Introduction Securing the right investors is a pivotal step for startups and scaleups aiming to achieve growth in the competitive UK market. Identifying and approaching active investors can be a daunting task, but with the right resources and strategies, it… Continue Reading →
In this article, we will explore why studying regulatory filings and corporate disclosures are critical for informed investment decisions. We’ll highlight key filing types like 10-Ks, 10-Qs and 8-Ks and their significance. Using real examples, we’ll show how filings provide… Continue Reading →
The basic idea behind making money with stocks is simple. This is how Joel Greenblatt, one of the best modern value investors, describes it in the Big Secret for the Small Investor: “The big secret to investing is to figure… Continue Reading →
The release of ChatGPT and Bing’s incorporation of it has led to a series of high-profile AI releases. While the singularity-precipitating moment of AGI (artificial general intelligence) is not upon us quite yet, generative AI and these Turing-test-acing chatbots will… Continue Reading →
Figuring out what you pay for a public company was the easy part – step one. Nevertheless, going through the deep meaning of market capitalization first was crucial for realising that you are buying a portion of a business and… Continue Reading →
Some people must have hated 2022 when they realised that “stonks go up!” is not always the case. Regardless of the pain, one day this experience will be appreciated as a great learning moment, for those that stay in the… Continue Reading →
We analysed blogs for value investors and these are our Top 10, the best places to get more information and ideas for value investing, however rare it is becoming! 1. Chai with Pabrai Mohnish Pabrai is a value investor, well known… Continue Reading →
If you’ve been paying any attention to the markets during these turbulent times, it’s likely you’ve encountered references to the VIX, otherwise known as the Volatility Index, or its rather ominous nickname, the ‘fear index’. Given the devastating impact of… Continue Reading →
The markets are in chaos approaching full panic as novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, and its fallout rankles markets, disrupts supply chains, and has politicians scrambling to contain the virus and appease the public. The S&P500 is down 10%… Continue Reading →
What are the top topics for investors and traders in the financial space? Anyone with a keen interest in finance knows how imperative it is to understand market trends, predict behaviour, and stay updated on the most relevant and trending… Continue Reading →
Most of us have lost money in startups: the asset class is inherently risky, markets are often illiquid, and entrepreneurs are not always straightforward or forthcoming. The owners and founders may manage cash poorly, be grossly negligent in their duties,… Continue Reading →
What’s a big Cricket shot have to do with a company valuation? One of the first things I tell investors is that we go for the risky, big shots, even if it means there’s a chance of striking out. … Continue Reading →
A recent prediction about Index Funds from Michael Burry warns investors about a possible bubble. Burry, who had correctly predicted the derivatives-based 2008 Financial Crash – and whose character was the star of the film The Big Short, a movie… Continue Reading →
Commission-free is a hot buzzword in the brokerage and investing communities right now. Robinhood was one of the first FinTechs to launch and become successful with the commission-free strategy, and many other lean FinTechs have sprung up to compete, such… Continue Reading →
April Fools Day was this week. Our Chief Editor dropped the ball and forgot it was April Fools Day, so we didn’t have any funny content releases yesterday. Or he just doesn’t like pranks and didn’t want to remind anyone…. Continue Reading →
Note: We are not tax advisors, and you should refer to your financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Governments are keen to bolster their economies, and one of the most effective ways to build up a strong economy is… Continue Reading →
The world today is highly interconnected, and what happens across the globe may eventually affect investors and consumers at home. Supply chains are long, multinational corporations invest and operate in far-flung locales, and modern telecommunications technology allows us to see… Continue Reading →
Interest rates are a prime factor in any borrowing decision, and modern financial capitalism encourages responsible borrowing for the expansion of businesses and consumerism. That means interest rates affect everything across the economy, and the prices of assets are no… Continue Reading →
I recently gave a TEDx speech in Portugal on the topics of FinTech and how AI, ML, and society are changing the financial world. I only had a short 10 minutes to speak, so here I will flesh out the… Continue Reading →
In the last article, we explored how cryptocurrency exchanges and traditional stock exchanges differ. The FinTech world is not limited to cryptocurrency, though, and plenty of other concepts and processes in finance has been digitised and provided by FinTech firms…. Continue Reading →
The world’s major stock exchanges have been at the forefront of technology for decades, largely because of the massive potential for technological leverage and the astronomical amounts of capital and money at play. Recently, global exchanges have undergone a period… Continue Reading →
You might see headlines such as a fund or a company has announced a 1000% dividend or also how some funds and smart managers only invest in dividend-paying stocks. In this article, we cover the basics around dividends and whether… Continue Reading →
If you have ever received any income, you are at least somewhat familiar with taxes. Many people who hold salaried, full-time jobs as their sole source of income may simply know they pay taxes on their income and at the… Continue Reading →
Cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Even if the fervour has died down from its heights of Winter 2017-2018, the technology itself is still developing and will continue to do so. Bitcoin futures launched in December 2017 in the United States… Continue Reading →
In this final instalment of our series of posts (see the earlier posts here – Part I- Introduction to ETFs, Mutual Funds, REITs, ETNs , Part II- All you need to know about REITs, ETNs), we will assume you have decided to… Continue Reading →
