Investing

We are content to pay for house insurance for most of our lives yet very few of us have actually experienced a fire or a major disaster where we had to use the insurance. We are comfortable with paying the premiums every year in order to avoid a catastrophic loss. Well, owning gold is tantamount to owning an insurance policy on your investment portfolio.

Robert Shiller's revered stock market valuation ratio, the so-called CAPE, is crappy at predicting 12-month returns. Here's proof.

Predicting what the stock market will do in the next 12 months is tantamount to predicting coin flips. Here's more proof that past stock market performance tells you nothing about future results — literally nothing.

Here's an updated look at U.S. market valuations which suggest they remain at or above the levels that prevailed before previous major corrections.

I was re-reading Art of War recently, and I couldn’t help noticing how Sun Tzu’s approach to military strategy applies to investing. As he said 2,500 years ago, “he who knows them will be victorious; he who knows them not will fail.” Below are 6 quotes well worth applying as a result of the present financial chaos we find ourselves in.

The information provided by the Gold/Housing ratio in 2015 flat-out contradicts many widely held perceptions about market valuations today.

The A/D-line has entered critical territory that deserves close examination and a close watch in the ensuing trading days. Here's what the A/D -line is showing for the S&P 500 today and suggesting is quite possible for the markets tomorrow.

"Interest rates are not going to significantly rise in the near term to any meaningful degree. In fact, it is very likely that interest rates on Government issued Treasuries will remain range bound between 1% and 4% for the next 20 years." Here's why.

Gold, silver and precious metals mining stocks are still nowhere near long-term or secular bottoms but I believe they could be approaching short-term tradable bottoms in the coming days or weeks based on the following 3 signals:

As an investment, gold is not for the faint of heart. You can make or lose a fortune, depending on your entry and exit points so, that being the case, is now a good time to buy gold?