Mechanical Trading Strategies Vs. Discretionary Trading Strategies

Mechanical Trading Strategies Vs. Discretionary Trading Strategies When it comes to trading, you are either using mechanical trading strategies or trading at your discretion. What is the difference, and which is better? Let’s find out. Mechanical trading strategies refer to automated trading using trading algorithms with pre-set instructions. The primary purpose is to remove as…

Cup And Handle Pattern Trading Strategy (Backtest And Example)

Chart pattern recognition is one of the most popular techniques employed by chartists and technical traders; they constantly study and analyze price movements in hopes of detecting patterns that show the next most probable price movement. While there are many different types of chart formations out there, the cup and handle pattern strategy is one…

Head And Shoulders Trading Strategy (Backtest And Example)

Some investors and analysts turn to technical analysis and chart patterns to analyze price movements and determine the right time to place their trade orders, and one of the most common chart patterns they focus on is the head and shoulders pattern. Let’s take a look at this chart pattern. The head and shoulders pattern…

Advance-Decline Indicator (Strategy Backtest)

There are many tools investors use to measure investors’ sentiment in the stock market, but the advance/decline indicator is one of the simplest ones. But what does the advance-decline indicator mean? Often referred to as the advance/decline index or advance/decline (AD) line, the advance-decline indicator is a market breadth indicator that plots the cumulative difference…

Why Warren Buffett Recommends Index Funds (Passive Index Investing)

Warren Buffett recommends most investors invest in passive index funds. In general, investors should not be active investors. Why? Buffett recommends passive and low-cost index funds because he believes this is the most rational way to invest for most people. There are so many forms of mistakes ordinary investors can make, but passive index investing…

Is Bitcoin A Better Investment Than Stocks? (Productive vs Unproductive Assets)

Bitcoin has appreciated a lot over the last years, and polarized discussions on social media continue endlessly about which asset will perform the best in the future. Many swear to bitcoin and cryptos, while others swear to the more traditional assets like stocks, real estate, and gold. This article looks at productive vs unproductive assets….

How To Protect Your Capital And Savings Against Inflation (Money, Investments, and Savings)

Since the early 1980s inflation has been falling, at least according to official numbers. As a result, the interest rates have dropped significantly, even to nominal negative rates in some countries. Because of this, a whole generation of investors have never invested in an environment with rising inflation and don’t know how to protect their…

Experience, Age, And Wealth Determine Your Stock Market Performance

A recent study about Norwegian traders and investors sheds some light on the returns (or lack of) based on diversification, age, wealth, and risk appetite. It turns out that wealth and age are a major contributor to returns, perhaps not surprisingly: The tilts of investor portfolios toward the new factors are driven by wealth, indebtedness,…

What Happens To Dividends In A Bear Market? (Bear Market Dividend Growth Investing)

What happens to dividends in a bear market? How do dividend stocks perform in a bear market? How does bear market dividend growth investing perform? Dividend investing has become increasingly popular over the last decade. One of the main reasons is the belief that investors don’t need to worry about sequence risk and a bear…

15 Mini/Baby Berkshires (Berkshire Clones With Long Runways)

Berkshire Hathaway is big, mature, and its chairman is old (92 years). This leads many investors to look for companies that are similar to Berkshire but might offer a much longer runway. This article was initially written in 2019. Invest like Warren Buffett: This article lists 15 high-quality business models which we label Mini/Baby Berkshires…

Constellation Software’s Agnostic Capital Allocations

Constellation Software’s CEO Mark Leonard is a bit of an eccentric character and CEO. Under his reign, the company has compounded at about 40% for almost two decades! We have been avid readers of his annual shareholder letter for years, but unfortunately, he has chosen only to write when he has something “important to write”….

How To Invest In Scandinavia And The Nordic Region (How Can You Invest In Scandinavia?)

The Nordic region is small, with only 28 million people, but nearly all the main investment possibilities are represented. The Nordic Juggernaut is Nasdaq Stockholm, which has the most companies listed and is the biggest in market capitalization. However, the most prominent company is Danish: the insulin giant Novo Nordisk with a market cap of…

How To Find Multibagger Stocks (How To Analyze Multibaggers)

Many investors are obsessed with identifying future multibaggers. How can you find multibagger stocks? Unfortunately, it’s not easy. In this article, we look at a specific research report that addresses how to find multibaggers. The main takeaways from the report are that the Nordic region is a great place to invest, don’t be too obsessed…

Why Shorting Is Risky (Why Short Selling Is Difficult And Why You Shouldn’t Short Stocks )

Recently the short squeeze in Gamestop and some other stocks have attracted a lot of media attention. Of course, the action in Gamestop is sheer speculation and most likely a short attack on stocks with limited float and high short interest. This is expected to continue for some weeks, and some hedge funds are likely…

An Investment Checklist Example (Why You Should Have A Checklist)

An investment checklist is handy no matter your time horizon or investment style. The bare minimum is a mental checklist, but preferably it should be a written one. Just like the aviation industry developed checklists to avoid disasters, investing is very much about error removals. This article provides an investment checklist example and argues why…