November Commentary at Kapitall
My wife and I had a baby boy this month and I've been late in answering emails and interacting with the Kapitall community. Below are the links to my November articles:
My wife and I had a baby boy this month and I've been late in answering emails and interacting with the Kapitall community. Below are the links to my November articles:
At Kapitall, I've been posting a lot more question and answer articles lately. Using what Kapitall users what investors have to say and think is provides much more useful insight than that listening to my Wall Street buddies.
Below are the links to my October articles:
Because of my association with ThePanelist, Forbes.com expected me to write an article defending socially responsible investing. I changed my focus and talked about the pros and cons of investing strategies based on virtue or vice . I go on to discuss how strong shareholder
activism can be more effective in influencing companies than selling their stocks.
And because it's Forbes, I had to include a list. In this ...
Thanks to Hercial Vitalis for getting back to ranting about the gold bubble again.
Lately, I've received a number of emails from users with various versions of the same few statements and questions:
1) I own gold and it's going to go up forever - the world economy is coming to and end.
2) I own gold and when do I get out?
3) When do you short gold and silver?
My response?
I recently received an email from a regular Kapitall user, with some very timely questions. Here's his original message, along with my response....
Part of my job at Kapitall is to answer user questions about the financial markets and investing. The users send me mail inside Kapitall's social network system. I coined the term "k-mail" and it caught on).. I pick the most interesting ones and share my answers with the community. Here are links to the most recent batch of questions. Questions range from when to buy gold and stocks to my favorite topic: how little investors taking advantage of hedge funds.
Once again, Brother Jimmy 's wins best BBQ restaurant in New York City .
Featured in Portfolioist today. Nanette Burns and I talk about how individual investors can beat institutional investors and hedge funds. You can read the entire interview in the smart investing smart investing section of Portfolioist.com
Kapitall announced real trading with TDAmeritrade. As an amateur and part-time tester Kapitall, I tried to break our trading product and succeeded on several occasions.