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What is a Bullish Catapult?
On this video I discuss a point and figure pattern referred to as the bullish catapult. As the name implies, this is a very positive pattern. Just think about the words bullish catapult for a moment. We all know that the word bullish suggests positivity, but what do...
Triple Top Buy Signals and Triple Bottom Sell Signals
Before watching this video, make sure you've seen its predecessors on double top buy signals and double bottom sell signals. Watching those videos will help make this one easier to understand. On this week's video, Tim explains and shows what triple top buy signals...
What is a Point and Figure Sell Signal?
Tom has already shown us what a point and figure buy signal is. Now we must learn its counterpart: the point and figure sell signal. Point and figure charting is simple, after every column of X's you'll find a column of O's. Sometimes those columns of O's create sell...
What is a Point and Figure Buy Signal?
In the last video, Tom showed us the daily process of updating a point and figure chart. Another main component of point and figure charting is the buy signal. Tom shows exactly what a point and figure buy signal is in this video. In point and figure, when a current...
How Point and Figure Charts Work
In our last video, Tom discussed the origins of point and figure charting. Remember that point and figure charting was simply known as "figuring" when Charles Dow invented it in the 1890's. He sought a logical, organized method to track stock price movement, or supply...
The Origins of Point and Figure Charting
At Mullooly Asset Management, we use point and figure charts on a daily basis to manage money. Where did this methodology come from? That's an excellent question, and during the short video above Tom gives the answer. Point and figure charting is a form of technical...
Using a Roth IRA for College Planning
We often get asked about putting money away for a child's college education. Most people assume that they must use a 529 plan to accomplish this goal. While 529 plans are sometimes great college planning tools, other times they are less than ideal. Many 529 plans come...
Preparing for Financial New Year’s Resolutions
As 2014 comes to an end, we share some timely tips for those who intend to make financial New Year's resolutions. Tom has some words of wisdom that you should keep in mind: Don't play the stock market with the rent! He elaborates on the meaning of this in our weekly...
Understanding Your Investments is Critical
Here at Mullooly Asset Management, we're a fee-only investment advisory firm. That means we work exclusively for our clients, we don't receive commissions to sell anything. We believe in complete transparency and want our clients to feel comfortable with the...
Zero Percent Financing Deals: Too Good to Be True?
On this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, I cover a basic financial planning topic related to credit. In the midst of the holiday season, all of us at Mullooly Asset thought it would be timely to discuss zero percent financing deals. A lot of big-ticket items...
Master Limited Partnerships: High Yield, High Risk
In this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, Tom talks about Master Limited Partnerships. These investments trade like stocks on an exchange and pay out distributions to their shareholders. The current low interest rate environment has attracted many yield...
How Much Life Insurance Will I Need?
A question that frequently comes up in our client financial planning sessions is, "How much life insurance will I need?". On this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, Tim shares the six main questions people who want life insurance need to answer. It's important to...
Near Retirees Feel They Were Too Conservative
On this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, Tom discusses the findings of a recent TIAA-CREF retirement savings survey. TIAA-CREF interviewed 1,000 employer sponsored retirement plan participants about their biggest investment related regrets. Of those aged 55-64,...
Not In The Predicting Business
Mullooly Asset Management is not in the predicting business! Even though the rest of Wall Street seems to be! When you make predictions, you will either be right or wrong. You may be good at making predictions, for a while. Sooner or later you will run into a bad...
What Makes Up the S&P 1500 Index?
On this week's video I discuss the S&P 1500, which is also commonly referred to as the "total stock market". One thing I strongly believe is that investment advisors should never speak over investors' heads. While Tom and I (and other investment advisors, brokers,...
IRS Sets New Retirement Plan Contribution Levels for 2015
One of the many services we provide to our clients at Mullooly Asset Management is managing the risk in their retirement accounts. We help investors with their 401k accounts, 403b annuities, 457 plans, and IRA's. Last week the IRS announced adjustments to retirement...
IBM Technical Outlook October 2014
In this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, Tom takes a look at the point and figure chart of IBM. IBM reported subpar earnings this morning (October 20, 2014) and also reported paying one of their competitors to take a division off their hands. Not great news....
“Buy and Hold” Blindly is Not a Game Plan
A fantastic article written by Ben Carlson titled, "Some Stocks Don't Come Back" is the inspiration for today's Mullooly Asset Management video. In his article, Ben tells us, "the problem with ‘buy when there’s blood in the streets’ is that sometimes individual stocks...
Interest Rates are Too Low!
A post from Business Insider prompted this week's Mullooly Asset Management video. You can check out the post here: http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-is-worried-about-savers-2014-9 The article talks discusses how interest rates are too low for seniors and...
Secular Bull and Bear Markets: A History Lesson
In our morning research meeting today we discussed bull markets and how long they typically run for. A book that discusses this topic in-depth is Unexpected Returns by Ed Easterling. In this week's video, Tom shares a brief history lesson on bull and bear markets. In...
