A Really Long Term Dow Jones Chart to Put Things in Perspective
Everyday millions of investors check their favorite stock market website to see what the stock indexes do. For example, on any given investing site an investor can check how the S&P500, the TSX, the FTSE, or the DJIA averages are faring for the day. I find I have been doing this a lot [...]
It’s Not Different This Time
Whenever the stock markets go through a very rough period, it is inevitable that there is talk that this time things are different. I remember the tech bubble in the late-90’s when the “new economy” was going to change everything and the stock market was now playing with new and different rules. Valuations [...]
The Most Important Article of our time
I usually don’t post on Sunday’s, but could not resist. I encourage everyone to read this article by Warren Buffet:
Buy American. I Am.
Over the long term, the stock market news will be good. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a [...]
5 Things Dividend Investors Should Do To Make It Through Volatile Markets
It is amazing to me, but there are obviously a lot of people who are selling into this crazy market that we have been seeing in past few weeks. Of course there are a lot of people who are buying, but as markets work on supply and demand, there are more selling than buying [...]
Be Wary of False Rallies and Emotional Investing
Well, today was a better day in the stock market! Most of my own personal holdings were up today – it was nice seeing all the green as opposed to the red that it seems like I have been looking at over the past couple of weeks. As I was looking at the [...]
Some Food For Thought in A Brutal Market
I was looking through some financial websites trying to see what the reaction to this weeks down market and of course as media often does, they are talking about the end of the world. I stopped reading after awhile because it was getting me down – the kind of unproductive ‘down’ you get when [...]
Wal-Mart To Offer Brokerage Service – Time for Everyone to Sell!
In a recent artcile posted over at Money.com, it was reported that Wal-Mart (disclosure – I own Wal-Mart) is teaming up with Sharebuilder to offer brokerage services to its customers. The article talked about how Wal-Mart is looking to sell everything to its huge customer base, just as Sears tried to do once before [...]
