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11 Jan 2019 Who Can Sell Stocks Better Than a Monkey?

Posted at 13:23h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

We have talked a lot--generally, and in the specific context of the last few months of market volatility--about the importance of an investment process that isn't based on words like "hope" or "proprietary model" or even "I just have a good feeling about this." This...

04 Jan 2019 How to Navigate Volatile Markets

Posted at 13:16h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

Since October, large swings in the stock market have become commonplace, driven by a ceaseless stream of extraordinary economic and political news events. Apple hardly ever downgrades their earnings guidance. The Chinese economy hardly ever declines. Britain may be forced to leave the European Union...

21 Dec 2018 Too Much Bah Humbug

Posted at 13:25h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

During the past few weeks, markets have been batted around like a pinball, flipped by the Federal Reserve on the one side and government shut-down on the other. The active bumpers of China, BREXIT, oil prices, regulating big tech, global economic slowing, TWEETS, and a...

14 Dec 2018 How to Time the Market

Posted at 12:36h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Jesse Livermore was a stock trader who made his fortune during the 1929 stock market crash, in which he heavily shorted U.S. stocks and then began to buy them up near market lows. On the worst day of the crash, October 29, 1929, Livermore is...