You Shouldn’t Invest A Cent Without A Verified Statistical Edge…
In last week’s article, I explained why timing the market is a strategy that, if set up and executed correctly, has the greatest potential to get you long-term market-beating returns. And when I talked about the must-have elements for creating such a strategy, I mentioned the “Statistical Edge.” In fact, I said that without a […]
Why You Can (And Should) Time The Market… And How To Go About It
Don’t let the financial establishment convince you the only way to profit in the stock market is to stay invested all the time. (Bonus points if you are invested with them, of course.) The “proof” they base this statement on is bogus, as I’ll show you in a moment. But before I do that, let […]
S&P500 reaches another all-time high
With plenty of ‘guessing’ happening amongst the financial world’s commentariats on where the US equities markets may be headed, we will join the banter with a yet another view. I use the word ‘guessing’ to laager those that predict market directions. As such I preface this article by stating that the analysis below is not […]
Dangers of being seduced by ‘market noise’
In these days of the 24-hour news cycle, and the ease of access to a huge and varied array of news, data sources, opinions and instant updates, how do investors deal with the continuous bombardment of ‘market noise’ when arriving at their investing decisions? Over supply of information A constant stream of news, views and […]
The biggest problem with Newsletters (part 2)
This week I will relate a real life story from a subscriber to an Australian newsletter. This story highlights what is probably the biggest problem with newsletter story writers. This problem was identified in one of the comments, by Ralph, to last week’s blog. In David Letterman style, to a drum roll, the NUMBER ONE […]
4 Gut Busting Lessons I’ve Learnt From my 20+ Years in the Markets (Part 2)
This is my last post for 2013 and I want to thank everyone that has contributed their thoughts and experiences on the Gary Stone Journal. I hope that you have enjoyed my commentary and have been able to take away some of the lessons and principles that I have come to learn over the past […]
How far can the Dow Jones go? Part 2
Following on from my previous blog, in the discussion with my fellow golfing member I told him that the great majority of investors in Australia are NOT active in the share market at the moment. Retail investor activity in the stock market is at multi-decade lows and retail investor sentiment towards shares is at the […]