Every week I read a large number of personal finance and investing articles. Here’s my latest shortcut to the best.
The market fell a little this week. Hurrah! I’m currently selling down some bits and pieces to fund this year’s tax-free ISA [1] , and a nice drop would make my long-term money go even further.
Good reads from the money blogs
- I’ve just discovered the Extreme Early Retirement blog. Here’s the author Jacob’s top 5 tips to retire early like he did [2]. Some leftfield thinking on this blog.
- Five Cent Nickel wonders if personal responsibility is dead [3]?
- I don’t personally agree with the many of the investing theories of The Millionaire Mommy Next Door but this post on why she doesn’t buy and hold shares [4] but rather trades momentum is coherent. Besides, it’s always good to test your own ideas by reading someone else’s.
- Moolanamy has a good summary of ways to value whether a share is cheap [5]. His main point is the nominal price you pay per share isn’t one of them – penny shares can be very expensive.
- Oblivious Investor has delivered yet another of his excellent short posts, this time on the quality of life benefits of doing it obliviously [6].
- The Psy-Fi blog warns of the dangers of investors believing in fairy tales [7].
- Monevator has a reading ease score of 32 and reading grade 14. According to this interesting post [8], most people will find my site has too many long words and sentences. That matches my experience! I love long words. Maybe I’m just pretentious. (See?)
- Get Rich Slowly has had a makeover [9]. I’m jealous… 80,000 subscribers, wise writing AND a fancy logo. Sigh.
Generally UK-related articles from other websites and papers
- The Independent isn’t convincing in this article about gold [10]. Just like the investment case, then…
- …though a precious metals expert in The Telegraph insists gold is a bargain [11].
- The Telegraph also makes the case for emerging markets [12], via video.
- Yet more from the same paper – this article gives a good historical perspective on bear markets [13].
- The FT takes a quick look at environmental investment trusts [14].
- The Motley Fool UK has run a profile of Jesse Livermore [15], the investor born in 1877 who wrote a book on share trading that is still read today.
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