Observations on the Market Correction
There’s rarely a good reason for a stock market downturn. I’ve been studying many of the historical bear markets and corrections that don’t get as much publicity as the usual suspects
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When the tide goes out
“A portfolio that gets so scary that you bail out at the bottom is destined to fail. There will always be apparent dangers and steep declines.” – Jeff Miller, encouraging readers of his Dash of
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This is a big week for Scottrade customers, which includes many SMI members. If that includes you, beginning at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time this Friday and running through the weekend, you will not have access to your Scottrade
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As the market correction was unfolding early last week, I provided some commentary about what was going on, and Matt dug into the ultimately more-important question of how we should respond to the downturn as individual
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SMI's Personal Portfolio Tracker and monthly Fund Performance Rankings report have been updated to reflect mutual-fund performance data current through 1/31/2018. The Tracker and FPR are typically updated monthly between
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The SMI family lost a good friend this week with the unexpected passing of Tom Hahn.
Many of you "knew" Tom through his frequent interactions here on the SMI site. Tom started with SMI almost at the very beginning — 1992.
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I recently answered a member question about the return of SMI's recommended bond funds so far in 2018. A primary focus of that reply was that, while of course we'd love to always earn great returns from our bond holdings,
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A few follow-up thoughts to Matt's excellent post yesterday...
The pundits have been out in full force trying to explain why the market has stumbled over the past week, as well as trying to convince us of what it will do
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Well, this is interesting.
After 12 positive months in 2017 and a good start to this year, the Dow fell by nearly 3.5% last week — its worst week in two years. And it’s falling further today — as you may be aware.
So,
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The stock market run-up has been amazing. All the more reason to be on your guard — as SMI Executive Editor Mark Biller explains today on MoneyWise.
He talks about how following a strategy with built-in
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