Category Archives: Investment Mistakes

Smart Money Makes Another Dumb Mistake

Institutional and professional money managers are sometimes referred to as “smart money.” I honestly don’t [...]

Chasing Performance, Fueled by Hope

Whether we want to admit it or not, we are impacted by past performance. The [...]

Robinhood – The Perils of Hype & Hope

In August of last year I wrote about Robinhood going public. In particular I questioned [...]

Barron’s Experts Show Their Wealth Destroying Advice…Again

Every year Barron’s comes out with their annual roundtable of economic and stock market strategists [...]

Three Valuable Investment Lessons From Zillow’s Folly

Zillow recently made headlines (and lost over a quarter of their market value) by announcing [...]

Will Robinhood Become a Meme Stock Itself?

Now that the app-based brokerage firm, Robinhood, has gone public I wonder if it will [...]

My Costco Experience – Recovery May Take a While

Yesterday I went to Costco with my wife to pick up a few items. That [...]

Experts Get It Wrong…Again

  If you have clients that are influenced by experts’ Buy/Sell opinions and price targets [...]

How Could I Be Wrong?

When we decide to purchase a security (invest), we often think of all the reasons [...]

Why Some Stimuli Fail to Stimulate

Over the past several months Americans have experienced a financial windfall in the form of [...]