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Over the course of the past few weeks, Mr. Market has been on a tear. Most people view his actions as chaotic, unexplainable and unpredictable. In this incredibly insightful and entertaining episode of my podcast, I will explain to you the rationale behind Mr. Markets seeming irrationality. By pealing back, the smoke and mirrors of the financial media’s ramblings, Wall Street Dummies can learn how Mr. Market really works and use that insight to grow their retirement accounts.

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Shakespeare wrote, “A rose by any other name would still smell sweet. That may apply to horticulture, but it doesn’t work when applied to stock market indexes. In this incredibly insightful episode of my podcast, l explain the differences between the primary indexes and those bastardized versions created in the smoke field back rooms of Wall Street’s marketing departments.

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If you think that Mr. Market’s recent hissy fit was the result of a gaggle of investors, calculator in one hand and index finger on the execute button; GUESS AGAIN. In this captivating and insightful episode, I will take you through, blow by blow, how the rapacious mavins of Wall Street used computers and snake oil to turn news blips into ginormous trading profits. I will close with comment on how Wall Street Dummies view this as an opportunity to add to their own coffers.

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In this episode of my extremely insightful podcast, I document the evolution of the financial services industry from one that was an entirely manual process dominated by the legacy Wall Street firms to the current electronic system where the internet discount brokers are now the dominant party. 

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According to a small gaggle of self-appointed fortune tellers in the financial media, the market is on the verge of a horrific collapse, hurling all non-believers into a fiery pit. The cause of this rapidly approaching market apocalypse is the S&P 500’s concentration in the magnificent Seven; Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. Last year, more than half of the S&P 500’s 26 percent gain came from these seven companies. In this exciting episode of my podcast, I will provide a way for 401(k) participants to benefit from Mr. Market’s recent hissy fit.

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Wall Street Dummy’ s are shrewd investors who realize that Wall Street’s jibber jabber generates more money for Wall Street than Main Street. They view the moniker DUMMY as a badge of honor and a put down of the Wall Street elite. In this episode I introduce my Dummies Half Time Reports that help them navigate Mr. Market’s periodic hissy fits.

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Seventy three percent of all American workers now have access to a 401(k) plan. The total value of these plans is $10 trillion. The only investment options plan participants have are mutual funds select by a broker hired by their employer. The Supreme Court of the US has ruled that the funds selected by the broker must be in the best interest of the employee, not the broker. Failure to do so will result in significant dollar penalties for the EMPLOYER.

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Remember when you were a kid and you did something stupid. You told your mom, “Everybody’s doing it.” She replied, “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do the same?” Every week, the financial media tells investors, this is what Buffett is doing. You need to do the same thing!! If you want to know what Buffett really thinks individual investors should do, listen to this episode of my podcast. 

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The media is all the buzz about the so called magnificent 7. The magnificent seven are the biggest and most successful tech companies in the world: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla. Because of their size they have a disproportionate influences over the market indexes. This has caused the Wall Street’ media lackies to hyperventilate over the possible that one or more of the Magnificent 7 will stumble and bring the whole market crashing down upon our ears. The subject of this incredibly insight episode of my podcast is to dispel this myth and demonstrate to individual investors how they can benefit from this total misunderstood situation.

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For the first 200 years of its existence, the New York Stock Exchange operated as a virtual monopoly. Then in 2007, the SEC decided that the NYSE needed more competition, and miraculously 12 new electronic exchanges appeared. Their electronic infrastructure was a game changer. New electronic traders entered the mix and dramatically altered the markets pricing mechanism.

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