By Bob Barber Over the past few years, stocks and bonds have seen a tremendous amount of day-to-day and month-to-month volatility. Volatility is the price an investor has to be willing to pay if they want long term growth, but many investors don’t realize, or forget this, when they actually experience volatility in their portfolio. [...]
By Bob Barber Once again we are including “The Cycle of Market Emotions” chart. I am noticing from talking to many people on a daily basis who are both clients and not clients, that they are starting to “Give Up” and are “Hopeless” with such low returns in the markets over many months. Please look [...]
This year to date and especially over the last 4-6 weeks the markets have acted in a way that can definitely play with one’s emotions. This chart is one we have been using for years that shows how emotions can cause a person to buy at the top of the markets and sell at the […]
