What Does It Mean to Rebalance Your Portfolio?

What does it mean to rebalance your portfolio

Rebalancing your portfolio is an important strategy that helps keep your investments aligned with your long-term financial goals and risk tolerance. As markets fluctuate, the value of different asset classes in your portfolio—like stocks, bonds, and real estate—will rise and fall. Over time, some assets may become overrepresented, while others might become underrepresented. Rebalancing is …

Is Market Capitalization the Same as Market Valuation?

market capitalization and market valuation

Understanding the difference between “market capitalization” and “market valuation” is essential for investors and anyone analyzing the financial worth of a company. Although these terms may seem similar, they have distinct meanings and applications in the world of finance. Market capitalization, often referred to as market cap, is a straightforward calculation that reflects a company’s …

World markets

This post considers worlds markets performance within a long timeframe. The markets signal rotation. SENSEX is as strong as ever, but Chinese indices are under pressure and European indices are rising. S&P and Nikkei are relatively neutral. Strong volatility everywhere. Maybe volatility will subside when Greece politics and Crude price get balanced.

Short guide for absolute beginner

If you are an absolute beginner to the investment world: 1. Understand the idea of modern portfolio management 2. Read this description of assets and asset types. 3. Understand indicators –Economic indicators –Candlestick patterns –Bollinger bands 4. Open investing.com and look at indicators 5. Start reading seekingalpha.com”>blog 6. See the simplest tactics in our book. …

Commodities supercycle

This great article shows the current commodities supercycle. Commodities are generally moving in a very wide “channel” supported by inflation with roughly 25 years cycle. The current cycle should be modified by 2008 crisis results for better understanding. It appears that the overall commodities prices are falling right now, as explained by the supercycle theory. …

Gold status

Unlike the status of oil, which is pretty clear right now, the status of gold is more complex. Gold demand is governed by exchange rate uncertainty and monetary inflation. We see conflicting trends of uncertainty and deflation, with rapidly changing monetary policies, which causes unpredictable results. We have seen a rally fueled almost entirely by …

World-wide deflation

We are probably witnessing the biggest word-wide deflation after the big depression of 30s. This article explains how US QE excess liquidity could cause such worldwide deflation. Will be interesting to see if ECB QE and Abenomics can handle it, and how the Chinese government will regulate overproduction and speculative bubbles resulting.