Archive for February 2023

Investing in the stock market is stressful for many investors and the stress and emotions can lead to poor decision making. Avoiding bad decisions is a key component of achieving market-beating returns. However, no matter how seasoned you are as an investor, emotional decision making is difficult to avoid in times of market turbulence. The…

Building a better mouse trap when it comes to investing means developing a better approach to achieving higher investment returns relative to the appropriate index. How can this be accomplished? The answer is with simplicity and a focus on the fundamentals. For individual investors who have the time and interest, it is certainly possible to…

Who is selecting your stocks? In today’s world of investing, that could be a tricky question. Are humans picking your stocks or is it a machine that has been programmed to mimic human thinking or search for patterns in data to find new ideas for potentially higher returns? Whether it is man or machine, stock…

Should reading the latest news headlines be a factor in your investment decisions? Generally, the majority of news is simply a rationale for what has already occurred in the markets and therefore useless information for building a winning investment portfolio. Providing Investors with explanations about how a specific set of economic data or events impacted…