The other day I posted my thoughts on inflation, and whether we should expect a resurgence. To follow up on that I thought I would take a look at the ole Dollar/Gold chart and see if it was providing any signals. In general, when expectations are for higher inflation, Gold will outperform the Dollar. When [...]
In the investing world, two assets are currently all the rage... Bitcoin and Tesla. Bitcoin has turned many early investors into multi-millionaires over the course of the last eight years or so. Tesla stock has turned its majority shareholder, Elon Musk, into the world's wealthiest man. Both have spiked to new all time highs in [...]
Bitcoin is all the rage again these days, after the crypto currency blasted through $20,000, $30,000 and then $40,000 in the last month. Not surprisingly, everyone and their grandmother wants in on the action. Here's a piece of advice... When everyone and their grandmother wants to buy something, whether it is a stock like Tesla, [...]
Among some investor types, it seems that trading is taboo, and even un-American. You will certainly get an earful from most financial advisors and planners about the perils of trading. The standard mantra among these folks is "invest for the long term." They will tell you that it is nearly impossible to outperform the S&P [...]
Most investors think that portfolio diversification means spreading your bets among a diverse portfolio of stocks, and then maybe add some bonds into the mix. The standard portfolio mix is 60% stocks and equity mutual funds and 40% bonds. The problem with this idea is that when the stock market goes into a bear market, [...]
Over the last four plus years, I learned alot about the United States. My single greatest takeaway from the political events of the last four years is this... you have to take charge of your own destiny, and quit waiting for the government to do anything right. The majority of the people who work in [...]
I am all set with my stock market newsletter, so thought I would post a quick commentary on how the U.S. stock market looks to me right now. In spite of all the doom and gloom over the summer regarding the China trade deal, and then the recent hysteria about impeaching President Trump, the stock [...]
U.S. stocks finished the week mixed, with the Dow Industrials and Dow Transports posting modest lossed, while the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Russell 2000 posted modest gains. On a weekly basis, that was the first weekly loss for the Dow Industrials since late December, ending a run of eight weeks in a row with [...]
When I think of investing in the stock market, I think of buying a stock with the intent of holding that stock in my portfolio for several years or more. Therefore, the goal is to pick stocks that have a good chance at appreciating in value during that time frame, and preferably at a rate better [...]
