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The Two Kinds of Investors

by William Bernstein

There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know. Then again, there is a thi ...

Do You Think Too Much About Your Money?

Who doesn’t want to be good looking and rich? But too much obsession with your money is just as bad as too much obsession with your diet. Taking any obses...

Fundamental Analysis Problems

The problem with fundamental analysis is that it is difficult to convert the input into a specific price prediction output. This is especially true if the infor...

The Flexibility of Options

Options have dozens of uses beyond the basic strategies. They can be used to open spreads, for example. These are strategies consisting of opening two or more d...

Value Investment

The way you select investments ultimately determines how successfully you will manage your portfolio and create future profits. The concept of value investing a...

Combined Techniques: Creative Risk Management

Options strategies are varied and flexible and run the gamut from highly speculative to extremely conservative. This explains a large part of the appeal of opti...

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