hat are some things NOT to do when the markets suddenly fall?

Every year brings its share of surprises. But how many of us could have imagined that 2016 would see the Chicago Cubs win the World Series, Bob Dylan receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, Donald Trump elected president, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average close out the year a whisker away from 20,000?

Jason Zweig best described forecasting as an attempt to predict the unknowable by measuring the irrelevant. Unfortunately, that is what almost all financial institutions in this world are set up to do.