The Last Five Stock Market Corrections
In case you missed it, you can watch an “At a Glance” summary of this week’s blog posting here. I couldn’t get a word in. I had never spoken with Steven before. But I had been on many calls just like the one I was having with him. I tried talking over him, hoping he’d get…
When Is The Market Going To Realize Things Are Bad?
We all already know what is wrong. Central banks printing money. Central Banks buying equities from the market. Central Banks keeping interest rates low. Wall Street valuing ‘shareholder value” over everything else. Wall Street demanding quarterly numbers. Wall Street valuing complexity over simplicity. We already know the “what” is wrong. So knowing the “what” won’t…
Five Reasons To Be Afraid
Reading did not come easy to me. When I was growing up in the 1980s in the Illinois I thought anyone who could spell or read outloud must be a genius. If you knew how to spell “kitchen” and you weren’t an adult then you must be really smart… and definitely smarter than me. I…
The Truth About Investment Newsletters
If you’re not quite sure what’s coming next with the stock market… use this image. If you’re not quite sure how much longer we have until we have a correction or a fall… use this image. If you just read another “article” that was filled with really scary facts about today and 1987 and 1929……
Will You Have Time To Recover?
In case you missed it, you can watch an “At a Glance” summary of this week’s blog posting here. When Your Investment Strategy Fails Will You Have Time To Recover? Just because you are prepared (or preparing) doesn’t mean you have to go through it. Hope and plan for the best but prepare for the worst –…
Stock Strategies That Worked And Then Stopped
When your strategy is not working and appears broken how long will it take it to get back to breakeven? I’m asking because all strategies go through periods when they appear broken. The long-only buy and hold approach that Big-Box advisers tout appeared broken in 2000, 2001 and 2002 and then again in 2008 and…
Black Monday: The 1987 Stock Market
In case you missed it, you can watch an “At a Glance” summary of this week’s blog posting here. I want to pose a question to you. Are you prepared for a 1987 stock market event? The 1987 stock market event in question was actually a “Monday, October 19th stock market event”, when the Dow Jones…
Why The 1987 Stock Market Doesn’t Matter Anymore
This month is the 30th anniversary when the US Stock Market fell 23% in one day. It was the largest one day loss in US stock market history. “1987” is often used by “pick of the month” newsletters as a way to scare investors. You’ll often hear pundits say, “this feels like another 1987.” Or…
You Are the Average of the Five People…
In case you missed it, you can watch an “At a Glance” summary of this week’s blog posting here. Upgrade Your Peer Group The fifth step in the Fearless Wealth approach is to upgrade your peer group and stop investing alone. If you want to see all five steps you can do that here. Why is your…
Simple Stock Strategy
We’ve been taught from a very early age that investing in NOT simple. In fact investing in the stock market is very random and complicated. And you must counter this complication by owning a complicated investment strategy that has you owning thirty to forty ticker symbols. But what if investing came down to understanding two…
