This morning, the S&P 500 is down almost 6% YTD, and almost 10% from the recent highs in early February. If you read yesterday’s post, you know that as investors we need to expect pullbacks in our wealth-building journey. But it still hurts. Why does it hurt? We’re not pulling our money out of equities […]
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I’ve read and written a lot about investor mentality and about the difficulty of staying the course during a market pullback. None of us like to lose money. Logging in to our financial account and seeing a huge dollar drop is a bummer. When it happens day after day, it becomes draining. We feel like
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I’ve written about how we rarely get a warning in advance when the market is going to be down. Usually, the market tanks and some pundit tells us why this makes sense after the fact, like we all should have seen this coming. But today (Sunday, February 2, 2025) we are given fair warning. CNBC
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After 2 consecutive years of 20%+ gains in the S&P 500, it’s time for market-watchers to start warning about the market being overvalued. Even Jaimie Dimon is expressing caution. He thinks investors need to temper their expectations. But what does this really mean? And more importantly, how should I change my investing strategy to react
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As we begin 2025, stock market experts are warning that the market is overvalued. What do we do? We must act! Now! Before it’s too late! Hold On Warren Buffett says “The Stock Market is Designed to Transfer Money from the Active to the Patient”. This is one of my favorite quotes about the stock
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Today is Black Friday. We all know Black Friday as a day to score huge deals as the Christmas shopping season begins. To learn more about Black Friday, check out this post from Dictionary.com The excitement has been building for months. Walmart had their Christmas stuff out before Halloween. Not long after, Amazon and all
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There has been a lot of election and political news lately, in case you haven’t noticed. And for those who thought this would die down after the election, I’m sorry. Is there an end? Probably not. Print news is dying. Online news sites struggle with competition from Netflix and a thousand other streaming services as
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It’s Friday. You made it through another work week. Congrats. I have a bunch of quick thoughts for this week, so buckle up. I Love Dividends Over the last 5-7 years, as I was nearing retirement, and then entering retirement, I’ve become much more excited about dividend paying stocks. Read more here and here. What’s
Many of my posts tell a positive story. I talk about companies in which I’ve invested that have grown significantly. I talk about the wealth-building powers of compounding and the long-term gains of the S&P 500. The reason I focus on this is that with all the doom and gloom news, it’s easy to stick
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Today’s headline on Yahoo Finance It’s been a rocky week. The S&P was down this week. It was down big in late August as well. It came back strong after the August drop, but the money we “lost” in the drop isn’t easily forgotten, whereas the gains that slowly build are less dramatic. I wrote
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