I have received a number of emails from avid readers of my blog asking ‘how do I start investing?’. The emails typically go like “Hi Henry, I’ve $xxxx and I want to invest it, how and where do I start?”. You are not alone, WE are not alone. There are a lot of people from …
Over the past couple of months, value stocks has outperformed growth stocks and with everything going on in the market, it wouldn’t be surprising if value stocks continue outperforming growth over the next couple of months. So many factors are at play in this market, among them are the fear of inflation (aka the rising …
Alteryx (NYSE: AYX) is down 26% YTD and over 50% off its 52 weeks high; the drop is relatively heavy when compared to that of its peers. The company provides an end-to-end self-service analytics platform that is designed to assist data analysts and scientists to solve complex analytics problems. It offers its software solutions to …
The past couple of weeks, for growth investors, has been like watching Diamonds becoming Quartz: High-flying stocks becoming fast-sinking stocks. Week after week hope of a turnaround becomes dimmer and dimmer as performance gets from bad to worse. Tesla (TSLA) and Zoom (ZM), two of the wildly successful stocks of 2020, are down over 12% …
The S&P Global Clean Energy Index is down by 9.53% YTD; a consequence of rising interest rates and growing fear of inflation. The Index ended 2020 at 1790.76 points and rose to a high of 2113.53 point on the 8th of January, 2021, it then hovered around 2000 points until February 8 when it started declining …
Plot Twist: Technology stocks are no longer the darling of the market, they now seem distasteful. Over the past 30 days, the NASDAQ – 100 and the NASDAQ Composite are down over 7%. Individual tech darlings like Tesla, Apple, and Amazon are down by 30%, 11%, and 9% respectively over the past 30 days. Big …
When experts talk about disruptive technologies that have the capacity to drastically change our world, 5-10 years from now, Blockchain technology is always in their top 10 list. As a growth investor, investing in Blockchain technology stocks is a no-brainer, because the bread and butter of growth investors are companies developing disruptive technologies. According to …
‘The failure of one could be the fuel that powers the success of another’, in many ways, this explains my financial success so far. I consider myself lucky to have lived and grew up in hardship, and I say this proudly. Mine is a story of a son whose father ended up broke, despite coming …
“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” Abraham Lincoln. The financial history is updating, a digital ink has been drafting a new chapter: The chapter of digital currencies. As investors of today’s financial market, we cannot escape this history. We of this digital age and this financial market, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. Crypto …
Most investors in our generation invests in the long term future of a company. When valuing companies, “where a company is ‘potentially’ going to be has become more important than where it’s now”. Contemporary investors are choosing to invest in a company’s stories and less in its fundamentals, so what? I don’t like the fact …