My family and I are on Spring Break this week in Sicily.  We decided to go full immersion and rented a house in a small town outside of Palermo.  We travelled via Munich and had a couple days there to explore before heading to Italy.  As I had hoped and expected, we're learning so much about new people and places.  At the same time, we're learning a great deal about ourselves as well as the universality of the human condition.

I was a guest speaker this week on MarketWatchers LIVE over at StockCharts.com.  Tom Bowley and Erin Swenlin do a fantastic job breaking down the markets.  Simple charts with powerful messages!

I've spoken often about behavioral biases and how to minimize their impact on your investment decisions.  So if I'm so familiar with all of these biases, then I'm able to completely avoid them in my own investing, right?  A recent interview with Professor Patricia Devine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows why the answer is a big "no."

Well, after one year of sharing many behavioral, technical and market insights through social media, it finally happened.  I guess I knew this day would finally come, but it surprised me nonetheless.  That's right, someone labelled me a "permabull".

With some healthy volatility returning to the markets, I've seen lots of commentaries speculating on the reasons for this correction.  I thought it would be helpful to remind everyone that there are exactly three reasons why markets correct...

A funny thing happened this morning on the way to Starbucks.  After dropping off my daughter Zoe at school, I drove my son Henry down the street toward our usual coffee shop.  "Doppio espresso, that's what I want," I thought to myself as I looked happily at the gentle gray overhead...

According to Blackrock, apparently millennials are excited to be participating in the equity markets through exposure to ETFs...

There is no doubt that automation and AI will continue to impact the financial industry in the coming years.  But as I read about Wells Fargo using AI to rate stocks, three things came to mind that bring to light the benefits and the challenges of automating the research process...

It's hard to ignore the bubble-like quality of cryptocurrencies.  Now before you dismiss me as a crypto-hater, let me qualify this by saying I agree with Jack Ma's (and others') take that blockchain technology is indeed impressive with so many potential applications...

I have experienced a number of significant life changes in recent years.  One of the most powerful has been incorporating a mindfulness practice into my routine...