The practice of hitting someone on the arm and saying “Punch Buggy Red” every time you see a red Volkswagon Beetle came from a marketing campaign by Volkswagen started in 2009, the “Punch Dub” campaign. It was the very commercial usage of something I have always known as the “Beetle syndrome”.
Those ads showing 20-year-olds stepping out of limousines trading forex on their mobile phone are one the most fantastic advertising deceptions you will see.
One of the things we have been doing well in the Marcus Today newsletter over the last few years has been Timing the Market using ETFs in the Strategy Portfolio. I don't have a lot of respect for those who believe it's "Time in the Market, not Timing the Market". It is an industry brainwashing…
There are plenty of very experienced investors who sell big income stocks just before they go ex-dividend
There are a lot of things in the share market that say one thing but mean another.
Making a loss? Can't Sell? Read this and you will have sold before you get to the end. If you are making a loss, read this list. You will have sold before you get to the bottom. I was working for a Japanese broking house in London in 1987 when the stock market collapsed. The…
The ‘Inefficient Market Hypothesis’ is based on one indisputable fact: You make the most money when everyone else is wrong.
There is a truth in the stock market that you will not find many brokers or fund managers admitting to. It is this: Fundamental analysis only works on certain companies. Meanwhile, there is a sub-world of stocks without solid fundamentals (XRO, PDN, NXT), without earnings even, that defy fundamental analysis and you all need to…
If you wrote a book for traders and investors, what advice would you pass on. What would be included in a book called “My Axioms”.
