The American marketplace is an economic jungle. As in all jungles, you easily can be destroyed if you don’t know the rules of survival… But you also can come through in fine shape and you can even flourish in the jungle—if you learn the rules, adapt them for your own use, and heed them.
Without a solid investment approach and a commitment to staying the course, investors might find it difficult to remain on track, especially in challenging times.
On the path to investment success, understanding the range of potential outcomes can help you stick with a plan and ride out the inevitable ups and downs.
Cryptocurrency - Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin - has a number of promising possibilities. Human ingenuity is always a marvel to behold. But like any relatively new, highly volatile pursuit, it entails considerable risk.
Have you been keeping up with the breaking news about GameStop and all the other red-hot trades of the day? Here’s a synopsis (to date), and what it means to you as an investor.
GameStop (GME) made headlines this week as users on the social media platform Reddit invested heavily in the shorted stock. Are you considering making changes to your portfolio as a result?
An illustrated world review of selected capital market results in 2020.
Should you rely on the prediction of the economist or the toss of a coin? The answer seems obvious, but it isn’t.
Among the many uncertainties of 2020 is a particularly controversial presidential election. Perhaps there exists is a pattern in past elections that can make this election less uncertain?
As companies grow to become some of the largest firms trading on the US stock market, the returns that push them there can be impressive. But not long after joining the Top 10 largest by market cap, these stocks, on average, lagged the market.
Logic and history argue for a commitment to value stocks, so investors can be positioned to take part when those shares outperform in the future.
“The first half of 2020 should remind us that investing isn’t about conquering markets; it’s about mastering ourselves.”
It is not particularly unusual for the market to be concentrated in a handful of stocks. The extraordinary performance of FAANG stocks over the past decade are leading some to wonder if we should expect these stocks to continue such their strong performance going forward.
For better or worse, many of us have had more time than usual to engage in new or different pursuits in 2020. Even if you’re as busy as ever, you may well be revisiting routines you have long taken for granted. Let’s cover eight of the most and least effective ways to spend your time shoring up your financial well-being in the time of the coronavirus.
Recessions understandably trigger worries. But a history of positive average performance following a recession can be a comfort for investors wondering about sticking with their plan.
Many investors premise their decisions on the detection of patterns, but the track record of pattern seekers isn't encouraging.
The anxiety caused by both a volatile stock market and an existential threat to our health transcends anything most of us have experienced. It’s very frustrating when we turn to “experts” and they can’t provide answers.
It’s not that it’s impossible to get lucky and recommend a stock that turns out to be a “winner”. It’s just that the odds are so poor it makes no sense to try.
Have you caught cryptocurrency fever, or are you at least wondering what it’s all about? Odds are, you hadn’t even heard the term until recently. Now, it seems as if everybody is getting in on it.
There are cost-effective solutions available if you would like to invest more sustainably while still pursuing efficient market returns. But the same evidence informs us, not all ESG data, ratings, and strategies are created equally.