With the big IPO's of Twitter and Facebook and their initial rocketing share price on day 1 of their float, anyone buying shares in these companies at such sky high price valuations will do well to remember the lessons of the past. If you are under the age of 30 [...]
My previous post examined the recent Facebook IPO and started to list some of the lessons that you could learn from what happened. This post provides lessons 5 through to 9 to complete the list. If you missed part 1 with lessons 1 to 4, then click here to read [...]
The Facebook IPO has now been and gone and Facebook shares are being traded on the NASDAQ exchange, so what lessons can you learn from this? Whether you bought some Facebook shares in the IPO or not, if you are an investor in stocks and shares then it is likely [...]
Have you ever been contacted by a firm you don't know offering to sell you stocks and shares, or similar? I have, many times. At first they sound like they are making you an offer you can't refuse. No, not like the Godfather movies! I mean they make it sound [...]
If there's one question I've been asked about share investing more than any other, then it's this: Is now a good time to buy shares? Recent Events In the last week, the first week of August, the UK FTSE 100 stock market has fallen by almost 10%. Of the 100 [...]
Back in the technology bubble of the late 1990s, I learned a very important lesson in share investing. For those who don't remember, the technology bubble coincided with mass take-up of the internet. Today, the internet seems to be a key part of our lives. Most of us use email rather [...]
