What are your Investment Rules?

[kiora]

Maybe,maybe not,time will tell

"2024 looks like 2005 and 2017 for stock market investors - and it's a bullish signal"

https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wire...LLISH%20SIGNAL

[kiora]

"Don’t Be a “Muppet”"

https://investment-fiduciary.com/2012/04/04/2620/

[kiora]

""We need to have a look at this through the eyes of economic efficiency, economic growth, productivity, innovation. Because when you make banks a lot more safer, there's a price that you pay on the other side."

"The whole process of credit intermediation is a pretty critical part of economic development. And I don't think we've got financial system settings right on a whole lot of areas," he says.

Financial system settings and banking don't tend to be areas thought of when people think about what to do to make NZ a better place economically in regard to taking risk and driving productivity growth, Bagrie says."

https://www.interest.co.nz/banking/1...-its-impacting

[kiora]

"US Equities – simply momentum or something more fundamental

The momentum run in the US market continues to be very strong. It resembles in many ways the peak rally in 1999 to early 2000, just before the “dot com” crash."

https://www.goodreturns.co.nz/articl...or+24+Jun+2024

"Collectively as a group, their revenue growth is spectacular. Sales growth has accelerated not just year over year but also sequentially over several quarters. The scale and speed of revenue growth has generated exceptional operating leverage and positive earnings momentum is seeing more than a two-fold increase in profit-margins over sales.

It’s raining cash in the Valley (and Seattle)

The primary difference between the 2024 cohort of market leading, large cap momentum stocks and their dot com predecessors is their free cash flow generation. They have roughly doubled their free cash flow margins since 2012 and have much lower capital expenditures as a share of cash flows than the 1999-2000 cohort."

[kiora]

Ouch,It's not likely to happen often but some sort of price cap would have prevented it

The dangers of buying at market



"Customers rushed to snap up Berkshire's Class A shares after the price plunged to $185 from $622,000 each. They placed "buy" orders after trading in the stock was halted, expecting their trades to be fulfilled at a price near $185.

However, after resumption, the clients' trades were executed at prices as high as $741,971.39, Interactive said. Its request for busting trades that were completed at such "anomalously" high prices was rejected by the NYSE, the brokerage added."


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inter...130021999.html