Questions tagged [investment-strategies]
Discussions about different investment strategies, and their different outcomes.
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Trailing Stop Order - how often do they get executed due to an error?
I've just submitted a trailing stop order. In the order preview a warning icon popped out: "...your order can be executed due to a system outage or accidental miscalculated ticks..."
How often does ...
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Investments that provides cash flow
We have just sold our house and moved into an apartment. This means that we a large sum of cash on hand that it just sitting in our savings account. Roughly 150k. We are therefore looking for ...
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Best strategy to invest in mutual funds with this scenario?
Edit: This question is about investing in mutual funds in India by a resident of India.
I have been working for the past 7 years. I have most of my savings in fixed deposits (60%) and stocks (40%).
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pros and cons of HSA in Investment account
I have my HSA that is currently in savings or checking account. The Insurance company provides option to keep the money in Investment account.
What are the pros and cons of parking HSA fund in ...
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Paying the rent with profit of private investment company: What what would be the best construct?
My partner and I have rented a home in a small village and would like to stay there for many decades to come. However, I feel uncomfortable being a tenant. So, we have saved enough money to buy a ...
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Does it make sense to invest in real-estate if you do not have any heir to your investments?
We are an expat couple (< 30 years old) currently living in Germany. We are wondering about the long term benefits of investing in real estate when we do not have a plan to have children of our own ...
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I have some savings want to invest in index fund but worried about recession in 2019/2020
I have a dilemma. Should I go all in and invest my savings in Vanguard indexes such as VTSAX? Or should I play it safe and wait for a recession? The market recovered from the December 2018 drop so ...
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What are the dates that the yield curve inverted?
For the purpose of investing, I've been reading about the yield curve inversion and what it might mean about the economy.
Unfortunately, all articles that I was able to find by searching on Google ...
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Can I invest using the All Weather Portfolio strategy buying US stocks but on the London Stock Exchange?
I really like Ray Dalio’s ‘All Weather Portfolio strategy’ and I would like to follow this, but I’m struggling to find relatable USA ETF’s that I can buy into on the LSE.
Even if I did manage to find ...
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Averaging down strategy
I'm a beginner retail trader, and I'm trying to come up with a strategy to follow.
I know that there is no silver bullet, and I'm ok to exit a trade losing money.
I'll only invest in good companies ...
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How to select ETFs on to invest on?
In the last couple of years I have been trying to educate myself in what concerns finance. I have put some money on some financial products (shares and ETFs) but I feel like I am playing the roulette ...
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Risk management strategies for ETF portfolio
I have an ETF portfolio (MSCI World, Euro Stoxx 600) and I'm following a "buy and hold" strategy.
But I would also like to learn more about risk management strategies. More precisely, I'd like to ...
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Downside of having multiple brokerage accounts?
I have around 4-5 long term objectives, that I would like to invest towards separately. I was planning on opening a separate brokerage account for each objective. The benefit would be that each ...
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Managing investments for multiple goals
I have been investing towards multiple goals, like Retirement, House, Car, Vacation etc. So I make monthly deposits against each of these goals. But I have a single fidelity account for investing, so ...
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What are some good investment options for a foreigner in France who doesn't have a permanent residence permit or a French citizenship? [closed]
I'm a non EU citizen living in France, with a work permit valid until December 2021. I don't have permanent residence permit yet, but will apply for it soon with a year or two. So I was wondering what ...
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money investment [closed]
I am trying to invest money because I have around 3218.45 USD which I could invest, and start generating money. I am out of ideas in how can I invest the money to start generating money from my money
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Is it worth it to invest on a VUL?
I've been offered a Variable Universal life insurance and i'm not sure if im making the right choice by investing on this. I was told that by 7 years of investing, i can "withdraw" my money back and ...
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Savings Accounts for Future Child Expenses
If I were looking to have a kid in the next 3-6 years, what (if any) tax-advantaged plans exist to help saving for future, related expenses?
To be more specific, there are numerous types of savings ...
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Investment vs Income Tax
For a private employee in India, with an income of INR 6.5 lacs per annum, to minimize IT under 80C, which investment is most beneficial?
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The “Permanent Portfolio” content
I am considering the idea of "Harry Browne's permanent portfolio". I seen a few versions of this strategy where the different parts consists of managned funds which in turn have some costs associated ...
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On a statement of Harry Browne [closed]
I am reading a book on an investment strategy proposed by Harry Browne (1999, Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 minutes, pp. 39–40) known as the "permanent portfolio". He makes ...
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Buying the dip & Staying invested — how do you follow both at the same time?
Two pieces of advice I read most often in regards to stock market investments are:
Stay invested in the market -- time in market is more valuable than timing the market.
Buy the dip -- if the market ...
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Scenarios for a 25 yo finishing a PhD staying in Academia, but hope to invest her $100 K USD [duplicate]
Suppose 1: I am a 25 year old just about to finishing my PhD in pure mathematics, and have saved about $100 K USD so far in my life. I have saved all $100 K USD in an American Bank (actually Bank of ...
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Can I make financial/investment decisions just by comparing percentages?
I see a lot of investment and personal finance resources that propose scenarios like the following: if you have a loan for a house with a 5% interest rate and additional income after the minimum ...
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Investments for Higher Expected Returns
In general, investments carrying more risk and volatility provide higher expected returns than those with lower risk and volatility. A 1-year T-note will provide a guaranteed return of 2.6%, slightly ...
