BARRY RITHOLTZ: How to invest while Donald Trump is the centre of attention
'Let me try to offer a few words of advice that might be helpful during the years of distractions that go hand-in-hand with the presidency of Donald Trump'
Distracted much? That is the question we must all wrestle with in the Trump era. An endless stream of tweets, announcements, firings, policy shifts, outrages and absurdities greet us each day -- and that is before the market even opens. Psychographic microtargeting, the president and the porn star, CPR for gunshot victims, fine people among neo-Nazis -- events and ideas that in the context of U.S. political life would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. Investors can easily fall down this rabbit hole, where their adventures are filled with nonsensical distractions. Let me try to offer a few words of advice that might be helpful during the next two-plus (or six-plus) years of distractions that go hand-in-hand with the presidency of Donald Trump. These won’t help you beat the market, but they should a) help you avoid falling too far behind, and b) make sense of the nonsense. On to the lumber yard: • Stick to your plan: This is obvious, but it needs to be said: Whatever your ...
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