John Templeton

John Templeton was one of the first US investors to engage in a more global attempt to find potentially profitable stocks. Templeton was a value investor, and he scoured the globe in search of bargains. His investors won big, earning 14.5 percent annually on average from 1954 to 1992. Today,...

If you are like most investors, when you power up your computer and open your email to start the day, you are flooded with trade ideas and suggestions. You will get 'trades of the day' and 'can't miss short-term opportunities' that you need to take advantage. If you watch the popular financial...

The question of value investing's lack of broad appeal has been visited by many over the years. The typical investor or trader continues to search for some sort of Holy Grail that unlocks the secrets of instantaneous stock market wealth. Many people have searched for it over the years and very...

In markets, as in life, humans have a natural tendency to complicate thing needlessly. Today, more than ever it seems that everyone is looking for some magic key or program that will allow them to painlessly and quickly make a fortune in the stock market. There is not one but that does not stop...

Investors often suffer from home-team syndrome. US investors are particularly guilty of looking at only the stocks located in their home markets and ignoring the rest of the world. The truth is that while something on the order of 11,000 stocks trade here in the United States, shares of more than...