Sunday, August 10, 2014

Stay Focused on the Process to Reach Your Goals

To reach early retirement, to build a business, or to complete your education, you need to focus the work that gets you to the goal.

You can improve your processes, strategies, and ideas.  It's a good idea to continually improve your business, your investing, and your life.

Plug some of these affirmations into your subliminal affirmation software:

-  I question (assumptions, procedures, etc.)
-  Is there a better way?
-  Am I thinking big enough?
-  How can I gain more control?
-  I remain highly focused.

If you work at your computer, Subliminal Power will help you.

If you don't work at your computer, you can still have suggestions and affirmations flash on your screen.  But you'll think about the message you are sending yourself through the software.

SP2 takes a few minutes to set up.  There is a money back guarantee.  And I promise you won't turn into a cyborg.

Sunday, August 3, 2014

If a Significant Correction Materializes...

... then you and I will want to find bargains in the market.

Sure, we can buy excellent brand names that we like. But what I am going to propose is using a stock screener to try to find the best deals.

Be sure to screen for:  high betas, earnings per share, and free cash flow.  I plan to look through and evaluate  biotech, technology (like 3D printing), REITs, and fast food.

One idea could be to buy a leveraged index fund (etf) while the market slides.  Getting in at the bottom is obviously the trick. 

Friday, August 1, 2014

The Long Term Buy and Hold Strategy

If you think you can pick a few stocks that will significantly  outperform the market in the long run, open an account at a discount commission brokerage (Vanguard, Fidelity, Scottrade, E*Trade, etc).

Then start researching your potential picks. What you want to do is look up each company on Yahoo Finance, Seeking Alpha, The Motley Fool, CNBC, The Street, or another major financial site.  You can look up

Just so you know, there's a fair chance of a pullback in the market in the next few months.  Now is a good time to start finding good stocks. 

When you see the company's profile on Yahoo Finance, look at current and past earnings.  Look at free cashflow.  Note the dividend.  Read the 10K and 10Q reports.  Read the late  st news on each stock.

It's a good idea to run a stock screener, like the one Yahoo Finance offers.  With the screener, you can sort through all the stocks by a number of factors, including earnings, dividend yield and much more.

I wouldn't be afraid of newer companies.  I would research companies whose management are planning expansion (more stores, new products, expansion to foreign countries.)

If you need a couple ideas, consider PSMT and FB (Pricemart and Facebook).  There are lots of new interesting and profitable companies on the exchanges.  PSMT is touted as the Wal Mart of Latin America.  PSMT recently had a good run.  Then PSMT was downgraded.  But in the last week Pricemart shares have performed better.  PSMT I believe is a good long term hold.  But keep in mind Latin America markets are more volatile than the U.S., Western Europe, and Australia.

I like Facebook (FB) because it's #1 on Alexa and because the proceeds from the IPO are going to smart acquisitions, like Oculus.  Zuckerberg has said he wants FB to be what people use on Internet in the future.  My view is Facebook may someday own what comes after Facebook.

One thing to keep in mind is the markets are at an all time high.  Other things to keep in mind are the active Federal Reserve and an active government.  President Obama has said he wants to flatten out the economic cycles.  This could mean no gigantic pull backs (until a U.S. credit or dollar catastrophe...)

So learn the basics of options so you can hedge your bets.  One way to hedge your new stock purchase is to spend a little on a "protective put."  It's like insurance.

I am long FB and may be long PSMT in the next week.  I am also long GRZZX. 

If you're interested in what to do in an economic catastrophe, visit www.renegadeuniversity.net
Click on the "Crisis Investing" tab.   You may find the rest of my site interesting and useful too.

Have a good weekend.