The Importance of Understanding a Stock Index… This concept is more important than ever, so I wanted to update this post I wrote a few years back, and make a video showing you how easy it is to look up the performance of the s&p500 stock index. Do you ever miss the forest for the […]
6 Tips for Choosing the Right Investment Guidance
Today Investor’s Business Daily’s Big Picture indicated that the stock market has entered an uptrend. While investment advice is on every corner, I have found only a few gurus that I like to give my attention to; the philosophy of the founder of Investor’s Business Daily, William O’Neil, is one of them. While the Big […]
What’s a Girl To Do?
What’s a girl to do? We want to grow our money, but the traditional mode of investing, the stock market, has just not been cooperating with our financial goals, at least for long term investors. Over the weekend, I read a great article in Barron’s by Michael Santoni. Here are a few highlights: The stock […]
Financial Women Avoid Buying High…Always!
The U.S. stock market officially touched bear market territory this week. I know we’ve all seen those “bull and bear” bookends, but exactly what is a bear market? According to Investopedia, “It’s a market condition in which the prices of securities are falling, and widespread pessimism causes the negative sentiment to be self-sustaining. As […]
Buy a Purse Without Checking the Price?
Wow! What a crazy and volatile few weeks investors have had in the stock market! I encourage investors to always check the value of an investment or asset class before buying it. Asset class is simply investing lingo for the type of investment, such as bonds or stocks. This is the same principle that you […]