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Mean Reversion: The Simplest Strategy for Sell-Offs
January 11, 2022 Investing, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters
Other traders may panic-sell or go bargain hunting — but Mike Carr uses this mean reversion strategy to profit from a sell-off. The Fed’s Double Game Puts the Hurt on Growth Stocks
January 10, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Education, U.S. Economy
Two powerful forces have closed in on growth stocks: The Fed and the pandemic. But, what does this mean for the rest of the market? Are we seeing a dot-com peak followed by a waterfall decline … or is this just a rotation that smart investors can profit from? In today’s Your Money Matters, Ted Bauman and Clint Lee discuss the fall of growth indexes, the Fed’s tapering timeline and how you can protect and grow your portfolio. Risky Business, Crypto Causalities & Plug Prophesying
January 7, 2022 Great Stuff
Friday Feedback: The “Risk Tolerance” Edition Welcome one and all to the Greatest Show in Finance!* (* Your results may vary. Terms and conditions apply. See the back of the cereal box for details.) It’s Friday Feedback day here at Great Stuff. Today’s the day that we dive into the Great Stuff email inbox and […] Get To The ChargePoint; GM’s Chevy Bevy; Walgreens Boots Up
January 6, 2022 Great Stuff
Guilty As Charged ‘Sup, Great Ones? Mr. Great Stuff here again. I know today is “officially” the Great Stuff Team’s day to run Thursday Throwdown … but I’m not done giving away free stock picks for 2022! I know, I know … I didn’t give you any hints yesterday that another pick was coming. Mea […] 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…