Ed Butowsky, managing partner of Chapwood Investment Management, is telling his clients to check their emotions at the door and focus on the facts about this economy and how the stock market is doing. Ed further expresses now is not the time to panic about the state of the market. If you decide to sell your stocks in volatile times like these...
Many people remember the downgrade of the U.S. National debt by Standard and Poor’s on August 5th, 2011, this news sent the stock markets into a free fall for over a week. While federal investigators are looking into accusations about critical information about the downgrade that may have been leaked to market insiders, neither the downgrade...
While the Stock Market’s triple digit swings may unnerve even the most seasoned investors, one group of stock traders are scoring record profits. According to the Wall Street Journal high frequency traders, flash traders who buy and sell stocks in fractions of a second, are making the big bucks off of the volatility. That’s leading...
The current economic conditions are not playing well for various aspects of the economy. Whether its the fears of a sell-off looming in the air, the expectation of a weak jobs report coming out later this week, or the performance of the bond market, things are not looking good. All of these areas are causing various degrees of volatility on...
If the U.S. credit rating is downgraded, which could happen any day anytime, how will this impact your investment portfolio? Should you get out of the market, should you stay in the market? To help answer these types of questions Ed Butowsky, managing partner of Chapwood Investment Management, joins to explain what the best course of actions...
