How To Reverse Your Risk
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Everyone invested in the stock market over the past few months knows what risk feels like. That uneasy feeling in the gut appeared rapidly as the day to day market declines took hold in the…
Are You Suffering from Market Anxiety?
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes There are innumerable emotions that contribute to anxiety about temporary drawdowns in the stock market, but really just two underlying reasons. The first reason investors become anxious is because market declines underscore the gap between…
Congratulations! You Passed the Test
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes If you held tight and didn’t fall prey to desperation and fear over the past few months, you deserve a hearty congratulations. Exercising patience and discipline is something most investors find very difficult when the…
Do You Have a Straw Man Investing Strategy?
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes To some investors, the past few weeks in the market foretell coming doom and gloom. After all, there are dozens of big worries that the market has to overcome. The looming debt crisis, China trade…
The Presumption of Importance
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Most of us presume events of the day, particularly those within the political or financial realms, are of vital importance and will remain so in the future. When something happens on the world stage today,…
The Market and the Jelly Bean Jar
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Everyone is interested in the direction of the stock market. Can the 9-year long bull market continue? Or do recent down days portend a coming bear market? The answer, of course, is no one knows…
Costly Promises
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes All of us are human and we are, at least in some way, attracted to promises that appear to be “good deals.” The grand majority of the machinations by investors each day amount to searching…
Top 10 Money Maxims with Modern Twists
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes There are thousands of classic quotes about money and investing that contain morsels of truth. The problem is applying these to modern life can be difficult. Here are my Top 10 money maxims along with…
The Crystal Ball Racket
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The NYT recently ran an article titled Recession Chances Rise: Time for a Gut Check by columnist Jeff Sommer. The online edition carried a somewhat different title “Vanguard Warns of Worsening Odds for the Economy…
How to Assess Your Risk Tolerance
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you have a good understanding of your risk tolerance or capacity for investment risk? Most investors think they do, but this self-assessment usually involves only the calm and rational viewpoint. What about your tolerance…