Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group There is no shortage of guessing these days as to what our future may look like. Some guesses are rosy. Some are dark and cloudy. What we do…
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9 Rules That Encourage Successful Investment Strategies
Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group No one has 100% certainty of where we are headed next, so having a framework to make decisions is far better than “investments-by-feeling.” Sometimes the current situation feels…
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Market Update: Impact of social distancing and sudden economic stops
Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group This crisis is affecting us all. The good news is that nobody is hiding from this one. New statistics are coming off the press at a nearly unprecedented…
Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group Feelings about this topic can get extreme at times and there is no shortage of opinions out there. QQQ, the large ETF tracking the NASDAQ, has risen 65%…
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Market Commentary: US Stock Market Comes to Grips with Coronavirus
Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group After quite a ride over the past two weeks, it seems as though stock markets in the US have come to grips with the nasty spread of the…
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Market Commentary: Why is the Coronavirus Impacting Equity Markets?
Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group Last week the markets dropped nearly ¾ of a percent due to fear rising from the coronavirus. Why would a virus impact equity markets? Some people might wonder…
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Market Commentary: Ringing in the New Year with the Longest Economic Expansion in U.S. History
Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group Markets are not only celebrating a great 2019, an amazing start to 2020, but also a record breaking economic expansion, currently reaching into its 127th month. Additionally, the…
Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group 2019 is closing with astounding speed. As we move into the final weeks of this year, many are turning towards spending time appreciating what 2019 has given to…
Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group This Thanksgiving season could be dedicated to the Fed in many ways. One of the reasons that short-term sentiment about the market has changed is that the Fed…
Written by: Benjamin Bimson CIMA®, CMT® / CIO, BCJ Financial Group Remember Q4 2018? Markets had bounced off all-time highs, trade was looming large and pessimism was gaining the upper hand in many investor minds. An inverted yield curve,…