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Optimisation of a Trading Strategy (Walk Forward Analysis)
To the pro traders:
What do you do when the past two years of a WFA (10-15 year period) had an increasing loss (2017 = -4%, 2018 = -8%) while the other years were profitable?
Do you modify the ...
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Where should a young person living in Switzerland invest their money? [closed]
I am an 18 years old student living in Switzerland, doing my apprenticeship as a software developer. In the last few years I saved around 10'000 francs and instead of buying a car I thought to invest ...
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Arbitrage on Libor rate and Swap rate
I must be wrong here, but still want to know where I am wrong. I found the data of Libor rate and swap rate from this link:
http://www.interestrateswapstoday.com/libor-rates.html
At the time, I read
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How do I choose between a sponsored or unsponsored ADR?
I understand the difference between the two, but in which cases would I choose sponsored over unsponsored, and vice versa? I guess a pros/cons analysis is what I'm looking for here.
For example, ...
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Does 529 help with no intention to attend college?
QUESTION:
Is it better to make a long-term investment in a 529 account or a post-tax account? Assume the terminal use of funds is not a qualified expense.
What is the right way to do this analysis? ...
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Does ROE project future returns?
Let's say I have $10,000 to invest and I want to invest all of that money in Apple Inc. (AAPL).
Just for the sake of argument, looking at Apple's ROE for as far as 2008, I realize it almost never ...
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What investment strategy is currently being hawked on FM radio commercials?
I've heard similar radio commercials in multiple states now. A guy says he can teach you how to invest where you'll "get the full return in the good years, but be protected from crashes" (paraphrased)....
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Is it a good idea for a 21 year old engineer (or similar) with some lump sum of money and good income to invest? [duplicate]
I am fresh out of university and landed a good graduate job with a decent acceptance bonus. I would like to start investing and not lose any time in doing so, however, it can be intimidating to not ...
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Is investing getting harder?
I've often heard that to make irregular rates of return in the markets, one has to accomplish two things:
1) Bet against the consensus.
2) Be right.
This makes sense - roughly speaking. Given that ...
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How to invest in art? [closed]
What are the ways people can/do people invest in art?
Or what strategies are there?
In company investment, off the top of my head, you can:
Invest in index/managed funds
Invest in start ups/rising ...
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Waiting to buy the right property: where should I put my money in the interim?
I sold my property and I have moved back to the UK where I plan to buy property in London. The market is currently declining due to uncertainty caused by the Brexit negotiations. I have decided ...
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Profit from a decline in a sector
I know that put options are "safest" bet when anticipating a stock to decline.
But what of a sector, say energy, to decline over a long period of time (> 1 year). Are there additional options ...
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Portugal's stock market vs France's stock market [closed]
I am 23 years old and I'm just diving in to the world of investing in stocks and funds. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to invest in French stocks.
My father has invested for about 15 years and ...
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Is is good/bad to invest in too many mutual funds at a time?
I am currently investing in 12 mutual funds. 10 out of them are through SIP. Just to make it clear, SIP (Systematic Investment Plan) means buying units of mutual fund each month (or quarterly/yearly) ...
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Do mutual funds book profit?
While directly trading in equity i.e. bypassing mutual fund, a common strategy is to book a profit when market is up and accumulate when market is down.
Mutual funds buy and sell in bulk. But, does ...
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Vegan hedge (shorting non-vegan, long vegan)
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How could I isolate a bet on veganism?
(Assume that most of my wealth is already invested passively in diversified index funds and that for alpha with a different ...
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What strategy to use if I want to sell a stock, and have a lot of time
Let's say I have some securities (stock/bond/index/etc..) that I want to sell in the near future, but it's not urgent to me, and I can wait for a few weeks if it will help me to maximize the profit.
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Profit reached faster then expected, what are good sell / hold heuristics?
End of January I got my feet wet into a position and added to that same positions after noticing it was doing well 3 months after.
8 months into holding the value went up by 40%+ (no major news ...
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Day trade one stock per day during one week
I was thinking in ways to make money by trading stocks and one strategy I am considering to test is the following:
Every week select one stock based on some type of analysis and trade it daily, ...
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Why is investing in China higher risk than Europe?
This is a fund of Asian tech companies mostly in China.
https://select.bestinvest.co.uk/fund-factsheets/fidinemp/fidelity-index-emerging-markets-p/inc#Portfolio
and this is a mix of EU investments
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How can I figure what fraction of college savings should be in my name vs. my child's name?
I am saving for kids' college expenses and heard (somewhere?) that one's expected contribution for college will be calculated at 100% of the child's assets and 7% of the parents' assets. (I believe it ...
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Investment strategies for an 17/18 year old
Background:
I am 17 years old, finishing school and turning 18 in 3/4 years. I'm planning on going to college/university directly after school.
I have a private Giro with ~1000€ (0.2% interest) and a ...
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Can a non-profit company make profit? [closed]
My cousin suggested a startup idea to me, I suggested that he could make it a non-profit since it fits all the requirements of an non-profit company and it would be much easier for him to get ...
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Partial investment in a home
Are there well defined ways to purchase stock in a home rather than taking a loan our on the home?
For example, imagine I wish to own a home, rather than taking a loan, I find person or business A ...
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safe investment for elderly
I'm helping with choosing investments for an elderly person. They just want to park their money and not be in the market, so something relatively safe for somebody in their nineties. They aren't ...
