Final Training! Maximizing Your Portfolio Paycheck

The third and final part of our Income Investor’s Training series is now available. Today we cover the principles that shape our investment strategy. You must figure out how you take the portfolio you worked a lifetime to accumulate and turn it into a meaningful source of income that you can rely on for the rest of your life. We …

Part 1: The Benefits of Income Investing

Start our 3-Part Investor Training Series! At Snider Advisors, we believe a successful investor is an educated investor. That is why we worked harder than ever to produce our best training series yet. Over the next few days, we will release our 3-part training series to help you become a better investor. Today, part-1, the Benefits of Income Investing, is …

7 Red Flags of a Shady Financial Advisor-Part 2

Part 1 – Part 2 #2: They Offer a “Free Lunch” Financial advisors have used the strategy of the “free lunch” to generate new clients for decades. As you get older and closer to retirement, you are more than likely going to be bombarded with invitations to lunches or dinners that are hosted by some type of investment firm. But …

5 Habits of Savvy Investors-Part 5

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 Steal From the Best When you’re headed to a destination you’ve never been and you’ve got no road map, the easiest way to ensure you arrive at the right place is to simply follow the person ahead of you who lives there and is headed there …

5 Habits of Savvy Investors-Part 4

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 Savvy Investors Stay the Course Successful investing can be as uneventful as watching paint dry or as gut-wrenching as racing 70 mph on a wooden roller-coaster ride; depending on current market’s conditions. Whether you’re bored and want more action or you find the ups and downs …

5 Habits of Savvy Investors-Part 3

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 Measure Investment Performance There’s an old adage that says, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” By the same token, you can’t expect to be a successful investor unless you have a system for measuring key factors every step of the way. In Part 1 and …

5 Habits of Savvy Investors-Part 2

Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 Complete Investment Strategy If you look at any successful investor, they have developed a complete investment strategy. They would never invest with a haphazard, one-off, ‘let’s see how this turns out’ approach. In fact the opposite is true. Savvy investors follow their comprehensive, detailed, soup to …

5 Habits of Savvy Investors-Part 1

Have you ever wondered how great investors think or what they’re doing that the rest of the world isn’t doing? What makes them tick? In this 5-Part Series, we’ will uncover the investment secrets of some of the most successful investors of the last century. Different Strokes for Different Folks Most of the greatest investors of our time have chosen very …

Dollar Cost Averaging for Better Stock Investing

A variance of dollar cost averaging is a critical component of the Snider Investment Method. So, let’s define dollar cost averaging, explore some of its benefits, and illustrate how this strategy helps conquer some harmful investment practices. You may be familiar with the term dollar cost averaging.  With this strategy, you buy a fixed dollar amount of a particular investment …

How Do You Define Wealth?

When you check your retirement account statements, what is the first thing you look at? Is it your current account value? If so, is that number how you currently define your wealth? Many of us will think about our wealth as the number at the top of our statement. However,  this is a “paper” number that fluctuates daily, unless you’re saving or investing for …