If a recession is at hand, the current bear market could last a while. Bear markets accompanied by recessions tend to last longer and drop farther than non-recessionary bears.
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Every bear market rally lures investors into (wrongly) believing a new bull market is underway. SMI's process helps you avoid getting taken in by shorter-term trends.
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August 29, 2022
Brian Feroldi
Why do stock prices constantly change? Here's a primer on why prices go up and down — and why the long-term trend of the market is upward.
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A cognitive bias can affect your judgment. Here are five that regularly trip up investors, and how SMI’s investing approach can help combat them.
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In 1970s Redux?, we recently took a look at the long "plateau" periods the stock market periodically goes through between big, secular bull markets. The key chart from that article was this one:
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Anybody feeling tired yet?
As we enter the eighth month of this bear market, I'm feeling the exhaustion creeping in. That's amplified by the fact that we've had this head-scratching rally that keeps...running...higher,
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In some ways, 2022 seems like a return to economically turbulent 1970s. If we are facing a 70s repeat, how should that affect your investing plan?
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Once a month, Mark Biller provides a half-hour video update for SMI Private Client investors. Mark is the Senior Portfolio Manager for Private Client, as well as serving as the Executive Editor for the SMI
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News reports about how “the market” performed are based on "indexes" that reflect the performance of particular groups of stocks. The performance of those groups can vary widely.
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I'm going to keep it short and sweet today, as the market throws its first really big punch of this bear market.
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