Rule Number One – Avoid Large Losses in Retirement
If you read this blog you know I am a follower of the Financial Trends Forecaster site. In particular I watch their NYSE ROC and NASDAQ ROC charts. These charts show the annual rate of return rather than the index or price. Financial Trends Forecaster believe the ROC is a much better gauge of market [...]
Today I got my copy of the FREE Monthly Financial Trend Forecaster Newsletter. I have mentioned this newsletter before and believe it is well worth subscribing to e-Trends. The site itself has some great articles and charts on it that show what is happening to the NYSE, NASDAQ and Inflation/deflation. The chart of the Rate [...]
The world is turning up-side-down. Values are being destroying and rules of law, business and etiquette thrown aside. In such a world the best Baby Boomers can do is try to keep themselves and their money safe until everyone realises the world is doing really stupid things. Kitchen table economics tells you that you don’t [...]
Here is the second book I recommend people read to educate themselves on the stock markets. “All About Market Timing” was written by Leslie N. Masonson and published in 2004, after the 2000-2003 bear market. Click in the title above to go to the Google Books site to see the contents of this great book [...]
Tags: Avoid Large Losses, buy and hold strategy, preserve your capital, timing the market, vix indexOnce again I have found a web site that makes complex financial data simple to understand. Doug Short’s web site does just that. Plus he has added several links to retirement web sites. He presents much of the data in graphical form and allows you to interact with it. All the charts have brief explanations [...]
Tags: bear market charts, buy and hold vs market timing, chart of inflation, retire early home pageRight now there is not too much Baby Boomers can do about their investments. If you are still fully invested in managed funds then the advice must be to sit tight on the equity fund investments unless there is a significant rally to sell into. If you managed to pull some or all of your [...]
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