The Open-Minded Investor

It's not glamorous, but the truth is most of us are just selling our time for money to stay alive. Selling your time for (more) moneyThe typical person has 90,000 hours in a lifetime to generate wealth. The most common way to do that is through a job, which

Have you heard about the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement? It's a community of people (like Mr. Money Mustache) that's obsessed with controlling their expenses, growing their investments and reaching the stage where they can stop working as quickly as possible. FIRE is about freedom. Freedom to do what

We're shifting gears this week. Instead of going straight into higher-level investing ideas such as systematic strategies to beat the market, we'll start from the very beginning on how to build wealth and achieve financial freedom. And everything starts with our time – and how we use it. 90,000 hoursHow

We've reached the final part of A Simple Strategy to Beat the Market (if you haven't done so, read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 first), where I answer some of the Frequently Asked Questions on this strategy. Thanks for following along so far. One

Been a rough week in the markets eh? It's hard not to be affected when you start seeing losses in your account. No matter what Buffett says about being greedy when others are fearful, it's scary. If you're human there's no escaping that. That's why I find it helps to

This week we're releasing Part 4 of A Simple Strategy to Beat the Market (if you haven't done so, read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 first).] Beat the Market (Part 4) - Using a Market Regime Filter to Improve Risk-adjusted ReturnsThe Basic "Beat the Market" strategy works quite

This week we're moving on to Part 3 of A Simple Strategy to Beat the Market (if you haven't done so, read Part 1 and Part 2 first). Beat the Market (Part 3) - Building Blocks of a Market-Beating Systematic StrategyIn this part we'll go through the process of building

This week I'm releasing the next installment of my Simple Strategy to Beat the Market (if you haven't read part 1 yet, you can read it here). Beat the Market (Part 2) - Understanding and Using Momentum InvestingMomentum in finance has been described as the "premier anomaly". In regular person