Are you worried about money? If yes, you aren’t alone. Many people globally are struggling with financial stress for one reason or another. Whether you lost your job, are faced …
How to Conquer Every Cognitive Bias Holding Back Your Investment Portfolio
We may not like to admit it, but our human brains can be as defective as they are brilliant. When those defects impact our investing decisions – we pay the …
How to Overcome Your Fear of Investing
Investing is scary. There’s no doubt about it. Even seasoned investors feel something when they click ‘buy shares’ on their favourite stockbroker account. Their emotion is better described as excitement; …
How To Manage The Stress Of Insolvency
It’s common for businesses to experience financial stress from time to time. Various issues can cause problems with cash flow, from late customer payments to dips in revenue and unexpected …
How Easy or Difficult is Day Trading?
If you look online to find out how easy or difficult is day trading, you will probably come across a lot of marketing material. These may be ads for training …
The Drawbacks of Day Trading
Many ‘get rich quick’ schemes on the web currently holding up day trading as an easy way to make a quick buck. But there are drawbacks of day trading that these …
How False Expectations can Affect your Financial Trading
Many people go into financial trading with unrealistic expectations. These are often caused by equally unrealistic hype, marketing and overinflated success stories promoted on the internet by websites keen to …
Investing Mistakes: Prioritising Saving over Living
Part of my article series on investing mistakes. I should start by saying that this article simply shares some points of view on a very subjective topic. This is a …
Investing Mistakes: Over-trading
Part of my article series on investing mistakes. This article will explain a mistake made by new investors following active investing strategies. When actively trading, an investor is attempting to …
Psychology of Investing: 5. Investing on Autopilot
About the psychology of investing series I’m writing this exciting series of articles to add a new twist on the fundamentals of investing, which you may have read about in …
Psychology of Investing: 4. Keeping your Hobby in its Box
About the psychology of investing series This post is designed to be a companion to our main ‘How-to’ investment guides. If you haven’t read them already, I recommend you check …
Psychology of Investing: 3. The Dangers of Exuberance
About the psychology of investing series This blog post forms part of our investing psychology series designed to be read alongside our comprehensive investing ‘How-to’ articles that come with our …
Psychology of Investing: 2. The Income Mindset
About the psychology of investing series This blog post forms part of a supplementary guide designed to be read alongside our comprehensive investing guides which explain from start to finish …
Psychology of Investing: 1. Dealing with Loss
About the psychology of investing series This article is part of a companion series to our ultimate investing guides which cover the basics of investing in a variety of asset …
When is the Right Time to Sell Stocks & Shares?
If we want to follow the advice of “Buy low and sell high”, we need to understand when is the right time to sell shares. But when is the right …
Are Shares a Risky Investment?
The stock market is often compared to a casino. The newspapers often refer to investment banking as ‘casino banking’ which adds further weight to this idea. But are shares actually …
Is Now a Good Time to Invest in the Stock Market?
“Is now a good time to invest in the stock market?” as well as “Should I save or invest?” are probably the most common question I am asked by readers, …
Investing Risk Appetite Questionnaire
Take our investing risk appetite questionnaire to discover how your attitude towards risk should influence your investing approach. Imagine for a moment: it is 2 am and you cannot get …