Guru Harry Dent Strategies & Forecasts (17:33)

In this session Mark goes over market forecaster and future teller Harry Dent’s losing and underperforming investment strategies. Investment strategies based upon guessing about the future are eventually doomed to failure, because no one can predict the future. There are just too many unknown variables that can change stock and bond market prices. Check it out so you know what to avoid.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Guru Cramer Bad Advice & Predictions (9:01)

We need to be discerning when listening to the pundits that know the future in the financial media. Most of the information is garbage and you should not base your financial future on this advice. Jim Cramer essentially says to sell when prices are lowand buy when prices are high. He will end up regretting this advice. The sad part is no one will report on what he said in the past...except us of course. It's a good thing you get these videos from us. Beware of the financial pundits!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Guru Dent The Great Depression Ahead (13:17)

It completely infuriates me that Harry Dent and people just like him get away with and profit from misleading the investing public. Shame on you, Harry.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Experts Have Hidden Agendas: Don't Listen & Stick to the Basics (8:18)

There are more and more industry "experts" claiming that asset allocation (diversification) is dead! Why? Do they have a hidden agenda to spouting this garbage? Of course they do! They want to push their own speculative and imprudent investments. This is just one of hundreds of examples of so called "experts" with hidden agendas. If you stick with the basics...a prudent diversified portfolio within your risk tolerance, and use a disciplined rebalancing strategy, you should do just fine and you won't fall prey to these "experts" with hidden agendas. This so called expert's hidden agenda, by slamming asset allocation (diversification), is to sell annuities which may or may not be in your best interest. Often times, these so called experts push crummy high commission annuities for a client's entire allocation.Only certain high quality annuities should be part of an overall diversified allocation, and only for certain lower risk investors. Asset allocation and diversification is alive and well...don't let anyone convince you otherwise!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Jim Cramer's Latest Scandal (7:44)

The latest stock picking and market timing scandal on financial TV. And, it will never stop because there is too much money to be made by the promoters at the expense of the viewers. See how a CNBC host compromises his ethics for big money at the expense of his viewers! Just another reason to turn off the financial TV, so you don’t someday become a victim of the things they teach and the advice they spew.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Back to Basics Continued (19:55)

So called investment gurus make up all kinds of investment strategies to dupe investors into investing with them, with no real evidence it will work over the long term.

Mark continues his discussion about getting back to the basics and the detriments of stock picking, market timing and track record investing. At the very least, watch the first 7 minutes and you will be amazed at the strategies other advisors make up and try and pass off as prudent investing strategies!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Jim Cramer & John Stewart Part 1 (5:32)

Thought you could all use a good laugh. After NBC steps up to defend Jim cramer Jon Stewart goes on MTV networks to set the record straight and remind everyone what really happened.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Jim Cramer & John Stewart Part 2 (11:34)

Jim Cramer on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart...A reminder to tune out the advice of financial TV pundits. Despite his ethically dubious past, Jim Cramer calls for indictments for the economic collapse. Jim admits that he has a lot of CEO's that come on the show and lie to him. Yet, he gives advice based upon what they say. BUY! BUY! BUY! Or Sell! Sell! Sell! Don't stock pick...stay with a prudent portfolio and tune out the financial media.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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CNBC Financial Advice (8:33)

I thought you could all use a laugh. The humor by Jon Stewart shows why it's important to keep financial reporting in perspective. No one can predict the future!But even the sad truth can be funny. Enjoy!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Hindenburg Omen - Another Market Timing Scheme (5:05)

Ok, they told you to get out! When do you get back in? When you try to time the market, you have to guess right twice...when to get in & to get out.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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You Should Have Timed the Market...Really? (21:03)

Journalists often data mine and use data to prove a point. See how this one journalist did it, so you don't become a victim of the misinformation in the press, which could lead you to bad investment decisions. You will be shocked by what the journalists teach investors with no facts to back it up.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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John Stossel on the Stock Market (9:29)

Scott & I had the privilege of meeting John Stossel in person at a recent Advanced Advisor Conference. It was an honor to meet him! You have to check out the timeless 20/20 story from 1992 featuring Mr. Stossel. You will be amazed! He shows how picking stocks by throwing darts is often a better way than following the "experts." Check out Barbara Walters 18 years ago and those clunky big screen computers! The truly amazing thing is that the story could be written today.

If you try and pick individual stocks, just like gambling, you may get lucky from time to time. However, just like in gambling the more you pull the lever (the more you trade), the greater the likelihood you underperform the markets over time. Plus, you bring in the unnecessary risk of corporate bankruptcy or unexpected negative news that can come with any individual company no matter how good the company is today. You can diversify this unnecessary risk to a minimal amount with a broadly diversified portfolio. Returns come from the markets. There is no need to pick individual stocks to get the returns the markets deliver over time. Know the difference between speculation and gambling and prudent investing. Stay disciplined stay diversified!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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The Difference Between Luck & Skill in Returns (17:19)

Do you understand the difference between luck and skill when investing? Most money managers (and individual investors for that matter) do not have the skill to outperform market returns in both stock and bond markets. The results are dismal for active managers and active individual investors. There are very few lucky managers and individual investors that beat the market, but there is no way to identify these people in advance.

