Mr. FightToFIRE

Portret of Two Cents hosts Julia Lorenz-Olson and Philip Olson

Two cents show on retirement

Julia and Philip, The hosts of the PBS Digital Studios show, Two Cents just released a new video on YouTube that really hits close to…

MIFID II directive - Markets in Financial Instruments Directive

MiFID II Simpliﬁed For You: How EU better protects Retail Investors

The who, what, why of MiFID, Market in Financial Instruments Directive. Rules aiming to increases transparency in the European Union's financial market.

Investor jumping over pitfalls others have fallen in.

My top 4 investment mistakes & 4 more mistakes investors make

I screwed up more than once. Ever since I was allowed to hold an investment or trading account, I fell and got back up. I started in 2008 with Forex, and I moved to stocks over time. In this decade of trading both stocks and Forex, some of the errors I made happened more than once and cost me a pretty penny. Today, I want to share my 4 most significant lapses of judgment based on this experience.

What type of investor are you?

At the beginning of every year, I get a letter from the bank I have an investment portfolio with to review my investment and based on a questionnaire reevaluate what type of investor I am, i.e., my investment profile. Then based on the result we check what’s the most optimal way to invest my money.

Front cover of the book De schitterende eenvoud van index beleggen by Jaques Wintermans

Book review: “The marvelous simplicity of index investing” by Jacques Wintermans

Thanks to a three week Christmas holiday I finally had the time to do some reading. Of the four books I choose to read in these next three weeks, the first one that I wanted to get my teeth in was the Dutch book “De schitterende eenvoud van indexbeleggen: wat de banken u niet vertellen” which loosely translates to “The marvelous simplicity of index investing: what the banks don’t tell you” written by Mr. Jacques Wintermans.