Articles tagged: "DJIA"

1: Stock Market Meltdown - Watching Rome Burn

Scary markets are brought about by many factors, some normal, and some not so normal. It 's often helpful to look backwards before getting too paranoid about the present. The S & L crisis of the early 80s might be an appropriate starting point.

2: Volatility Rocks The Investment Markets

Much of the current skittishness in the financial markets is caused by multiple economic concerns and the incredibly naive resolution ideas being spouted by the presidential candidates.

3: Investment Performance Analysis - Simplified

Let 's develop an "all you need to know" chart that will help you manage your way to investment success in a low failure rate, unemotional, environment. The chart will have four data lines, and your portfolio management objective will be to keep three of them moving upward through time.

4: Investment Performance Analysis Using the Working Capital Asset Allocation Model

Every December, with visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads, investors begin to scrutinize their performance, formulate couldas and shouldas, and determine what to try next year. It 's an annual, masochistic, right of passage. My year-end vision is different.

5: How Do You Spell Correction?

The problems, and the solutions, boil down to focus, understanding, and retraining. But for now, relax and enjoy this correction. It 's your invitation to the fun and games of the next rally, when you will see that correction is spelled o-p-p-o-r-t-u-n-i-t-y.