Sentences with phrase «poor stock market performance»

Also, like I mentioned above when responding to Aloha E, you can arbitrarily choose periods of poor stock market performance, but when you do that, you make two flawed assumptions.

Lofty earnings expectations result in poor stock market performance, on average.

However, with budget cuts and poor stock market performances, municipal pension funds across the country are underfunded, and the governments that run them are being forced to pay more out of pocket to get them up to par.

Not exact matches

Numerous times in the past, a cluster of distribution days after an extended rally, combined with the suddenly poor performance of individual leadership stocks, has been enough to prompt us to exit long positions within just a few percent of a market top (check out this actual such example from mid-2012).

Broad market volume patterns, combined with poor performance by leading individual stocks, always play a crucial role in identifying significant market tops and bottoms.

Bad market timing derived from overreaction to past stock market returns (individual option traders seem especially prone to overreact) and high trading costs are probable drivers of this poor performance.

At that time, they tracked the performance of a broad - based benchmark like the Standard & Poor's 500 index, all U.S. stocks or international stock markets.

Lately, I have been studying periods in stock market history typically known for «poor performance» to see if it were possible to craft an intelligent dividend strategy during that time period.

Value - investing, which we loosely define as any strategy that buys the cheapest stocks in the market, works because investors overreact to poor performance and project it too far in the future (aka, LSV 1994 Journal of Finance).

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

This performance history indicates that the compound return of emerging markets stocks was 11.3 %, versus 10.4 % for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index SPX, -0.02 % Data sourced for this report comes from Dimensional Fund Advisors.

They also teach that poor fundamental business performance does not necessarily lead to poor stock market returns, and vice versa.

Because of their diversity, more mutual funds are considered a safer bet than individual stocks, as they are spread out in such a way that poor performance in one area of the market will not necessarily make that much of an impact on the overall fund.

Due to poor stock and bond market performance over the last few years, many hedge funds, private capital companies, and large institutional investors turned to the residential housing market.

In the U.S. stock market, 87 years of performance data (1928 through 2014) give small - cap value stocks a huge advantage: A compound return of 13.6 %, versus 9.8 % for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index SPX, -0.57 % Data sourced for this report comes from Dimensional Fund Advisors.

Investment Newsletters Prior Bear Markets: A Poor Guide to Future Newsletter Performance The current stock bear market has been so traumatic, it is likely to dominate investment decision - making for years.

I don't want to make too much of it, but when the supply of qualifying stocks dried up early in 2007 and we had to hold onto stocks that had not qualified for a long time and relax our criteria, it indicated the beginning of poorer performance relative to the overall market.

4) The UK, France, and Switzerland all had poor stock performance over the past two decades, partially because their markets were overvalued in 2000 and partially because they have slower population growth than the United States.

Given the poor performance of the Canadian stock market in 2015, this should not be too difficult!

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The professional divisions are on starvation rations to persuade the stock market that aggressive cost cutting demonstrates excellent management and more than compensates for poor performance elsewhere; puzzlingly the markets have been slow to understand the brilliance of this position.

Throughout last year, most market observers attributed at least part of the relatively poor performance of REIT stocks, as well as other income and value stocks, to the overwhelmingly positive net investment flows into technology, reports Mike Grupe, vice president and director research for NAREIT.