This Cognitive Bias Can Derail Your Investment Plan

by Elle Kaplan | Apr 18, 2017 | Blog, Investing

A made up mind is a very hard thing to change. This isn’t entirely due to humans being stubborn, however – studies have found that once you’ve formed an opinion, you subconsciously embrace any information that confirms your view, while ignoring information that casts...

Risk In Investing: How Does it Factor into Your Investing Success?

by Elle Kaplan | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog, Investing

Risk is a four letter word that many of us shy away from, especially when it comes to our wealth. After all, there’s an inherent degree of failure associated with risk. Although risk and volatility can be uncomfortable, a certain degree of risk in investing may...

Stock Market Volatility: 3 Things You Shouldn’t Do

by Elle Kaplan | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog, Investing

Stock market volatility can be an uncomfortable ride. When your hard-earned wealth is invested in the stock market, seeing it rapidly increase and decrease in value can be disconcerting, to say the very least. Whether or not you’re affected by market volatility, it...

How Should You Invest During Stock Market Highs?

by Elle Kaplan | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog, Investing

You may have heard in the media that there have been a few recent stock market highs. The Dow Jones (a benchmark for a portion of the US stock market), for instance, broke into the headlines when it reached an all-time high of 21,000 points recently. When there’s...

Should You Try to Time The Stock Market?

by Elle Kaplan | Mar 15, 2017 | Blog, Investing

Market timing is the act of moving wealth in and out of the stock market with the goal of gaining higher profits and avoiding losses. And it’s possibly one of the most debated and argued fields in investing. On one hand, some experts claim they can pull it off...

1 Suprising Cognitive Bias You Should Avoid in Investing

by Elle Kaplan | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog, Investing

When it comes to investing, I’ve already spoken about the dangers of becoming overconfident. When your investments are doing well, it’s easy to develop hubris in your investment abilities, and to ignore your long-term plan in order to chase short-term success. While...