Category: Investor Education
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![My dumbest trade ever was during an IPO]()
My dumbest trade ever was during an IPO
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a trader I remember when I first started buying stocks, I was 16 using a family member’s trading account with their permission. I didn’t have a cellphone, so I lived in the school library checking my stonks. My teachers thought I was burnout…
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![What is a NFT and Can Somebody Make It Go Away?]()
What is a NFT and Can Somebody Make It Go Away?
This is insane. It was the morning of February 24th, 2021. The sun was half-shining and I had happily forgone the online Pilates class I’ve been planning to do for weeks. I was brewing my third cup of Nespresso coffee when assaulted by the headline: “Picasso, Rothko, Cézanne, Warhol, and…Beeple?” Who is Beeple? You may…
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Trading Places: Gamestop (GME.NYSE) has Wall Street shitting bricks because ‘the poors’ figured out their scam
A friend said his Twitter timeline today looks like the last 15 minutes of the movie Trading Places, and he’s right. In what may have been the world’s most effective troll event, Reddit users at r/wallstreetbets got together and decided the insane level of short selling on some companies by billionaire finance bros might be…
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![The U.S. Fed and market liquidity or welcome to the everything bubble]()
The U.S. Fed and market liquidity or welcome to the everything bubble
A translation of this article is available in Chinese at our partner website, NAI500 here. Before I get into the U.S. Fed and its market liquidity shenanigans, I should explain something that changed the way I view the world, kinda like the time I discovered Disney shoved lemmings off a cliff for ratings, almost making…
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![Direct Listings vs IPOs]()
Direct Listings vs IPOs
Technology companies like Slack (WORK.Q) and Lyft (LYFT.Q) have one thing in common: their affinity to make losses. But before Lyft fooled the retail investor, it fooled a bigger player: the buyer of its pre-IPO stock. The same isn’t true of Slack which opted for a direct listing instead. Now, you may be asking yourself,…
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![Hemptown Organics opens financing to non-accredited investors]()
Hemptown Organics opens financing to non-accredited investors
A few years ago, we wrote one of our defining pieces at Equity.Guru, an article that opened a new world up for a variety of investors, and introduced them to a pre-public listing deal that, for a change, was opening up to the little guy. So you missed Canopy/Tweed coming to the market. You stood…
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![Growing Gurus: ESG, ethical investing and shareholder activism]()
Growing Gurus: ESG, ethical investing and shareholder activism
So you want to be an ethical investor, but soulless multinationals like Exxon Mobil and Walmart have you put off from the capital markets. If this is you, know you’re not alone. But, dear investor, herein lies a problem: large successful companies, the safest stocks to invest in, are the most, for lack of a…
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![The trouble with robo advisors]()
The trouble with robo advisors
At a party several months ago, I overheard, and was drawn into, an interesting conversation while en route to the bathroom. The conversation was about finances, naturally. A friend of mine was admonishing another of our mutual friends for a lack of diligence in his financial planning. After years of late-nights and the resulting promotions…
