The Family Man’S Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide: How to Defend Your Family in Any Economy
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Mr. Carpenter offers some important market strategies and investment advice for long-term financial stability. To help Family Men take inventory of their situation, The Family Mans Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide addresses the following:
how you became worried about your finances in the first place;
how and why family men ought to invest;
the eight steps to protecting family wealth;
how to survive stock market volatility;
how and why American business survives in tough times;
where money really comes from, and
the six simple criteria for choosing an investment pro.
The Family Mans Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide will help you reorient your priorities toward the sacred trust of financially defending your family in any economy.
Donald F. Carpenter Jr.
Donald F. Carpenter Jr. is happily married and has 5 amazing children. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Riverside; a master’s degree from the Claremont Graduate University; and the ZDaF from the Goethe Institute, Frankfurt Germany. Mr. Carpenter has worked in the financial services industry for 20 years. In 2005 he established DFC Wealth Management LLC. Mr. Carpenter lives and works in Century City, California.
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The Family Man’S Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide - Donald F. Carpenter Jr.
Copyright © 2015 Donald F. Carpenter Jr.
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Are Family Men Too Scared?
Take It Like A Man!
How Did Men Get Here?
Women!
Boys Will Be Boys
Be a Man!
Prepare For Anything
Real Work Powwow
What's Love Got to Do With It?
Get Your Heart around Your Business.
Buy a Ferrari
Fast Cash! Oh Yeah!
Everything on 22 Black
Oh, So You Thought Money Markets Were Safe
Earthquakes, Tornados, Fires, Oh My!
Surgical Chandeliers for Sale!
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors' Life
Up To My Neck in the Big Reality Show
Singin' the Money Fizzle Blues
Be Better
Costa Rica Girls Night Out
The Judge Says You Lose ... Everything
Chapter 2: Philosophies, Beliefs, and the Persistence of Markets
Jefferson Declares What the Creator Endows:Life and The Pursuit of Happiness
Believe in the Land of Cheap Traders
No Silly Utopias!
If We Persist, Our Markets Persist
The Pudding of Proof Is on You
Chapter 3: The Sage and the Prude Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank
1. Study Like a Man
2. Resist Idiot Box Confusion
3. Grow Corn in the Beneficent Universe
4. Learn Where Money Comes From
5. Feed the Beautiful Beast
6. Go to Asset Classes
7. Diversify
8. Real Men Analyze Themselves
9. Balance and Rebalance while Cycling
10. Opportunism and Stock Mob Madness
11. Women and Children First!
12. Hire a Pro
Chapter 4: Hire a Pro
Do-It-Yourself Tinkering Is for Kids
Everybody Is A Genius
So Many Advisors, So Little Time
It's So Easy a Monkey Could Do It
A Coach for the Family Team
Family Men Get It
No Whiny Kings
Pray
Conclusion
The Family Man's Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide Checklist
This book is dedicated to the most precious human beings I have ever known:
Aubrey, Kenyon, Olivia, Harmony, and Charles.
A good woman is hard to find, and worth far more than diamonds. Her husband trusts her without reserve, and never has reason to regret it. ---Proverbs 31:10-11
My wife Lynn brings this quote to life. In her this project has found new meaning. Thank God.
This book is intended for informational purposes only. Do not buy or sell any investment based on the contents of this book. Consult your financial advisor before making any investment.
Preface
All right, men! Here's one for you---a small book dedicated to the Family Man investor.
The stock market is down from all-time highs, the economy is weak, and nobody seems to know what to do. Newspapers and major financial websites are confusing the issue, and the advice on TV is just ridiculous. I'm here to tell you there is a way past the confusion and the madness, and that the way is calm, determined, and sensible.
I know, you hate that. You're used to go-go days, boom-boom markets, and stocks that just go up and up. Well, brother, it's time to come to your senses. You've got a life to live and a family to protect. And my job is to remind you how to do it. Why just a reminder? Because you already know what to do. You know intuitively, as does every other red-blooded American Family Man.
ThinkstockPhotos-453313901.jpgWhy is that? Because if you were born in the United States of America, the rules of success are infused into your consciousness---and if you were born elsewhere but live here you have the good fortune of learning by osmosis. If you've ever read the Declaration of Independence, you know what I mean. In that document, you've got all the knowledge you'll ever need to be a successful investor. Just dust off that document and get to know what it meant to its author and the good men who signed it. Get to know what it ought to mean to you. Remember, too, that every one of the men who signed it lost everything they had to defend the truths and principles written in it.
You might be saying, Whoa, man ... you're getting a little political, aren't you?
I make no apology. This book does not pretend to be politically correct. And I'm sure a whole lot of people probably won't like that. Many of you may even be offended by title. That's okay. I promise you won't hurt my feelings. In fact, I wanted to title this book Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Words Will Never Hurt Me, but that was already taken.
So why did I write this book? Well I wrote it for my kids, their kids, and those yet to be born. I also wrote it for my extended family, my friends and acquaintances, because I know they're all a little worried about current economic conditions. I'm worried too. I'm worried that by the time this guide goes to print, the markets will have recovered, the subprime crises will be a distant memory, and stock market volatility will be anything but the mind-numbing bugaboo it was to the American investment psyche on January 22, 2008. I worry about that because, as we've all seen repeatedly, bull markets and prosperity, bear markets and poverty, tend to make people foolish, if not careless, if not just