Category Archive: 9a.) Real Investment Advice

TikTok Investors + BAD Financial Advice: What Happens When the Stock Market Changes?

What is the likely, long-term outcome for those whose source of information is limited to TikTok investors, YouTube videos, and Twitter chatter? How do you construct a reasonable investing thesis when you've never experienced a true Bear Market? Have markets become the equivalent of multi-level marketing (think, Amway) schemes? Expectations for markets, 11-years into the Bull Market, are still incredibly high. Investors are chasing companies that...

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Technically Speaking Tuesday | The Real Investment Show with Lance Roberts [Full: 4/6/21]

00:00 The Thing About All-time Record Highs in the Markets 9:51 Two Ways to Make Employment Numbers Look Better, March Jobs Review 22:53 The Know-Nothing Market: TikTok Investors + Bad Advice 35:21 Investing in a Period of High Valuations Technically Speaking Episode Hosted by Lance Roberts, RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist _________ Articles mentioned in this show: ➢ Technically Speaking: Despite Correction, Investors Are Exuberant:...

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The Best Surprise is No Surprise | 3 Minutes on Markets & Money [4/6/21]

It's all playing out, according to plan: Money Flows have turned very positive, which is not surprising. The rally of the past few days was expected, but don't be surprised if we get a bit of a correction in the aftermath; nothing indicating much risk to the downside. Despite reflationary trade, a resurgence in tech names and small caps creating a migration to underperforming stocks. Watch dollar uptrend continuing, and what bonds are saying,...

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March Jobs Report, Increased Risk & Blind Investing | The Real Investment Show [Full Show: 4/5/21]

00:00 Life in Semi-Rural Suburbia; Market Commentary 10:00 March Employment Report Review 23:00 Why We're Increasing Equity Exposure Risk 35:30 The Blind Leading the Blind & FinTok

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The Real Investment Show (4/5/21): Market Analysis & Commentary from RIA Advisors Chief Investmen…

The Real Investment Show (4/5/21): Market Analysis & Commentary from RIA Advisors Chief Investmen...

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Why We Increased Exposure to Risk Leading Up To April | 3 Minutes on Markets & Money

Why we increased exposure to markets leading up to the first trading week of April: The Barbell Approach. Consolidation patterns enabled participation in The Great Re-opening, but hedging against things not working out as well as we expect. Two buy signals confirming markets' direction--first level of support ready to be tested. Money flow buy signals triggered at higher than normal level, which could prove to be shorter than usual; the real risk...

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Financial Fitness Friday (4/2/21): Market Analysis & Personal Finance commentary from RIA Advisor…

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Investing & Managing Money in a High-risk Environment [4/1/21]

The process of investing is more than hitting the "buy" button. Too few investors pay enough attention to the potential risks, blinded by the promise of exorbitant returns. While it's important to make the most of Bull markets, it is equally vital to avoid losses that can come with Bear market cycles. Michael Lebowitz explains how he achieves his "zen" balance between the two...

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Tax Increases No One is Talking About | Financial Fitness Friday | Real Investment Show [4/2/21]

00:00 Is The Stock Market Rigged? Who Pays the Price? 9:55 The Coming Tax Increases No One is Talking About 23:00 Royer's Pie Haven; Everything Feeds the Beast 35:11 Bulls are Bulls Because They Have Something to Sell Hosted by RIA Advisors Director of Financial Planning, Richard Rosso, CFP with Senior Advisor Danny Ratliff, CFP _________ ➢ Sign up for the Newsletter: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/newsletter/ ➢ Listen on Apple Podcasts:...

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How To Revive Your Freeze-Damaged Garden with RANDY LEMMON (Texas Freeze 2021)

The Great Texas Freeze of February 2021 is five-weeks past! Randy Lemmon (KTRH-AM/Houston Garden Line Host) and Richard Rosso (RIA Advisors' Director of Financial Planning) offer an intimate chat about how to resuscitate frost-bitten yards and gardens: * March is the new February this year * The importance of composting * How do you know a fruit tree is dead? * How to focus feed: Azaleas * Are Azaleas appropriate for this climate? * The Value...

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Fed Grammar Matters [4/15/21]

Lance Roberts and Michael Lebowitz are always talking about "Fed Grammar," as they monthly parse the pontifications of Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, and his Fed Governors. Michael explains what they DIDN'T teach him as he was earning his CFA ticket, and why verbs and adjectives, as uttered by the Federal Reserve, are vital to investors.

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Managing Money in a High-risk Environment | The Real Investment Show (Full Show EDIT) 4/1/21

SEG-1: The Folly of Infrastructure Spending; Market Summary SEG-2: Fed Grammar Matters; What is the Market Priced For? SEG-3: Investing & Managing Money in a High-risk Environment SEG-4: What is Fair Value? -------- - Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, CIO, w Portfolio Manager, Michael Lebowitz, CFA -------- Articles Mentioned in this show: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/zen-and-the-art-of-risk-management/ -------- Get more info...

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How to Invest in the Strongest Month of the Year | Three Minutes on Markets & Money [4/1/21]

(4/1/21) Upward bias for the strongest month of the year: Consolidation or Correction? Money flow signals are turning more positive; how much more is the question. Higher interest rates and more inflation will limit market upside. Over-sold Growth stocks in NASDAQ under much pressure; expectations are for rotation from S&P reflation back into NASDAQ growth stocks with higher prices. The one thing to watch: Dollar strengthening corresponding...

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The Real Investment Show (3/31/21): Market Analysis & Personal Finance commentary from RIA Adviso…

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Building America Back Better (or Bust) | The Real Investment Show [Full Show: 3/31/21]

00:00 - Fiction vs Real Life: Building America Back Better (or Bust) 10:00 - The Impact of Infrastructure Spending and How to Sustain It: Joseph Stiglitz vs. Larry Summers 22:57 - Who Really Pays for Infrastructure Spending? 35:30 - Burrito Day, Voltzwagen, Chipto-currency, & Taxes in Retirement Hosted by Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, CIO, with Senior Advisor, Danny Ratliff, CFP. _________ Articles mentioned in this episode:...

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Where Are the Best Buy Signals? | 3 Minutes on Markets & Money [3/31/21]

Our Quarterly Market Review, charted weekly: Where are the best Buy-signals set up for the next quarter? S&P money flows are close to positive; NASDAQ money flows remain negative, creating a better, possible buying opportunity. Small Caps are possible considerations, especially if/when rates rise; Mid Caps have not corrected as much. 10Yr Treasury's are pushing up towards important 1.9% ceiling. There is plenty of upside for the Dollar in a...

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Technically Speaking Tuesday (3/30/21): Market Analysis & Commentary from RIA Advisors Chief Inve…

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Why Stimulus Won’t Cure Poverty in America w/ Lance Roberts [3/30/21]

It is a truism that in every economy there will be rich, poor, and a lot of people in between. It's fact of economics; not EVERYONE can all be wealthy. That's an utopia, and utopias (aka socialistic economies) always devolve to the lowest common denominator. In this episode, we explore the fiscal theories the current administration wishes to advance while ignoring past mistakes. Lance reviews the data and reveals why the most recent--and the...

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Where’s All the Money Going? Technically Speaking Tuesday | The Real Investment Show [Full: 3/30/21]

00:00 The Paradox of Thrift vs Stimulus 10:00 Why Stimulus Won't Cure Poverty 22:56 Technically Speaking: Where's All the Money Going? + Stock Market Buybacks 5:29 Why Biden Infrastructure Spending Creates Bad Debt Hosted by Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, CIO _________ Articles mentioned in this show: Technically Speaking: Bulls Run As Liquidity Floods Market:...

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