Stop Buying Physical Gold! Here’s Why Gold ETFs are Superior
This is an excerpt from the video episode of Stop Buying Physical Gold! Here’s Why Gold ETFs are the Better Choice on ETFguide TV. Hey…
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ETF Battles: GLD vs. GDX, who wins?
This is an excerpt from ETF Battles on ETFguide TV between GLD vs. GDX – two of the most popular gold ETFs by assets and…
What’s Ahead for the Oil and Metals Markets?
The energy market has seen some record breaking moves in 2020. Never mind how the May 2020 crude oil contract went $37 negative, the magnitude…
3 Diversification Errors
Portfolio diversification is an investment strategy designed to limit risk by spreading money across multiple asset classes and securities. Most financial literature along with your…
5 Building Blocks for Your Investment Portfolio
The difference between well-built and poorly designed buildings can be strikingly drastic. Take for example, I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American architect, who is a legend in…
Factors that Should Influence Your Investments
If you asked a thousand different people about the key factors that should drive their investment choices, you’re bound to get a thousand different answers.…
Your Investment Portfolio’s Missing Piece
The framework for an architecturally sound investment plan is to have a core portfolio built upon core asset classes. Like the foundation of a building,…
Should Correlations Drive Your Investment Decisions?
Do stock market correlations matter? Statisticians use correlations (or cross-correlation) to measure the relationship between asset classes or investments. The general idea is to better…
Being a Contrarian Investor Still Pays Off
Contrarian investing takes gumption. Not only are you buying assets that are hated by most investors, but you’re doing it at prices that are depressed. It’s a scary proposition…
How to Cut Your Trading Cost in Half
Although our era of discount brokers and commission free platforms has greatly reduced the cost of online trading, the cost of buy and selling stocks along…
4 Things to Understand about Your Portfolio’s Margin of Safety
Does your portfolio have a margin of safety? I ask that question because the total U.S. stock market (NYSEARCA:SCHB) has been rocky over the past…
Will Gold’s Slump Lead to More Gains for Bears?
Gold has it bad and that ain’t good. Especially if you’re a goldbug. Not only has gold officially forfeited it’s year-to-date gains, but over the…
Have Energy Stocks Finally Bottomed?
Energy stocks slid 8.7% last year and was the only S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:VOO) industry sector to lose value in 2014. Have energy stocks (NYSEARCA:XLE) really bottomed? FactSet reports:…
Did You Miss This Year’s Biggest Investment Themes? Here’s Four
Keeping track of global macroeconomic trends is a daunting task. For that reason, each month we organize and rank the key market trends in our Mega Investment…
Slaying Fiction about Gold and QE
Assassinating financial fairytales is something I enjoy doing. And the precious metals (NYSEARCA:GLTR) market is jam-packed with fiction of all sizes, flavors, and colors. One…
Is Gold’s Knockout Punch Coming?
Having an entrenched view is a good recipe for failure. And perhaps, there’s no better Wall Street case study than Peter Schiff, a precious metals…
Experts Get the Gold Market Wrong (again)
Two questions: How wrong have experts been about the gold market this year? And how much money has their bad advice cost people? Let’s tackle…
How to Print Money in the Psychotic Gold Market
The gold market is the epitome of human psychosis.* On one hand, there’s the anti-gold camp that have utter disdain for precious metals 24 hours…
Building Your Investment Portfolio Shouldn’t Be Scary
How frightened to invest are people? So frightened, they’d rather die! A poll taken by Harris Interactive for Nationwide Financial found that 62% of surveyed…
What Would Baron Rothschild Say about Russian Stocks?
Russia is in deep trouble. Never mind that it’s on the brink of full-blown war with Ukraine. International sanctions were just imposed against 17 companies…