Many average investors are committing a blunder now. It’s not all their fault, though, as information is often dumbed down in the interest of simplicity. As Einstein said: “Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.” Unfortunately, often the information provided to average investors has been simplified
Earnings on many popular tech stocks, including FAANG stocks, are out. For the most part, earnings are better than the consensus numbers but worse than the whisper numbers. Moreover, tech stocks have had a good run. How much of the good news is already discounted in the prices? Should you
No politician in the United States wants Americans to be worse off and deliberately take steps that are bad for an average American investor. However the policy of destroying the dollar, though well-intentioned, will lead to American investors being worse off in the long term. In the short term, investors
The media is full of reports of investors acting out of FOMO — “fear of missing out.” Many investors suffering from FOMO are making a classic mistake. I describe a better way in this article. The large response I received adds to the anecdotal evidence that many investors are making
Apple is the first big tech company to hand President Trump a win. Apple AAPL, in a press release Wednesday, said it will pay $38 billion in repatriation taxes, spend $30 billion in capital expenditures over the next five years and help create 20,000 new jobs inside and outside the
Investor insanity about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchain is in full bloom. Those with trading experience have two choices: complain about the insanity or take advantage of the insanity to make money. Those choosing to make money ought to make sure they have a proven methodology in place to control risk.
Prudence requires that stock market bulls take protective measures as Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigates President Trump’s financial dealings, crossing a “red line” the president said he wouldn’t allow. Politics has the power to throttle stocks. On Dec. 1, when it was announced that former national security adviser Michael Flynn
U.S. stocks are sky high in this bull market, but they could fade fast. President Trump, in a remark over the weekend, was reported to have said: “One great gentleman came up and he said, ‘Sir, I want to thank you.’ I said, ‘What did I do for you?’ He
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average topping 24,000 in a big rally this year, Dow 30,000 is now on the horizon. That was not always the case. In February 2017, when the Dow DJIA, was much lower, I laid out a fundamental case for the benchmark reaching 30,000. I was scorned,
From the large number of emails I receive, anecdotal evidence is that many money managers and private investors have become drastically overweighted in FAANG stocks. FAANG stocks are Facebook FB, Apple AAPL, Amazon AMZN, Netflix NFLX, and Google GOOG, GOOGL. Such over-concentration has been working, but there is nothing constant