"You have to start my term from November 5th, okay? Or November 6th if you want ... November 5th, because the market's gone through the roof. Enthusiasms doubled. It's doubled in the last short while." - President-elect Donald Trump 11/14/2024
I don't know about you, but my inbox continues
Watching the stock market Wednesday through Friday last week, my brain couldn't help but keep singing this song.
I'm all for the stock market rocketing to all-time highs. Higher stock prices means higher account values for our clients. For most of the year we've been presenting what the DATA says
Election week is finally here. This has literally been the longest presidential election period with Donald Trump essentially running for re-election since 2021 and Joe Biden declaring his intention to run again shortly after taking office. I don't know about anybody else, but I'll be glad to have at least
The past few weeks we've discussed the current positioning of the market. Most investors like to believe they are following a 'buy low, sell high' philosophy, but too many times our emotions get the best of us and we end up buying high, which means our only hope is that
"Buy low, sell high," - easy to say, much more difficult to do. Last week we discussed the natural human emotions which drive our investment decisions. Generally speaking, the more stocks go up, the more we fall in love with them. As they start to fall a bit of fear
