Stocks-Mutual-Funds
Market Globalization
Just 30 years ago the stock market was a shadow of what it is today. There were many fewer shareholders and the daily volume was a fraction of what it is at present. Read more →Market Instability
What is it that causes a major or even a minor crash in the stock market? Or even anything else? Daily there are events that move the market slightly either up or down. Read more →Market is Flat
No it isn?t!When you are driving down the highway looking ahead the road seems very flat yet when you stop to look at the surface of that smooth concrete you see many tiny ridges. Read more →Market Moods And Market Timers
Markets go up and markets go down. It shouldn't matter much, but many new market timers find that their own personal mood fluctuates with the markets, moving from extreme euphoria as the markets soar to new heights to deep despair when the markets plunge to new lows. Read more →Market Psychology
"Nothing is neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare (1564-1616)"The more things change, the more things remain the same." - Voltaire (1694-1778)Paraphrasing, "Whatever was will be; that which has been done will be done. Read more →Market Psychology
Today we are inundated with tons of information about the economy, stocks, government agencies and foreign governments. They show us charts and graphs of the increase/decrease in oil production over the last 5 years, the amount of maple syrup produced in Vermont for the past century, the time it takes to bounce a signal off the moon and all kinds of other nonsense that we can live without. Read more →Market Sentiment Remains Weak
Markets are trading with little sense of direction at this time as we wait for the second quarter earnings that will begin with General Electric (GE) next Friday. Read more →Market Success
Who are the successful investors?There are those who follow the advice of their brokers and financial planners or those who choose to use their own good judgment? Read more →Market Timing
Market Timing: Everywhere we turn, we are "advised" to "Buy and Hold", rather than try to "time the market".We are told that the only way we are assured of fully participating in all the spectacular market rises is to remain fully invested at all times. Read more →Market Timing
Every broker and financial planner will tell you that you cannot time the stock market. I saw John Bogle, the great seer of Vanguard, on CNBC saying it can? Read more →1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130
Aphorism
The only investors who shouldn't diversify are those who are right 100% of the time (1983)
John Templeton