The financial industry (books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, financial TV, internet) all try to make you believe they can make you more money by picking stocks or timing the markets. The statistics prove otherwise. It is important to remember that returns come from the markets, not from the managers.

It is more important for lifetime investing success to learn to control your fear and greed behavior than it is to try and pick the “right” stocks or time the markets.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Senseless Losses (28:24)

A look at how (and maybe why) some financial advisors scared investors into cash during the market downturn. We can't say often enough that behavior is the key to successful investing and financial advisors aren't always helpful when it comes to managing an investor's behavior. This is why we put such a huge emphasis on ongoing client education. This video will help you be prepared when the next market downturn comes. Don't let the media scare you into abandoning your prudent diversified investment strategies.

In this segment, Mark shows you how wrong many of the so called "brilliant" TV prognosticators were during the last down market. If you had listened to them it would have been very costly. A good investment strategy does not require a forecast of the future. This is an important video to watch so you can learn how to control (not eliminate) your fear emotions when the next downturn comes.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Prediction Game & Market Forecasters (5:35)

Watch this video and learn how to avoid this scam in your investing strategy. Ignore it at your own peril!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Data Mining Scams to Sell You Advice (27:17)

It's not what you know about investing...it's what you do! Behavior is by far the most important factor in investment returns. Check out how relativity applies to the world of investing and how comparisons from skewed data and not knowing your risk, can cause you to make some really bad investment decisions. Watch out for the data mining scams!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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The Prediction Con Game Continues (9:20)

Yet another example of why you should not invest based upon a forecast of the future. Market guru's are a dime a dozen and are put on a pedestal by the financial press. Check out the latest guru prediction and what he predicted in 1999. The press consistently fails to do their research and call these guys out. No one can reliably predict the future. Don't fall for the prediction con games!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Financial Newsletters - The Scam Revealed (27:11)

Several of our clients e-mailed me this "special" report, endofamerica2011.com. Just like the "Hindenburg Omen" scam, my answer was the same. Don't pay attention to these guys. They use fear to sell newsletters. Porter Stansberry is predicting the collapse of the global economy and using fear and greed to sell people his newsletters. In this segment, we reveal the newsletter scam.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Tony Robbins - Doom & Gloom Forecaster (28:16)

Don't believe ANYONE that tells you they can forecast the future. And above all don't act upon their predictions and change your portfolio.

There is a proverb often quoted "He who predicts the future lies, even if he tells the truth."

Personal power speaker, Tony Robbins, is now unleashing the ability to predict the market. Tony is joining the league of doom & gloom with the predictions about what's going to happen in the market. Never forget how they play the prediction con game. Make dozens of predictions and you might get a few right. Then you promote the ones you get right, hoping no one will notice the many you got wrong. Many investors fall into the trap of believing there is someone that can predict the future and get them in or out at the “right” time. Don’t be one of them!

Let rebalancing take care of any portfolio adjustments we need, not someone’s guess about the future.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Financial Fumbles Famous Football Gurus (24:14)

Success in life not only means doing the right things, but also eliminating the wrong things. The same goes with investing. In this segment of Matson Money Live, we shed the light onto the dangers of taking investment advice from past Superbowl champions. Being an expert or champion in football doesn't necessarily transfer to other specialties, no matter how big your name is. If an investment needs celebrities to raise money...BEWARE! Could be danger ahead!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

The Con Game Continues: Dent Sees the Future, Again! (10:40)

Harry Dent is a market forecaster that the media loves. He dresses nice, is articulate, yet his investors have lost boat loads of money. He's predicted dow 35,000 and now forecasts dow 3,000. If he really can predict the future, why don't his funds make 30% per year with little or no risk? And why does the media support his act without checking him out? Sadly, unsuspecting investors tune in and follow his advice. You know better!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Warren Buffet: Say it Ain't So! (9:12)

Yet another story of Wallstreet shenanigans. It goes to show it can happen to any company at any time. This is why diversification is so important. Mr. Buffet say it ain't so!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Market Timing Disguised as Tactical Asset Allocation (18:59)

Check out this analysis of yet another reporter's misleading article of recommendations for investors. Don't be led astray by misleading articles that claim to be able to tell you what sectors will be the best in the future. No one knows!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Financial Industry Illusions - Investor Beware! (26:34)

In this video, Scott teaches us some of the shenanigans that go on behind the scenes of the financial industry. Scott teaches about gurus, information overload, expert stock pickers, mutual fund games, and much more. This is stuff few in the financial industry want you to know. There is just too much money to be made off of deceiving investors.

