Monday
Sep202010
Answering Financial Questions On Kapitall
September 20, 2010 at 4:15 PM 
Part of my job at Kapitall is to answer user questions about the financial markets and investing. The users send me mail inside Kapitall's social network system. I coined the term "k-mail" and it caught on).. I pick the most interesting ones and share my answers with the community. Here are links to the most recent batch of questions. Questions range from when to buy gold and stocks to my favorite topic: how little investors taking advantage of hedge funds.
Featured in Portfolioist today. Nanette Burns and I talk about how individual investors can beat institutional investors and hedge funds. You can read the entire interview in the 
Kapitall announced 
Today, I set up a trading account at TDAmeritrade for the Kapitall interns. I allocated each $1000 to trade in my account. While I have veto power for anything stupid they might do, they have full discretion. After spending time with practice portfolios, knowing the money is real creates a whole new level of stress. It makes me want to come into the office each day just to watch.
Are you smarter than a fifth-grader at investing?
Why not start learning investing at a young age? I've given presentations to 5th and 6th graders in Salinas, California and The Bronx in New York. Most recently, I took a field trip to Cold Spring Elementary in Potomac, Maryland and USA Today's Greg Toppo was on hand to cover it. Investing has become something everyone must learn.
