Category: Investing

Today, we are going to talk about the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)? Have you ever heard about EMH? Do you what it is?

Behind this complicated name hides a simple hypothesis. It says that the market is very efficient. So the stock prices reflect all available information. It means that stocks always trade at a fair value.

The Efficient Market Hypothesis is an interesting hypothesis. It is also very controversial. Based on whether it is true or not can profoundly change the way you are investing. This hypothesis has many implications, as we are going to see in this article.

So, let’s delve into exactly what this hypothesis is about.

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If you have followed financial news recently, I am sure you came across talk about the future recession! Everybody thinks that it is soon upon us!

But do you even know what a recession is? And what does it have to do with the stock market?

Today, I want to go into details as to what is a recession, what causes one and what are its consequences. I believe it is essential to know these things if you want to be prepared.

Once you know what is likely to happen during the next recession, there are many things you can do to prepare yourself better. We are going to go over several things you could do for that!

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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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