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Big Picture, Big Profits: Predictions for 2022 January 4, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Education, Investing, U.S. Economy 2022 looks to be an interesting year for investors: a swift market rotation, continued inflation woes, volatility, midterm elections and at least three wild cards in the mix. To survive and thrive through it all, you must start with the big picture. Then you drill down to find the big profits. That's what Ted Bauman and Clint Lee do for you in this first 2022 edition of Your Money Matters. Watch now to hear what both expect of this year and the six exchange-traded funds they recommend.
Energy Will Be the Most Tradable Sector in 2022 January 4, 2022 Investing, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters One trend will define the volatility of 2022, and could have major implications for the energy sector — and your portfolio. 
Prepare for the Reversal of the Perpetual Motion Machine January 3, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Economy, Investing “Active managers” are hedge and mutual funds that constantly trade in and out of stocks to outperform the market. The opposite of active management is (you guessed it!) passive management, also known as indexing. An index fund holds stocks from a specific segment of the market, or index. Each stock is held in exact proportion to its weight in that index. The most common form of indexing is exchange-traded funds (ETFs). If you want to invest in the S&P 500, for example, you buy the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY). As the index performs, so the fund performs. If active managers are supposed to be so good, why do they keep underperforming the market and passive index funds? And what could change that? The answer will surprise you…
2021: What Went Wrong? December 31, 2021 Big Picture. Big Profits., Economy, Investing 6 out of 10 fund managers failed to beat the market benchmarks in 2021. After 2020 saw record-breaking stock gains, why was this year so difficult? In his last YouTube video for 2021, Ted Bauman explores what happened to the investment game this year. Then he explains how to improve your odds of finding investment winners in 2022.
2022: The Big Picture December 29, 2021 Big Picture. Big Profits., Economy, News “Predictably unpredictable.” That’s 2021 in a nutshell. The last month was a real doozy. We’ve had a suddenly resurgent pandemic, a major Federal Reserve pivot and stocks swinging in all directions. Many of those same variables will stay in play for the stock market as we head into 2022. Ted put together a terrific list of what to watch for. So, for my 2022 predictions, I pondered a few big-picture challenges and opportunities that lay ahead. Let's get the obstacles out of the way first...MEET OUR EXPERTS
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