Posts by Porter Stansberry
How to Choose a Great Investment (4 steps)
We’re going to do something that’s hard for most people in today’s essay… It involves some math. It involves thinking hard about rather abstract ideas. For most of you, it will involve learning new jargon, which is probably the hardest part. No, it’s not as hard as walking across a giant desert for 40 days.…
Read MoreThe Biggest Secret of Investing
Today’s investment advice is deceptively simple. You will want to ignore it, but I assure you, this is well worth your time. I’m about to give you the biggest secret of investing. It’s the one thing I wished I understood better when I started investing 20 years ago. At a recent meeting of The Atlas…
Read More3 Things Every Investor Needs to Know
Let’s start here… in the desert… Imagine you had to walk across the Rub’ al Khali – “the Empty Quarter” – of the Arabian Peninsula. This 250,000-square-mile desert is the largest sand desert in the world. Sand dunes there reach as high as 800 feet. It rains less than two inches a year. The surface…
Read MoreHow to Teach Your Kids to Be Rich by 40
Our education system is designed to produce employees… not leaders, not entrepreneurs… and certainly not millionaires. Most people believe what they do about money, commerce, income, saving, etc. because that’s what they’ve been taught. As a result, they ignore their own experiences… sometimes for many years. That’s a shame. My advice for 20-year-olds is simple:…
Read MoreThe Secret Behind the World’s Best Investments
Over the years, I’ve explained a lot of Wall Street’s “secrets”… I’ve explained how discounted bonds are sometimes vastly better investments than stocks. I’ve covered how selling naked puts is almost always safer and more profitable than buying stocks outright. These concepts (and others) are critical to active investors. They all play a role in…
Read MoreTwo Simple Money Rules
For the young folks out there, the single most important thing you can learn at your age has nothing to do with investing. It’s simply this: Live beneath your means Do not borrow money If you just go to work every day, try your best, build a career, save money (20%-25% of your income) and…
Read MoreWould You Like to Be My Partner?
I’d like to make you a business offer. Seriously. This is a real offer. In fact, you really can’t turn me down, as you’ll come to understand in a moment… Here’s the deal. You’re going to start a business or expand the one you’ve got now. It doesn’t really matter what you do or what…
Read MoreThree Things That Separate World-Class Investors
I have earned a reputation for being a good stock researcher — and a good stock picker. But I have told people for as long as I have been doing investment research that 90% of the money I actually make in the market is generated by how I buy stocks, not by which stocks I…
Read MoreHow Baseball Games Are Won – And Fortunes Made
“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.” – George F. Will (“Men At Work”) It was an investment parable, in the form of a baseball game. I speak of the Oakland A’s game five loss to the Boston Red Sox in the recent…
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