Aug 2016 – Why it can be hard to make money in the stock market
Hint: It’s not what you think, it’s what you feel. One of the greatest ironies of investing is that some of the simplest advice is often the most important and the most difficult to stick to. For years, decades even, we have advocated “profits through patience”, accepting the returns the global stock markets provide without the need to outguess the next short term move. Through wars, recessions, elections, natural disasters and other major news events, persistence has paid off. $1,000 invested in the US Stock Market (S&P 5001) in January of 1970 grew to just under $90,000 by...
Read More