Topic: How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of September 6, 2017

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Dear Inner Circle member, In investing, it pays to avoid relying on predictions. Successful predictions can pay off enormously, of course. But nobody can consistently or even frequently predict the future in individual stocks or the market. The more your investment success depends on reliable predictions, the greater the risk you face. On the other hand, it’s possible to assess investment conditions in a general sense. That way you may recognize when it’s a good time to buy stocks, if you can afford to hold them for the next couple of years or longer. If you do most of your buying in times like that, you’ll wind up making a lot of money over the course of your investing career. (If you follow our three-part Successful Investor strategy, you’ll make even more.) Mind you, “a good time to buy” is an opinion on a long-term probability. It doesn’t mean the market will go up right away. For that matter, you may buy just…