“The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.” -Benjamin Franklin

Investment Rules

One characteristic of every successful investor is that they all adhere to a set of investment rules. It is one thing to have rules, but it is not an easy thing to follow them and these rules will likely be more guidlines than hard and fast rules. Following are my rules that I intend to follow. [...]

Visa Inc. Reports Stock Buyback

On October 27, Visa announced a $1 billion stock buyback program after reporting a 4th quarter profit of $514 million. This is good news for anyone owning shares of Visa such as myself. When a company buys its own stock this reduces the number of outstanding shares and results in higher earnings per share (EPS) which [...]