“Buy When There’s Blood in the Streets”

“Buy When There’s Blood in the Streets”

Originally posted September 14, 2018. Last Updated April 18, 2021. Buy on Red Days, Sell on Green Days Baron Rothschild – the famous real estate investor known for his shrewd tactics and ruthless investing style – once said “When there is blood in...
How do you improve your loss rate? Don’t be a monkey.

How do you improve your loss rate? Don’t be a monkey.

Originally Posted September 11, 2018. Last Updated March 22, 2019. Reacting to the Two Investing Outcomes There are two outcomes for most new investors – the investment’s value goes up and the investor is ecstatic or the investment’s value goes down...
Why you should treat market-wide sell-offs as sales

Why you should treat market-wide sell-offs as sales

The more you pay attention to the market, the less you worry about market-wide sell-offs. The attention of millions of traders and investors has more in common with a baby kitten getting distracted by the next moving object. Although I do appreciate CNBC, the need to...
When Exchanges Crash: Coinbase’s 17-hour outage

When Exchanges Crash: Coinbase’s 17-hour outage

Coinbase, the U.S. exchange for Bitcoin ($BTC), Bitcoin Cash ($BCH), Ethereum ($ETH), Ethereum Classic ($ETC) and Litecoin ($LTC), crashed on the evening of Thursday, August 9, 2018 at about 5:37 p.m. PDT and stayed down for 17 hours. Irk was, of course, mid-trade....
How to remove emotion and avoid the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

How to remove emotion and avoid the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

Originally posted August 9, 2018. Last updated January 12, 2021. Don’t Get Emotional If you want to become a good investor, you need to take emotion entirely out of the equation. No one likes to lose money, so the concept of buying an investment and feeling bad...