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Summertime Equals Peak Property Buying Time!

June 7, 2019 Published by

As temperatures heat up so does the activity in the real estate market.  People come out of the woodwork ranging from casual investors to people looking to buy or sell a home before the new school year.
Either way the market always has more hustle and bustle during the summertime and it is on us as investors to take advantage of that.
Yes, there may be more competition, but there are also more homes for sale as many wait till the spring to list.
Even for off-market deals, people don’t want to move during the winter and are more inclined to sell in

Multiple Streams of Income is Key to Financial Freedom

June 5, 2019 Published by

Did you know that the majority of multi-millionaires have seven or more streams of income.  Yes, that is correct – Seven!
Still have some work to do…
Having that many streams of income sounds great, but what it really had me thinking about is the majority of society only has one. One income – generally a job, which you can lose to a layoff, firing, etc. Putting someone at zero just like that.
Additional Streams of Income
It’s important to have more than one stream of income for several reasons:

It’s prudent (if you lose a single source of income now you have to worry

BITCOIN: Expected correction on-going

June 4, 2019 Published by

Still trying to understand what is causing the drop on the market these days?

I quit already from searching the reasons long time ago, I am only stick to the Psychological aspect of the market…news supporting the different scenarios often comes later on…

For “common mortals” as we are, it is really difficult to anticipate your next move based only in news and rumors, actually what usually happens is that rumors and news come in a weirdly and sudden manner and they are only reachable in a first chance for only a few…

Normally, when you read about a rumor, the rise or

ScaredyCatGuide’s Personal Finance Allocation Tip

June 4, 2019 Published by

A personal finance tip for how to allocate income, the buckets I use and the percentages that go toward each.
It’s a video I did some time back, here is what I lay out:
Income Allocation
55% towards living expenses (mortgage, food, utilities, etc.)
20% toward long-term savings/rainy day fund (for emergencies or replacement of large ticket items)
10% for investing/passive income creation (investing in and acquiring income producing assets)
10% for fun time money (pure discretionary income to spend on anything you like!)
5% for learning and getting better (taking a class or a course, i.e, learning something new)

(^ awesome t-shirt, right?)
This is a ratio I

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

June 3, 2019 Published by

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

Cryptocurrency Relative Strength Analysis Report For Week Starting 6/3/19

June 3, 2019 Published by

When you think about Cryptocurrencies, one name immediately comes to mind, Bitcoin.  Since the creation of Bitcoin, there has only ever been one cryptocurrency at the top of the market cap rankings…Bitcoin. 

When the price of Bitcoin rises, generally you can expect altcoin prices to rise with it. Likewise, when the Bitcoin price drops, altcoins also follow. And sometimes when Bitcoin is rising, the altcoins are declining due to cash moving from the altcoins to Bitcoin and vice versa.

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Bitcoin dominance is used to measure the percentage of the cryptocurrency market that can be attributed to Bitcoin. Thus, it’s very easy

World Stock Market Relative Strength Analysis Report For Week Starting 6/2/19

June 3, 2019 Published by

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

Is it Skill or Your Beliefs Holding You Back?

June 2, 2019 Published by

This is a point I have shared before but want to share again.
Anyone who reads my blog or listens to the Scaredycat investor show has probably heard me at least once say:

90% of trading and investing is psychology, the other 10% is skill.

Change Your Story, Change Your Beliefs
This is actually super powerful as most of us tell ourselves a story throughout each and everyday.
It’s that story of why something is they way it is, we rationalize things – we create excuses.
What’s the Point?
The point of bringing this up is that a large majority of the time (more than you think)

Forex Relative Strength Analysis Report For Week Starting 6/2/19

June 1, 2019 Published by

Some of the world’s currencies are accepted for most international transactions. The most popular currencies are accepted for most international transactions are the U.S. dollar, the euro, and the yen. However, the U.S. dollar is the most popular. And in the foreign exchange market 90 of forex trading involves the U.S. dollar. Thus, when assessing the relative strength of the most popular currencies in the world, it’s always against the U.S. dollar, using the daily time frame chart.

The “major” forex currency pairs are the major countries that are paired with the U.S. dollar (the nicknames of the majors are in

SPDR Sector Relative Strength Analysis Report For Week Starting 6/3/19

June 1, 2019 Published by

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

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