Dividend Investing
Dividend investing is an investing strategy that, as you may have guessed, is centered around dividends. Before we get into how I implement dividends in my portfolio and why, let’s first go over the basics for some of our newer investors. Companies pay dividends similar to the way we...
WTF is an ETF?
Oh come on, that title’s hilarious. Alright, well let’s jump right into it. An ETF, short for Exchange-Traded Fund, is a long term investor’s best friend. ETFs are perfect for anyone who wants to use a simple brokerage account to invest instead of, or in addition to, their tax-advantaged...
The Cost of Opportunity
Wait, no… that’s backwards. Opportunity Cost! That’s the one! For my 3 loyal readers out there, you may remember a post from about a month ago about this topic. Well I think it needs a little refining. In my most recent post “Debt PEMDAS” I talked about this topic...
Budgeting for Investing
I want to provide you the absolute easiest way to invest your money, into an accessible account, and kick off your path to financial freedom. Please follow along and use the tools I am providing. This isn’t a scam, I’m not selling you anything, it really is just this...
Forget the noise
Have you ever looked into investing and just felt like it’s overly complicated and impossible to get into? Well, what you are seeing is noise, the fluff. You’re looking at the bad paint job and not seeing the strong foundation that will last centuries. Stop listening to noise of...
What to do with your stimulus check
For those of you who have lost your job over the past few weeks, this may not apply to you. If you absolutely need your stimulus check to pay for your monthly bills, you will not find value in this post. You may, however, find value in this blog....
Investing vs. Trading
Investing and trading are NOT the same things. All too often people get started in the stock market and watch their money gain 20% in a matter of a few days. Then as they continue to buy and sell stocks they lose all of their money and exclaim “Investing...
How to not pay taxes (legally)
This isn’t a post about tax evasion or money laundering, this is going to be about using the systems put in place by the government so that you don’t have to pay income taxes, ever. The most important thing that we need to understand is maximizing the standard deduction....
For all you retirement pessimists out there
I have many friends and family who are convinced that retirement is either impossible or won’t happen until their 60’s or 70’s. I have provided a link to a project that I have been working on (at the bottom of the page) to give my readers a glimpse as...
Costly dollar averaging
Or to be more proper, “dollar cost averaging” is simply a way for investors to feel safer about the buying price of their equities. To get the overview here, in most stock market investments, we have 2 main events, buying and selling. There’s some stuff in the middle there...