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Investor sentiment is positive, the market is rising and the fun is going strong, right? Maybe not. Recent news has touted a fall in the “Fear Gauge” to a 23-year low. The CBOE VIX Index shows that investors, on the whole, are more optimistic than ever. What happens when the market corrects? KINFO has answers.

What does the history of Italian land ownership have to do with your portfolio? According to economist Vilfredo Pareto, the connection is clear. The earning power of your investments is often concentrated in just a few holdings. KINFO can help you find them faster.

Despite all of our technological advances, humans can still learn a lot from animals. Scientists have discovered that animals working as a group almost always outperform individual creatures when solving problems. These groups operate as one through nonverbal cues. KINFO is putting this idea to work with investors.

As children, we’re told, “do what your heart tells you.” Unfortunately, it takes a long time (and some losses) to learn that our heart doesn’t understand the stock market. Too many investment decisions are emotional. However, collaboration on KINFO is changing the game.

Humans aren´t born investors and there are many aspects of our natural behavior which points us in the wrong direction under certain conditions. However, we are smart enough to understand our limitations and create structures around it to prevent pitfalls.

Newton’s first law of motion tells us that, in essence, a body in motion will remain in motion and a body at rest will remain at rest. This concept forms the underpinnings of a momentum investment strategy. This approach seeks to build wealth by purchasing securities with established uptrends. KINFO’s Position Increase/Decrease filter can help.

Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is one of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of finance. The idea is simple: risk should be measured based on the relationship stocks in a portfolio have to one another. Let’s look at how KINFO users can put this idea into practice.

For many investors, a hedge fund is a ship on the horizon that will never come to port. These mystifying funds seem full of promise and unimaginable wealth. In truth, much of the appeal of such an investment is based on its private nature rather than sound fundamentals.

Is replicating hedge funds a profitable endeavour? This has been a topic frequently debated in media. We will look at some actual data to see potential performance and possible replication strategies.

While insiders are allowed to trade in their own company’s shares they are required to report their activities to the SEC. Numerous sites and services use this data, KINFO takes it one-step further providing deep insights and real time alerts, in this post we explain how.