While we termed REITs as funds, technically they do not have the term “fund” in the name. Either way, they are still pools of assets to help investors gain exposure to otherwise inaccessible assets. In this case, the asset class… Continue Reading →
MFs, ETFs, REITs, ETNs. Four acronyms many investors may be familiar with, and in their expanded form, they are familiar to many members of the noninvesting public. Mutual funds, born in their modern form in the early 20th century, enable… Continue Reading →
Daring. This is how most of the people would describe concentrated value investing. Getting head to head with high-speed rail could certainly be thrilling and exciting, but in modern financial markets where everything is decided in a brink of a… Continue Reading →
This post is inspired by the presentation by Ashish Kaushal at London Value Investing Club. The content of the post, however, is the view of the author. Humans have always considered some objects as assets. Food, shelter, clothing, water. These have… Continue Reading →
The term cryptocurrency has taken the world by storm. There are plenty of articles, and office watercooler gatherings around the globe are buzzing with crypto-this and crypto-that. It is the “next big thing”. The recent spectacular rise in several currencies’… Continue Reading →
We, humans, are social creatures by nature. Our banding together and sharing of information has catapulted us from cavemen to spacefarers in just a few millennia. Society and human contact are essential to our success. But, as with anything, there… Continue Reading →
2017 was a wild year. The inauguration of Donald Trump, the Brexit impasse and negotiations, possible far-right populist victories in European elections, the threat of nuclear war in East Asia, separatist movements within the EU, the meteoric rise of cryptocurrencies… Continue Reading →
Many investors, old and new alike, suggest that you stay away from bubbles. And if you have long-term capital appreciation interests in mind, then it is definitely advisable to avoid them. But if you are willing to trade on the… Continue Reading →
Back in 1999, I was in my final year of graduate school in finance and economics. Most of the students in my class and/or their families were involved in the Indian stock markets. The game was simple – apply for… Continue Reading →
Most people around the world view education as a means to a prosperous life. When reliable manufacturing and physical labour jobs were a staple of Western, industrial economies, tertiary education was considered for the elites only. Costs were relatively low,… Continue Reading →
This year marks the 8th year of the bull run which started in March 2009. It’s a cycle which has shown resilience against all odds and propelled the index higher by 240%. In fact, untoward incidents that were expected to… Continue Reading →
We’ve written about cryptocurrencies (CCs) before at CityFALCON, and that piece was largely focused on the technological aspects of them and how they can be related to real commerce and trade. In another article, we wrote about Initial Coin Offerings… Continue Reading →
Lehman Brothers, AIG, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide Financial, Royal Bank of Scotland, Wachovia, Lloyds. Are these names familiar? They all suffered major upheaval or failure during the 2008 Financial Crisis, most of them being acquired… Continue Reading →
The world has always been an uncertain place. That is the reason for the fundamental risk-reward balance in finance. The contemporary world offers unprecedented access to information to unprecedented numbers of people across the globe. Anyone with an Internet connection… Continue Reading →
We talk a lot about how machines are being used more and more in finance. This is especially important in High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Algorithmic Trading or algo-trading (AT). There is simply no way for humans to compete on these… Continue Reading →
Wherever money is involved, there is innovation. That is no different for blockchain technology. The popular transaction-tracking technology, which we have written on before here, is now being applied in a way to raise funds for a venture. Part crowdfunding,… Continue Reading →
Back in 2015, when I was raising funds for my FinTech start-up CityFALCON, I mentioned that our most active user on the platform is a woman trader who trades from home while her family is out. I would never have… Continue Reading →
Summary: FANG Stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google/Alphabet) have rallied a few times over the last 4-5 years. This seems to be the case with other tech stocks as well. The rise in the tech stocks has not only been because… Continue Reading →
We have come a long way since the days of a barter system. It hasn’t been necessary to have a specific good and trade it for some other specific good for a long time. For most of written history, there… Continue Reading →
Founder-CEOs are the people who start a company, grow it, and then continue to run it once it has become a large corporation. Some of the most famous names are Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. Are founder-CEOs better… Continue Reading →
Disclaimer: This is a guest post from Michael Wiggins De Oliveira, and does not reflect the views of CityFALCON and its stakeholders. Stock: Intrepid Potash Price: $1.80; $220m market cap Upside potential: 35% Date: 18/4/2017 Investment Thesis of Intrepid Potash… Continue Reading →
For the last few days, you would have probably seen headlines such as “Tesla is worth more than Ford – and GM is in sight” and people arguing about whether Tesla is worth being valued at the same level as… Continue Reading →
Disclaimer: This is a guest post from Michael Wiggins De Oliveira, and does not reflect the views of CityFALCON and its stakeholders. Resolute Forest Product (RFP) Date: 10/3/2017 Market Cap: ~ $400m Price per share: $4.50 Net debt: ~$761m EV:… Continue Reading →
16 Must Watch Movies For Traders And Investors Not too long ago we reviewed what impact the hit film The Big Short can teach us about value investing here. The blog post prompted us to take a look at what other… Continue Reading →
Summary of SnapChat IPO price trend so far: Post their IPOs, tech companies go through 4 phases: Euphoria, Pessimism, Optimism, and Realism. Snap Inc is obviously in the Euphoria stage. Price data of 7 big tech IPOs show that most… Continue Reading →
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