Tag Archives: cash position

How To Diversify The Warren Buffett Way

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have famously said that you should not diversify. They have also said that diversification should be called di-worse-ification. Other people have said they didn’t mean it. Well, they kind of did. The Right Way To Think Of Diversification You should diversify to prevent “actual loss” rather than “market loss”. Actual… Read More »

Saving Cash Is Not Always The Best Idea?

Here is why you don’t want to generally save cash to deal with a turbulent market. Or at least ideas you should consider as you decide what to do with your savings and investments. Your general return on cash Cash is probably making around 4% in a really good savings account. Which ain’t much. Inflation… Read More »

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Our stock market as a whole is overvalued. Some individual stocks are undervalued but the market as a whole is overvalued. And guess what happens when the market gets overvalued? It deflates, i.e. goes down. It may not do it right away, it may take years, but it does decline. Now you’re looking at the… Read More »

The Stock Market Hates Uncertainty

Covid. The Election transition. Christmas. The market sure hates uncertainty, and the virus is getting worse. It will probably continue until we have a good vaccine in enough volume. The election transition looks like it’ll play out until January 20. Hopefully not. With the downturn this year, Christmas shopping season is less than certain. And… Read More »

It Just Might Be A Good Time To Have 30% Or More In Cash

I kept my cash bar pretty high over the last 3 or 4 months, but maybe you have been more daring. As we head into record territory yet again, maybe it is a good time to look at your cash position and decide whether to beef it up. Cash in this case is uninvested cash… Read More »

Avoid The Macro, Look At The Micro When Investing In Stocks

I am starting to write this as tech stocks have declined over the past couple three weeks. But market values have no real view into a company’s stock values. They really show the emotion of the market participants. So as a reason to buy or sell, market values mean nothing. Similarly, the larger economy, changing… Read More »

Don’t Be The Dumb Money In The Stock Market

Smart money or dumb money. Truth is we are all somewhere in between. Including those that trade for a mutual fund or ETF. Or even professional stock analysts. To be dumb in stock market investing means that you trade based on information that has little relevance. For instance, what other traders say on bulletin boards.… Read More »