Everything the DIY value investor needs to know!

I provide you with my experience with stock value investing in this site as well as the strategies I use for buying and selling shares.

Because I also outline some of the less successful strategies I have tried in the past, the information I provide here may save you a lot of time by avoiding some of the pitfalls of stock investing.

My experience extends from the mining boom of the late 1960s through to the present day. During this time I have used a range of different strategies.

And it is this experience that enables me to filter out all the babble that so often permeates the financial press, and present in this website the essentials for the DIY stock value investor.

I have also survived a number of stock market crashes and have now reached a point where I invest with confidence ...and with the goal of making an ongoing average internal rate of return (IRR) of 15% per annum.

What this means is an average 15% return over time on my total share portfolio.

This results in a doubling of my investment about every four to five years.

I check my performance using the internal rate of return (irr formula).

The Excel worksheets I use to check the performance of individual stocks and the whole portfolio using the irr formula are available FREE from this site by contacting me directly.

Some assumptions I am making about you are that …

• you have an interest in making money to gain financial independence over time
• you would like to find out how to accurately track the ongoing performance of your stock portfolio
• you wish to control your own decisions about share investing and hence minimise costs.

Need to be convinced about the benefits of this type of investing?

... then read on!

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