The stock market has been rather nasty as of late so let us switch gears and touch on a topic that most investors avoid yet need to pay more attention to. After all, what exactly happens to your investments ...

  Normally…we write about the stock market… its events, reactions, and implications. At the end of the day…none of it matters if you’re not alive or breathing. As real as that last sentence is… it prompts ...

... the case but it certainly is now. What is the “wall of worry”? DEFINITION of 'Wall Of Worry' “The financial markets' periodic tendency to surmount a host of negative factors and keep ascending. Wal ...

  If you’ve never experienced a stock market correction until now (technically defined as -10% or more), you have either never invested or have only been investing since 2012. For the vast majority ...

  Yes…the stock market is down. Your portfolio is down. There is no way it is not down. We just said the word “down” three times in a row. Get it? Everything is down.   If you have a decently ...

Dear Mr. Market: Like clockwork you set us up for another stretch of pretending that you wanted to inch up higher and then sold off the last week of the month. How you behaved in May is similar to ...

  If you’re new to this monthly series…remember what we’re doing. This exercise, as we like to call it, is not an attempt to pick the best stock or “time the market”. We leave that futile task to ...

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... He is a wildly successful entertainer who adds color and talking points on the stock market but make no mistake about it…he is not your financial advisor. As a matter of fact he advises nobody professionally ...

...  It might be a very nice computer but at what point do you question your purchase and stop the sales/commission cycle? As we’ve discussed in several of our letters to Mr. Market the financial services ...

... and it spiked up 50% in the first couple weeks of March. It has already risen almost 8% year to date and this has impacted the stock market in ways that many are unprepared for. With any situation like ...

  The equity markets typically dominate the headlines but recently there has been more and more talk about the Fed and where interest rates are going. Stocks are definitely a more intriguing topic as ...

... one of the first investing nerds to combine our love for the markets with the passion that college basketball brings! It’s common knowledge that people love excitement and surprises. It’s also human ...

  Dear Mr. Market:   For a guy who is usually full of surprises you’re scripting 2015 like a boring rerun of last year. As you’ll recall we had a rough start to the year with the S&P 500 dipping ...

... used while others simply fizzle away only to be quickly forgotten. Unless you’re inside the industry you won’t hear the term “Robo-Advisor” but with advertising and slick marketing you will soon be solicited ...

... and news events (4) exposed to near-term pressures from competition and market expansion (5) for those investors who patiently waited for a turn around they would be rewarded with a healthy dividend yield ...

... in the “I can’t wait until half time camp” you got to see Katy Perry perform with eight outfit changes. (yes…eight) How does all this relate to the stock market and the MPG Core Tactical 60/40 portfolio? ...

... and the associated impacts on the markets, but we literally just witnessed another black swan unexpectedly fly in. What’s remarkable about this second black swan is that the majority of people out there ...

...    What does about a 60% haircut in oil prices mean to the stock market? Simply put, the bulls believe that it is a positive for economic growth and is basically like a huge tax cut for consumers and ...

  Are you scared of flying? Even if you’re a seasoned traveler and airplane turbulence never fazes you, there are certain flights that would get your attention. If the stock market behavior in October ...