As investors living in the United States, most investing "media" covers the US equities markets. When someone tells you "the market was up again today", you may immediately think about the Dow Jones or S&P 500 indexes. However, US stocks only make up about 52% of the global equity markets weighted by market capitalization - …
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The Stock Market Has Bounced, Now What?
Since the highs in July the S&P 500 had corrected about 14% - the Dow Jones fell even more. In September, just when things looked about to get worse, the market started moving higher and has not stopped. As of today, the S&P 500 is back to "break-even" for 2015 after an 11% rally off …
Selling Stocks Is Easy
There are few things worse than having the market go against you. As a Wall Street trader for many years, I have had tens of thousands of positions go against me - not fun, but each was a lesson learned. There are so many emotions that arise when you are losing money in the market: …
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