By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — During bear markets, it’s easy to talk about all the things going wrong in the market, economy and the world. And in today’s current market…
Tag: Factor Focus
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Trend Following
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Something has happened recently that hasn’t happened in quite some time – of the seven major market indices we apply our trend following model to…
Challenges for the 60/40 Balanced Investor in Today’s Market
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Late last year I gave a presentation to investors title, “Alternatives to the 60/40 Stock/Bond Portfolio: Why Investors Should be Thinking About this Now in…
5 Two-by-Two Matrixes That Can Help You Become A Better Investor
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Imagine if all your investing decisions could be boiled down to a few simple matrixes. It would make investing, which can be complicated and complex,…
Six Hidden Investment Research Tools on Validea You Can Use For Free
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — This Friday I will be hosting a free investing webinar at 12:30 EST walking investors through the investment research tools we’ve created at Validea. In…
Investors Map Their Course In 2021 Using Validea
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — In 2021, over 320,000 investors from 190 different countries visited Validea.com in search of information that they believed could help in their investing journey. While…
Factoring in Earnings Revisions
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — The market, by all intents and purposes, looks expensive based on most traditional valuation measures (the chart below courtesy of Liz Ann Sonders, Managing Director,…
What Has Worked and What Hasn’t So Far in 2021
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Each market environment and year we can look back and say what worked and what didn’t. And while it’s easy to do that in hindsight,…
Eighteen Financial Terms That Define Our Time
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Market events and periods of time bring about new terms, definitions and areas of focus and importance for investors. One generation of investors may grow…
A Walk Down Drawdown Lane
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — With the S&P 500 hitting all-time highs, it might seem strange to write an article about market drawdowns, but the one thing we know for…