{"id":42448,"date":"2018-04-11T11:50:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=42448"},"modified":"2018-04-11T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T15:50:45","slug":"the-stockmarket-is-in-a-good-place-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=42448","title":{"rendered":"The stockmarket is in a good place. Here&#8217;s why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our biggest mistakes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ We focus on the &#8220;noise,&#8221; not the market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ We focus on the day, not the trend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ We focus on the antics, forgetting &#8220;antics&#8221; are not new. They&#8217;re just different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">\u00a0+ We panic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s been several days since I posted. I&#8217;ve been reading, thinking, analyzing and watching Zuck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My big conclusion: <strong>Don&#8217;t panic. We&#8217;re in a good place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I want every reader of this blog to watch this video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CiovaccoTradeWarjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CiovaccoTradeWarjpg.jpg\" alt=\"CiovaccoTradeWar,jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CiovaccoTradeWarjpg.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CiovaccoTradeWarjpg-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To watch it (and you must), click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sgS-RvHafMY\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My friend Pete Rawlings turned me onto Ciovacco Capital&#8217;s stockmarket videos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can sum this video up:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ We&#8217;re at an inflexion point. We&#8217;ve been there before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Here&#8217;s how to see what happens next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Here&#8217;s what to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are a few &#8220;slides&#8221; pulled out of the video. You can get the video&#8217;s gist from these three slides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most important is the list of Common Missteps in the third slide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/penalty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/penalty.jpg\" alt=\"penalty\" width=\"602\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/penalty.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/penalty-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stayingout..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stayingout..jpg\" alt=\"stayingout.\" width=\"1011\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stayingout..jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stayingout.-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stayingout.-768x377.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1011px) 100vw, 1011px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CiovaccoCapital.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CiovaccoCapital.png\" alt=\"CiovaccoCapital\" width=\"991\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CiovaccoCapital.png 991w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CiovaccoCapital-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CiovaccoCapital-768x363.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I will be forever grateful to my dear friend and very successful investor, Pete Rawlings, for introducing me to the Ciovacco Capital&#8217;s videos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you Pete. I&#8217;ll see you for lunch today at 12:30 PST.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cringing at Trump, maybe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My friends cringe at Trump&#8217;s antics. But my other friends, his supporters, love him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My friends don&#8217;t understand what motivates his supporters. My friends don&#8217;t understand why Trump&#8217;s antics don&#8217;t turn his suppporters off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Diane Hessan has been doing an amazing job tracking a group of voters &#8212; half Clinton, half Trump. Her insights come out every month or so in <em>The Boston Globe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are her latest insights. This stuff is eye opening:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>All is well in Trumpland<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">by\u00a0DIANE HESSAN in the Boston Globe<\/p>\n<p id=\"U841527210264qRC\" style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">\u201cYOU HAVE TO ADMIT, Trump has done more in the 14 months he\u2019s been in office to further the best interests of the country than anyone on the left can accept,\u201d says Jack, a Republican from California. Although Jack supports increased gun control, and worries about Trump\u2019s meeting with North Korea, he is generally happy with the president\u2019s progress. \u201cThere is certainly a lot to cringe about, but when I consider the alternative \u2014 a career politician with more skeletons in her closet than a Halloween party store \u2014 I am OK with the brash, nasty guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">While progressives focus on the Robert Mueller\u00a0<a class=\"a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2018\/04\/04\/russia-probe-difference-between-target-and-subject-matters-great-deal\/9MfwqcWJRHRNAj7vdiGytO\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Russia investigation<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2018\/03\/02\/trump-cabinet-gilded-with-taxpayer-gold\/qqAk2ciyEWuBl5hbwuXxBI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">the constant churn<\/a>\u00a0in White House staff, tariffs that seem to be backfiring, and the president\u2019s unwillingness to read his notes prior to a phone call with Vladmir Putin, all is well \u2014 mostly \u2014 in Trumpland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">In my ongoing research with 450 voters from across the political spectrum, 225 voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Despite the drama and chaos surrounding our president, over 90 percent of those who voted for him tell me that they have no regrets about their choice. To them, hope and change is finally here: a president whose outrage matches theirs, who is committed daily to focusing on their key issues, and who is moving at record