Contents Are Long-Term Investments a Smart Idea? As a general rule, investments with a longer time horizon produce better returns. Attempts by investors to time the market and the resulting emotional trading often reduce investment results. For the most part, investors in the S&P 500 produced gains during periods of 20 years. To be a… Continue reading How to Be a Worry-Free Long-Term Investor
Category: Dollar Cost Averaging
Are Stocks Due for a Correction?
The S&P daily chart does not look good for the bulls because it appears that a short-term correction is forthcoming. The S&P 500 has been stuck between 2,100 and 2,200 for quite some time. It has also been forming lower highs since August. The chart does not look particularly encouraging for the buyers. If it’s… Continue reading Are Stocks Due for a Correction?
How to Start Investing with Little Money
After I graduated from the college and landed my first full-time job, I realized how important investing was. I needed money for retirement, emergency funds, vacation money, and so on and so forth. For my retirement, starting the 401K at work was simple. I simply invested the maximum amount that the company would match 100%.… Continue reading How to Start Investing with Little Money
What to Do When I Don’t Know if the Stock Markets Are Going up or down?
Markets might have had recouped all of the losses this year; however, there is not much to cheer about the market returns so far in 2016. Where will the markets go from here? Will the deteriorated health of the Chinese economy cause a global market sell off? Will the slow down of the Chinese economy… Continue reading What to Do When I Don’t Know if the Stock Markets Are Going up or down?