Maybe you’ve heard the old Wall Street saying that you should sell your stocks in May and go away. This saying comes from historical data that shows stock market returns have been much lower during what’s called the seasonally weak six-month time period, which starts on May 1 and lasts through the end of October.
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Recently, the S&P 500 Index’s bull market became the second-longest and the second-best market in recent history. If you include reinvested dividends, stock prices are up 340 per cent from the low point after the financial crisis in 2009.
It’s easy to think it’s been easy money — you just put your chips on the table when the market hits the bottom and let them ride.
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It’s usually not a good sign for an investment when a large brokerage firm runs an ad in the Wall Street Journal begging for more regulatory oversight and warning investors that the investment category is so volatile that futures contracts could create devastating losses. This is exactly what has happened after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced plans to start trading Bitcoin futures contracts. Seems like everywhere you turn these days, you’re hearing about the huge increases in Bitcoin prices as well as seeing tons of ads telling you how you, too, can get in on the action.
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Here’s why we use index mutual funds and ETFs in accounts we manage and why we recommend them for just about everyone.
A recent research study shows that 93 per cent of all US stock funds that were professionally managed were outperformed by their respective index benchmark over a three-year average.
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Now that we are eight years into a bull market, some investors and, most certainly the financial media, are assuming something just has to go wrong. As a result, you are seeing lots of stories about what area of the market is already in a bubble waiting to pop.
Here is an interesting take on some of these so called bubbles from economist, Brian Wesbury.
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