Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Why steadying influence of a professional Financial Advisor is important: #election

Its up! Dow Jones is up 200 points from opening, 100+ pts. this month    #Trump #finance #stockmarket #election  #Crm2plus #FA   

TSX is up 100 points.   The market meltdown that was reported to be about to happen in the media, has been averted!


This is the best example we’ve seen in a while for using a professional Financial Advisor.   The calming and steadying influence is important.  The media is not the best source of financial advice.   The media loves sensation, excitement, change, volatility.    The economy loves certainty.   Good news or bad, the economy just needs to know what’s coming and “hold the wheel ,steady as she goes”.  

As an average investor, I find it extremely difficult to shut out the media and ignore what everyone is telling me (everyone except my FA).   If I had believed the media, the logical thing to do would have been to sell everything and move to a cabin in the mountains.   Today, however, the market is up.   Acting on instinct, panicking, would have created some significant losses.  The steadying influence of an FA averted this.


this is how I felt last week, thinking about this stuff...
with thanks to the Phom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center
Now 6 months from now, I will meet with my FA and I will not remember this little blip.  My FA uses CRM2plus, a nifty little tool, with which he graphs my great ideas (hypothetical) against what we actually end up investing him.   It’s an easy way for him to remind me why I use his services.