by Trent Smalley, CMT | May 27, 2021 | Investing
One hundred and twenty five years ago today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average made its debut. It has risen an average of 7.69% each year and notched 1,464 record closes, according to Dow Jones Market Data. It climbed above 100 in 1906, topped 1000 in 1972 and crossed...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | May 18, 2021 | Investing
So often lost in the day to day or week to week noise of endless stock market gyrations, is the realization that you may already be in posession of a “multibagger.” In “One Up On Wall Street” the famous investor Peter Lynch coined the term to...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | May 14, 2021 | Investing
“If you cant stomach 50% declines in your investment, you’ll get the mediocre returns that you deserve.” – Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway Investing is simple, but it’s anything but easy. I look for companies in their...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | May 10, 2021 | Stock Market Analysis
“Its just money; its made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don’t have to kill each other just to get something to eat. It’s not wrong. And it’s certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, 37, 57, 84, 1901,...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Apr 27, 2021 | Investing
Over the past twenty years, the investment landscape has seen the mass adoption of exchange traded funds. ETFs offer investors a simple way to achieve exposure to underlying indexes both in and outside of the U.S. as well as diversification across multiple subsectors...
