{"id":5000,"date":"2022-04-22T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:05:08","slug":"stock-market-melt-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/investing\/stock-market-melt-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock Market Melt Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh, goodie. It&#8217;s time for some more stock market terminology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Is a Melt Up?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The world of finance, like any specialized group, has numerous terms, acronyms, and phrases that apply to managing money and investing in the stock market. Things like &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/investing\/santa-claus-rally\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1953\">Santa Claus Rally<\/a>&#8221; are less about being able to describe something, and more about having fun, sometimes clever, ways to describing events, strategies, and happenings that occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Santa Claus Rally -- The somewhat common phenomenon of the stock market rising into the end of the year. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s word of the day comes courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/22\/investing\/market-melt-up-recession-stocks\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN Finance<\/a> and Luke Lango, InvestorPlace senior investment analyst who wrote that they believe there will be a massive <em>melt up<\/em> over the next two years in which the stock market would rise 20% or more before tipping over into a recession or crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I haven&#8217;t had a chance to look into Luke Lango&#8217;s track record. Maybe I&#8217;ll do that when I finish writing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcticllama.com\/freelance-financial-writer.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">freelance finance writer <\/a>projects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Should We Worry About a Melt Up?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Good news, investors. As always, the best way to invest for long-term goals is with a well-diversified portfolio tailored to your goals and risk tolerance. Such a portfolio is in a good place to benefit from a melt up as you rebalance each year. For shorter-term investors, a melt up is one of those slow-motion things you won&#8217;t really see coming. As such, there is really no reason to worry about it, or watch for it. Instead, invest in companies whose long-term future you believe in that pay solid dividends. You&#8217;ll earn those tax-qualified dividends all the way up the melt up and back down the melt up. A few years after that, a recovered market will deliver your principal back to you, and maybe some capital gains along the way as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For short-term investing, a melt up is a longer-term event. Even if you trade right in the middle of the melt up, your trades will complete before the melt up can begin and end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2020\/01\/29\/12\/16\/caricature-4802351_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"Caricature, Imagination, Satire, Sinking, Melting\" title=\"\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Friday, investors. Enjoy the last few weeks before the Fed&#8217;s widely anticipated half-point rate hike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Brian Nelson is a freelance financial writer and spent several years as a Certified Financial Planner while working with clients as their trusted financial advisor. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/about\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1873\">About FinanceGourmet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, goodie. It&#8217;s time for some more stock market terminology. What Is a Melt Up? The world of finance, like any specialized group, has numerous terms, acronyms, and phrases that apply to managing money and investing in the stock market. Things like &#8220;Santa Claus Rally&#8221; are less about being able to describe something, and more about having fun, sometimes clever, ways to describing events, strategies, and happenings that occur. Santa Claus Rally &#8212; The somewhat common phenomenon of the stock market rising into the end of the year. Today&#8217;s word of the day comes courtesy of CNN Finance and Luke Lango, InvestorPlace senior investment analyst who wrote that they believe there will be a massive melt up over the next two years in which the stock market would rise 20% or more before tipping over into a recession or crash. I haven&#8217;t had a chance to look into Luke Lango&#8217;s track record. Maybe I&#8217;ll do that when I finish writing my freelance finance writer projects. Should We Worry About a Melt Up? Good news, investors. As always, the best way to invest for long-term goals is with a well-diversified portfolio tailored to your goals and risk tolerance. Such a portfolio &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Stock Market Melt Up\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/investing\/stock-market-melt-up\/#more-5000\" aria-label=\"Read more about Stock Market Melt Up\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[661,662,499,502,509],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing","category-news","tag-investing","tag-news","tag-stock-analysis","tag-stock-market","tag-stocks","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}