10-31-25 Why Risk Tolerance Questionnaires Don’t Work
2025-10-31
Most investors have filled out a risk tolerance questionnaire—but does it really measure how you’ll behave when markets crash? Richard Rosso & Jonathan McCarty break down why traditional risk tolerance tools fail to predict investor behavior, how emotions override risk profiles, and why time horizons, liquidity needs, and cash flow matter far more than a few survey questions.
Understand risk before markets remind you what it really feels like.
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Gold Myths Luring Investors Into Risk
2025-10-31
In case you haven’t heard, precious metals, particularly gold, have risen sharply this year. Of course, whenever any asset class experiences a more speculative melt-up, investors are quick to rationalize why “this time is different.” In stocks, it is about “artificial intelligence” and “data centers.” The cryptocurrency community believes all fiat currencies will fail and …
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10-27-25 How Greed, Innovation & Leverage Create Every Market Bubble
2025-10-27
Speculative bubbles don’t appear overnight – they evolve through cycles of greed, innovation, and leverage.
In this Short video, I explain how the same cycle of easy money and speculation keeps repeating, just with new assets and fancier language each time.
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Retail Leverage Goes to Extremes
2025-10-25
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Leveraged ETFs: Yet Another Sign Of Rampant Speculation
2025-10-22
Not only is the market chasing the most speculative of assets, but it is employing record amounts of leverage to do so. Traditionally, investors use margin loans to gain leverage. More recently, however, leveraged ETFs allow investors to get leverage in one package. To wit, the graph below, courtesy of BofA, shows that there are …
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