Forefront’s Monday Market Update Disposition Effect Why do individual investors hold losing stocks for far too long, and sell winning stocks way to early? Avoiding regret, and seeking pride affects people’s behaviors, especially when it comes to investing, and it’s been dubbed the “disposition effect.” The idea that people dislike incurring losses more than they...Read More

Forefront’s Monday Market Update How to lose 20 billion dollars Have you ever been in credit card debt or any sort of debt for that matter? The feeling of it is awful, to the point of being almost crippling. Now, this isn’t to say that credit cards don’t serve a good function, and if used...Read More

Forefront’s Monday Market Update Finding value and assessing risk My son, AJ, and I were having a catch this weekend when the ball rolled under one of our boxwood bushes. I hate those bushes, but at least the deer don’t eat them. I digress. He didn’t want to stick his hand underneath for fear of...Read More

Forefront’s Monday Market Update A big week for earnings…. And your portfolio? Did anyone else have déjà vu last week? On Monday the headlines were all about the Delta variant of Covid-19 and markets plummeted. It was similar to last February when we would routinely see 1000-point drops in the Dow. How quickly we all...Read More

Forefront’s Monday Market Update 2021 most popular word? Transitory I had dinner with my parents this weekend, and my father was telling me about the cost of their rental car on a vacation they are taking in a few weeks. He kept telling me how the current state of inflation reminds him of the dark...Read More

Forefront’s Monday Market Update Will the great be good enough? As the week kicks off, so does Q2 earnings season with the big banks dominating the next few days. The consensus from analysts – this one is going to be a doozy. Earnings are generally compared from the same time last year, and the same...Read More

Forefront‘s Monday Market Update Dog Days of Summer Everyone needs a vacation, even the stock market. As the longer days of summer continue, and 90+ degree heat reminds us all that we should be on a beach somewhere, that same lull will be felt in the stock market as well. Lower volume, and a light...Read More

Forefront’s Monday Market Update What questions to ask before hiring an advisor I recently had to bring our puppy, Moose, to the vet because he seemed to be suffering from some pretty bad allergies. I love my veterinarian, not only because I trust her with my animal’s life, but because I know the structure in...Read More

Forefront’s Monday Market Update What’s all the hype about crypto? Unless you have decided to stop paying attention to the outside world, I am willing to gamble that many of you reading this today have heard of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. It is hard to avoid it when every time you walk into the...Read More

Forefront’s Monday Market Update Your portfolio is missing something Growing up, as I showed more interest in investing, I was always encouraged to research and learn about “companies that you know.” This is great advice and something I tell young people even today, but it does lead to some issues once you go from researching...Read More