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The Ten Laws Of Investing
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 Successful investors know these laws by heart and they constantly play by them, which explains why they are successful. If you break one or more, you might get away with it, once or twice. But if you consistently break one or more then you get punished with poor returns or losses. What are these laws?
The ignorant lose their money!
This may appear to be a harsh law, but remember that the market is a ruthless place. Every trader is aware that within the confines of the market, they are playing a zero sum game and
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How to Play the Public Offer Game
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 Recently, we received calls from investors asking:
Should I buy Dangote Refinery?
What do you think about Fidelity’s offer?
Is International Breweries a sure bet?
What about Japaul?
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Know Your Investment Emotions
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 Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite - Kahlil Gibran
The poet’s famous words are so true in investing that Warren Buffet went on to say that the biggest determinant on your investment returns would be how much control you have over your emotions. This month’s Smart School section attempts to look at the key emotional biases that most investors face. Recognising them may well help us to overcome them when we face them. They affect all of us.
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Momentum Investing Explained
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 At Smart Investor, our philosophy is: Buy low, sell high. For a momentum investor, this philosophy is altered a bit: Buy high, sell higher. Momentum investing basically involves capitalising on market trends by identifying strong moves (positive or negative) and using such moves to tell how a stock (or the market) will behave. It is buying shares based purely on the fact that the price is rising and will likely continue to rise. Momentum investing is not a buy and hold strategy, it involves buying winners and selling losers.
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 Buying stocks is the subject of reams and reams of articles and advice. However, advice on selling stocks is much more limited. Often, the advice given is poor: ‘You need never sell your stocks!’ or ‘Sell at the first sign of trouble!’ The result is that amateur investors often lose money, fail to hold on to their gains, or they just have a sub-optimal returns on their portfolio, because they don’t sell when they ought to.
Even though the principles for effective selling are easy,
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Eight Deadly Mistakes Of Investing
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Creative Accounting: How to detect it.
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Smart Investor Portfolio -----August 2007
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5 Investment Styles By Famous Investors
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