Unloved Bull Markets

Your empowerment tool to consistently winning in the stock market In Unloved Bull Markets: Getting Rich the Easy Way by Riding Bull Markets, a seasoned, award-winning professional money manager delivers an eye-opening and insightful take on a frequently overlooked—and critically important—investing strategy. The author walks readers through a crash-course in how to take full advantage of the greatest opportunity for wealth accumulation: a bull market. With an emphasis on seizing investment opportunities when they actually arise, instead of just watching them recede in the rearview mirror, Unloved Bull Markets explores: The economic indicators that can disguise, fuel, or end a bull market, including inflation and interest rates, the Fed and monetary policy, and unemployment Six common pieces of bad information that lead investors astray and can result in missing out on some of the best market opportunities to come along in decades The perennial discussion and debate between proponents of active management and passive, index investors Unloved Bull Markets is the perfect book for investors who seek to base their decisions on data and logic, rather than fears and intuition, and want to focus on the profitable climb instead of distressing worries.

Preface vii Acknowledgments ix About the Author xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1 “Unloved” Bull Markets 7 Chapter 2 Was the Bull Market Sensible? 25 Chapter 3 News and Stock Prices 39 Chapter 4 Economic Setting 47 Chapter 5 Inflation and Interest Rates 55 Chapter 6 The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy 73 Chapter 7 Unemployment 89 Chapter 8 Betting on a Lackluster Stock Market and Higher Interest Rates 101 Chapter 9 Volatility Events 105 Chapter 10 Six Pieces of Bad Information 117 Chapter 11 Active-Passive 143 Chapter 12 Strategies 161 Chapter 13 Human Behavior 177 Chapter 14 And Then It Ended with a Crash 187 Chapter 15 I Want My Money Back 193 Chapter 16 Conclusion 215 Index 221