It Changed Everything I’ll admit something upfront. When I first started studying technical analysis, a lot of it felt… mystical. Lines on charts, patterns with funny names, people acting like they could predict the future off a triangle. I wasn’t...

It All Spends The Same The market isn’t broken. It’s just not sexy. As a whole, we are getting more defensive. That’s true. But here’s the important part. There are places to allocate while the fun stuff is stuck in no man’s land. The boring areas...

You’re Always “The Student” When it comes to the markets, you’re always the student. The market itself is the teacher, and every day it offers lessons for those willing to observe and learn. Our goal is simple: to gain more insight today than we had...

It’s…TIME As Bruce Buffer bellows before every fight… It’s… TIME! This video will get you hyped up Time for the market to make a decision. Over the past couple of weeks, mega-cap Tech has been landing all the punches. As I wrote last week, the “risk”...

SLAP CHOP Let’s be real. No one misses cable TV. But if there’s one thing I do miss, it’s the infomercials. Billy Mays had the football uniforms spotless.Tony Horton had the whole house shredded with P-90X by summer. And lately, the S&P 500 seems to...

Boy Scout 101 A fire needs three elements to sustain itself. Known to the Boy Scouts out there as the “fire triangle.” Heat, fuel, and oxygen. The stock market isn’t much different. Heat – That’s trend. And the S&P 500? It’s in a long-term...

See a little…see a lot. During practice, my football coach used to repeat a mantra: “See a little, see a lot, see a lot, see nothing.” He point was to focus on the details during practice and master them. In a game, it gets loud and chaotic. When you try...

Thinking In Bets I want to start with a quote this week that sums up the way I think about the markets and investing from one of my favorite books. “What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a...

Honoring Those Who Made the Market Possible First off – I’d be remiss not to take a moment to honor those who laid down their lives for this country. I grew up in Annapolis, Maryland – home of the United States Naval Academy. Patriotism...

Risk Isn’t Just Downside I’m tired.Tired of people not contextualizing risk. Yes, concentration is a risk in the market.I’ve broken it down before and ran the numbers again today on the flight back to the States. The top 10 stocks now make up over a third...