After a strong run-up from the November election and through February, the market was up on a “Trump Bump.” Personally, I thought the “Trump Bump” was more of a celebration over the discontinuance of anti-market policies put in place by an Obama administration that never understood how a market economy works. Hilary Clinton would have… Continue reading The Stock State: Market Outlook and Strategy
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April 2017 Stock Picks and Market Strategy
Trading range, consolidation, pull-back to 200 day support line are all possibilities to look forward to in the near term. The market tends toward risk-on with good news about fundamentals such as the ADP hiring report this Wednesday. By contrast, political uncertainty “noise” has a strong, or even stronger, negative effect pushing investors into the… Continue reading April 2017 Stock Picks and Market Strategy
Look Out Below!
Most stock investors worry about sudden sell-offs and plunging stock prices. Here are some strategies that can reduce your worries. 1. The simplest strategy is to have a long-run time horizon that allows you to ignore short-run fluctuations in financial asset prices. Companies always move things and if you have invested in good ones, short-run downturns in… Continue reading Look Out Below!