The Wrong Way To Invest
In the early 2000’s a prominent investment management firm launched an advertising campaign that irks me today as much as it did back then. It’s title, “…the Right way to invest”. The advertiser stated this emphatically and confidentiality as if there was one and only one way to invest and they had the correct recipe…
Stock Investing – It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint in Retirement Planning
The OHFG investment team laid out our first half out look back in late 2022. Back then, the rhetoric was “inflation was out of control”; we were headed into a 1h23 recession; and the S&P500 would retest its October 2022 lows, call it 3500, shortly. Strategist after strategist proclaimed the recession was eminent. We disagreed…
Bigger Government – Lower Investment Returns?
At an August 12th, 1986 news conference then President Ronald Reagan gave a speech on the perils of big government. He stated, the following, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help”. Here is a brief cut from that speech.https://www.reaganfoundation.org/media/128649/newsconference2.mp4 Before we get into…
The MOVE Index – Bond Market Volatility and Its “Collateral” Effects
Retail investors around the world turn on the financial news channels and listen to strategist we have never met; we read newsletters written by writers who have never managed money; young investors scour Redit chat boards for ideas from people that have no names; and we often subscribe to investor services, sometimes for entertainment,…
Why Watching Financial News Could Lead Investors Astray
The News Calling for Economic Doom: Should you listen? Investors, turn on the TV and the financial news channels, watch for a few hours and soak in the opinions being passed along as news and you too will convince yourself a very bad recession is imminent. Geopolitical strife domestically and globally. Bank runs in Europe…
Market Volatility – How to Keep Calm and Invest On
If you are watching CNBC, Fox business news, or Bloomberg TV all day, most likely, high on the list of your concerns is worrying about stock market volatility. Many of our most vocal clients and prospects tend to contact us more often when they “feel” higher volatility in the markets or hear about it…
Bad breadth? Not so fast – Zweig Indicator Triggered Historically Rare & Positive
At the end of the first quarter, we title our March 31st video “Marching Higher into April”. In it we laid out 3 reasons we expected a continuation of the overall market upward movement into the mid-second quarter. The 3 reasons we laid out? First, the price charts, which merely reflect the supply and demand…