    Thanks for the mention, enjoy the long weekend.

    Good to chat this week.
    Mark

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  3. No Nonsense LandlordAugust 2, 2014 at 11:43 PM

    I am not ready to publish the net worth stats on J Money's list either. It would be fun, as I think I could give most of those folks a run for their money...

    Anyway, money is the root of all evil, so if you are frugal, you can't be too evil.

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    1. Michael JamesAugust 3, 2014 at 8:58 AM

      @No Nonsense Landlord: Maybe you're onto something with tying spending to morality. Going into debt makes you an evil person.

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