Invest it ALL now? Or a little at a time?
Are you thinking of investing your money but don't know where to start? The question we want to help you answer is - do I invest it all at once or do I slowly invest my money a little at a time over time?
The Psychology of Investing
As you must prune a tree or bush so that it may flourish and grow, so must the markets be pruned so that they may grow.
Those Four Nasty Words in Investing
“This time it’s different.” It’s the phrase investors use to rationalize why they are bailing out of stocks.
“Math is Math” – Reviewing Q2 2022
Disciplined investors view a bear market as a great opportunity to invest available cash into stocks trading at deep discounts. But those who fled the market in early 2020 struggled with staying disciplined. Their fears, emotions, and worries about a very uncertain world got the best of them. These same investors are likely not viewing the current stock sell-off as a buying opportunity. As we like to say, “Math is math” and perhaps it really is an opportunity for many of us given these lower prices.
A Cycle of Investor Emotions
In times of unimaginable suffering such as the Ukrainian people are experiencing at the hands of their Russian invaders, it can feel cold-hearted to consider such crises from a financial…
Five Technology Behemoths
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Roth Conversions are a Big Deal
It is no secret 2020 took the world by surprise and will be the year we all remember. It also seems investors have learned there are many things we certainly cannot control.
History and Presidential Elections
What History Tells Us About US Presidential Elections and the Market It’s natural for investors to look for a connection between who wins the White House and which way stocks will go. But as nearly a century of returns shows, stocks have trended upward across administrations from both parties.
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
It is a wry and wise way of turning the conventional wisdom about what to do in bear markets on its head. When panic grips the stock market – as it did in February and March of this year – the gut instinct of investors is to do something.
How Fast The World Can Change
On February 12, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at an all-time high of 29,551. At that time, the economy was humming, corporate earnings were rising and unemployment was at lows last seen during the mid-1950s.