It's been 100 days since the WHO officially declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. I'll leave the medical/political sides of that to others, but it seems like an appropriate time to update some big picture thinking about the
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The stock market is currently working through its third "once in a generation" crisis in the past 20 years.
There was the Tech Bubble in the late-1990s that culminated in the bear market of 2000-2002. The loose-money
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It's not easy to remain calm when the financial world seems to enter a period of temporary insanity. These ideas will help.
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As most of you know, SMI's strategies run on a set of well-defined, mechanical rules. Things like studying charts and technical analysis don't factor into our investment process, so we rarely comment on such matters.
That
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The biggest issue facing investors right now is how to reconcile the obvious carnage in the real economy with the relentlessly rising stock market. There's a tendency to interpret the market as a predictor of the economy,
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In times of uncertainty and fear, it’s crucial to rely on the discipline of a structured, proven approach to risk management. That’s just what SMI provides.
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The past two days have brought the first significantly positive news about the COVID-19 virus. While the overall news is still bad by any measure, with many more people continuing to get sick, be hospitalized and die, the
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In times like these, it's crucial to remember lessons from market history, as well as reassuring truths from God’s Word.
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March 25, 2020
Martin J. Pring
The markets are driven by crowd emotions. Becoming a successful investor demands that you rise above the crowd.
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In the long run, optimistic investors — those who stick with their plan come what may — always end up better off than the pessimists who let fear get the best of them.
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