Volatility has returned to the markets with full force this year. The financial media continues to point to various culprits every time the stock market makes a major move up or down. This has left investors wondering how one small piece of information can cause the stock market to fall
Tag: Behavioral Finance
In college, my peers voted me “most likely to appear on CNBC”. Even back then I enjoyed talking about the markets and attempting to educate anyone who would listen about how the markets work (or don’t work). Some of my fondest memories occurred after class or
Many clients received their June TCA statement last month and were surprised to see their accounts lower than the start of the year. After a year where most accounts were up double digits, this sudden reversal was something many were not ready for. While evaluating any investments over a 6
Buy after the market goes up. Sell after the market goes down. While that is not the ideal strategy, this is exactly what individual investors have done for as long as the data has been tracked. 2018 has been no different. As the stock market rallied over 7% in January,
On Friday Jeff wrote a very well thought out and sophisticated article going over the reasoning and data behind Facebook’s valuation after it fell 25 percent (located here). I saw that same drop and clicked buy (for my non-SEM account that is completely discretionary and has nothing to