If You Want to Know Where the Stock Market is Heading, Read the Following
Most articles I read in 2011 were talking about a possible bear market and how volatility will make investors go crazy. At least, they were right about one thing; volatility is making people crazy . However, these are articles are terribly wrong when they predict the apocalypse. I know that catastrophe sells more [...]
The Opportunity of a Decade – Looking Up For 2012
I know, I know, my title just sounds like I’m a huge believer. That I’m one of the few people that only see the positive in the world and forget, read ignore, the bad things happening. But, truly, I don’t think that the picture is that dark right now. In fact, I think that we [...]
6 Reasons Why You Should Panic and 1 Reason Why You Should Keep Investing
Since its peak back at the end of April and beginning of May, the stock market has gone down 20%. Regardless if we are looking at the US stock market, Canadian or International markets, they are all in the red. During the summer, we had front pages telling us that one or another government was [...]
Why You Should Not Care About The US Government’s Debt Problems
If you have been reading any financial newspaper or site for the past 6 months, you have seen numerous front pages concerning the catastrophic Government debt situation. It’s not only about the Greek debt anymore, now, we have tons of countries to be worried about: Portugal Ireland Italy Greece Spain And the most popular [...]
Founder Operator Shares – Are They Better For Your Wallet?
I had this interesting conversation with a stock broker the other day; we were discussing if there was a difference for an investor to buy shares of a founder-CEO or an “employee” CEO. This particular stock broker was a big fan of founder operators and believed that these stocks would outperform the stock market. When [...]
Market Returns 5 Years After Historical Market Declines
The only investment “given” that I know for certain is that markets go up and down. I suspect that anyone out there can argue with that. Whether you look at it from a short-term day by day perspective or a long-term 50 year time horizon the market has been proven time and time again to [...]
8 Ways to Deal with Volatile Markets
Can I let you all in on a little stock market secret? This is very privileged information so please cover your screen while you read this so that others will not see our little secret. Ok, ready – here it comes………..The stock market is volatile and can go up and down a lot!![ad#tdg-embedded] Seriously though, [...]
Future Stock Market Returns
October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ~Mark Twain I love this quote because it really sums up the risks of speculating in the stock market. At the end of the day, I don’t [...]
