The Six Investing Safeguards

I recently ran a series of guest posts on safeguarding your investments that was very well received. Throughout the course of the series, I received many positive comments. As such, I thought it would be useful for those of you who missed the series, to see all of the posts in one place, so here they are:

• Safeguard #1: Do Not Allow Your Advisor to Have Custody of Your Investments

• Safeguard #2: Walk Away from "Too Good to Be True"

• Safeguard #3: Insist on Publicly Priced and Traded Investments

• Safeguard #4: Buy Investments That Trend Upward

• Safeguard #5: Understand Your Investment Strategy

• Safeguard #6: Recognize and Avoid Financial Hooks

Click on the one(s) you'd like to read. Or if you want to start at the beginning and read them all, click on the link at the bottom of the first post and keep going.

Comments

[the weakonomist]

I missed most of these so thanks for putting them together. #3 looks to be my favorite. If only banks had done that.

[Ray]

I guess one more you could add, would be to review your statements to make sure you understand them

[Mai]

I've seen huge performance out of my credit cards stocks over the past few months, let's hope it continues! My portfolio needs all the help it can get.