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By Allan Small, FMA, FCSI on November 24, 2025
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

By Allan Small, FMA, FCSI on November 24, 2025
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Allan Small explains why it’s always the right time to be in the markets—even when they are near record highs.

At the time of writing, the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average were all trading at levels hovering around all-time highs. But as we turned into the second half of November, some uncertainty crept into the markets’ performance. A climbing stock market, at least on the surface, should be a time for optimism—but for many investors, it’s cause for concern. Understanding that what goes up eventually comes down, they’re worried about a potential pullback or deeper correction.

Fuelling the current fear of a selloff are the pundits. New York Times financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin is comparing today’s booming markets to those of the 1920s before the crash. And Michael Burry, the hedge fund manager who predicted the collapse of the U.S. housing market in 2008, is betting against artificial intelligence stocks Nvidia and Palantir Technologies. This led to the tech-heavy Nasdaq having one of its worst weeks this year. But Nvidia is worth more than US$4.5........

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