Investors: Managing Risk Means Knowing Yourself
Each day, active investors are tasked with digesting and analyzing the market landscape. We do this as a means for managing risk within our...
Why Past Performance Indicator Does Not Apply To Today’s Market
The recent Wall Street Journal article, “How to Lose Money in the Market in a Hurry,” argues against making an investment based on the...
Understanding Asymmetric Risk For Outsized Investing Returns
Understanding asymmetric risk is critical to making good decisions. Whether you want to be a successful investor, manager or parent, the ability to identify...
Why The Crazy Tech Bubble S&P 500 P/Es Matter Now
An S&P 500 P/E chart made the rounds a few days ago following a note from Goldman Sachs' David Kostin's observing the S&P 500's (SPX)...
Is the Market Bubble Meme Our Biggest Blind Spot?
Tadas Viskanta of Abnormal Returns was out yesterday with an excellent compilation of quotes on financial bubbles that along with its linked sources is the...
Low Volatility and Self-Destructing Market Biases
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their...
NFP Risk Off? Metals, US Treasuries, Yen On the Uptick
It's no secret that the much-maligned precious metals complex, belly-to-long end of the US Treasury yield curve and the carry trade-funding Japanese Yen have...
2014 Emerging Markets Outlook: Not Much Better
Emerging market equities have been out of favor going on three years, and technical conditions suggest the 2014 Emerging Markets outlook probably isn't much...
2014: See It Market Insights
From the very beginning, 2014 seems determined to assert its independence from 2013's steady and timeworn market themes. Active investors enter the New Year...
Standout Stocks: A Study Of 1st Quarter Bull Market Outperformers
The 4th quarter has come to a close and the markets have finished the year with very impressive gains. Hopefully all of your trading/investment...