Kenyantykoon's Blog

• PREFERRED STOCKS BETTER THAN COMMON STOCKS??

  Posted: July 30, 2009, 5:20 pm by kenyantykoon

  Preferred stock is in many ways like common stock but it differs from common stock in that the preferred stock holders are paid before common stock holders in profit sharing and liquidation. Another cool aspect of preferred stock that common stock doesn’t have is the cumulative nature i.e. if dividends are not paid to a preferred [...]

• ARE COMMON STOCKS YOUR CHOICE INVESTMENT VEHICLE?

  Posted: July 28, 2009, 2:47 pm by kenyantykoon

  What is common stock? First of all a stock is a part of a company. Basically when a company goes public through an IPO they are basically selling part of the company to the interested prospectivee shareholders. Once you buy common stock like in a company like facebook then you are entitled to a share of the [...]

• BLUE CHIP STOCK EXPLAINED

  Posted: July 24, 2009, 6:43 pm by kenyantykoon

  what is blue chip stock? To understand this, you have to know what blue chip companies are. These are very stable and well managed companies that have weathered many financial upheavals. It goes without saying that these companies are very old and have excellent track records in provision of quality products and efficiency. This causes their stock to [...]

• PAPER INVESTMENTS TO LOOK INTO

  Posted: July 23, 2009, 5:51 pm by kenyantykoon

  paper investments are those that are- shall we say intangible and the only proof of their existence is in documentation T hey include stocks, bonds, mutual funds, hedge funds etc What this post and subsequent others will be dealing with is  that it will break up the different paper assets into its subcategories and discuss how investors [...]

• TYPES OF LOSSES

  Posted: July 22, 2009, 3:40 pm by kenyantykoon

  I have been debating with myself whether there are good losses and bad losses because according to me a loss is where you loose something – money or whatnot. So in the end you end up at a worse off state than before the loss. In his book Rich Dad’s Guide To Investing Robert Kiyosaki says [...]

• WHY I LOVE EXPENSES

  Posted: July 18, 2009, 2:21 pm by kenyantykoon

  Last time I was telling you a little about good debt and how to use it to make money. I wanted to post the other part yesterday but I couldn’t. But not to worry, seeing that today is a brand new day with brand new opportunities I will expound a little on what I mean on [...]

• ADVANTAGES OF DEBT, EXPENSES AND LOSSES

  Posted: July 16, 2009, 5:03 pm by kenyantykoon

  I know the heading looks sensationalist but read on to see what I mean exactly. In my journey towards financial independence I have read books and am on my to find entrepreneurial spirit. In some of these books this has been covered. There are both sides of even the bad aspects mentioned above. Everyone tries to steer [...]

• TYPES OF INVESTORS {PART II}

  Posted: July 14, 2009, 4:24 pm by kenyantykoon

  This is a continuation of yesterday’s post about types of investors.(read them first. It won’t take long) This post dwells on the remaining types ie: -the sophisticated investor -the inside investor -the ultimate investor THE SOPHISTICATED INVESTOR This is a very specialized type of investor. He has a deep financial education, a lot of experience(read a lot of [...]

• TYPES OF INVESTORS

  Posted: July 13, 2009, 10:39 am by kenyantykoon

  As I said in earlier post investing is a plan or a profession and like any profession there are classes or levels. For example, in the computing world there are computer technicians consultants, hackers, teachers and lecturers. There are also so many fields like internet security, website building and maintenance, graphic design etc. The world [...]

• GREAT CORPORATE RIVALRIES IN 2009

  Posted: July 10, 2009, 3:30 pm by kenyantykoon

  There are a few things that i like more than corporate battles. In 2009 there are a few corporate streetfights that i have been keenly following. Here they are: GOOGLE vs FACEBOOK vs MICROSOFT vs APPLE Microsoft and Apple started this battle back in the 1970s. Bill Gates (19yrs at the time) and Paul Allen (22) [...]

• INVESTING REAL ESTATE

  Posted: July 8, 2009, 1:34 pm by kenyantykoon

  I have been observing people and it seems that ones anyone with an investor mind gets any money the most common investment they go for is real estate. This is because its seems easy to get into than the stock market. i mean what is so hard in buying apartment buildings and renting them out? But there [...]

• RICH INVESTOR MENTALITIES

  Posted: July 7, 2009, 3:03 pm by kenyantykoon

  In investing there are so many schools of thought and am sure that you have heard some of them. The most common are - Do not put all your eggs in one basket but diversify (your investments) This really popular phrase makes people invest in so many financial products all in the name of diversifying like stocks, [...]

• TO INVEST OR NOT TO INVEST

  Posted: July 3, 2009, 3:51 pm by kenyantykoon

  Someone once said ignorance is bliss. This is true to some point. It may be bliss to not know that an earthquake is coming as we do not have to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand, your bum is in the air and the earthquake is still coming. If [...]

• my new girlfriend

  Posted: July 2, 2009, 2:46 pm by kenyantykoon

  I havent been blogging for a week now and believe me it really hurts…particularly when  look at my blog stats. Its like i’ve just registered the blog!! or being hit by a brick! But not to worry, am back and am bad!!! The reason it that my prized acer laptop had been attacked by viruses. Most of  the [...]

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