Side note: Yes, we do use mutual funds in our portfolios, but we do not use mutual funds that play the games mentioned in the video. Both Scott and myself invest in the same funds we recommend to our clients.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Investing With Orman & Ramsey (34:23)

Should you take the financial and investing recommendations of Suze Orman and Dave Ramsey? I do like both of them. Some of their financial advice is good and I especially like some of the stuff Dave teaches about saving, budgeting, buying the right insurance, and eliminating debt.

Both Scott and I have witnessed people the overspend and get themselves into trouble. This is good stuff to teach and learn. We commend Suze and Dave on these subjects. But...their investment advice is not so good (to be kind). Suze has been all over the map in the last few years. She has told everyone to buy homes and stocks when the markets were rockin'. Then after the recession hit when real estate is a lot cheaper, she is discouraging buying homes and stocks, and has outright said it may be better to be lifetime renters. Wouldn't have that been a better strategy at the peak of the housing market? Wow!

Dave & Suze are not regulated. No one holds Dave & Suze accountable for their bad investment advice. But we do! Find out what not to do, and what a prudent investor should do. If you watch Dave & Suze, you must watch this video.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

What is a Financial Analyst and What Does an Analyst Purport to do? (0:55)

Interview ten different “expert” analysts and you will get ten different answers as to what the market, or economy, or individual stock is going to do next. They all analyze different stuff to come up with their conclusions. Investors must not succumb to basing investment decisions based upon an analyst’s prediction or forecast of the future. The simple truth is no one can predict the future. There are too many future variables (good and bad) that drive the market prices up or down short term. Think of all the factors that go into market prices…the weather, natural disasters, manmade disasters, political decisions, technology discoveries, medical discoveries, where you shopped (or didn’t shop) today, people’s feelings, hopes, dreams, instincts, perceptions, facts, data, statistics, new news, and the list goes on and on. There are literally trillions of variables. This is why we must have a prudent diversified investing strategy for our lifetimes, with rebalancing, to get the longer term average returns that are available to us as disciplined investors.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Professor Malkiel on Market Forecasters (5:24)

In this segment, Professor Malkiel teaches about some of the market Gurus over the years and their 15 minutes of fame. Professor Malkiel discusses what an advisor actually should do, and it is not forecasting the future. Scott and I do not pretend to know the future like many in the financial industry that dupe investors into believing they can. Here is the dirty little secret inside the financial industry. Make enough predictions and some will come true. Then publicize the ones you got right and hope that no one notices the predictions and forecasts you got wrong. The financial media often enables these acts by not doing their job and checking up on these prognosticators. The truth…no one can reliably predict and forecast the future (including you and me). There are literally trillions of unknown variables that can change the future market and economic direction. A prudent diversified strategy does not depend upon trying to predict the future.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Securities Fraud Attorney on Market Foercasters (3:31)

In this video, Securities Fraud Attorney Dan Solin shows how investors confuse luck with skill. Investors are duped into believing that either they themselves can predict or forecast what is going to happen or they believe that there is someone else that can predict the markets for them.

The simple truth is no one can predict the future. There are too many unpredictable future variables (good and bad) that drive the market prices up or down short term. Think of all the factors that go into market prices…the weather, natural disasters, manmade disasters, political decisions, wars, technology discoveries, medical discoveries, where you shopped (or didn’t shop) today, people’s feelings, hopes, dreams, instincts, perceptions, facts, data, statistics, new news, and the list goes on and on. There are literally trillions of variables. There is no chart or system that can factor in these unknown random variables to reliably predict a stock price or market direction. There are many “gurus” that will make you believe that they can. If you are an educated investor, you won’t be duped.

Don’t be duped. Watch this short video.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Perennial Doomsayers (10:23)

Don't listen to the perennial doomsayers and market forecasters. Don’t fall for their game to sell you their books and advice. Find out why doing so can be dangerous to your wealth when you change your prudent diversified strategy based upon these predictions. Watch this video to find out what you should do and why…for your lifetime.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Examining Expectations - Guru Cramer BofA Recommendation (3:58)

Yet another stock pick by a guru gone bad. And Jim’s idea of diversification is at least 5 stocks but no more than 10. Check out this prediction and then the CNBC CYA disclaimer following the show. You can’t possibly follow all the recommendations on the show. What if you buy the stock that tanked in a grossly under diversified portfolio? Don’t make the mistake of investing in individual stock picks from the gurus on TV. They are in the advertising selling and entertainment business.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Gurus Bite the Dust - Part 1 (16:49)

MF Global recently filed for bankruptcy. In this segment, we take a look at Jon Corzine's recent attempt at explaining how he simply 'lost' $1.2 billion and the effect his behavior is having on Main Street Investors.

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

Gurus Bite the Dust - Part 2 (10:07)

Guru Paulson, the one that made billions for his investors during the housing crash, has now lost huge sums of money for investors trying to predict the future again. Another lesson for investors. No one can consistently predict the future, and if you chase hot managers, you will get burned!

Continue to learn, stay diversified according to your risk tolerance, stay disciplined, and rebalance. Education is your best defense against imprudent investing. Invest intelligently!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

     ▪ John and Scott

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