Investing

If you want to own investments that outperform the market then you need to pay attention to relative strength index analysis. Relative strength indexing is about finding financial instruments that are generally outperforming – or underperforming – specific benchmarks, or a group of similar instruments. What is interesting about relative strength is that it persists. […]

Every February the venerable Warren Buffett publishes his widely-read shareholder letter. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and a close friend of Warren, ranked these letters as “among the best of business literature.” Not only can you see what The Oracle of Omaha is buying, you can read his valuable thoughts on markets. This year, Buffett’s letter

One of the favourites indicators used by investors to spot bargains is the dividend yield. Dividends are cash paid to shareholders for their ownership of a (successful) business. When stock prices are down, it means you’re paying less to own this cash flow. A dividend yield of 10% means that you’re paying 100p to obtain an

The Art of Execution by Lee Freeman-Shor is a fantastic read and succinctly captures the flaws in most people’s investment strategies. And most amazingly, does it using hundreds of millions of dollars and some of the world’s best investors as guinea pigs. Richard BerryRichard is the founder of the Good Money Guide (formerly Good Broker

One of the amazing things about investing in, or raising money for, early-stage companies is that fee comparison tends to be ignored. Perhaps one reason is that unlike investing in main market stocks, where you are dividend hunting. Or, forex trading, where you are trying to take short-term profits sometimes within a matter of minutes. The

Ground Rules – Investing In any game, there are rules. Some visible; some hidden. In the trading game, most are invisible. But then most beginners don’t know that. The ‘doing’ part of trading is actually very simple. You deposit some money into a broker account, select any tradable instrument, and click “Buy”. That’s about it.

As Funding Circle becomes the latest big IPO flotation, where can you buy it and how risky could it be? Peer to peer platform, Funding Circle, has announced a £2bn IPO and floatation on the London Stock Exchange. The company plans to raise £300million in a stock market float which could net its three founders