Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I want to help fund my grandchildren’s education. You know, what are my options? And you know, what are the pros and cons of each option? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, this is, you know, this is my 35th year and I have a different answer now than I used to have. Just based
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was down point zero 7%. Today, market was just kind of vacillating around zero up and down up and down and really seems to be waiting for tomorrow, the PCE number is going to be released the personal consumption expenditures, this is an inflation
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: My portfolio is down, should I ever consider taking Social Security early as income to kind of make up for that decrease in my portfolio? Tom Vaughan: Okay, so portfolio is down, obviously, as true for most of us here in this particular market. And let’s, I’m assuming that means that we’re
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Tuesday, the S&P 500 was down a little bit more than 2%. Today was an interesting day, I had an alert set at the S&P 500, around 3940 level, and we jumped through that alert, IQ triggered, we got to 3945. And then the market really started down
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Monday, the S&P 500 was down point 3%. Today, really interesting day in the sense that, you know, we started up a little bit, and then we got the durable goods order that came out, and durable goods orders up more than expected. And right now, good news
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: What is a bear market rally? And how do you tell the difference between a bear market rally and just a regular rally? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, we got this question earlier. So I’ve got some things prepared for this too. But it’s really fascinating because, first of all, some definitions, right? A
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: I’d like to start with a summary of what I saw happening in the market this week. So this is the S&P 500 chart for the year so far, we can see obviously, we’ve had, you know, a downward motion going on lots of little run ups in there, that blue line
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: What is contrarian investing? Tom Vaughan: Oh, okay, let’s actually go back to this slide again, and we’ll share it in a way like this. So contrarian investing, when the fear is high you buy, right? Just think of that when the fear is high you buy. Now, the most amazing thing
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was down point 1%. Today, not a terrible result, considering that we start off the day down 1% went all the way up into the positive territory. And it really wasn’t until the very end where we sold off to get back to the
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Everybody, welcome to Thursday, the S&P 500 was up almost 1%. Today, we’re taking advantage of this motion that we’ve had to the upside this week. And today to take some of the stock market exposure we have in most of our accounts, and put it into some ultra short term bonds