Category: Asset Management

When investing, there are many different investment styles and factors for categorizing stocks.  Categorizations became especially popular when Morningstar created a style box to classify stocks.  Across the vertical axis of the Morningstar style box, stocks are categorized by size.  There are large cap, mid-cap, and small-capitalization stocks, which is based on the market capitalization …

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The biggest challenges I faced investing early on were both, getting to know myself, and the cognitive traps that we are all susceptible to. I am a firm believer that successful investing has more to do with understanding one’s self first, and then developing processes to help short-circuit or sidestep any behaviors that may be …

Continue reading “A Tale of Two Frequencies”

Everyone likes a way to track their performance. Whether it be through reviews at work, stepping on the scale at the gym, or performance of an investment account, humans like feedback. Feedback acts as a guidepost, allowing us to analyze whether we are on the right track to meet our goals. While it is necessary …

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The US Dollar Index (‘DXY’) is an index that values the US Dollar relative to a basket of major currencies. When the index goes up, the US Dollar is strengthening versus this basket, and when the index goes down, the US Dollar is weakening relative to the basket of major currencies. The US Dollar Index …

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