I closed the final chapter of LOSE YOUR BROKER, NOT YOUR MONEY by recommending a balanced approach towards investment by splitting your assets equally among three or four asset classes, citing the below allocation example: Stocks    25% Bonds     25% Gold      25% Cash      25%   As mentioned in the book, when making...Read More

As you know, GDP is reported by the government after market activity has occurred. The stock market is priced daily on the whims of current news and events. For this reason, the DJIA will always trade around GDP, at some multiple above or below it. Remember that GDP is where the DJIA always wants to go. That’s its...Read More

Early on in this project I made a strategic decision to get the data for LOSE YOUR BROKER NOT YOUR MONEY from free websites like MSN and Yahoo!  I did this to demonstrate that you don’t need to pay high brokerage fees to get this information.  The free sites provide everything required to be a successful investor —...Read More

Stock market trading was insignificant today. What can we learn from it? We can debate when the rocky road began for the stock market this year, but to me it began in late July. The Dow dropped 200 points on July 27, 2011. Let’s call that a flare. Why not? America was on a disastrous...Read More