Originally posted January 10, 2019. Last Updated: April 10, 2019 “Professional” advisers will often say that individual investors cannot beat the market and that you’d be better served investing in a S&P 500 tracking fund. Don’t believe it....
Originally posted January 6, 2019. Last updated: March 5, 2019. What should I do if I’m planning to retire in 2019? Recently, one of Get Irked’s members asked if they should be worried about retiring this year given the market’s current fluctuations. Don’t go...
The Fed meeting is at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time tomorrow (12/19/2018) and the market WILL react. What do you do? At this point, analysts are almost evenly divided about what will happen to the markets after the Fed meeting. There are three possible outcomes: ...
After today’s additional declines of more than 500 points in the Dow, 2.08% in the S&P and 2.27% in the NASDAQ plus the news that we’re on pace for the worst December in the markets since The Great Depression (yes, THAT Great Depression), it can be...
Originally Posted November 30, 2018. Last Updated May 11, 2019. What is a Binary Event? Binary events are market-moving situations where there are only two outcomes – one which will make the markets move up and one which will make the markets move down. Binary...
Originally posted: November 20, 2018. Last updated: April 18, 2021 What makes a “Bear Market?” Bear Markets are defined by when the indexes drop 20% from their highs with a consistent downward trend. Day-after-day, the indexes head lower with almost every...
