Our economy runs on fossil fuels.  Oil, coal and natural gas are crucial to powering our factories, our computers, our military, our cars, our homes, etc...  If there was any disruption in the supply of fossil fuels, our economy would be effected in major ways.

We see examples of this as the market responds to the price of oil and events in the Middle East.  We see this in the investments being made in natural gas. 

We all know the market would respond poorly…

My goal in life is to create automated mobile income. 

I don't want to spend most of my time going to work.

I am currently working on two main strategies for creating automated mobile income. 

The first strategy is to invest as much as I can while starting as early in life as possible.  I started investing when I was in my early 20's.  I'm already seeing the benefits of compound interest.  If I can get my investments to get big enough, I will…

Considering that the name of this site is invest every month, I suppose part of the argument being made by the site owner is that we should engage in dollar cost averaging.  However, I'm not sure I believe in dollar cost averaging.

I have been told many times by my financial advisor that I shoud invest on a weekly or monthly time table so that my investments are spread out.  This means that I will be buying more stocks when prices are low and fewer stocks when prices are…

The only reason we need to have huge entitlement programs for senior citizens is because they didn't take responsibility for their own retirement.

We are in a new world requiring a generational shift.  Prior generations largely had employers who handled the retirement planning with pension programs.  This is no longer the case.  Most companies now offer 401k plans and many companies don't do a good job of getting their employees to enroll in the retirement…

It really is an easy formula for building wealth.



It might take many years to build the wealth, but it can be done if you simply minimize your expenses and maximize your savings and investments.



Of course, the plan starts with the ability to make some money. Building wealth is much easier if you make lots of money. However, the amount of money you make does not…

I watched the movie Wall Street last night. I hadn't seen it in awhile so I really enjoyed it.

Of course, one of the most famous parts of the movie is when Gordon Gekko makes the argument that greed is good. Is greed good? Gordon Gekko answers his own question with a strong yes. He says that greed is what leads people to make things, build companies, strive to do and get…

I'm doing a little research into the stock market and came across a statistic that over 70% of the daily trades are from high frequency trading programs (HFTP's). Most of these HFTP's are from the big institutional banks representing less than 2% of total investors involved with the market.



This means that on a daily basis, a large majority of the movement in the stock market is a result on what the large institutional investment firms are doing. The high frequency…

I was reading an article in the New York Times about day trading when I followed a link to a study that concludes that trading is hazardous to your wealth.



First, the article in the New York Times shows how difficult day trading can be. One trader featured in the article was down $500 in the morning and then was up $210 in the afternoon. However, after…