Investing in some technology themes isn’t so straightforward. Take bitcoin for example. The simplest way is to just go buy some bitcoin and then not sleep well ever again. Or you can invest in a bitcoin ETF which we’ll be taking a look at in a future article, or several “bitcoin stocks” you should definitely […]
Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs get slaughtered. That old Wall Street adage warns against letting greed get in the way of making sound investment decisions. Most retail investors are only familiar with the bull side of making money, and rightly so. Shorting is often akin to speculating because the longer-term trend of […]
Albert Einstein once said that reality is an illusion, but a very persistent one. He could have easily made the same statement about money, only some of which has actual value. In Papua New Guinea, they use pigs for money. Even today, you can pick up a decent-looking younger wife for about five or six […]
“The market seems overheated but it may just be getting started – proceed with cautious optimism,” is the sort of shite you’ll often hear pundits say. These sorts of wishy-washy statements tell you absolutely nothing useful, but since the pundits need to say something, they try to avoid speaking with conviction so you can’t call […]
There’s a decent likelihood that many of the people who stumble upon this article don’t even know what bitcoin is, but their mate’s cousin made a fortune after he bought a bunch of bitcoin mining hardware and struck gold. So, where do we even begin? We will start by telling you the most important thing […]
We recently published an article on how you can short bitcoin or 5 other cryptocurrencies without actually having to hold the tokens themselves. On the same platform, you can also go long bitcoin, which turned out to be a lot better strategy than shorting it. While we were speculating with our new bitcoin account at eToro, […]
There’s an old saying in the investment community that says “bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs get slaughtered“. While the implication here is not to be greedy, it makes a good point about how there’s money to be made for investors if companies rise or if companies fall. If you think that a particular […]
We’ve been seeing a lot of ads lately about initial coin offerings or ICOs. In fact, while you’re reading this article you may see some ads on our site about ICO offerings. We don’t control what ads you see, Google does, but if people click those ads we get some dollars which we use to feed […]
Everywhere you look there’s talk of how blockchain technology is changing everything. All these new currencies are sprouting up while bitcoin continues its upwards march. All the while, Silicon Valley naysayers are praising the emergence of ICOs so they can stick it to the man and democratize the entire fundraising process without realizing just how […]
It never ceases to amaze us how many scams there are in the world of penny stocks and yet the SEC does very little to shut them down. We have been exposing these scams for years and will continue to do so because it’s people like the elderly who most often are preyed upon by these […]