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Investor Discipline – What’s that?
This brief slideshow discusses some elements necessary to recognize that our emotions and reactions to investing and markets often hurt results. Our brains are NOT wired for investing. Discipline and a...
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The cost of indexing – and an approach how to reduce those costs
There is a cost to indexing that most investors are unaware of. It is called “reconstitution.” What is reconstitution and how may the costs involved be solved? What is an index? An index tracks changes...
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Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing – Review
What are factors for investing? How are they determined? Why are they useful? Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing: The Way Smart Money Invests Today Paperback – October 7, 2016 by Andrew L...
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Markets are always uncertain
Markets are always uncertain. Actually, as the article below states, markets aren’t uncertain … uncertainty is a human condition that is emotional and the markets simply reflect this emotion among the...
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What is the Frequency of Positive Returns?
People focus on returns, average returns, good or bad returns. Rather, progress isn’t made over short terms, but over the longer term. So how often have the markets been positive? The below article...
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As Goes January, So Goes the Year?
As investors ring in the new year, some may see the occasional headline about the “January Indicator,” “January Barometer,” or “January Effect.” This theory suggests that the price movement of the...
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Record highs (at anytime) means what exactly?
Photo by Rawpixel at Stocksnap.io With stock indices continuing to set new highs, does this mean negative returns for stocks are on the horizon? If prices increasing over time was a troubling...
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9 Key Questions as an investor to ask yourself
The time for reflection comes to all of us at one time or another. These are 9 key questions an investor should ask themselves. This is not an exhaustive list, rather one that gets to the meat of the...
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The Markets: Who Buys When People are Selling?
You may hear, when markets get “volatile,” that there are more sellers than buyers. Can that even happen? What does that phrase even mean? BTW, you hear it too in any market, including the real estate...
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Happiness and investing? Can you do both?
The Happiness Equation, as it relates to investing, is an interrelationship between your perceptions and expectations of investing and events. How do you manage happiness when you can’t manage the...
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