Category Archives: Investing
Stocks & media hype
Last Friday after US stock markets closed I went to check the performance of the portfolio and meanwhile saw some headlines for business and general online papers: “Worst day of 2012“. I didn’t feel that the day had been especially … Continue reading
Gains with a negative performance?
I wrote some months ago a post in the blog where I showed how you lose money with swings in the market of the same percentage (e.g. -10% followed by +10% or vice versa). In another post I explained how … Continue reading
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The Republic of Poyais
While I was in primary and high school, History never caught much my attention. And today is not otherwise in a broad sense, but I enjoy reading some historical notes on certain subjects. I am reading these days the book … Continue reading
Our investment fund in 2011
Luca and I have been investing together for 3 years. Last year I wrote a post in which I explained how we had adopted for our personal investments the same approach mutual open-ended funds have. As I explained last year, … Continue reading
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The Unwritten Laws of Finance & Investment
I believe I have already mentioned at some point in the blog the ritual I have almost every time I get into an airport of going to one of the book shops to check whether I can find something to … Continue reading
El Cosmonauta
Hace algo más de un año acudí con un amigo a la conferencia TEDxMadrid. Allí fue donde por primera vez escuché hablar de la película “El Cosmonauta”, por voz de su director, Nicolás Alcalá. Desde entonces he escuchado y leído … Continue reading
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What actually happens when there is a default?
A couple of friends of mine used to point to me some months ago, jokingly or seriously, who knows, whether it was a good time to buy Greek bonds due to the hight yield they had. My response was always the same, … Continue reading
With the Market’s swings, you lose
Stock markets have been very volatile recently. Mr. Market’s got a very fragile mood. One day is up, the next is down. In this post, I just wanted to make an obvious remark for most of you but a small … Continue reading
Active investment fund managers
In a previous post I showed the evolution of stock price for EADS and the target price calculated by an investment bank along 34 months. I already stated the misguided recommendations that they provided. A truly “Buy high and sell low”, … Continue reading
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Buy high, sell low
If I tell you that investment banks way of making you rich is advising you to “Buy high and sell low”, you’d call me stupid, you’d think I got the sentence wrong (obviously the way to become rich is “buying … Continue reading
