Under the “The Essential” label, I will categorize all posts that deal fundamentally with specific topics and would otherwise go lost in the general blog.
That said, I will only publish exclusive articles here. The section will be filled in gradually and is intended to contain general considerations and reflections which do not necessarily have to concern investments.
Yes, I appreciate the often criticized hamster wheel as a merry-go-round! But that doesn’t mean that everything is excellent. For this article, I want to pick out one thing that …
The “corporate world is bad” narrative is popular in my finance bubble. There, I keep coming across colleagues who are working on escaping this world and what they call hamster …
Men tend to overestimate their skills and consider themselves less vulnerable and susceptible to fraud. Women are rather risk-averse. Likewise, those who have the least seem to be the most …
I am very pleased to publish a guest article by a fraud and scam analyst/fighter on the TEV Blog. The author lives in Eastern Asia (we studied in the same …
Generating multiple passive income streams sounds like the best and most secure way to reach financial independence. I have thought about the subject for quite a while now and also …
Calling a thought or statement bullshit (BS) is a radical thing. It is arrogant because it implies supposed superior knowledge. It also indicates a high ground, a looking down on …
Many younger shareholders experienced the first real stock market crash of their lives in February and March 2020. Within a short time, share prices around the world plummeted by up …
Like everything that lies ahead, we cannot predict the development of share prices. Over the years, I had to accept many of those realities when investing in stocks. Now, I …
Many investors try to trick the market with elaborate techniques and instruments like swing trading and stop-loss orders. Data and studies show that such techniques have indeed enabled outperformance in …
Do you know this feeling? Everywhere on the Internet, at work, in the subway, people are currently talking about how much money they have made with stocks in the last …
In this article, I want to talk a little bit about family-owned companies. I believe they offer useful criteria for your due diligence. But as always, I would not make …
I recently had an interesting discussion with another private investor about investing and the current stock price developments. We didn’t address value investing in particular, but after our conversation, I …
A common question among investors is whether the price of a stock is above its intrinsic value or not. However, calculating the intrinsic value can be challenging. Besides, Warren Buffett …
Investing during a recession sometimes takes a lot of courage, but can be worth it. In this article, I will show you how investors repeatedly manage to create wealth in …
There may be reasons to want to sell or even have to sell shares. But you should know a few things about when to sell stocks and how to decide …