Category: Investing

I have recently talked about the best Swiss banks. I think that Neon is the best Mobile Swiss bank there is!

They have very low fees. And they have an excellent mobile application, with all the features you really need. And everything is available in English. This makes it a perfect fit for most people. I think it is the best fit for my audience.

So today, I want to walk you through creating an account with Neon. I will go through all the steps of the account creation with screenshots and explanation. It is a straightforward process that should not take you more than 10 to 15 minutes.

After this, we are going to see the main features of the mobile application.

If you have questions about Neon, please let me know in the comments below. I will be glad to answer all I can!

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I just finished reading One Hour Investor, a book by Vishal Reddy. This book is an investing guide for beginners. The idea is that you can learn all the basics of investing in about one hour through the book.

The book is really fast to read and keep its promise of one hour guide, at least if you are a quick reader.

The book contains a lot of useful information about the basics of investing. Stocks and bonds are covered in details. The book even goes over the various strategies used for picking stocks.

Then, the book goes more into mutual funds and ETFs. It is explained why most people should favor them instead of picking individual stocks. Various investing strategies are also covered. And finally, it goes on into how to optimize investment taxes.

Stay tuned if you want to know if you can learn to invest in about one hour.

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Generally, you should not base your investing decisions on financial news. It is usually bad advice. Following the crowd will not help your returns. You need to stay the course.

However, that does not mean financial news and stock market news are necessarily not interesting. On the contrary, I think knowing what is going on is interesting.

I like learning about what is going on in the market. Sometimes, it will give you some insights as to why the stock market is up or down, for instance. But most sources of information are pretty bad. I do not want to spend one hour going through a ton of information.

So I went looking for interesting sources of information about finances and especially the stock market. Of course, being frugal, I wanted some free sources of information!

I tried several newsletters, but in the end, I found only two that were really what I wanted: Finimize and Morning Brew. I am going to present these two newsletters and also my arguments for finding them!

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The stock market is the best place to invest your money. But it is also a fascinating place with a long history. There are so many great facts surrounding the stock market. It is really interesting.

There are tons of fascinating facts about the stock market. Today, I want to share 13 of these facts. Some of them will probably surprise you a lot! At least, they did surprise me when I learned about it!

Knowing all these facts will probably not make you a better investor. But it is still very interesting to learn some details about the place you are investing your money in, no? Some of these really surprised me. I hope you will find them interesting!

Without further ado, here are 13 awesome stock market facts!

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Interactive Brokers is my favorite broker. I believe it is the cheapest broker and it offers a very large array of investing instruments. It is really great!

However, there is something that is not so great with Interactive Brokers. It is simply not really user-friendly. It is really getting better, however. The main issue comes from the fact that there are four user interfaces in Interactive Brokers. That means you can buy and sell shares in four different ways!

And another problem is that the simplest interfaces are also the least advertised. If you look around on the internet, most people would advise the Trading Workstation (TWS) interface. However, this is the most complex interface. You need to know that you do not have to use this interface!

Interactive Brokers has two simple interfaces: Account Management and IBKR Mobile, their mobile application. I have already covered how to buy an ETF from Account Management. Now, I want to cover the mobile application. I know a lot of people like to trade from their phones more than from their computer.

Let’s see how we can buy an ETF from the IBKR Mobile application. We are going to see how to deposit funds, how to convert currencies and finally how to buy an ETF or any other share for that matter. Let’s get into it. I chose the VT ETF since it is a large part of my portfolio. But these steps are the same for any ETF.

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The stock market is a strange place for many. It is surrounded by many myths. And if you are not careful and believe in these myths, you may well end up losing a lot of money. Some of these myths make people not want to invest in the stock market. As such they are losing a nice opportunity to invest their money.

Some of these myths came from the early stock market where it was indeed more difficult to start investing. However, many things are not true anymore and some things that were facts long ago are now myths.

It is important that you do your own research. And it very important that you base your investing strategy on facts and not myths. For this, it is very interesting to go over the myths to make sure you do not fall for one of them.

In this post, I am going to list the 13 biggest myths of the stock market.

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