speed. Says Theresa from Virginia, \u201cThe establishment is turning out to be the Titanic \u2014 and the rogue captain is off on a speedboat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">The predominant theme for Trump voters is the economy. Jeff, a Wall Street executive, sends me statistics weekly about improvements in the Dow Jones, unemployment rates, and consumer confidence. For most, however, it\u2019s more about how those metrics are affecting both their psyches and their pocketbooks. Just as Hillary Clinton\u2019s remark about\u00a0<a class=\"a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2016\/11\/21\/understanding-undecided-voters\/9EjNHVkt99b4re2VAB8ziI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">\u201cdeplorables\u201d<\/a>\u00a0was the nail in the coffin for her candidacy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s remark about tax cuts producing \u201ccrumbs\u201d for workers made over 80 percent of my voters recoil. \u201cI would like Pelosi to take a look at my paycheck,\u201d says Hope from Ohio. \u201cMaybe an extra $252 every month isn\u2019t much to her or to the liberal elites, but to me, it has been life-changing.\u201d Hope says her neighbors feel the same way, and that one neighbor was moved to tears when she saw the difference in her take-home pay. Ron, a conservative from Mississippi, agrees. \u201cDown here, there is a feeling of momentum. In our churches and even in our bars, people are talking about more business, more pay and less taxes. I know that there are other issues in the country, but when you are in debt and trying to feed your family, not much else matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">People often ask me how Trump supporters can ignore the chaos in the White House, the character flaws, and the lying. It\u2019s mostly because over half of Americans can\u2019t make ends meet; people report how they pay more than half of their income in rent, avoid going to the doctor because they can\u2019t afford the copayment, and lie awake at night worrying about whether they can pay utility bills. Says Stan, of West Virginia, who took on an extra evening job temporarily so that his family could travel to his niece\u2019s wedding: \u201cI am so tired that I barely know what those kids in Parkland are marching for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">Trump supporters are troubled by\u00a0<a class=\"a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2017\/12\/14\/the-metoo-movement-knocking-donald-trump-front-door-yes-president-youtoo\/z5Fmy40Ljohe8GXgwF1GnM\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">the president\u2019s behavior<\/a>, but it doesn\u2019t surprise them. Says Kenny from Louisiana, \u201cI think Trump lies daily, and by that I mean, he\u2019s a classic salesman. Everything is millions and billions, smooth and the best. He won\u2019t be negative about anything. Do I think he has stuff in the closet that he doesn\u2019t want out and may lie about? Yes. I couldn\u2019t care less. He never preached he was a saint and then all of the sudden we found out he had horns. We all knew this and accepted it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">\u201cTrump was not my first, second, or third choice in the GOP pool,\u201d says Lucinda from Kentucky. \u201cI think he needs to quit tweeting and quit responding to personal attacks from the media and celebrities. He just needs to tweet about what he is doing for the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">To me, he is very immature, but performance-wise, he\u2019s doing a great job.\u201d Lucinda and others have a list of what they see as the president\u2019s accomplishments: more than 2 million jobs created, the elimination of unnecessary regulations, reduced illegal immigration, the decline in the threat of ISIS, and the renegotiation of unfair trade agreements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">Adds Britta from Michigan, \u201cWhenever we are appalled about Trump\u2019s sexual misconduct, let\u2019s remember that he is not the first sexual predator to occupy the Oval Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>WINDOWS: Please enter your new password.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">USER: cabbage<br \/>\nWINDOWS: Sorry the password must be more than 8 characters.<br \/>\nUSER: boiled cabbage<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.<br \/>\nUSER: 1 boiled cabbage<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.<br \/>\nUSER: 50bloodyboiledcabbages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character.<br \/>\nUSER: 50BLOODYboiledcabbages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively.<br \/>\nUSER: 50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourButtIfYouDon&#8217;tGiveMeAccessNow!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.<br \/>\nUSER: ReallyPeedOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourButtIfYouDontGiveMeAccessNow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WINDOWS: Sorry, that password is already in use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Martin goes to church<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Father, I am all confused and scared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Father: &#8220;Why Martin, what&#8217;s going on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Martin: &#8220;My wife is trying to kill me. She is giving me poison.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Father: &#8220;That can&#8217;t be true. You are imagining things. However, if it gives you any solace, I will talk to your wife. We will find the truth. Come see me next Sunday after Mass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Father: &#8220;Well now Martin, I spoke to your wife for more than five hours. You want to hear my conclusion?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Martin: &#8220;Yes father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Father: &#8220;Take the poison.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\" alt=\"HarryNewton\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHarry Newton, who will write more on Zuckerberg&#8217;s presentation today. For now, I&#8217;m super impressed. I sold out of FB at roughly where it is today. I was wrong. I panicked. I&#8217;m getting back in. Nothing I heard yesterday has detracted from my belief hat Facebook is, and remains an incredibly powerful advertising medium &#8212; better in many respects than Google. Understand Facebook is <strong>not<\/strong> a social media platform. It&#8217;s a place to place advertising. And advertising on Facebook works! Trust me on that one. Buy FB stock. 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