The Time vs. Money Decision

One of the fun decision dilemmas in life….
Time vs. Money
Here’s the thing, we all look at money with a sense of value. X amount of dollars get us X amount of services/goods in return. So when it comes to money, many of us want to save some of it by doing a few extra things ourselves.
This makes complete sense, get less services/goods spend less money.
Or does it?
The Value of Your Time
How come we do not think about how much our time is worth? Some of us do, but the majority of us don’t quantify this. However, that’s exactly what we

World Stock Market Relative Strength Analysis Report For Week Starting 6/16/19

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (known commonly as the S&P 500) is an index with 500 of the top companies in the U.S. Stocks.  Because the S&P 500 Index represents approximately 80% of the total value of the U.S. stock market, it’s the bellwether index for the U.S. stock market.  In addition, the U.S. stock market is the largest stock market in the world, it’s also the bellweather for equity markets around the world. The S&P 500 is arguably the most important stock market index on the planet.

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Because we live in a global economy, the global equity markets

SPDR Sector Relative Strength Analysis Report For Week Starting 6/17/19

Sector rotation is the action of shifting investment assets from one sector to another to take advantage of cyclical trends in the overall economy in an attempt to beat the market.  Sector rotation seeks to capitalize on the theory that not all sectors of the economy perform well at the same time because sectors of the stock market perform differently during the phases of the economic and market cycle.

For example, defensive sectors such as consumer staples, utility and health care stocks tend to outperform during a recessionary phase, while consumer discretionary and tech stocks tend to fare well during early

Tips to Weed Out Fraudulent Rental Applications

Tenants are our biggest asset when owning rental properties.  Rental payments is where our income for the property is derived.  There is no bottom line without the rental income, thus good tenants are integral.
Having a solid tenant screening process is important, but we also want to make sure that the application we are reviewing is legit in the first place.
Now, if you have property management screening tenants for you then these are some things they should be doing already.  For those self managing let’s discuss a few points in particular as we can be a more desirable target for the

Intermarket Relative Strength Analysis Report For The Week Starting 6/3/19

Instead of looking at financial markets or asset classes on an individual basis, intermarket analysis looks at several strongly correlated markets or asset classes, such as stocks, bonds and commodities. This type of analysis expands on simply looking at each individual market or asset in isolation by also looking at other markets or assets that have a strong relationship to the market or asset being considered.

The US economy is still the largest in the world and the US dollar is still the most powerful currency in the world.  Over half of all foreign currency reserves in the world are in

FOMO and Sunk Cost – The Crypto Struggle Is Real

There are two things that act as worst enemies of investors.  We all know them well.
FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and The Sunk Cost Fallacy
When the price of crypto is moving up aggressively we tend to freak out and worry about missing the ride and do things like chase price higher or buy on any little pullback.  Often times this bites us in the ass and we make a poor entry price.
Other times we hold onto something that we are up big on because it is ripping higher and any pullback is just a hiccup before things are sure to

SPDR Sector Relative Strength Analysis Report For Week Starting 6/10/19

Sector rotation is the action of shifting investment assets from one sector to another to take advantage of cyclical trends in the overall economy in an attempt to beat the market.  Sector rotation seeks to capitalize on the theory that not all sectors of the economy perform well at the same time because sectors of the stock market perform differently during the phases of the economic and market cycle.

For example, defensive sectors such as consumer staples, utility and health care stocks tend to outperform during a recessionary phase, while consumer discretionary and tech stocks tend to fare well during early

My TIMM Trading Pit Commentary – Wk Of 6/3/19

TIMM (Traders’ & Investors’ Mentor Market) provides the tools analysts need to share their insights in a central location, TIMM becomes a market where traders and investors can shop for the insights they’re looking for.The Trading Pits are, in some ways, the main meeting place for TIMM. Here you will see folks sharing insights and asking questions about markets.

Commentary from this past week includes:

The Russell futures remain weak and now price is sitting in a daily supply zone.

For the first time since the beginning of May, the British Pound showing some early signs of life on the daily chart.

Investing Principles I Regularly Remind Myself Of

Principles are the foundation of our decision making. Having solid principles when it comes to investing is rather integral to success.
A few good Investing Principles

You have to be aggressive and defensive in investing

So what exactly does this mean? Basically, when the opportunity arises you must take big swings to make real money, but at the same time you need to make sure that if that swing misses it isn’t so big it knocks you out of the game.

You can never be more than 20% diversified within the same asset class

Easiest example – cryptocurrency. If you are only invested in crypto

BITCOIN: Two important levels to watch out

Despite the correction seems to be done, I am not satisfied at all on regards what we can see on the 4hour-chart of BTC/USD.Certainly, BTC bottomed around 7400 USD while I was expecting 7300 USD as a good entry point (see my post of 3 days ago) but the trading volume does not differ so much from the last days and even if we are upwards, this variable seems to be stagnant nowadays… You can see how different it was when we were seeing BTC growing on early May…

However, the Volume is one of the factors to take into account