Buying gifts for the stock trader and investor in your life can be challenging. When asked what he or she most wants for the holidays, the honest answer is probably “more money to trade or invest.” However, there are many thoughtful gifts available that will enhance a trader’s life that he or she may not…
Utilizing stock screener websites can be a game changer for active investors and traders. Whether you are a value investor with precise criteria for valuation metrics or a day trader looking for unusual daily volume, a stock screen can quickly identify new companies to start further research on while also revealing new trends in the…
There is a large overlap between the audiences of young, proactive investors and FIRE enthusiasts. For those who don’t know, FIRE is an acronym for Financial Independence Retire Early. The idea behind FIRE is to save and invest at a much higher rate than the average American, in order to set oneself up to retire…
Bonds and bond ETFs are not the easiest area of financial markets to understand. The good news is, you don’t need to be an expert in the intricacies of bond math to understand how they may (or may not) benefit your portfolio. For the purposes of this post, we are going to simply focus on…
Value investing has had better times. At one point the concept of buying stocks for less than their intrinsic value was widely appreciated by professional and armchair investors alike. However, the advent of index investing and the strong outperformance of growth stocks (such as the FAANG stocks) in recent times has made value investing slightly…
Passive investing through index ETFs has become the dominant mode for most retail investors, with studies showing that active strategies largely fail to beat the index over most meaningful periods of time. The huge growth in the ETF industry, along with competitive pricing for most mainstream passive index products has made tracking any type of…
News consumption in 2021 increasingly takes place in the email inbox. Mainstream news sources and independent publishers alike on platforms such as Substack have realized email subscribers are engaged readers and many prefer the convenience of daily emails with summaries of the major events they need to stay on top. Below we provide our top…
There is no shortage of information out there for investors and certainly no shortage of podcasts, but only so much time in the day. Below we recommend our favorite podcasts oriented towards stock market investors with more of a long-term view. We will keep this list updated as new podcasts make their way on to…
Information is critical to investing success. That was part of the motivation for starting Lean Investments in the first place. Having high quality information from a well-curated variety of sources can be advantageous when deciding which investments to make and refrain from. For example, if you had the information that Nikola’s truck wasn’t capable of…
