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What's Dollar-Cost-Averaging?

4 Mar 2020 1 minute read 1 comment moneyredpill

Dollar cost averaging - Also known as “DCA,” is a simple and oftentimes passive investing strategy in which a fixed amount of money is invested at recurring intervals over a long period of time, regardless of share price. This is a passive strate...

What is a Custodian?

2 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments moneyredpill

A custodian is a bank or financial institution that takes possession of and holds a fund or customer's assets, electronic or physical. This is usually a reputable entity that guarantees and even insures safekeeping of the securities. In additio...

Top 20 Best Productivity Playlists for 2020

21 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments moneyredpill

Following our last post on the benefits of certain types of music to enhance focus and productivity, we thought we’d get a little more specific and share some of our personal favorite playlists and mixes to which we hammer out these very posts. Feel...

Music for Productivity

21 Feb 2020 1 minute read 2 comments moneyredpill

For anyone looking for a productivity boost or a natural focus-enhancement, music can help one get more done and stay more focused while in the process. Is it any wonder why so many financial markets traders, creative artists, designers, computer pro...

Retirement Should be Your Worst Case Scenario Insurance

18 Feb 2020 6 minute read 0 comments moneyredpill

What kind of quality of life is ‘work like a dog during your best years, so you can race to reach X-dollar retirement target, and hopefully not have to work when you’re old, tired, and sick’? Rather than slowly chipping away at a mountainous net...

What FIRE gets WRONG about retiring off index funds

17 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments moneyredpill

One of the safest, most effective investing-based retirement strategies is investing a large sum of money in index funds. How large? Absolute minimum size would be $500k, but ideally $1M. Such funds are allocated to an index fund (S&P 500 is the de f...

Why you should focus on earning more, not spending less

15 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments moneyredpill

Frugality has become a popular SEO buzzword in recent years, and for good reason. Financial discipline is critically important to preparing for your future and maintaining a sustainable lifestyle, while still enjoying life. The old saying goes, “spen...

What is Capital Gains?

12 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments moneyredpill

Capital gains is the net difference between the purchase price of a security and the price at which it is sold. This applies in trading and investing markets when an individual closes a position (sells a security) and the net difference is positive (...

Investing isn't only for the rich

11 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments moneyredpill

One of the most common penultimate goals in life for most is to enjoy a comfortable retirement. This is generally ascertained by working during one’s primary adulthood to achieve moderate financial independence by a median target age of ~65. Being ab...

It Pays to Job Hop

10 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments moneyredpill

Gone are the days of loyally devoting 40 years working for a single company. Enter the present, where one works for a company for 2-3 years, give or take, then leverages that title, experience, or salary, and leaps to a new, better job at a different...