My investor friends keep telling me to 'buy the dip' when the stock market slumps, but I ignore them for 3 reasons
- Friends and family keep telling me to buy more individual stock when prices are low.
- But that advice doesn’t make sense to me. Who knows if prices will go back up?
- For me, dollar-cost averaging — investing a set amount every month — makes more sense.
When I first started investing in the stock market during COVID,
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Read MoreChina to boost food imports from Latin America, Europe amid trade war
STORY: China’s new tariffs on U.S. farm goods are poised to reshape global trade flows.
The country retaliated swiftly on Tuesday against fresh U.S. duties, announcing hikes of 10% and 15% to import levies covering $21 billion worth of American agricultural goods.
Now China,
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Read MoreNvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 Was Briefly in Stock on Launch Day—at Terrible Prices
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 launched this morning, and to our surprise, we actually had several chances to buy the PC graphics card — but not at the $549 starting price.
Instead, the units we found available cost $649, $699, and even $719. “Not even the scalpers want this,” joked one user in a Discord chat devoted to buying GPUs.
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Read MoreNvidia sheds $1 trillion from record high market cap as market sell-off intensifies
Nvidia (NVDA) stock extended its decline on Friday as the AI chip giant’s market cap losses from its record high in January reached $1 trillion.
A broader market sell-off coupled with fears of an overvaluation in the AI trade has sent the stock tumbling more than 23% over the past two months.
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Market Commentary: Is $1 Billion A Year Enough?
Imagine I could reveal to you a stock that generates a cool $1 billion of income a year on revenues of $4.4 billion? That’s right a company that is so profitable it regularly reports 10-figures of profits, and now what if I told you the market values it at less than 1x sales, would you be interested?
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Zuck Plays Checkers, Cook Plays Chess
When Facebook first grew to prominence, a lot was made of how much attention per day Mark Zuckerberg’s company captured among users. It was common to see the average daily usage was close to a full hour per day per person.
Over time the scale of Facebook’s base proved astonishing. A full 1 billion users tapped into Facebook,
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Markets Are Going FULL Leptokurtic, What You Need To Know Now
If you look up the definition of leptokurtic, the dictionary explanation is:
- (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having greater kurtosis than the normal distribution; more concentrated about the mean.
That probably didn’t clarify things a whole lot if you’re not a statistician but in essence leptokurtic refers to a flatter distribution with fatter tails.
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