The whole stock market changed last Thursday when the S&P 500 plunged through the 20 month moving average in the closing hour of trading. I had used the summer lows as stops on my positions so I basically got stopped out of almost everything that day. It made me sick to think that I might […]
Investors seem to love stories, give them a exciting story about the computer revolution (1987), the internet revolution (1999), the real estate boom (2006) or silver replacing the dollar (2011) and individual investors come piling in with fistfuls of dollars. Don’t get me wrong, all investors buy into stories but the small investor tends to […]
One of the best ways for the average investor to beat the market is by selecting an asset allocation and then re-balancing the portfolio at the end of each year. Most investment advisors recommend keeping the stock portfolio to roughly 100 – your age, so if you are 40 years old you would be in […]
