PRO Investor Blog

Options can be complicated to understand and options strategies even more so. This shouldn't hold you back from utilizing the power of options in your portfo...

Walmart (WMT) has been on our radar for a long time. It's the world's largest private-sector employer and during the Covid-19 pandemic, Walmart has rallied, ...

The year was 1985 and Nintendo launched gaming. The world would never be the same. In the 1990s, there were 100 million people playing video games. Today, ga...

Here are the facts as far as we find them relevant to investing: COVID-19 has led to widespread panic in markets around the world. Countries are being quaran...

Stocks are drifting higher in a environment of falling interest rates, trade deal optimism and "not as bad as we thought" earnings. It seems like it's smooth...

What's a good way to retire? What's the best way to retire? Just work until your full retirement age, call social security and start getting checks in the ma...

We just ended the worst week in the stock market in a decade. That's the worst 1-week stretch in 510 weeks! While there is a strong case to be made for a mar...

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. Yet, there is something that both employers and employees miss out on: a small business retirement plan. If...

When the market crashes virtually everyday during a correction, it's hard not to watch your money evaporating as investments lose value. During market downtu...

Listening to Jay Powell's press conference today was like listening to a college economics professor drone on in a monotone, robotic voice about monetary pol...

How do you feel about writing a check for your IRA or 401k contribution? Not great, right? This is why you'll usually never do it. We have a terrible aversio...

Free financial advice is everywhere. It's literally everywhere, from websites, TV, YouTube videos and even your local broker who's been trying to sell you th...

Imagine this. A 401k that has sky high contribution limits AND open architecture where you're not limited to a menu of high cost mutual funds and you have th...

On Tuesday, December 4, 2018, the Dow Jones crashed 799 points lower on the day. The question we started asking was what 401k investors (and all retirement p...

We share a common thread in the world of financial matters. Most of us, on average are really bad at saving for retirement. We want to. We know we should. An...

There are people out there (maybe you) who obsessively watch their investment accounts everyday. Feeling great when the balance goes up and feeling lousy whe...

Fiduciary responsibility is all the rage these days in retirement plan conversations around the country. The average plan sponsor, however, doesn't really ge...

The State Street SPDR S&P 500 Trust or SPY is one of the most popular ways to buy a basket of stocks representing the S&P 500 (popular by how big the fund is...

A 401k has been traditionally limited to a menu of investment choices that have been pre-selected by the employer or plan sponsor. This menu is meant to give...

Your 401k plan is riskier than you think. It's purpose is to be the nest egg that gets you to retirement but it's full of risks you might not be aware of. Wh...