What is the “trend” and how do you determine if it’s up or down? That’s the topic for today’s NERDvember discussion. In short, there are many ways to define the prevailing trend in the stock market, so I’m going to […]
Market Commentary
It’s “NERDvember” again, which means it’s time to write educational articles and updates on the market that cater to a relatively small percentage of our readers (15-20% at most, I’m guessing). So why am I doing it again this year? […]
If we go back 20 months in time, the stock market is up only 3.5%. If you look back about a year ago, we’re only talking 1.5%. In other words, the good times we experienced in 2017 have been largely […]
In Part 1, we learned the basics of a recession, how they’re confirmed, and indicators to be aware of. Now that we’ve got a basic knowledge, we need to take things a step further and understand how this relates to […]
We as humans tend to worry most about the things we can’t control or don’t fully understand. Often times we listen to the news for information, but rather than educating us, it inaccurately reinforces our concerns. In the financial […]
The market goes up, on average, in 3-out-of-4 years. The “perma-bear” who consistently preaches of doom and gloom is forgotten each day until he is right, then they put him on the news and ask how he “called” the top […]
It’s been a crazy week for the markets, both here and overseas. The Fed apparently wasn’t aggressive enough for investors, which started the selling that was accelerated by Trump’s decision to slap China with tariffs on September 1st to the […]
We’re well into the last half of 2019 at this juncture and this past week was interesting. On one hand, Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve dropped interest rates by a quarter-point (as expected), but market participants didn’t like […]
The number one concern we hear from our clients is that they wish they would’ve started investing sooner. But what if there was a realistic way to upgrade your retirement nest egg by a half-million dollars between now and retirement? […]
I don’t normally write about the Dow, mainly because it consists of only 30 stocks… and only 30 large and mega-sized stocks to boot. So, it doesn’t really give us a good feel for what “the market” is doing if […]
